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Sleazebag Millionaire

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

By Karina Longworth, Custom House, $29.99

WHILE KARINA LONGWORTH’S sticks to the facts culled mostly from primary sources, her book is juicier than the most salacious legends about the notorious playboy and producer of the title. Hughes made stars of Jean Harlow and Jane

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