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Thanksgiving usually marks the start of the holiday season. It’s when family and friends get together to celebrate one another, eat some turkey, and of course, give thanks. That is until the drama begins. When guests start hitting the spirits and inapp…

When moving to a new neighborhood, one typically does not have the luxury of choosing who he or she lives next to. Unfortunately for the folks in these stories, their neighbors ended up being total monsters whose mission in life seems to be making ever…

It was a beautiful, terrible thing to be Zsa Zsa Gabor. One of the most stunning women of her century, Gabor wore Hollywood like a skin-tight dress, languishing in its glamour, its galas, and its dark side. Through her incredible nine marriages, she fo…

When Gregory Peck wasn’t making his fans and co-stars swoon, he was making them think. In both his movies and his personal life, Peck wanted to ask the tough questions—and he wasn’t afraid to put his career on the line to get the conversation going. Bu…

Almost everyone will admit to having outrageous crushes on a rock star, but the number of people who actually meet their music idol is significantly less. Pamela Des Barres, as groupie extraordinaire to some of the biggest bands in history, did a lot m…

Porfirio Rubirosa epitomized the playboy lifestyle of the 1950s by living in luxury at the expense of others. Subsisting on pleasure, polo, and fast cars, Rubirosa played a dangerous game and spent his entire life trying to maintain a dodgy equilibrium…

From almost the moment Isabella of Parma was born, doom hovered around the edges of her life. Though she was a granddaughter of two kings, Isabella’s glittering existence wrapped around a dark core of heartache, scandal, and melancholy. When a forbidde…

People like to see the Victorian age as prim, proper, and buttoned-up, but Alice Keppel proves them all wrong. The uncrowned queen of the “naughty nineties,” Keppel was one of the most scandalous women of her day—and most of her exploits went on behind…

Although Carrie Fisher is best remembered for her portrayal of Princess Leia in Star Wars, her real-life resilience only enhanced her iconic reputation. A born writer, Fisher never shied away from speaking her truth and telling her story. Not only did …

Prince George, Duke of Kent was so bent on challenging royal tradition that he usually took it a step too far. He was an unabashed partier and a shameless bedroom romper. He fearlessly stomped the streets in drag and pursued illicit affairs. George’s s…