- Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:39 pm
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Daily Mail:
"He was an icon of the liberal Left on both sides of the Atlantic, a man of letters whose acid-tongued wit earned him comparisons with Oscar Wilde, and whose vituperative attacks on conservatism led to him being courted by the Clintons and the Kennedys alike.
Famously imperious, Gore Vidal was once asked by a magazine to interview the then Prime Minister John Major, only to complain that Major should be interviewing him.
But for all his vanity, he could be very funny - when a New York taxi driver once told him to ‘Have a nice day,’ Vidal shot back: ‘No, thank you. I’ve made other plans.’
Vidal boasted that he’d had 1,000 sexual partners by the time he was 25.
In private - surrounded by his coterie of celebrity friends such as Princess Margaret, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn and his step-sister, Jacqueline Kennedy - he loved nothing better than to brag about his rapacious homosexuality.
Now, however, it has emerged that there was one area that the late Vidal spent much of his life — and a small fortune — trying to conceal.
His half-sister and nephew, who were very close to Vidal, have revealed they strongly suspect he was a globe-trotting paedophile who preyed on underage boys."
"He was an icon of the liberal Left on both sides of the Atlantic, a man of letters whose acid-tongued wit earned him comparisons with Oscar Wilde, and whose vituperative attacks on conservatism led to him being courted by the Clintons and the Kennedys alike.
Famously imperious, Gore Vidal was once asked by a magazine to interview the then Prime Minister John Major, only to complain that Major should be interviewing him.
But for all his vanity, he could be very funny - when a New York taxi driver once told him to ‘Have a nice day,’ Vidal shot back: ‘No, thank you. I’ve made other plans.’
Vidal boasted that he’d had 1,000 sexual partners by the time he was 25.
In private - surrounded by his coterie of celebrity friends such as Princess Margaret, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn and his step-sister, Jacqueline Kennedy - he loved nothing better than to brag about his rapacious homosexuality.
Now, however, it has emerged that there was one area that the late Vidal spent much of his life — and a small fortune — trying to conceal.
His half-sister and nephew, who were very close to Vidal, have revealed they strongly suspect he was a globe-trotting paedophile who preyed on underage boys."
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