{"id":571657,"date":"2026-03-29T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:10:13","slug":"slavery-and-sex-trafficking-uncovering-the-secrets-of-australias-first-hollywood-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571657\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery and sex trafficking: uncovering the secrets of Australia&#8217;s first Hollywood icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about Errol Flynn, whose extraordinary life took him from Hobart, to Papua New Guinea, to Hollywood&#8217;s Golden Age where he became an icon of the screen. But drawing from new sources including Flynn&#8217;s own letters, Patricia A. O&#8217;Brien has written &#8220;the first complete account&#8221; of his life, which reveals the extent of Flynn&#8217;s involvement in slavery, in more than one form.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Patricia A. O&#8217;Brien, Author of <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allenandunwin.com\/browse\/book\/Patricia-A.-O&#039;Brien-Errol-Flynn-9781761472954\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Errol Flynn &#8211; The true story of Australia&#8217;s Hollywood icon<\/a>, Adjunct Professor in Asian Studies at Georgetown University and Honorary Associate Professor in ANU&#8217;s Department of Pacific Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Hobart, Sydney, Papua New Guinea, United States, England, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Launceston, TAS, University Of Tasmania, Brisbane, Darwin, Canberra, Film Industry, Movies, Law, Crime and Justice, Actor, Biography, Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much has been written about Errol Flynn, whose extraordinary life took him from Hobart, to Papua New Guinea,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,280655,46716,47144,134,280653,1689,280656,280654,139593,1973,5634,8745,344,27284,237669,3755,273216,189421,28983,8744],"class_list":["post-571657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-actor","tag-australian-film","tag-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-errol-flynn","tag-film","tag-film-star","tag-golden-age-hollywood","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-hollywood","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-julian-morrow","tag-movies","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-plantations","tag-podcast","tag-sex-symbol","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-slavery","tag-sunday-extra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}