Sunday, October 28, 2012

LIBERACE SUES CONFIDENTAIL MAGAZINE FOR OUTING HIM IN 1957

Twenty years before Scott, Liberace sued Confidential Magazine.  Scott says he lived his whole life thinking he was still in the closet, despite his flamboyant stage clothing, and, let's say it, that anyone with GAYDAR probably knew right away!

LA TIMES ARTICLE and DAILY MIRROR : LIBERACE OUTED AS GAY IN 1957 by Larry Harnisch

May 8, 1957  Los Angeles

"Promising nothing less than the destruction of Confidential magazine, Liberace filed a $20-million libel suit over an article in the July issue titled "Why Liberace's Theme Song Should be 'Mad About the Boy.' "



Friday, October 26, 2012

INTERVIEW SUMMER 2012 WITH SCOTT THORSON : LIBERACE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL SEX ADDICT WHO DIED OF AIDS

"It was strange-- it was kind of like a father/son relationship," explains Thorson. "But we had sex." The now 54-year-old reveals that Liberace insisted that Thorson undergo plastic surgery to look like him during their then-secret romance, which lasted five years. "He had a doctor fly from Beverly Hills …And he had a big portrait on the wall of himself. [Pointing to the picture] he said, 'I want you to make him look like he's my son.'"

SCOTT THORSON 2012 INTERVIEW and VIDEO : LIBERACE WANTED HIM TO LOOK LIKE HE WAS HIS SON link here

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

TIME MAGAZINES TOP TEN MISTRESS LIST

TIME MAGAZINE'S LIST : TOP TEN MISTRESSES OF ALL TIME !?  link here

Do we agree with their list? 

Lucy Mercer  -  YES!
Camilla Parker- Bowles  YES YES YES!
Monica Lewinsky - NO! 
Amy Fisher - NO!  (I will never feature Amy as a Mistress of the Month!)
Anne Boleyn - YES!
MARILYN MONROE - NO!
Rielle Hunter - YES!
JAIME GRUBBS - MAYBE...

Using the Google Blogger Search feature, you can pull up past posts on some of these women who have been Mistresses of the month!  Missy

Thursday, October 18, 2012

SCOTT THORSON FROM BEHIND THE CANDELABRA : GAY COMMUNITY STANDARDS?

page 107)
After a year together Lee (Liberace) told Scott to invest the money that he was being paid and he bought a tract house -1400 square feet - 6 rooms - in Vegas.  Lee helped him make the down payment in exchange for 1/3rd the mortgage.

page 108)
"Lee exercised complete control over my life.  He told me what to wear, where to go, who to see once I got there."

page 109)
"Although Lee didn't raise the salary I reported to the IRS, he was always giving me cash, a thousand or more a week."

page 18)
"In the gay community they say "First you sell it (most young gay men have older lovers who act as mentors), then you give it away (with a sexual partner your own age), and then you buy it (by having a younger lover)."

Friday, October 12, 2012

SCOTT THORSON : IT WAS 1977 : HE WAS 18

From Scott's book, page 74

"He showered me with affection and presents.  But the gift of his love proved more seductive than anything else.  I'd made a bargain with Lee (Liberace), a deal for sex and I'd done it ith my eyes wide open. Although Lee was 40 years my senior, there were times when he seemed like a lost soul.  I made up my mind to devote myself to him, to make him laugh, to lighten all his burdens. Lofty plans - but typical I guess for an 18 year old with his head in the clouds."

Thursday, October 11, 2012

HAVE YOU FOUND THIS BLOG WHILE CHEATING ON YOUR EMPLOYER?

Funny way to put it, but you know what I mean. You're bored or trying to look busy, and your computer use may be monitored, but you happen to be on the Internet at work when you trip across MISTRESS MANIFESTO!

Why not visit when you get home tonight? Maybe while waiting on a special someone?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

GUESS WHO IS ACTING AS LIBERACE?

PEOPLE MAGAZINE : MATT DAMON TO ACT AS SCOTT THORSON IN UPCOMING MOVIE

"One of the sunniest entertainers ever to come along, flamboyant pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace – known simply as Liberace – may have had a dark side, but he kept it carefully concealed from his public.


That is bound to change next year when HBO airs the movie Behind the Candelabra, now filming with a cast-against-type Michael Douglas as the gilded showman and Matt Damon as his much-younger lover, Scott Thorson – who exposed his life with Lee in a tell-all book and also sued for $113 million in palimony."



Thursday, October 4, 2012

SCOTT THORSON AND LIBERACE

  This image is one of many of Scott Thorson, working as Liberace's Driver in his act.  Liberace spent lavishly on Scott during their five years together.  (Google Images)

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

SCOTT THORSON ! LIBERACE'S BOYTOY : MANTRESS OF THE MONTH OCTOBER 2012

Ladies and Gentlemen! 

I've been meaning to include Kept Men in this blog, and recently I started thinking about Scott Thorson, who was involved with Liberace, the famous piano player and showman, whose clothing and outrageously rich life-style became as much a part of his act as his piano playing. 

Scott wrote a book with co-author Alex Thorleifson back in 1988, called "Behind the Candelabra" and I decided to re-read it.

Scott was born in 1958, and he's still with us, last I heard living with a common law wife (in the book he stated that he is bisexual) and through the years he's been struggling with drug addiction, and I suspect some emotional problems.

A movie is going to be made from the book after all these years, starting Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott.  I look forward to seeing this HBO production, because I always want to see what film makers do with a book which I found sincere and well written. 

Let me tell you a little bit about Scott.  I think you'll realize that though he was a Kept Man or Boytoy in a homosexual relationship with Liberace, he has much in common with many a Mistress / Mantress through history and today. 

First, he came from a disadvantaged background.  Scott's mom was mentally ill and as a result he lived in a number of foster homes, not all bad, his last being a happy situation.  As a foster child he had to work doing odd jobs and he started earning what he could at the age of 10.  His dream was to be a veterinarian.  He met Liberace in 1977 and Liberace's oldest dog was ailing.  As a couple and in the time they were together they would buy each other dogs and own more than two dozen.

Liberace was rich, famous, and powerful, and 40 years older than Scott who was just 18  years old when they started.  Within a month of their first meeting Liberace hired him but also made it clear sex and a very personal relationship was part of the bargain. 

Scott left his foster home and moved in with Liberace with their primary residence being Vegas.  He was to learn that Liberace, his family, and his management, all did whatever possible to hide the the entertainer's homosexuality.   (Maybe Liberace's mom never figured it out.  Everyone else did.)

Scott was a known secret among many. 

Liberace had an active sex life and would die of AIDS, a disease that he did not get from Scott.

Scott's previous experience with relationships and sex was limited.  He was not promiscuous, into porn, and had not been a prostitute, but for a while he lived with an older gay brother in San Francisco and had teenage experiences. 

Liberace would come to dominate Scott's  life.  In order to be with him almost constantly, to travel and be part of Liberace's life, Scott had very little freedom, and few friends his own age.  Financially he had a salary and was part of the fabulous show.  Like many a person Kept by someone much wealthier than themselves, Scott found himself on a low but liveable salary because he was gifted with jewels, clothes, and much else beyond that salary. 

To please Liberace, Scott had cosmetic surgery that included a chin implant, cheek bone implants, and a nose job.  Liberace wanted him to look like a son.

He also lost a lot of weight to be more in Liberace's image and likeness.  As a result of legal prescriptions given by the doctor who performed the surgery, he became a drug addict.  He's had a long struggle with addiction since.

Scott displaced the previous protege and would be displaced five years later himself. 

Liberace talked adopting him and also supporting him for his lifetime.

When he found himself thrown out as the previous protege had, he was confused and upset, and he sued.  Scott himself says this was no "Palimoney" case....
Aren't you interested in learning more about SCOTT THORSON?
Missy

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