The result is a fascinating insight into the twisted psyche of America’s first billionaire – a record-setting aviator, legendary lover, film director and producer. He conducted interviews with more than 200 colleagues, lovers and employees of Hughes. Hack also scoured 2,500 newly declassified FBI and CIA documents and 100,000 pages of previously sealed court testimony. Hughes never kept a personal diary, but Hack, who has written biographies of Ron Perelman and Michael Jackson, managed to get his hands on more than 8,000 pages of the late eccentric’s private papers, including memos, letters and personal notes. THE mythology around enigmatic billionaire Howard Hughes has relied heavily on an absence of facts.īut Richard Hack’s extensively researched biography, “Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters” (New Millennium Press, $28), which comes out today, is further proof that truth is often stranger than fiction.
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