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...sort of Hemingwayesque life-sunny, charmed with cheap, good wine, the artist flourishing among Spanish peasants-that a generation or more of wistful, frazzled American writers have dreamed of escaping to. Clifford Irving was an itinerant aspiring novelist when he first discovered the island of Ibiza (the setting for the movie More) off Spain's Mediterranean coast more than 15 years ago; he soon settled there. Now, with his fourth wife Edith and two sons, Ned, 3, and Barnaby, 2, he lives in a 300-year-old whitewashed stone farmhouse two miles from Ibiza's town square...
...most intriguing new speculations revolved around the $650,000 that Howard Hughes is supposed to have collected from McGraw-Hill for pouring forth his autobiography in at least 100 hours of interviews and tapings with Author Clifford Irving.* The $650,000 was allegedly paid to Hughes in the form of three checks-a cashier's check from Irving for $50,000, a McGraw-Hill check for $275,000 and a McGraw-Hill check for $325,000. Irving claims that he gave two of the checks to Hughes in person and the third to a trusted Hughes intermediary; by Irving...
...received. In the New York court last week, Davis brought forth another disavowal of the entire project from Hughes. It was in the form of two pages of typewritten questions with longhand answers allegedly written by Hughes. Said one query: "Did you at any time authorize McGraw-Hill or Clifford Irving or anyone other than Rosemont [a publishing company set up by Hughes] to publish your autobiography or any material relating to you?" The scrawled reply: "No. I would like to see these forgeries." "When is the last time you personally endorsed a check for any reason?" "More than...
There are other inconsistencies and discrepancies. Clifford Irving's story is troubling on a number of points. Could Hughes, who by many accounts is almost hermetically sealed in his Paradise Island eyrie, have traveled to the mainland and to other places outside the U.S. for meetings with Irving over a period of nine months without the knowledge of his aides or of immigration officials? Irving replies: "Hughes is a flitter...
THEORY I: TOTAL HOAX. Clifford Irving invented the entire autobiography. To do so, however, Irving would have to be a near genius of a writer. He would also have had to forge a body of documents, among them the Hughes letter to Irving acknowledging receipt of his book Fake!; four handwritten letters, including the nine-page letter to the McGraw-Hill president; and checks-made out to Hughes for $700,000 as payment for the book, endorsed by Hughes and cleared through a Zurich banking house called Credit Suisse. Irving would also have had to forge Hughes' handwriting...