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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.
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, 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 ...
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 ...
The modest-length production (97 minutes) traces Liberace's life, as played by Canadian actor Victor Garber, from his humble beginnings in a Milwaukee suburb, through his major life highs and lows, culminating with the highly publicized palimony lawsuit filed against him by his former limo driver and alleged live-in boyfriend of five years, Scott Thorson (played by Michael Dolan), and his ...
In the MGM+ docuseries, the best-selling novelist investigates the notorious 1981 quadruple murder and interviews former Liberace boyfriend Scott Thorson, a key witness.
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.
Washington’s real money, however, came from his 8,000 acres of prime Virginia farmland and the more than 300 slaves who worked it at Mount Vernon. When he died, his estate was worth $525,000, or ...