Clifford Irving

...the world between the 1940s and 1960s. De Hory, a Hungarian native, told his story to the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving (played by Richard Gere in "The Hoax" in 2007) for the book "Fake!" Additionally, Orson Welles made a...

In this article: Orson Welles, Elmyr de Hory, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, To Catch a Thief, Richard Gere, The Hoax, Sex Pistols, and F for Fake

Director Julian Temple is to take on the story of art faker Elmyr de Hory, written by the equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving. Richard Gere played him in "The Hoax" in 2007. Temple has pacted with U.K. based production and...

In this article: Julian Temple, Elmyr de Hory, Orson Welles, To Catch a Thief, Richard Gere, Howard Stern, and The Hoax

...by Lasse Hallstrom. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving and focuses on the autobiography Irving supposedly helped Howard Hughes write. Many of the events Irving described in his book...

In this article: Howard Hughes, The Hoax, McGraw-Hill, Richard Nixon, New York City, and Richard Gere

...you want to believe, and find evidence to justify that belief. The nature of hoaxing has also changed. The Hitler diaries, and Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes - the Schtonk! romp's closest challenger for best hoax of...

In this article: Barack Obama, Washington, Climate change, US Chamber Of Commerce, National Press Club, Stern, and Silver

...con men have hit the big screen. Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Frank Abignale in "Catch Me If You Can" and Richard Gere played Clifford Irving, who faked a Howard Hughes book. Both real-life men were convicted, went to prison and sparked...

In this article: Bipolar disorder, Florida, and O.J. Simpson

...who has handled numerous high-profile trials and has represented former U.S. Rep. Craig Washington, oilman Oscar Wyatt, author Clifford Irving and the late Houston Astros star Ken Caminiti. An attorney from the Washington office of law...

In this article: R. Allen Stanford, Patton Boggs, Houston, and Defendant

...Kent Schaffer, is expected to be added to the case as well. Schaffer has represented former congressman Craig Washington, author Clifford Irving and the late Houston Astros star Ken Caminiti. As DeGuerin left the courtroom, having represented...

In this article: Allen Stanford, Dick DeGuerin, Houston Chronicle, Ken Caminiti, Houston Astros, and Houston

...the reclusive Howard Hughes and wrote his memoirs for him. A 1972 article in Time, "The Secret Life of Clifford Irving," summed up Irving's breathtaking rise and fall in this graf: "Just weeks ago, Clifford Irving was looking...

In this article: James Frey, Howard Hughes, A Million Little Pieces, Los Angeles Times, Richard Gere, The Hoax, and Manhattan

...1990s. A magazine headline calls Howard Hughes "Invisible Billionaire" in "The Hoax," about how Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) convinced publishers he was collaborating on Hughes's autobiography in the 1970s. Beneath their gleeful frauds,...

In this article: Color Me Kubrick, Alan Conway, Stanley Kubrick, Cormac McCarthy, Howard Hughes, Oprah Winfrey, The Hoax, and John Malkovich

...for help, or need for pop cultural affirmation, or whatever the psychological explanation du jour. Based on the true story of Clifford Irving, whose "authorized autobiography" of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes in the early 1970s was...

In this article: The Hoax, Howard Hughes, An Unfinished Life, Whoppers, Frank Abagnale Jr., McGraw-Hill, Jayson Blair, Lasse Hallstrom, and Richard Nixon