Pussy squad

It's 'Gossip Week' on papermag. On this day -- the 41st anniversary of Leonardo DiCaprio's birth -- we stop to celebrate. Years ago, long before the Oscar nominations, Oscar losses, and what I'm sure are recurring dreams of an Oscar flying in through his bedroom window, Leonardo DiCaprio was the founding father of Hollywood's Pussy Posse. It's true: during the mid-to-late s, Leo and friends celebrated their successes and nineties-sanctioned wardrobe choices the only way they knew how. They nicknamed their group, they wined, they dined, and they sexed their way through the LA and New York social scenes, basking in the warm glow of youth and male entitlement. They were the stuff of legend and the stuff of nightmares; men who'd seen the promised land and believed the first way to get there was by sleeping with everybody they could.

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He rolled with a crew of like-minded young men in a group that Hollywood circles at the time branded with an unapologetically raunchy name. True stories about the Posse not only detail their wild times, but they also illustrate how even big-time celebrities can be obnoxious twerps. Who was in the Posse? But the leader was unquestionably DiCaprio. They chased girls , pulled pranks, and clowned the paparazzi.

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