Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1363 Kirk Douglas' Secret

"This is fucking awesome..."

Ronald bought Marlene Dietrich's letters without telling anyone, not even Helen Slater, who knew that the accompanying personal belongings included many private letters from the Hollywood actress.

The gossips about old stars, old directors, and old producers are not very harmful. Half of them are no longer alive, and the other half are respected old artists.

Exposing their affairs would instead give people in the industry the impression that they are being bullied because of their old age and frailty.

But some of the letters were not about gossip, such as Kirk Douglas, the representative of the Jewish mafia in Hollywood...

In one letter and others, Marlene Dietrich wrote about his behavior in 1955 with Natalie Wood, who was then transitioning from a child actress to a teenage star, which was extremely bad and even by the standards of the time.

John Ford, the most upright director in Hollywood at the time, wrote back to discuss the matter. Natalie Wood later received some compensation for this incident, and played important female roles in several films with big directors, completing the most difficult transition stage for child stars. This included "The Searchers" shot by John Ford that year.

In another case, Kirk Douglas was involved in the disappearance of a young actress, Jean Spangler, in 1949.

The actress, Jane Spangler, had been playing various supporting roles in the crew. Before she disappeared, she told her friends that she was dating a very famous actor in the industry.

Two weeks after her disappearance, Jane Spangler's purse was found in Griffith Park. It looked as if her purse had been ripped off with force, and one of the straps was broken. There was no money inside, only an unfinished note:
"Kirk, can't wait any longer, go see Dr. Scott. Best to do this while Mother isn't home," the note ended with a comma, while Jane was working on the set of "The Young Trumpet Players," which had just starred Kirk Douglas, and was seen flirting with her.

And this Dr. Scott, in Hollywood at the time, was a code name for a university medical student who specialized in illegal abortion business (abortion was illegal in California at the time)...

In the end, LAPD ruled out Kirk Douglas as a suspect because he was filming a movie in Palm Springs at the time and had sufficient alibi. However, in the correspondence between Marlene Dietrich and the famous producer Mike Todd at the time, Todd mentioned that his neighbor and friend Kirk Douglas had met with several famous Jewish gangsters in Palm Springs at the time.

The more Ronald watched, the more cold sweats he broke out in. Back when Hollywood was still lawless, all kinds of film studios had to rely on gangsters to help control the stars.

However, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act and World War II, Chinese and Italian gangs declined in the gang wars in Hollywood. A large number of Irish people entered the LAPD and other disciplined forces to cleanse themselves, and Jewish gangs transformed into orthodox businessmen, achieving control over certain businesses through media finance rather than baseball bats.

Ronald felt that it might be a good thing or a bad thing to have this kind of thing in his hands. He read the letters alone in his apartment on Fifth Avenue for a whole day. In addition to Kirk Douglas, there were many celebrities who are not very well-known now. The scandal of that year was mentioned in the correspondence between Marlene Dietrich and several trusted friends.

Feeling that this matter was getting more and more hot, Ronald put the letters involving the scandal into the safe. He went out and bought himself a large American coffee. He wanted to think about this matter carefully.

……

"These letters can't prove anything. Even if they are exposed, it is impossible to immediately discredit the person involved. However, if you have any acquaintances in the FBI or LAPD, reopening the investigation is a possibility."

Ronald thought for a long time and decided to consult with his personal lawyer Lindsay Doll. This was because of the attorney-client confidentiality agreement. Lindsay would not reveal his secrets to anyone, including the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. More importantly, Lindsay Doll had a business relationship with him for many years. Now he and his Daydream Company were the largest clients of Lindsay's law firm, contributing more than half of the business source...

"I won't take the initiative to expose these letters, but will anyone come here because of this matter..." Ronald's first consideration was the safety of himself and his family.

"No, it's been so many years, unless they have been looking for these letters... If that's the case, you need a better legal entity to store these letters..." Lindsay Doll is also a lawyer who has seen the world. There are also many old money families in New York, and there are many things related to scandals that need to be dealt with - they can't be made public, nor can they be destroyed...

"You mean to say that I burned these letters?"

"If Marlene Dietrich was your grandmother, I would suggest you do this. But now you bought it through a transaction. If someone with ulterior motives finds out about this, you can't convince them by destroying the letter...

My suggestion is to set up a separate non-profit legal entity, such as the Marlene Dietrich Research Association, and donate the letters, clothing, etc. to this entity, but in reality the directors of the association are still under your control...

In this way, these letters are legally safe. You can set up trust clauses, certain letters cannot be studied publicly, and Marlene Dietrich's research experts need to obtain the consent of all directors to access them. However, if a director has an accident, the partners of two or more law firms will be present to jointly open these letters in the presence of the news media..."

Lindsay Doll's suggestion is to create a legal safe. As long as Ronald or his family has an accident, the public procedure will be automatically initiated. America is a country that values ​​contracts, and there are guarantees from many well-known firms and media controlled by Ronald himself. If these are added to the terms of his will, they will be automatically activated after he has an accident.

Normally, he would not allow people to think of murdering him, but he would also openly hint to those who have a vested interest in him that the things in the research institute controlled by him should not act rashly or do anything that would be disadvantageous to them.

"Very good, let's do it this way. I will appoint you and lawyer Mickey Kanter to draft this matter..." Ronald chose two lawyers with whom he had the closest relationship to do this, so that the cost of betrayal would be quite high.

"However, don't call it the Marlene Dietrich Research Society. Let's just start a research society on the Golden Age of Hollywood. It shouldn't be limited to the research on the stars of that time, but also include the research and restoration of directors and films of that time, to provide some cover..."

Ronald thought about it and decided that he had no intention of using this to threaten those people immediately. What was more important was to be prepared. Directly linking up with Marlene Dietrich might arouse Kirk Douglas' suspicion.

"Golden Age Hollywood Research Society..." Lindsay Doll wrote down the name and said goodbye.

"Dan, I have some very sensitive information. How do you think we can store it to ensure it is safe and reliable?" Ronald called bodyguard Daniel again.

"How sensitive is it? Is it something you don't want people to know, or something someone wants to find out?" Bodyguard Daniel is a security expert and is certainly no stranger to this.

"How would the highest level, say the occupant of the White House, keep it secret?"

"Oh, then we have to talk about the most important principle of security, which is to make people who want to find them believe that they know where the things they want are."

Daniel immediately gave a set of solutions. In addition to installing a high-level safe in the most secure place in his home, he also placed cameras and infrared sensors to detect motion around it, making the safe into a bait to attract others.

The real files are kept in a more secure place under cover, while an unknown backup is kept in a bank safe.

……

"Zi la..."

"Ronnie, can't you ask these decorators to keep their voices down?"

After returning to Los Angeles, Ronald began the renovation project. In addition to transforming the study into a corner to place a top-level safe, he also found the decoration team of the Chinese garden at that time to continue some Chinese-style decoration inside the house.

"Sorry, Diane, I promise they'll only be quarreling for three days..." Ronald replied.

“It will be completed in three days?”

"No, I won't use the impact drill after three days..."

"Oh, I can't stand it anymore. If you don't fix it, I'll go back to my apartment..." Diane couldn't stand the noise, so she took little Roger to visit her best friend Demi Moore.

"Kevin...Whitney..."

A few days later, Ronald attended the premiere of "The Bodyguard" in Los Angeles. This movie was not a big A-level production, and the audience were mainly the leading actors and Ronald's friends.

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren both wore their own iconic clothes and came to the scene. In addition to taking photos with Ronald, they also gestured to each other from a distance. Now the image of the two in the eyes of the general public is that they are two action stars who can't stand each other...

After that, Kevin Costner and his wife, and Whitney Houston appeared together.

What’s funny is that Costner’s wife Cindy, perhaps because she caught Costner cheating before, always shows up at every event where Costner is with a female star to highlight her status as the legal wife.

This time is no exception, but Whitney Houston's skin color is not the darkest among black people, but it is obviously much darker than that of white people. The three people took a photo together, Whitney Houston was on the left, Costner was in the middle, and his wife Xindi was on the right. The skin color of the three people exceeded the tolerance of ordinary film under the dim light.

If the exposure is adjusted according to Cindy's skin color, Whitney Houston's face will only be left with white teeth and the sparkle of diamond earrings. If the exposure is adjusted according to Whitney Houston's skin color, Cindy Costner will become as frighteningly white as a Japanese geisha...

“Oh, God…”

It turned out that Ronald, who was a photographer, knew at a glance that there was a problem with these photographers. He had to say hello to Diane, stepped forward to separate Whitney and Cindy, and took pictures with Kevin Costner, each holding one of them. This way, the skin color was balanced as much as possible to avoid being attacked by black people and the Feminist Association in tomorrow's photos.

"Diane, your Ronald is such a gentleman..." Afterwards, Whitney Houston came over specially to thank Ronald and Diane. Her husband Bobby's domestic violence scandal had already been written about by gossip reporters today. If the black and white comparison photo with Cindy Costner was added to it, she would be the target of concentrated fire tomorrow.

"Oh, the wife of a star, you understand, so understanding..." Diane was very enthusiastic about Whitney Houston. The original soundtrack had been delivered to her home in advance. Diane's favorite was the cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You..."

"Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Quincy Jones, the most famous producer among our black musicians. These are his two daughters, Kidada and Rashida..."

Ronald recognized that this was Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson's producer, and stepped forward to shake his hand. This man was a very famous senior in the black music industry, and this time he came to support the movie for Whitney Houston's sake.

"Hello, Mr. Jones, and your two beautiful daughters." Ronald took a quick glance and saw that the two daughters were not all pretty, with their skin color closer to that of actresses like Halle Berry, who is a mixed-race black and white. It was obvious that they were the offspring of Quincy Jones and a white person.

But Kidada's facial features are typical of black people, with a flat nose and thick lips, while her other daughter, Rashida, has a high nose bridge and thin lips, and looks more like a white person.

"This is your Uncle Ronald. Didn't you always say that you like his movies very much? Why are you so scared to talk when you see him in person?" Quincy Jones shamelessly demoted his daughter to a lower generation, hoping to take the opportunity to promote her.

"We all like your movie..." two mixed-race beauties with African-sounding names said in unison.

"Oh, really? Which one do you like?" Ronald had long lost interest in this kind of flattery, so he asked casually.

"Uh..." Kidada stood there in a daze, unable to speak.

"My favorite movie is Working Girl. You are the director in Hollywood who pays the most attention to women's rights. I have been watching your movies since I was a child..." Rashida was obviously well prepared and started chatting with Ronald.

"Bitch..." Kidada was anxious and couldn't get a word in, so he could only curse inwardly.

"I'll see if there's anything I can do..." Ronald said noncommittally, welcoming Quincy's two daughters to Daydream, and then he got rid of Rashida's close defense without leaving a trace. "Ms. Taylor is here, I'll go greet her, I heard her waist isn't very good..."

"I'll go with you. I'm also a fan of hers." Rashida tried to squeeze through and follow the guards, but was pushed behind by the bodyguards and reporters. She had no choice but to watch Ronald and Diane greet Elizabeth Taylor who had just got off the car.

"Ms. Taylor, it's such an honor to have you here..."

"I'm not paralyzed yet, my dear. You've donated so much money to my foundation. I must come to see your movie..." Elizabeth Taylor smiled and hugged Ronald, taking advantage of him openly.

The reporters quickly took pictures and then asked her how she felt. Now she rarely attends other people's premieres.

"Ah, yes, I haven't really been involved in this kind of thing since my third husband, Mike Todd, R.I.P., passed away. But I'm here today for those less fortunate. Ronnie is one of the biggest donors to my foundation, and my friends and I are very grateful to him..."

There, Elizabeth Taylor gave some more speeches to reporters urging the federal government to increase funding for... research, which was her top priority.

"Mike Todd..." Ronald was suddenly awakened by this familiar name.

……

After returning home, Ronald began to flip through the Hollywood Yearbooks in the study, which contained many excerpts from news reports of that year.

In 1957, -year-old Mike Todd married -year-old Elizabeth Taylor and named their private plane "Liz".

But unfortunately, in 1958, less than a year after Mike Todd and Elizabeth Taylor got married, the plane Mike Todd was on crashed on his way to New York to accept an award.

There was also a writer on the plane, Art Cohen, who was allegedly writing a biography for Todd. He was interviewing Todd intensively, asking him about various things in his life, when he was also killed.

Even more disturbing is that Mike Todd was Kirk Douglas's next-door neighbor. He was reportedly playing tennis with Kirk at the time and invited Kirk to fly with him on a private jet to New York to present him with the award and to visit former President Harry S. Truman on the way back.

Douglas' wife Anne was upset when she heard about the plan and urged him to take a commercial flight instead, but Kirk Douglas then had a big argument with his wife and said that if he couldn't fly with Todd, then he wouldn't go.

“Holy Shxt, this is so exciting…”

(End of this chapter)