Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Charlie Chaplin (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, Episode 8)
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I Love Billy, but Now It's Too Late
In 19 18, army lieutenant alexander mc clintock had shot himself after taking seven thousand dollars from his regiment to buy peggy jewels. Unlike so many disasters that just rolled right off of her, billy's suicide seemed to genuinely hurtPeggy reportedly overdosed on sleeping pills in her paris hotel room and then mediately offered a journalist an interview about it. The syndicated united press story got a lot of details wrong, such as that peggy had been married four times at that point when the accurate number was three.
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