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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill" Rockefeller, crack shot and con artist, claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when he had it, he tied the bills in bundles with twine and stacked them in a dresser drawer like cordwood. It was from his charlatan/shaman father that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John D. Rockefeller: Oil In The Family | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

Connolly has other hairy charges: that Seagal was a bigamist when he was courting his current wife, actress Kelly LeBrock; that two female aides were paid to keep quiet about his sexual harassment of them; that among his friends are kinfolk of various godfathers and gonifs. "Steven likes to hang out with the underworld of espionage," says J.F. Lawton, who wrote Under Siege, "and maybe also of crime. But I don't see Steven rubbing anyone out. And if you have Michael Ovitz behind you, you don't really need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seagal Under Siege | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...principal character of the new novel. Rob Wyatt, a 32-year-old lawyer, is not even sure that he wants to hear his own monologues. He sees himself as a philosophical bigamist wedded to two perspectives: "Robert the Serious, a believer; also Rob the Ironic, jokester and cynic." The storm rearranges the rhetoric, leaving Rob the Observer, who drops out of his law firm to live at the beach with his dog Speedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining Men | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

...that Mayer had even earlier come and gone. He heard that some woman had visited Bern the night before (Harlow was away) and that there had been sounds of quarreling. ^ All this led Marx to believe Bern had committed suicide because Millette was threatening to expose him as a bigamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shedunit DEADLY ILLUSIONS by Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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