A family cringes as father and son wage a bitter, public battle of wills. The father is E. Newbold Smith, who married a du Pont; the son is Lewis du Pont Smith, who took his own vows with the radical Lyndon LaRouche. Newbold had Lewis declared incompetent to manage his $10 million estate, then allegedly recruited a motley crew of accomplices to “snatch” him. The author spoke to both men and found that beneath the accusations is an odd kind of love.
Read moreWhatever you already know about this tangled and painful situation, you’ve only heard half: the case against Mia Farrow. This is the other half and it isn’t any prettier. It concerns Woody Allen’s behavior and what it has done to Mia Farrow and the 11 children involved. The author breaks new ground on one of the year’s most shocking stories.
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