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Władziu Valentino Liberace (known as Lee to his friends and Walter to family) [4] was born in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 16, 1919. His grandfather Valentino Liberace (1836–1909) was a casket maker from Formia in central Italy where his father, musician Salvatore ("Sam") Liberace (1885–1977), was born. [5]
Liberace also incorporated Thorson into his Las Vegas stage performances – for example, Thorson drove Liberace's Rolls-Royce onstage, [3] and was a dancer. [ 4 ] According to Thorson, their committed relationship ended because of Liberace's promiscuous behavior and Thorson's drug addiction.
The Liberace Museum Collection is a private museum collection that includes many stage costumes, cars, jewelry, lavishly decorated pianos and numerous citations for philanthropic acts that belonged to the American entertainer and pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known as Liberace.
Scott Thorson, who wrote about his relationship with Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, has died.He was 65. Thorson published his memoir in 1988 a year after the famed pianist’s death, and was ...
Scott Thorson, the former lover of Liberace and a key witness in the trial for the 1981 killings known as the Wonderland Massacre, died in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. He was 65 and was a patient at a ...
Thorson agrees and drives to Liberace's retreat house in Palm Springs, where he and Liberace have one last, emotional conversation. Liberace dies a few months later in February 1987. Thorson attends Liberace's funeral, in which he imagines seeing Liberace performing one last time with his traditional flamboyance, before being lifted to Heaven ...
Liberace, left, is shown with his brother George Liberace, center, and Elvis Presley, at the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas on April 30, 1956. Not only could Elvis sing, but he could act too.
George Liberace (July 31, 1911 – October 16, 1983) was an American musician and television performer. Biography. Born in Menasha, Wisconsin on July 31, 1911 ...