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A TREASURE OF TRASH: Pope of filth — the making of Divine, who turned disgust into an aesthetic weapon

On what would have been Divine’s 80th birthday, Herman Lategan explores how Harris Glenn Milstead became the actor who made ‘filth’ divine, and why his legacy still disrupts pop culture. He spoke to Bernard Jay, in Johannesburg, who managed Divine’s career over the last 10 years of his life, and who found him dead in a Los Angeles hotel room.


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