Chapter 17. Rosie, the Journalist
The story landed like a shock wave.
Within days, public interest in Sage compounded when The New York Times published an exposé by reporter Rosie Wright titled, “Scout Sage’s Hot Girl Murder Club.
” Claiming to be the result of a year-long investigation, the piece linked Sage and her accomplices to a string of high-wire revenge plots, the most serious of which involved the death of Alden Banks, once accused of killing Sage’s sister.
The exposé spread like wildfire through TV news, print outlets, and social media, even becoming the subject of a poorly received Saturday Night Live sketch.
Looking back, what is most remarkable is not how quickly Sage went from an under-the-radar pop singer to a household name.
It is how rapidly the public seemed to accept Sage’s guilt—and how deeply they loved her for it.
The love: That was the twist no one saw coming.
—Frances Vogel, “Our Ladies of the Dark: A History,” PhD dissertation presented to the UCLA Department of History