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...money question has been substantially solved. Irving admits that his wife Edith, posing as a woman named Helga R. Hughes, opened an account at the Swiss Credit Bank in Zurich, deposited the McGraw-Hill checks made out to H.R. Hughes and then withdrew the money and salted it away in several other Zurich banks. Irving claims that he made the arrangements at Hughes' request. Last week, however, a few more details of those transactions came to light...
...thing, Edith opened one of the secondary accounts in the name of Hanne Rosenkranz. Edith's first husband, a West German businessman named Heinz Deiter Rosenkranz, is now married to a woman named Hannah, whose West German identity card Edith evidently used in opening the account, using the diminutive Hanne. Edith forged the specimen signature to do so. In addition, Swiss authorities found that Edith's "Helga R. Hughes" passport was actually a Swiss passport that had been issued to her in the fall of 1968, after she had reported her old one missing...
...used to appear on television and in supper clubs with her husband, Baron Frederik van Pallandt, from whom she has been separated since 1969. For years she has had an Ibiza villa. "Whenever Nina's name was mentioned," a friend of the Irvings says, "Edith would climb the wall...
...news that Helga was actually Edith exploded like a bombshell. Its concussion immediately threw all of Irving's past assertions into a new perspective and, at the least, severely damaged his credibility. Ackerman immediately withdrew from the Hughes case. "I think he needs a criminal lawyer in a situation like this," Ackerman said. McGraw-Hill and LIFE both indicated they would hold off publication of the Hughes material indefinitely...
...Lawyer. The plot could have been maliciously inspired by a former Hughes man who masterminded it. If the material simply fell into the Irvings' laps as purloined goods, some think that Edith could have been the brains behind the operation. A longtime friend of the Irvings' observes: "Edith is essentially an adventurer. She wouldn't be interested in it primarily for the money. She'd like to do it because of the intrigue, the danger." In fact, says the friend, if the banking arrangements had been left strictly to Edith, "there probably wouldn't have...