Emmy Rossum Shares What Tips L.A. Billboard Icon Angelyne Gave Her Ahead of New Series

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Sasha Urban editorMost Angelenos know the Billboard Queen, Angelyne. The enigmatic human Barbie, self-described as a “Rorschach test in pink,” has been a mainstay of Los Angeles culture ever since billboards bearing her face and name began popping up throughout the city in 1984.

She’s frequently spotted driving around L.A. in her signature pink Corvette, selling merchandise out of her trunk and charging $20 for a photograph.Notoriously private about her true identity (although she has run for office more than once), she re-entered the spotlight in 2017, when a Hollywood Reporter exposé revealed her to be Renee Tami Goldberg, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors who created the fantastical identity of Angelyne through sheer willpower and a thirst for fame.

Now, that investigation has been adapted as a scripted series for Peacock, starring and executive produced by Emmy Rossum (“Shameless”).

The real Angelyne was initially set to appear in the series, but decided to tap out for reasons that remain unclear. She has no formal credit on the show.However, on the hot pink carpet at the show’s premiere — held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood on Tuesday evening — Rossum told Variety that the real Angelyne, now 71, granted the series the rights to her life, trademarks, art and punk-pop music catalog, all of which are utilized on the show.“It was so important to me that she be involved in this and that we were able to faithfully recreate her iconic billboards,” Rossum said. “And it was really, really important to me that she be paid for her contribution, not just to the show, but to pop culture over the last 50 years.”While “Angelyne” incorporates facts from the original investigation and the production team’s own.