J. P. Morgan revolutionized the American banking system and saved Wall Street several times over—but his outward good deeds masked a darker ambition.
With his own presidential dreams down the toilet, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ruthlessly traded his daughter's future for his sons’ political success—and kept the secret buried for decades.
Most people remember Tonya Harding for her figure skating scandal—but that was just the start of her humiliating downfall.
Just before his death in 2005, notorious writer Hunter S Thompson wrote a short note to his new wife—and its contents were absolutely chilling.
J Paul Getty was once the richest man in America—but as his story proves, all the money in the world couldn’t buy him happiness.
Louis Philippe II sold out his family to revolutionaries to survive the Reign of Terror—only to pay a seriously twisted price for his betrayal.
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