Jane O'Shea articles

After her wedding to Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner was rushed to the hospital. She spent weeks recovering—but when she finally got home, the sight that greeted her made her stomach drop.

Infamous actress Marion Davies spoiled her niece Patricia Lake. But on her deathbed, Lake confessed the utterly chilling truth.

Gene Wilder once said, “I’d be insane to lose my insanity”. And he was right. Best known for his role as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wilder left audiences in stitches. But lurking behind his crazy hair and impish grin was a life that brought more tears than laughs.

It was a beautiful, terrible thing to be Zsa Zsa Gabor. One of the most stunning women of her century, Gabor wore Hollywood like a skin-tight dress, languishing in its glamour, its galas, and its dark side. Through her incredible nine marriages, she found out—and aired—some of the dirtiest laundry in Tinseltown. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t have secrets of her own…

Eddie Van Halen had an amazing gift that came with a curse. He could play guitar like no one else, but the demons inside his head were always there taunting him to do the most despicable things.

These bands were so far ahead of their time, commercial radio couldn't keep up with them.

Sue Lyon shot to fame as the suggestive character Dolores “Lolita” Haze in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Lolita. But the controversial nature of the role was closer to reality than anyone knew.

Success doesn't always feel like winning. Ask the artists who watch their breakthrough songs define them forever, overshadowing everything else they create. The applause becomes noise. The requests become demands

Johnny Carson ruled over late night TV and kept audiences rolling in laughter for 30 years as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. But, between the peals of laughter and practical jokes, there was a fair amount of controversy and scandal. The King of Late Night could sometimes be a tyrant.