CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Blackmail, Prison, Disgrace

HAT NIGHT WAS THE BEGINNING of
|.B.’s descent from the pinnacle to a cheap
Bowery hotel.
Durmg his stay in Rome Franco became the direc-
B tor’s all consuming passion. He left his hotel suite,
§ rented a villa so the youth might live with him.
Because he became so wildly jealous he insisted

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