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Dec 21, 2017 · MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Clifford Irving, whose scheme to publish a phony autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes created a sensation in the 1970s and stands as one of the all-time literary hoaxes, died after being admitted to hospice care in Florida. He was 87.
Dec 20, 2017 · Irving, the prankster who wrote a phony autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes and fooled a major publisher in 1971 has died at 87. The New York Times reports Irving's wife, Julie Irving,...
Dec 21, 2017 · The hoax’s perpetrator, globe-trotting novelist and Howard Hughes “biographer” Clifford Irving, died Dec. 19 at a hospice near his home in Sarasota, Fla.
Dec 22, 2017 · Clifford Irving, who has died aged 87, was a struggling novelist whose claim, in 1971, to have gained exclusive access to Howard Hughes, in order to help the reclusive billionaire write his...
Dec 21, 2017 · MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Clifford Irving, whose scheme to publish a phony autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes created a sensation in the 1970s and stands as one of the all-time literary...
Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard Hughes, died on Tuesday at a...
Feb 21, 1972 · The serial revelations in the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving affair became an extraordinary popular entertainment, a top of the TV news, a front-page divertissement that evoked the distractions...
