Scandal-Makers

As she got richer, Doris Duke only got more bizarre. She even kept a bevy of dirty camels at her mansion—but that’s not the worst part.

Caroline Astor had an uncomfortably close relationship with her son—which makes the brutal betrayal he dealt her after she died all the more disturbing.

One minute the beautiful, brazen Luisa Casati was the most celebrated artist’s muse in Paris—and the next she was utterly ruined.

Modern historians believe Edward De Vere was Queen Elizabeth I’s illegitimate son, the product of an affair with another courtier—but that’s not the most disturbing part.

Near the end of her life, Rebekah Harkness’s iconic beauty calcified into monstrosity—yet her death was even more horrific.

The twisted Pope Alexander VI lived a life of sin and debauchery—so it's only fitting that his demise was utterly gruesome.