During WWII, people suspected socialite Gloria Guinness of being a spy...for the Axis powers.

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Henry VII basically erased Cecily of York from history after she married someone without his permission.
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In 1973, Dalida released a song called “Il venait d’avoir 18 ans,” which many thought was about her affair with a much-younger student.
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The cancer that took Susan Hayward's life was likely caused by radiation exposure, from a film that shot near atomic testing sites.
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Kathleen Kennedy's first husband died just four months after their marriage.

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Gary Cooper became so stressed about his tumultuous relationship with Lupe Vélez that he lost 40 pounds.
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Princess Helena was addicted to laudanum for years, but her mother, Queen Victoria, just thought she was faking.
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Prince Rainier III of Monaco left his "wild child" daughter Princess Stephanie just 1% of his inheritance.
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Gail Russell had retired from acting just three months before her death at the age of 36.

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Charlton Heston said that he and his alluring leading lady, Sophia Loren, shared "zero chemistry."
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After hearing about a disastrous defeat that cost over 10,000 lives, Alfonso XIII simply shrugged and said, "Chicken meat is cheap."
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Jean Harlow packed "Gone With the Wind" for her last hospital visit, causing one of the nurses to say, “She’ll never finish it.”
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Thelma Furness was Prince Edward VIII's first mistress, and she was the one who introduced him to his future wife, Wallis Simpson.
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Barbara Payton went from being paid $5,000 a week for acting to selling her poems for $7.

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When Gary Cooper left Lupe Vélez, she tried to shoot him.

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On the set of "Sabrina," William Holden fell head over heels for Audrey Hepburn and even proposed to her.
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Because of the amount of power she wielded in her husband's kingdom, Napoleon Bonaparte called Maria Carolina “the only man in Naples.”
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Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams met at Juilliard, and from then on, they shared a close friendship.
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Toward the end of her life, Zelda Fitzgerald told her husband that she could speak to Jesus Christ, William the Conqueror, and Mary Stuart.
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Jennifer Jones's husband, movie producer David O. Selznick, controlled nearly every aspect of her life for over two decades.
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When her affair with Louis XV was still secret, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle was known as "The Fair Unknown."
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During one of her divorces, Hedy Lamarr tried to send her stand-in to court so she wouldn't have to go.

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Out of spite, the King of France forced Louis XII to marry a disabled, barren, 12-year-old girl.
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Carolyn Jones lost out on a major role in "From Here To Eternity" because she became so severely ill, she missed her screen test.
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At the time of her tragic death, L'Wren Scott's fashion line was $10 million in debt.
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Prince Albert was believed to have died of typhoid fever, but modern historians suspect he may have suffered from Crohn's disease.
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After her husband died, Louise of Lorraine wore white, the traditional mourning color for French queens—hence the nickname the White Queen.
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Victoria Eugenie passed hemophilia on to her children—and two of her sons suffered early ends because of it.
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Marlene Dietrich claimed to have had flings with both John F. Kennedy and his father.

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Before becoming an actor, George Brent had to flee Ireland after the British put a bounty on his head.
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