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...Toward the end of her testimony, a booing crowd outside the Old Bailey even hurled a couple of eggs in her direction. Mandy, by contrast, plainly relished every moment in the limelight. In her first few minutes of testimony, she said casually that she had made love to Lord Astor as well as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Both men later denied her claim.) To Burge's sardonic suggestion that she had only brought in Fairbanks' name to boost the price of her newspaper confessions Mandy sweetly disagreed. The reason for naming him was simple: "I do not like...
Mandy said that the osteopath had remained in the apartment when she made love to Astor. "It is quite normal, isn't it?" she shrugged. "There is nothing wrong with it." However, she testified, apart from paying Ward $17 a week rent for her room and buying the food, she did not give the osteopath more than $70 in the four months of last year that she shared the flat with...
...others run a small electrical appliances shop, and Johann Jakob Astor is a retired cop. All of them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed...
...estate tycoon, he had three private phones at his elbow-one to the office, one to the outside world and one to the rostrum, 75 ft. away. But all those hot lines could not break the ice at the giant auction in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Astor Hotel. In need of some hard cash, William Zeckendorf, 58, put 25 New York City properties up for grabs, hoping to get more than $7,500,000. Only ten of them drew any bid at all, sold for a near-minimum $2,622,000 (which will be whittled down...
Charming but Wary. That very same weekend Christine had met Jack Profumo for the first time. It was at Cliveden, and Christine, who was visiting Ward at his cottage on the grounds, was stealing a nude moonlight swim in Astor's pool. Suddenly Bill Astor appeared with some guests, including Profumo. Frantically clutching a towel around her dripping self, Christine was introduced to both Jack and his wife, Valerie Hobson. "She was very charming," said Christine, "but seemed wary of me." Next day, Christine brought Ivanov out to Cliveden, and the Russian and Profumo held a swimming race, which...