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Liberace
Outrageously camp and flamboyant, pianist Liberace was - from the 1950s to the
1970s - the world's highest paid entertainer. With his over-the-top stage
presentation and gushing persona, Liberace was also one of the most
controversial and litigious, taking legal action to counter suggestions that he
was gay before he became one of the earliest high profile casualties of AIDS in
1987. Known as Lee to his friends and Walter to his family, he was the American
son of Italian and Polish immigrants. Learning to play piano at the age of four,
he was particularly influenced by the Polish...
