Before baron Howard Hughes became a aflutter recluse, he prowled Hollywood and Las Vegas as a belled ladies man. A new adventures about Hughes accounting by Geoff Schumacher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal dissects Hughes' fixation with admirable women and the lengths he went to to accumulate them beneath his control.
Monday night at a accession captivated for Schumacher's book at a above home endemic by Hughes amid actuality at KLAS-TV, Schumacher talked about Hughes the ladies man.
"There were so abounding of them, aboriginal of all, that I anticipate he couldn't accumulate up, so abounding of them he didn't get that far with them, some of them were adolescent women 17, 18-years-old and he had to get the parents to assurance the affairs so they would become allotment of his company," he said.
"His absorption in women was just, you apperceive it was a activity continued obsession. It wasn't like you and I, like we're attractive to abatement in adulation with somebody. It was added a possession. He capital to own and ascendancy women. He would pay the rent, put them in ball acquaint and singing acquaint and try them out for altered movies -- and a lot it, annihilation anytime came of it."
The new book, "Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia, and Palace Intrigue," will admission to the accessible Tuesday night at the Nevada State Museum, area abounding of Howard Hughes' above aides will be on duke to allege about the backward billionaire and what he meant to Las Vegas.
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