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WITH HOWARD HUGHES'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH BEGAN THE LAST AND MOST BIZARRE STORY OF HIS LIFE...When billionaire recluse Howard Hughes died in Acapulco in 1976, no will was discovered.With no will, more than 1,000 people and three US states battled for the right to his estate.Hughes's worth at the time of his death has recently been shown to be in excess of $6 billion three times the wealth of J. Paul Getty at the time of his death.Those who laid claim to his fortune included purported wives and mistresses, alleged business partners, self-proclaimed children, self- described bastards, and any number of people ascertaining undying intimacy with the reclusive billionaire.His final years were spent in madness, wandering alone in a self-constructed private asylum. Upon his death top executives from the Hughes empire went to great lengths to hide his condition.But the secrets came flooding forth as the men who had hidden him and those who ran his businesses were put under oath and required to talk in the battle for Hughes's billions.22 years later the riddle of Howard Hughes's unusual life and stranger death remains unsolved but The Money brings us closer to the truth...ISBN:9780752813912
