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Pregame Valentine's Day with famous love stories from a diverse cast of characters: Ruth Madoff, Elizabeth Taylor, Stephen Miller, and more.
An Heiress's Heart
From the summer of 1941, in Beverly Hills, when she was a teenage heiress being courted by Howard Hughes, to her one-night stand with Marlon Brando, to her explosive New York fling with Frank Sinatra, Gloria Vanderbilt had romantic memories of some of the 20th century's most celebrated men. In an excerpt from her book, It Seemed Important at the Time, she chronicled dazzling meetings, passionate mistakes, and lasting love.
Ruth's World
Ruth Madoff professed her contrition—and her innocence—soon after her husband's outraged victims learned she had cut a deal with prosecutors that left her with $2.5 million. Was this a fresh example of Bernie Madoff pulling the strings, even from behind bars? And how could she not have known about his Ponzi scheme? Talking to the Madoff's former close friends, Mark Seal probed the true nature of their 49-year marriage, from Ruth's deep involvement in the business to the demons underneath her perfect-wife façade, to the bizarre life she led after Bernie was arrested.
A Love Too Big to Last
From scandalous beginning to tormented end, theirs was the most epic love story in Hollywood history: a blaze of headlines, booze, jewels, brawls, and private jets. Marrying and divorcing twice, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton rocked the culture and each other's lives with a passion that reverberated long after Burton's 1984 death. In an excerpt from their book, Furious Love, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger draw on Taylor's never-before-seen letters from Burton to reveal the poignant, complex truth behind the legend of "Liz and Dick."
Super Bad True Love Story
Two Trump favorites, both alike in ignominy, Stephen Miller and Katie Waldman found love in a hateful place.
To Love and Love Not
In 1999, Alane Salierno Mason discovered in an old steamer trunk a cache of letters and telegrams from Ernest Hemingway to her adoptive grandmother, a celebrated, well-married beauty named Jane Kendall Mason. They gave new insights into a liaison that blossomed amid the decadent delights of 1930s Havana, enraged and enchanted Hemingway, haunted his work, and destroyed his relationship with his editor Arnold Gingrich, the founder of Esquire, who eventually became the fourth husband of the dashing, complicated, and tragic "Mrs. M."
The Princess and the Shaman
When Gwyneth Paltrow's guru met Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, reality seemed like a fairy tale. Can these two star-crossed lovers have their happy ending?
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