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Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle was beautiful, kind, and trusting—and she definitely didn't deserve what her own sisters did to her.

Just before Rock Hudson’s divorce from Phyllis Gates, she made a secret tape of her ex. Its contents would have ruined him.

Freethinking PioneerFrom his groundbreaking insights into the cosmos to his persecution at the hands of the Catholic Church, Galileo Galilei stands as one of the most innovative and freethinking pioneers of modern science. We explore...

Julie d’Aubigny was the mistress of one man, the wife of abother, and had a secret affair of her own—and it all came to a spectacular zenith in 1687.

Patrick Swayze Facts. Patrick Swayze was beloved for dazzling audiences with fight scenes, romancing them with incredible dances, and much more.

Music manager Lou Pearlman came crashing down in a storm of lawsuits after horrifically scamming several boy bands in the 90s—but a much more sinister story emerged in 2009.

Pola Negri had a passionate affair with Charlie Chaplin—but the glamorous couple hid a dark secret behind bedroom doors.

Richard Haliburton planned to cross the Pacific in a homemade ship. Partway through the crossing, a typhoon hit. When another ship asked his condition—his reply was utterly chilling.

Famed artist Diego Rivera was madly in lust with starlet Maria Felix, even though she spurned his advances—and one day, he showed his “love” with a disturbing gift.

Maria Theresa of Spain thought her dreams had come true when her father arranged her marriage to King Louis XIV of France—but before she married the young king, she agreed to a devastating ultimatum.

Princess Henrietta converted religions to marry Duke Phillipe. He repaid her by sleeping with multiple men. When their daughter was born, rumors spread that she wasn’t Phillipe’s! Some candidates for daddy include Phillipe’s own brother, or ex-lover.

Q: What Was The Political Prelude To The 1860 Election?A: Ever since the drafting of America’s federal constitution of 1787, the question of slavery had given rise to political contention and compromise. In the early...