The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People

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"Revealing! An encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters do between the sheets."--TIME

"More astonishing and outrageous than most of us would even imagine."--Forecast

"Entirely fascinating. . . . Hugely entertaining."--Auberon Waugh, Inquiry

"Something for everyone . . . eminent flashers, fetishists, flagellants, plain old down home fornicators, and goings-on galore."--Cosmopolitan

From the indefatigable Wallace family, authors of The Book of Lists and The People's Almanac series (New York Times bestsellers that sold over eight million copies internationally), came 1981's The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People.

This compelling bestseller that kept many a reader up at night with its two hundred revealing profiles and three hundred rare photos just got better with a dozen new entries on the nocturnal fascinations of the iconic Tupac Shakur, Carlos Casteneda, Jim Morrison, Nico, Wilt Chamberlain, Ayn Rand, Kurt Cobain, Princess Diana, Aleister Crowley, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Hutchence, and Malcolm X.

Irving Wallace was the famous novelist and screenwriting author of The Chapman Report and The Word. His wife, Sylvia Wallace, wrote the best-selling novel The Fountains. The Wallace family's publishing magic lives on with Amy Wallace, author of The Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, and David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics and Tyrants: The World's Worst Dictators.

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION 11
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SEX SYMBOLS
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John Barrymore 51 Charlie Chaplin 54 Gary
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Sarah Bernhardt 74 Eleanora Duse 76 Lillie
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PAINTING THE TOWN
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Colette 109 George Sand 111 Gertrude Stein 113
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Virginia Woolf 116 Mary Wollstonecraft 119
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Honoré de Balzac 125 J M Barrie 127 James Boswell
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POETIC LICENSE
225
LETS MAKE MUSIC
247
ROCKIN AND ROLLIN
291
Napoleon Bonaparte 307 Pauline Bonaparte 310
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313 Charles II 316 Cleopatra 320
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322 Edward VIII 325 Elizabeth I 327
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330 Henry VIII 332 AbdulAziz IbnSaud
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Victoria 347
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Carlos Castaneda 139 Gabriele DAnnunzio 142 Charles
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Ernest Hemingway 162 Victor Hugo 165 Christopher
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H Lawrence 175 Jack London 178 W Somerset Maugham
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de Sade 189 William Seabrook 192 Stendhal 195
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August Strindberg 199 Leo Tolstoi 201 Mark Twain 204
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Thomas Jefferson 353 Grover Cleveland
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359 John F Kennedy 361 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 364
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Benjamin Disraeli 367 Mahatma
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Eva Peron 380 Mao Tsetung 383
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John Paul Jones 389 T E Lawrence 391 General Douglas
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About the author (2008)

Renowned Olympic historian David Wallechinsky is NBC's radio commentator on the Olympics and the author of many best-selling reference books. He has appeared on a number of television shows. He currently splits his time between Santa Monica, California, and the South of France.

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