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This scandalous duchess inspired Vanity Fair – but her life was more like Elizabeth Taylor's 4/5 Catherine Ostler's The Duchess Countess resurrects Elizabeth Chudleigh, branded a bigamist, the 'greatest anti-heroine of the Georgian era' Anti-heroine: Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp in ITV's Vanity Fair  Credit: Television Stills Even good biographies read like bad novels. Catherine Ostler refers to one of her characters “gazing into the middle distance with a faint, enigmatic smile”. There are people in a garden, “observed only by the fluttering moths around the flowerbeds”. Elizabeth...

The scandalous duchess who inspired one of English literature’s greatest works A new biography tells the story of Elizabeth Chudleigh, whose charm, ambition, and conviction for bigamy inspired Vanity Fair's Becky Sharp 7 April 2021 • 8:29am Olivia Cooke As Becky Sharp in ITV’s Vanity Fair, the novel inspired by the life of the ‘Duchess Countess’, Elizabeth Chudleigh “Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.” Here is Thackeray’s finest creation, Becky Sharp, in the first chapter of Vanity Fair – throwing Dr Johnson’s ...

The Untold Truth Of King Kong's Creators The Untold Truth Of King Kong's Creators United Archives/Getty Images By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like he's always been around. Those images — of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill — hit on such a gut level and have been reproduced and parodied so often that they have some of the power of ancien...

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Anna Delvey is Manhattan's most notorious conwoman Credit: Eric T White Styling: Jenesee Utley Anna Delvey is fresh out of jail and has recently moved into a new apartment in West Chelsea. It's the first home she's ever had in New York City. Until her three-year spell in prison, she'd spent four years living it up in suites in five-star Manhattan hotels such as 11 Howard and The Standard - without paying for them. Hence the move to a not-very-five-star prison cell. Now she's adapting to life with neither hotel concierge on call nor prison guard. "I have to shop for tissues and toilet paper, s...