#59 Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
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Howard Hughes - The Decade of Madness
Howard Hughes was diagnosed with an obsessive-compulsive disorder, but he wouldn't open himself up to being diagnosed further. He had his own private set of doctors, as we've seen happen with other extremely rich people. And that cultivates with him having a lot of yes-men around that only... We're not looking out for him. They were only basically doing whatever he told him to do. When he winds up dying in the 1970s, I think he was 70 years old, he was 6'3", but he weighed like 80 pounds. Had been a drug addict on coding and all other kind of opiates for over a quarter century.
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