Show Notes
Deceptions run high as another divorce is announced and a grand home re-opens. Can’t these people get their stories straight already?
September 27th – October 14th, 1932, a divorce rumor spreads far and wide as involves one of the Mdivani siblings getting a divorce. But is it true, and if is so who? In other news, E.T. Stotesbury heads back to the United States on the maiden voyage of the Italian ocean liner Rex, but Mrs. Eva Stotesbury doesn’t arrive with him. Another Mdivani ends up in court.
Other people and subjects include: Doris Duke, Barbara Hutton, Cobina Wright, William May Wright, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Louis Van Alen, James “Henry” Van Alen, William “Sam” Van Alen, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Oliver “Tony” Cromwell, Prince Serge Mdivani, Princess Mary McCormic Mdivani, formerly Princess Pola Negri Mdivani, Rudolph Valentino, Prince David Mdivani, Princess Mae Murray Mdivani, Princess Nina Mdivani Huberich, Princess Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Josep Maria Sert, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Frederick Prince, Michael Luddy, Marjorie Berger, General Pershing, Italian Premier Il Deuce Benito Mussolini, New York mayor James “Jimmy” Walker, President Herbert Hoover, FDR – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sam Insull, Ivar Kreuger, Caldwell & Company, 1932 presidential election, Ponzi schemes, Lionel Robbins, 1930s economic meltdown, great depression vs the Great Depression term, oil ventures, charter plane, air travel, ocean liner, Blue Riband, Nord Deutscher Llyod – North German Lloyd, Rex, Conte di Savoia, Bremen, Europa, Ile de France, Normandie, Aquitania, Olympic, Majestic, the Titanic, Whitemarsh Hall, Sutton Club, New York, Marble House, Ritz-Carlton, Genoa, Trieste, Gibraltar, Paris, Delaware River, Chicago, suicide, earthquake in Greece, World War II bombing, rumors, divorce, truth, public overly romantic lives, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, unconscious coupling, Gwynneth Paltrow, Cold Play Chris Martin, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith
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