After a long, expensive, and heartbreaking legal battle, we have to share some devastating news: the Duchess of Argyle has been evicted. She is now trying to get back on her feet as she finds new housing

For decades, Shauna Frente has been part of the living fabric of Hollywood. A local icon, a folk legend, a historian of the strange and magical. Tourists stop her on the street for photos. Locals treasure her. She is the kind of person who makes a place worth loving.

And right now, Los Angeles can't afford to lose people like her.

This city is in the middle of a fight for its own soul. Developers are bulldozing history block by block. The weird, the local, and the irreplaceable are getting priced out or paved over. Shauna has spent decades pushing back against exactly that. She is currently a pivotal part of the New Theater's production A California Gothic: A Bus Tour, where she serves as the resident Hollyweird Historian — guiding audiences through Hollywood's lost history, the stories that don't make it onto the plaques or history books. The work she does is the kind of preservation that can't be digitized or franchised. It only exists because she does.

Now she has lost her home.

The road back is steep. With the eviction now on public court record, she faces a cruel extra obstacle: landlords can and do reject applicants for exactly this reason, making it genuinely hard to secure housing even with funds in hand.

GOAL: $5,000

This covers:

• Emergency hotel and temporary housing

• Basic living expenses while she stabilizes

• A cushion to help her actually get approved for a new place

Shauna is also in the middle of her memoir (the two-volume I COULD DIE TOMORROW!), her LA noir novel SOFT BOILED, and other Hollywood-obsessed projects that only she could write. This city needs her in it.

Let's keep the Hollyweird Historian Supreme safe, sound, and housed.

— With love from everyone who has ever been stopped in their tracks by a duchess