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Alan Ladd's mother poisoned herself in the backseat of his car.
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The Prince of Monaco's wife had La Belle Otero removed from the country by the authorities.

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The Duchess of Berry had six miscarriages before she passed at 23 years old—and she was pregnant again at the end.
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After deciding to run away together, Max Linder and his underage girlfriend Hélène Peters got into a terrible car accident.
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Liza Minnelli was the daughter of screen legend Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli.
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In 1935, Mae West was the second-highest paid person in the US, behind only William Randolph Hearst.
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Before he started acting, Pierce Brosnan was a professional fire-eater.
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Veronica Franco's poems celebrated her sensuality, and passionately spoke in favor of courtesan and women's rights.
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When Roger Moore left his second wife, she smashed his windows, sued him, and refused to grant a divorce for years.
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Empress Marie Louise loved her son, Napoleon II, more than anything—but the boy preferred his father's ex-wife Josephine to her.
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The FBI performed surveillance on "suspected communist" Burt Lancaster for years.
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Maria Callas was Aristotle Onassis's notorious mistress and Jackie O's greatest rival.
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Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle was the first woman to reject King Louis XV's romantic advances.
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Princess Helen of Serbia refused to speak Russian in her later years, thanks to the trauma she'd suffered there.
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King George I of Great Britain barely spoke English.
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Zita of Bourbon-Parma missed her daughter's funeral because the Austrian government wouldn't let her enter the country.
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After attending Catholic school, Peter O'Toole had a deep-seated fear of nuns.
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Jind Kaur was the last wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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Empress Catherine I was the first woman to rule Imperial Russia.
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Shirley MacLaine became close friends with Alfred Hitchcock after starring in his film "The Trouble With Harry."
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By the age of seven, Emperor Franz Joseph was studying statecraft 18 hours a week.

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Long before he was famous for Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain published two crime novels.
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During WWI, Princess Natasha Paley's brother and father were executed.
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After Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy, he still pursued his old flame, opera singer Maria Callas.
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Anne of Denmark almost never met her husband King James—she got lost at sea on the way to Scotland.

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Princess Alice tried to care for her family when they all caught diphtheria, but she ended up succumbing to it herself.
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Susan Peters only began acting because she thought it would help her afford medical school.
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When Sammy Davis Jr. was 72, he had a fight with his own son over a Vegas dancer and the two didn't speak for nearly a year.
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