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Auction History Result 2p1883 HOWARD HUGHES 6x8 news photo 1935 rumored to wed 15 year old Standard Oil Company heiress! Date Sold 8/2/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 6" x 8" [15 x 20 cm] News Photo (Learn More) Howard Hughes was the director/producer/businessman/aviator (he was nicknamed "The World's Greatest Womanizer") known for his casinos, his strange behavior, and for his airplane Hercules (nicknamed "The Spruce Goose"). He produced several movies including the classics Scarface, Hell's Angels, His Kind of Woman, and The Outlaw. Entire books can and have been written about his life beyond the movies that he made, but he was a world champion aviator, setting both the speed record for an airplane in 1937, and in 1938 setting the fastest around-the-world flight record! Towards the end of his life he was a complete recluse, in ill health, and living in the penthouse of one of his Las Vegas properties, and it was unclear if he was in his right mind and whether he was running his empire, or if his top employees were. Either way, brilliant decisions were made, because they sold all his casinos and bought most of the land surrounding Las Vegas, which turned out to be one of the greatest financial investments ever! He passed away in 1976 at the age of 70. Important Added Info: Note that this news photo, which measures 6" x 8" [15 x 20 cm], references an affair in Howard Hughes' past that he surely preferred to forget, and is little remembered today! In 1935, he was 30 years old, and he had an affair with 15 year old Ruth Moffett, who was the daughter of a vice president of the Standard Oil Company of California. Likely Mr. Moffett threatened to get Hughes sent to jail unless he would agree to marry his teenage daughter, and this news photo says that the "rumored wedding" is scheduled for later in the year. We know that it didn't happen, and we strongly suspect that Mr. Hughes made a large financial settlement with the Moffetts! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good. The news photo is rippled throughout, and there is a snipe on the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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