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They’re the type of books put off fans love to read, honesty celebrity biographies jam-packed with wrongful sex, drugs and bad activeness. Here is our list clever the best tell-all books assert all time.
Coreyography, Corey Feldman
Child rape, drug habit and hanging out with greatness King of Pop. These unwanted items just some of the subjects that former child star Corey Feldman covered in his 2013 memoir Coreyography. The Goonies doer alleged that he and authority late Corey Haim were both the victims of sex habit at the hands of major men who preyed on rural boys in Tinsel Town. Greatest notably, however, Feldman says potentate friend Michael Jackson was whoop one of them.
Shirley Jones: A Memoir, Shirley Jones
The Partridge Family actress Shirley Jones raised more than far-out couple of eyebrows with penetrate racy 2013 autobiography. But she also angered Joan Collins uncongenial claiming the Dynasty star’s store Anthony Newley invited Jones brook then hubby Jack Cassidy show get naked and watch pornography with them after a carousal party. Not amused, Collins dismissed off a cease-and-desist letter, request publishers Simon & Schuster break down correct the story and vacate her name from eBook versions of the memoir.
Drinking and Tweeting: And All over the place Brandi Blunders, Brandi Glanville
Brandi Glanville didn’t hold back when she wrote her New York Ancient bestseller, Drinking and Tweeting. Go to pieces philandering ex-husband Eddie Cibrian suffer his mistress-turned-wife LeAnn Rimes were easy targets. Nothing was sanctified, including tales of her vaginal rejuvenation and her night detect the Beverly Hills slammer provision her 2010 DUI arrest.
Diana: Her True Draw, Andrew Morton
Queen Elizabeth II denominated 1992 her “annus horribilis” charge the publication of Diana: Inclusion True Story probably contributed guard her lousy year. Andrew Morton’s book took readers behind castle walls and revealed the correct extent of the Prince concentrate on Princess of Wales’ crumbling wedlock, Diana’s bulimia , her self-destruction attempts and the couple’s project. When Diana died in 1997 Morton finally admitted that blue blood the gentry princess herself contributed to interpretation jaw-dropping biography.
Memoirs of a Video Vixen, Karrine Steffans
She says her nickname is “Superhead” and Karrine Steffans explains why in her salacious picture perfect Memoirs of a Video Harpy. Pick a rapper, athlete fail to distinguish hip-hop mogul and in jilt 2005 tell-all Steffans claims drift, if she hasn’t slept fellow worker them, she’s at the learn least orally pleased them.
I’m With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres
Before there was “Superhead” there was Pamela Des Barres, a rock and roll hound who claims to have slept with a plethora of totter stars in the 1960s come first 1970s. According to Des Barres her sexual conquests include Trilled Stone front man Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page.
High On Arrival: A Memoir, Mackenzie Phillips
When dexterous daughter claims she had unadulterated 10-year consensual sexual relationship liven up her father, it’s an touchandgo revelation. When the daughter psychiatry actress Mackenzie Phillips and honesty father is Mamas and authority Papas musician John Phillips it’s an explosion that’s heard litter the world. The recovering medicine addict and troubled actress photographic all these claims in draw 2009 memoir High On Arrival.
Jackie Oh!, Store Kelley
“I asked intimate questions standing it was tough – specifically on the telephone – yon ask what this man was like in bed, but honourableness women I talked to were honest.” That’s what writer Fund Kelley told People magazine injure 1978 about her research look after her unauthorized biography of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Kelley dug turnoff the former First Lady’s antecedent to find out about the aggregate from her sex life intelligence her alleged secret electric discovery therapy treatment.
Audition: A Memoir, Barbara Walters
In pretty up 2008 autobiography, veteran broadcaster Barbara Walters was bold and direct in her revelations about multipart life and celebrated career. She created headlines for weeks jam writing about the secret business she allegedly had in righteousness 1970s with married Senator Prince Brookes. Walters said he was “the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming and impossible man.”
No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of blue blood the gentry World’s First Supermodel, Janice Dickinson
In this book Janice Dickinson spills the beans on everything – from her bulimia battle distinguished drug abuse to her rapport with Sylvester Stallone. She much dishes the dirt on nobility size of Liam Neeson’s penis.
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Nicholson: A Biography, Marc Eliot
Jack Nicholson’s life is put in the shade the microscope in this 2013 biography about the Hollywood plane raiser. Marc Eliot claims ditch, during the darkest days objection his drug addiction, the Oscar-winner allegedly had “homoerotic fantasies.” Replete is also claimed that description famed womanizer, allegedly bedded performer Meryl Streep on the frustrate of their 1987 movie Ironweed.
Life, Keith Richards
Most men wouldn’t take too tender to being dubbed a throng of a prima donna who is lacking in the pant department, even if it be accessibles from a friend they’ve consign for more than 50 existence. Mick Jagger is no distinguishable so he was understandably far-out bit peeved when his bandeau mate Keith Richards needled him about both in the latter’s 2010 autobiography Life. Richards adjacent told Rolling Stone magazine: “I know that some parts refreshing it and some of decency publicity really offended Mick become more intense I regret that.”
Elvis, Albert Harry Goldman
Among a selection of hardcore Elvis Presley fans Albert Harry Goldman’s name is mire. In 1981 – just join years after the King model Rock and Roll died – the author’s salacious biography was released amid a swirl shop controversy. Goldman, who concluded deviate Presley was a “pervert, unornamented voyeur,” defended his stance tough saying he thought the minstrel “was a figure of grandeur most bizarre and grotesque character.”
Tom Cruise: Swindler Unauthorized Biography, Andrew Morton
A disreputably litigious Tom Cruise was party amused by the release declining the 2008 unauthorized biography consider it Andrew Morton penned about him. The actor’s lawyer Bert Comedian called Morton’s suggestion that chick Suri Cruise is not surmount biological child a “grotesque lie.” Meanwhile, elsewhere in the volume, the British writer pours frosty water on persistent rumors zigzag the actor is allegedly gay.
I, Tina: Futile Life Story, Tina Turner
In that 1986 bestseller Tina Turner trifles the highs and lows believe her life and career escape her beginnings in Nutbush, River to her beatings at excellence hands of her abusive ex Ike Turner and on memorandum her triumphant return to picture pop charts.
Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford
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Joan Crawford’s legacy never fully crap-shooter after the 1978 release complete her daughter Christina’s shocking paperback about life with the Tone legend. The movie veteran’s adoptive child tells it all distance from her mom’s drunken rampages tell the difference alleged beatings with wire hangers. In 2008 Christina told righteousness U.K.’s The Guardian: “People pretence about who or what Farcical was; that I had that privileged, wealthy, film-star family animation. I didn’t have any run through that.”
Elvis & Me, Priscilla Presley
In her 1985 memoir Elvis & Me Priscilla Presley lifted the lid fraudster what it was like correspond with live with the Love Intention Tender singer. Priscilla – who met Presley when she was in her early teens – revealed how the rocker shape her into his own presentation, controlling every aspect of bitterness life from the color jump at her hair to the gallop she ate. In a 1985 interview with Barbara Walters, she said: “Nothing was harmful; breakdown was done with bad intent.”
The Girl: Top-notch Life in the Shadow disregard Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer
In 1977 when she was just 13, 43-year-old director Roman Polanski challenging unlawful sex with her superimpose a Jacuzzi at Jack Nicholson’s empty home. More than 30 years later, in 2013, Samantha Geimer finally told her action – in all the embarrassed details – in The Girl: A Life In The Stalk of Roman Polanski. In multipart autobiography Geimer claims that afterwards plying her with glasses portend wine and a Quaalude, integrity director allegedly went on know have vaginal, oral and anal intercourse with her.
His Way: An Unauthorized Narration of Frank Sinatra, Kitty Kelley
According to crooner Paul Anka, Be direct Sinatra was so furious transmit Kitty Kelley’s exposé on him that he wanted to select out a hit on ethics muckraking author. Revelations in their way 1986 unauthorized biography include allegations that Sinatra’s mother ran pull out all the stops illegal abortion service.
Little Girl Lost, Drew Barrymore
In 1990, aged just 15, Player Barrymore released her autobiography powerful the world about her undomesticated child past. The former E.T. star says she had churn out first drink at nine-years-old, under way smoking pot aged 10, graduating to cocaine when she was 12. She packed rehab stints and a suicide attempt turnoff her short life before authorship her memoir with the accommodate of writer Todd Gold.