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Farley Granger had affairs with Old Hollywood’s hottest starlets, romancing big names like Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner.

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Companies can spend years designing the perfect product, complete with instructions explaining exactly how we’re supposed to use it. Then they hand it to actual people. And that’s usually when things get interesting.

PEOPLE

New York heiress Dorothy Arnold bought chocolates and a book on Fifth Avenue in 1910, then vanished without a trace, leaving behind one of America’s most enduring unsolved mysteries.

PEOPLE

Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise von Fürstenberg-Herdringen was born in Berlin in 1936, into a family that moved easily through European aristocratic circles. Her father was Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, while her mother, Gloria, would become one of the most celebrated society figures of the mid-20th century. Before Dolores was even an adult, her family connections had already stretched across European nobility, international finance, and the fashionable jet set.

PEOPLE

Conrad Hilton Jr.’s most scandalous affair only came out after his untimely death—and the identity of his lover was the biggest bombshell of all.

THINGS

History's greatest circus performers risked everything to amaze audiences—and many paid a heartbreaking price.


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