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...artists on the island, or with the hippie population that has been drawn to Ibiza's primitive simplicity. Their relatively sedate life was interrupted by the Hughes case. A long stream of journalists appeared at their door with note pads, microphones and cameras. "Hello, I'm Helga," Edith would say with a bright smile in the days before the Irvings flew to New York late last week and admitted that she had indeed been posing as Helga R. Hughes...
...initial break concerned the identity of "Helga R. Hughes," the mysterious woman who used a Zurich bank account to collect $650,000 in publisher's fees meant for Howard Hughes. On first hearing that the depositor was a woman, Irving feigned astonishment and confusion. "One day I hear she was a blonde," he said at his farmhouse on the Spanish island of Ibiza, "the next that she is a brunette. I don't know where the truth is." A great many people instantly noted that Helga Hughes' description matched to a suspicious degree that of his wife...
...instigation of McGraw-Hill, which had originally planned to publish the Hughes book in March. Much of the information the police worked with had been gathered by LIFE, which was to excerpt the autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there was also official interest: New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, the U.S. Postal Service and the Justice Department had launched investigations into what was beginning to appear to be a very...
...Helga Hughes" did indeed endorse two of the three checks in the presence of a bank officer, then the holographic evidence on which McGraw-Hill and LIFE have been basing their case for authenticity might be called into question. The reason: endorsements on the last two checks were part of a chain of handwriting evidence. The New York experts, Osborn Associates, had concluded that those two checks were endorsed by the same hand that wrote nine letters and other documents to Irving and McGraw-Hill during the book project. In turn, all of those recent samples, Osborn found, matched samples...
...intrigue about Helga R. Hughes obscured discussion on the crucial question of whether or not the Hughes "autobiography" is indeed genuine. Even if fraudulently obtained, the book could well be real. All his life Hughes has been a compulsive dictator of memos on nearly every aspect of his activities. Millions of words by Hughes exist on paper, a reservoir that could be tapped by a disgruntled associate to fill a book. McGraw-Hill and LIFE said in their statement: "We continue to believe that the material we have contains the authentic language and views of Howard Hughes...