Word: lupescu
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...house [where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford later broke up]. You will be more comfortable there." Gary never had it so good: the countess "ordered him dozens of suits." Once, relates Elsa, the countess went to Mexico, "not to meet King Carol, whom she knew well, or Madame Lupescu, who were living there, but in search of a gold mine." Dorothy never found it. but she was always hankering to parlay her $12 million inheritance into a greater fortune. She and Bugsy once tried to peddle an explosive, which "had almost the same power that the atom bomb...
Enter Magda. Carol was a restless 30 when he met Elena Lupescu, divorced wife of a Rumanian army officer. A flaming redhead with a camellia-white complexion and green eyes, Magda, as she was known, became Carol's mistress. King Ferdinand ordered her out of the country. Carol joined her in Paris, wrote his father: "I not only renounce the throne, but I renounce all rights that I have ... my child ... and my wealth." When Ferdinand died two years later, Carol's son, the six-year-old Michael, became King...
...Carol and Magda fled Rumania under a hail of Nazi bullets. They lived quietly in Mexico for a while, then went to Brazil. There Magda took ill with pernicious anemia, and doctors thought she was dying. In their Copacabana Palace suite in 1947, Carol at long last married Elena Lupescu, whom he proclaimed Princess Elena. When Magda recovered, they went to live, a portly, aging couple in Estoril in Portugal, haven of exiled royalties. There last week, with Magda beside him and few to mourn him, Carol, 59, died of a stroke...
Danger (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Mr. Lupescu...
Princess Elena of Rumania, better known before her 1947 marriage as Mme. Magda Lupescu, came to grief while visiting the International Stamp Exhibition at London's Grosvenor House with her husband and longtime (23 years) royal lover, former King Carol of Rumania. The princess caught her heel at the top of a short flight of stairs, tumbled, landed in a mink-clad heap twelve steps below. Damage: a badly bruised right...