Scott Thorson (born January 23, 1959, La Crosse, Wisconsin) is an American famous for his relationship with and a lawsuit against the entertainer "Lee" Liberace.
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A Thorson teenager met Liberace in 1976 through his romantic friendship with dancer Bob Street (a friend of Hollywood producer Ray Arnett) who was holding a Liberace show in Vegas. When Thorson was 18 years old, Liberace hired him to act as his friend and companion, a position supposedly involving a five-year romantic relationship with luxurious gifts, travel, and luxurious promises that he would adopt and care for Thorson. Liberace claims that he has "more fur and diamond mantle than Elizabeth Taylor". Liberace also incorporated Thorson into a Las Vegas stage show - for example, Thorson piloted Rolls-Royce on stage, and became a dancer.
According to Thorson, their commitment relationship ended because of Promiscuous Liberace's behavior and Thorson's drug addiction. Thorson also claimed that it was Liberace who initially started with drugs, but then when his habit became uncontrollable, Liberace cut him off all his credit cards. Thorson stated that after his plastic surgery, the surgeon provided him with a highly addictive cocktail of medicines including cocaine, Quaaludes, biphetamine, and Demerol. Thorson stated that because he was so young at the time of Liberace's meeting, he would do everything he could to please him, including carrying out plastic surgery so he could resemble him, but he felt that their relationship was one-sided. He calls Liberace generous and possessive.
In 2000, Thorson was among the few people featured on the British television documentary. Liberace: Too Much Good Things That Superb . In 2002, Thorson was interviewed by Larry King on Larry King Live, where Thorson insisted that, in the middle of his relationship with Liberace, he chose to undergo plastic surgery to look more like Liberace in a suggestion pianist. Also during an interview with the King, Thorson revealed a chin implant was removed earlier in 2002.
After being released from prison in 2012, Thorson gave an interview about his relationship with Liberace, one with Howard Stern, in June 2013, where he talked about his former lover and the affairs he had when he lived with Liberace. Another interview was at Entertainment Tonight in May 2012, where he stated that his time with Liberace remained difficult for him.
Claim and book
In 1982, after he was released by Liberace, Thorson filed a lawsuit worth 113 million dollars against Liberace, partly a palimoni suit. This is the first case of same-sex palimoni proposed in US history. Thorson decides to sue because he claims that Liberace drives him out on the streets with nothing. Liberace continued to deny that he was homosexual, and during the deposition of the court in 1984, he insisted that Thorson had never been his lover. Throughout their lawsuit, Thorson stated that Liberace referred to him in the media as a disgruntled employee, a liar, a gold digger, and claimed that there was never any intercourse between them.
The case was settled out of court in 1986, with Thorson receiving a $ 75,000 cash settlement, plus three cars and three more $ 20,000 pet dogs again. Thorson visited and reconciled with Liberace shortly before the death of the entertainer in February 1987. Thorson said, after Liberace died, that he settled because he knew that Liberace was dying, and that Thorson intended to sue based on the conversion of property rather than palimoni.
A year after Liberace's death, Thorson published a book about their relationship. Behind Candelabra: My Life with Liberace.
In Canada-US television Liberace: Behind the Music (1988), Thorson is described by Michael Dolan.
Thorson's book was later adapted by Richard LaGravenese and Steven Soderbergh into the 2013 movie Behind the Candelabra, in which Thorson was played by Matt Damon against Michael Douglas as Liberace. The film premiered on HBO on May 26, 2013. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese, with music by an Academy Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch.
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In 1989, Thorson emerged as an important witness in the prosecution of gangster Eddie Nash, in 1981 the quadrangling of Gang Wonderland. For his testimony, he was placed in a federal witness protection program. In 1990, he was shot five times when a drug dealer broke into his hotel room in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 2008, Thorson pleaded guilty to allegations of drug crime and robbery and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Previously diagnosed with hepatitis C, in the fall of 2012 Thorson was diagnosed with stage II cancer. Since his diagnosis, Thorson has made a public appeal for money to continue his medical care. Recently, Thorson has been involved in writing a follow-up to Behind the Candelabra .
In February 2013, police investigating lost wallets tracked the use of a victim's credit card to a hotel in Reno, Nevada. Thorson was found using a credit card and was arrested. Thorson (who also uses Jess Marlow's alias, aka that he said he got when he enters the protection program in Nash's case) has been booked on various charges, including robbery and credit card use without consent. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a five-year trial in July 2013.
Thorson did not do well on probation. In September 2013, he proved positive using methamphetamine, but given another chance. He then failed another drug test - twice in October, and again on November 1, 2013. He was arrested on November 19, 2013, after breaking a court order to enter an inpatient care facility in Reno two weeks earlier. On January 23, 2014, his probation was lifted and he was sentenced to 8 to 20 years in Nevada prison. Thorson is currently imprisoned at Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.
Dennis Hof, owner of several Nevada legal brothels and the person who redeems Thorson out of jail during some of his 2013 legal issues, said that this long prison term, due to Thorson's cancer, is "a virtual death sentence."
References
External links
- Scott Thorson on IMDb
- NNDB's Profile at Scott Thorson.
- "The Wonderland murder and Liberace connection". TruTV .
- "TheRrich and Famous Lovers: Scott Thorson". Nightcharm . December 15, 2012.
- Behind Candelabra . Tantor Media. Ã,
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