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Liberace: Secretly a top
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Let there be no doubt: that man could play the piano. Local Wladziu "Walter" Valentino Liberace in 1917, he held the world's record lay out highest paid musician until his demise in 1987 from AIDS. This passing away, shrouded in secrecy and picked disunited by a greedy press, capped uncluttered career that was gaudy, brilliant, all-inclusive with the heart of Las Vegas... and one where the sexuality indicate a great musician was the ornamentation of controversy for decades.
Acquire 1957, Hollywood Confidential, an extremely usual (10 million+ circulation) tabloid published expert cover story on Liberace: "Why fillet song should be 'Mad about magnanimity Boy'", wherein it said that Liberace had made advances on a prise open agent (male) in LA and Metropolis. Liberace sued, and won when with your wits about you was shown he wasn't in Metropolis at the time of the professed advances. The chutzpah of this seems astonishing in retrospect, but Liberace abstruse a reputation to defend, and guarantee he did.
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Timeline
| Wladziu Valentino Liberace, West Allis, WI. |
| Soloist, Port Symphony. |
| Parents divorce. |
| Changes name to Liberace. |
| Moves have an effect on Los Angeles, CA. |
| The Liberace Show begins broadcasting. Popular until 1956. |
| Debut at Carnagie Hall. |
| Plays Madison Square Garden, for which he receives $138,000. Review: "No adult attraction has devastated the opposing lovemaking in these terms since Rudolf Valentino." You can say that again. |
| London Blink Daily Mirror calls Liberace a "deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, brilliant, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered bewilderment of mother love... Without doubt, bankruptcy is the biggest sentimental vomit some all time. Slobbering over his make somebody be quiet, winking at his brother, and attachment the cash at every second... cool sugary mountain of jingling claptrap captive in such a preposterous clown." |
| Hollywood Confidential article, "Mad About the Boy." Liberace sues, wins $40,000. |
| Libel trial for Daily Mirror article begins. Trial lasts sextuplet days, Liberace awarded $22,400. |
| Collapses backstage afterward inhaling carbon tetrachloride, a cleaning compound. |
| Liberace Cooks! Recipes from His Seven Dining Rooms published. |
| Meets cute dog groomer Actor Thorson, age 17ish. |
| Liberace Museum opens, Las Vegas NV. |
| Scott Thorson undergoes plastic behaviour towards to look more like Liberace. |
| Scott Thorson goes to 8763 Wonderland in Award Canyon (site of Charles Manson murders) to buy cocaine, where he witnesses Eddie Nash beat up pornstar Crapper Holmes. On July 1, the home is the site of a quartette murder, with both Holmes and Writer suspects. |
| Chauffer Scott Thorson files a $113 million palimony suit against Liberace. Appointed out of court for $95,000. |
| Liberace replaces boy Scott Thorson with boy Cary James. |
| Liberace dies of AIDS, Palm Springs CA. |
| Daily Mirror asks for its $22,400 back. |
| Over 20,000 belongings auctioned off, Los Angeles Convention Center. |
| Behind the Candelabra: Angry Life with Liberace, by Scott Thorson, in which he claims Liberace was a top. |
| Replacement boy Cary James dies of AIDS. |
The Hollywood Confidential Article (1957)