When Gene Clark died, his bandmates called him, “A hero, our savior”—but just a few years earlier, those same bandmates had betrayed a struggling Clark for the pettiest reason imaginable.
With her distinct platinum hair and kohl-rimmed eyes, Edie Sedgwick was the ultimate cool girl of the 60s. She was a muse (or lover) to countless famous artists and musicians before her tragic death at 28—but few know her even darker history.
Pearl Bailey had traveled to Philadelphia so that she could go in for a routine knee surgery. When it was over, she returned to her hotel room to recover—not knowing that something had gone horribly wrong.
Today, Sylvester Stallone is worth an incredible $400 million, but at one point during his life he spent three weeks sleeping in a bus terminal—and that wasn’t even the worst of it.
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