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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]
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 ...
Liberace begins visiting pornographic peep shows and suggests that they each see other people. Later, Thorson starts flying into jealous rages, whereupon Liberace kicks him out and ends their partnership. Scott Thorson retains an attorney to seek his financial share by suing Liberace for over $100,000,000 in palimony. In 1984, Thorson's ...
From 1967 until his death, George Liberace was married to Eudora Albrecht. [1] He lived most of his life in Palm Springs, California, in a house owned by his brother. [4] George Liberace died of leukemia at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 16, 1983, at age 72, and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
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 ...
In the MGM+ docuseries, the best-selling novelist investigates the notorious 1981 quadruple murder and interviews former Liberace boyfriend Scott Thorson, a key witness.
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.
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace is a memoir by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson, published in 1988 by Dutton, and reissued in 2013. In 2009, it was reported that Thorson was working on a sequel, but as of his death in 2024 it had not materialized.