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Even as negotiations concerning the fate of Howard Hughes' vast empire intensified last week, new and horrifying details came to light about the reclusive billionaire's last hours. The source was Dr. Victor Manuel Montemayor Martinez, 47, a leading Acapulco physician who often treats ailing tourists...
...Monday, April 5, Montemayor was summoned to Acapulco's Princess Hotel. As he was escorted into the opulent Jasmine penthouse suite, he was taken aback. On an orthopedic bed in a deep coma lay Howard Hughes, his emaciated, naked body covered only with a sheet. His skin was spotted with bedsores. Blood oozed from a swelling on the side of his head that had been cut open in a fall several months earlier. His blood pressure was barely recordable, his breathing was shallow, and he showed signs of severe dehydration...
...compelled to testify in a Nevada suit. According to Eckersley, Hughes had locked himself into a self-made prison. Whether atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas (where he lived from 1966 to 1970) or the Inn on the Park in London (1972-73) or the Princess in Acapulco (since February), Hughes' pattern of existence was much the same. He was completely sheltered from outsiders by five nurse-aides, four of whom are Mormons. Hughes had picked them because their abstinential religion rendered them, in his eyes, less susceptible to the weaknesses of human nature that he knew...
...former chef, Garry Reich, said that he was ready to sell the recipe for the fudge that Howard savored. Meanwhile, the Mexican authorities seemed piqued that Hughes had got away without leaving anything valuable behind. Two days after his death, Mexican detectives raided his Jasmine suite in the Acapulco penthouse and seized three aides, who had stayed behind to pack furniture and shred files. At week's end the Mexicans charged Hughes Aide Clarence Waldron, 41, with forging Hughes' signature on a Mexican tourist card. The other two were released. Under intense questioning, the aides disclosed that Hughes...
Died. Howard Robard Hughes, 70, enigmatic, reclusive billionaire; of kidney failure; while en route from Acapulco to a Houston hospital (see THE NATION...