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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.
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 himself opened the Liberace Museum on April 15, 1979, in Paradise, Nevada, a census-designated place in the Las Vegas Valley. [4] Admission to the museum cost $3.50. [5] His brother George became the director and later George's wife, Dora, assumed that role.
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 ...
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.
This list of people from Palm Springs, California describes notable residents who have had homes in the city and nearby resort communities of the Coachella Valley.These communities, which include Palm Springs, Bermuda Dunes, Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage and Thermal are in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County ...
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.
Heller figured prominently into two 1988 television films documenting Liberace's life, Liberace and Liberace: Behind the Music. In 2013 a third film, Behind the Candelabra, aired on HBO. The movie stars Michael Douglas as Liberace and Dan Aykroyd as Heller. [16] Heller was also the subject of A Tribute To Seymour Heller, a 2008 short, honoring ...