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  • 7/8/2025
The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over | dG1fSG52ZlVuVzlhbWs
Transcript
00:00I said, let's make a doll with breasts and narrow waist and narrow ankles and let's make
00:06her look like a teenager.
00:1165 years ago, an icon was born.
00:21And right now, she's bigger than ever.
00:24Barbie Land feels like a female utopia.
00:31She's been kind of revolutionary.
00:34You know, there's more than meets the eye.
00:36But you know that already.
00:40This is the story you don't know.
00:43For a start, Barbie had a mum.
00:46I never visualised that being Barbie's mum could be such an earth-shattering feeling.
00:52And a dad.
00:56When I think about Barbie, I think about Jack.
01:00In Jack's mind, he invented Barbie and he did invent Barbie.
01:04And they couldn't have been more different.
01:07Ruth was a brilliant marketer, a gambler, a hustler.
01:12Jack was an inventor.
01:15He was dyslexic, never read a book.
01:18He was just a cornucopia of ideas.
01:20It was a match made in heaven, at first.
01:25Then came the fallout.
01:28Jack loved women.
01:30There was beautiful girls everywhere.
01:34The rumour is that he could dial up,
01:37I want a redhead, I want a blonde.
01:38I never noticed any orgies.
01:42I did go to some orgies with Jack.
01:47Jaja, in her book, said that he was an uninhibited sexual swinger.
01:53Ruth really hated it.
01:55She might have thought that my father was having more fun than she was.
02:01Mum decided to divorce Dad.
02:04Ruth was ruthless.
02:06Jack was forced out.
02:07Then it became about the money.
02:11Ruth is cooking the books of Mattel.
02:14There's no question that you could go to prison for what she did.
02:19My dad suddenly lost touch with reality.
02:24There was a SWAT truck and he said,
02:26your father is holding your sister at gunpoint.
02:30Ruth's shareholders decide, you're out.
02:34I mean, what a shocker.
02:36They took him to a medical hospital.
02:39But nobody ever talked about it.
02:47Since his death, Jack has disappeared from the Barbie story.
02:51I'm fighting for my father's legacy, my family's legacy, to have it stripped away as if you've never existed.
03:02I want credit where credit is due.
03:05I want credit where credit is due.

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