Eduardo Tirella had won a Bronze Star at the Battle of the Bulge, counted Sharon Tate among his close friends, and had just finished his first Hollywood film when he flew into Newport, Rhode Island on October 6th, 1966. The next day he was dead in the road outside the gates of…
On the morning of her wedding, Consuelo Vanderbilt spent 3 hours alone in her room. A footman had been posted at the door of her apartment, and not even her governness was permitted to enter. The door stayed closed, and the man stayed at it, and inside the room, Consuela was alone. She had been…
May 11th, 2019, Los Angeles. A woman dies quietly, surrounded by her daughters and her nieces, with nobody outside her family in the room, no cameras, no press, just the people who loved her, and the end of a 15-year fight with colon cancer. She was 72 years old. She had once…
February 24th, 1981. Lady Diana Spencer stands outside St. James’s Palace in thin winter light, wearing a blue silk suit and smiles. She is 19 years old and has been formally engaged to the Prince of Wales for approximately 45 minutes. The cameras record everything. The slight tilt of her head, the…
On the morning of March 30th, 2002, William Tallon was at his residence at Gate Lodge, Clarence House, when a journalist telephoned to ask how he felt about the Queen Mother’s death. Tallon had served her for 51 years. He’d started in 1951 as a page, had prepared her noon drink nearly…
The cameras were live when Jimmy Fallon asked, “Are the rumors about your vocal cords true?” And Neil Diamond touched his throat and admitted to the entire studio that he would never get his voice back. It was March 2018. Neil Diamond walked onto that stage to thunderous applause, the kind reserved…
The NBC studio director was screaming into his headset, and he was not happy. Cut the dance section. 4 minutes is too long for TV. Just sing the song and get off stage. March 25th, 1983. Backstage at Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Motown 25 was about to broadcast live to 47 million viewers….
The fax machine in the Encino mansion came alive at exactly 9:47 a.m. Joe Jackson sat in his den, settled into the same leather chair he had owned since Gary. A chair that had outlived every move, every upgrade, every new version of his life. He liked that chair. It reminded him…
22X had already performed at the Gary Community Center talent show. A 16-year-old who could hit notes that made grown women cry. A jazz trio that had played at real clubs. A girl group with matching outfits and choreographed moves. And then there was contestant number 23, a 5-year-old boy who could…
Dean Martin finally reveals the truth about John Wayne and it isn’t good. December 25th, 1995, Dean Martin lay in his Beverly Hills home, his legendary voice reduced to a whisper. The man who had serenated millions, who had made drinking look elegant and loneliness look cool, was taking his final breaths….
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