They say Benny Bingan built Las Vegas on guts in a suitcase full of Dallas gambling money. They say he was the cowboy who tamed Fremont Street and created the World Series of Poker. But what if I told you that Benny Bingan never ran his own casino? that every major decision,…
May 2nd, 1957, 10:25 p.m., the Majestic apartment building, Central Park West, Manhattan. Frank Costello stepped out of his Cadillac and walked toward the lobby doors. He never made it inside. Vincent “The Chin” Gigante emerged from the shadows, raised a .38 revolver, and screamed, “This is for you, Frank. ” The…
1987, somewhere in the American Midwest, a woman is registering her children under a name that isn’t hers in a city she didn’t choose. Married to a man who is already sleeping with someone else 2 weeks into their new life. The FBI gave Karen Hill a fresh identity and a…
princess Alexandra of Kent The Honorable lady Ogilvie a beloved member of the British royal family is admired not only for her grace and Poise but also for her exquisite jewelry collection as the cousin of Queen Elizabeth the second princess Alexandra has inherited and warmed some of the most stunning pieces…
There is a photograph of Joan Kennedy taken at a Kennedy family gathering in the early 1960s. She is standing slightly apart from the group, blonde, poised, dressed immaculately, and she is smiling the way someone smiles when they are trying very hard to belong somewhere they are not entirely sure they…
The third daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenburg, Cecilia was born at Tatatoy Palace near Athens on 22nd June 1911. Baptized on 10th of July, her godparents were King George V of the United Kingdom, Ernest Louie, Grand Duke of Hessa, Prince Nicholas of Greece…
She was the beloved daughter of a king, a princess raised in palaces known for her quiet devotion and wartime heroism. But behind the gracious public image of Princess Mary, Princess Royal, lay a far more intimate story, one not of queens or crowns, but of sons. Two boys born into the…
November 22nd, 1963, Dallas, Texas. The motorcade has not yet turned onto Elm Street. In a hotel room somewhere in that city, a young woman is getting ready. She is 26 years old, blonde, classically beautiful, dressed for a public appearance beside her husband, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. She is the…
Imagine if the most popular woman on this planet had been [snorts] killed in front of thousands of flashing cameras and they covered it up as an accident. All of that came falling down when Princess Diana’s knees came forward and revealed the dark secret. What was it? Why did she reveal…
Lady Cynthia Spencer’s life unfolded against the grand tapestry of the 20th century British aristocracy, quietly bridging the worlds of royalty and nobility long before her granddaughter Diana became the people’s princess. Born Lady Cynthia Hamilton in August 1897 into one of Britain’s great noble families, she was destined for a life…
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