Found this somewhere.
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Majorita — 19 years ago(October 14, 2006 11:10 PM)
MARRIAGE HOWARD HUGHES STYLE
According to many accounts, Howard Hughes "married" actress Jean Peters the very next day May 13, 1957. They'd dated on and off for a number of years. But Hughes had squired a string of actresses and had showed no inclination to settle down with any one of them.
Stanton O'Keefe, in his book, The Real Howard Hughes Story, describes the marriage ceremony:
"A classic example of Hughes's penchant for secrecy. It took place in Tonopah, Nevada. Senator Howard Cannon, who was then the city attorney of Las Vegas and a personal friend of Hughes, took care of all the legal arrangements including the trick maneuver that protected the validity of the marriage contract while allowing the couple to register under assumed names."
The wedding was "announced" in Louella Parsons's column. Reporters combed Nevada, but were unable to find any tr238ace of the marriage. One of them finally remarked, "The nearest I can come to it is that they were married by a Parson named Louella."
For several years after their "marriage," Hughes and Jean Peters were supposed to be living in a Bel Air mansion, but the owner of the house never saw the "husband." The couple was not seen in public together in over thirteen years of marriage, and there is no record of their ever having been photographed with each other.
After "Hughes" moved to Las Vegas late in 1966, their &16d0quot;marital life" consisted, or so it seemed, of devoted Jean Peters flying out from an empty house in Bel Air to visit "Howard" in Las Vegas for half an hour or so, every couple of weeks. After thirteen years of "marriage," Jean Peters filed for a divorce. It came through in June 1971. Jean allegedly got $2 million out of the deal.
Was this "marriage" only an elaborate explanation of why Hughes stopped chasing movie actresses in 1957?
If Hughes was buried at sea in April, 1971, was his "divorce" a ploy to quell persistent rumors that he was dead, or dying? Dead men don't get divorces. Or do they?
Jean Peters isn't talking.
A FAREWELL TO VEGAS
"Hughes" supposedly departed from the penthouse at the Desert Inn, Las Vegas, on Thanksgiving Eve, 1970. The timing is important. Rumors were rife that Hughes was ill or dying; demands were being made that he appear in person to reorganize his Las Vegas empire. Things were getting hot.
Was it really Howard Hughes who departed from Las Vegas or was it, once more, the Hughes double?
Then someone surfaced in the Bahamas. "Hughes" was quickly passed through Customs under the watchful eye of the U.S. Consul without ever making an appearance.
KLEENEX BOXES
WITHOUT TOPSES
WERE THE SHOES
OF HOWARD HUGHES
After December, 1970, some descriptions of the rare "Hughes" sightings became increasingly bizarre.
Was the real Hughes seriously ailing somewhere? Were careful preparations being made to see that even his death did not interfere with the smooth operation of the Hughes empire? And by whom?
From the many conflicting descriptions of Hughes sightings in 1971 and 1972, there may even have been two Hughes doubles floating around the world for a time.
One was described as a tall, scrawny, sickly, bearded semi-cripple, weighing less than one hundred pounds, with six-inch-long fingernails and scraggly white hair down to the middle of his back, who occasionally wore Kleenex boxes on his feet to avoid contact with the ground.
The other "Hughes" was a vigorous, well-groomed executive, who wore a neat Van Dyke beard, kept his gray hair cut to the normal length, shook hands freely, was said to chat with visitors, and gave interviews every now and then but only to people like the President of Nicaragua, or else over the phone.
Bob Rehak, the skipper of a luxury yacht who said he brought "Hughes" from the Bahamas to Florida in February 1972, gave a newspaper interview describing his "Hughes" this way: "He had this stringy beard, real thin, and it came halfway to his waist. His hair was real fine, too, down over his shoulders. . . During those twenty-two hours, he used up six to eight boxes (of tissues), wiping his chin, wiping his face, his hands, his spoon, nearly everything he touched."
Rehak said his passenger constantly wrote notes on a yellow legal pad. "It was a funny thing after he got through writing something on a pad or using a box of Kleenex, his men would tear it up in little bits and throw it overboard."
Tiger Eye insists that Hughes died in 1971. Yet the masquerade continued. Why?
LITTLE GREEN REASONS
To quote Clifford Irving: "There are about two billion little reasons all of them green."
Dietrich reports Howard Hughes's first "major" purchase of an election. It involved the contribution of $60,000 to a successful senatorial campaign in 1952. Hughes moved on to bigger things.
A few weeks after the election in November 1956, Hughes negotiated a $205,000 "loan" to new Vice President Richard M. Nixon's brother, Donald. (See The Nixon-Hughes "Loan"; the "Loan" No One Repaid, by Nicholas North-Broome.) The loan w -
justincouch1 — 18 years ago(April 15, 2007 07:39 AM)
There are no facts to back this story up what so ever. This entire post is copied straight from an article by famed conspiracy therorist Mae Brussell. The article first appeared in Playgirl in December of 1974.
Maybe his death was hidden to keep the government from seizing any of his money and those who were in charge of his companies feared losing their power and money. They needed extra time to get the paperwork in order so that when his death was made public they were secure with his fortune. That would be more believable than The Onassis theory.
Besides, I think what is claimed to be his true demise is just as interesting as any conspiracy theories. Here is a man that grew up alone and while most boys his age were going off to college and losing their virginity Howard Hughes inherited just under a million dollars from his late father's business. He slowly built that fortune into over a billion dollars, slept with any woman he chose, help revolutionize commercial air travel and the military. Then he just disappears for almost 20 years until his death. Maybe that's exactly what happend.
You put yourself in his shoes. You are the richest man in America, you banged every hot piece of ass out there, you have no children, no responsibilty, all you have is your work, you are used to being alone because your dad worked all the time and you were an only child. Your mom was over protective of you so you didn't get to do anything when you were a kid. No fun stuff, no friends. You probably have minor brain damage from that near death plane crash you suffered. You get hooked on pain meds that you are taking medicine for your injuries. You have a mental illness that is developing more rapidly now because of the medicine. You can do what ever you want. So, you chose to junk out on codeine and other pain meds in your room all day. Except all day turns into 20 years.
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Enki-1 — 18 years ago(June 22, 2007 04:14 PM)
I was into howard hughes a few years ago, wanting to know how he made his money and hopefully emulate it. But it was futile at best, considering his father gave his business to his son. And from that howard hughes made that money grow.
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BigJimJosophat — 18 years ago(August 07, 2007 03:33 PM)
I remember seeing short footage of Hughes arriving in Vegas in '66, just getting off his plane, in a documentary about Vegas. Also didn't he end up buying all those hotels from Dalitz, Sinatra and the rest so if Onassis did get him it must have been after the mid 60's