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Confidential Magazine (view source)
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* Actor [[Errol Flynn]] had a two-way mirror on a ceiling installed so that he could watch his guests sleep and make love. Flynn filed a multi-million dollar libel lawsuit against the magazine for publishing this story. Later, after Flynn had died, his widow admitted the story was true when she sold the home.<ref>"Errol Flynn's 1m Funhouse", Evening Standard, Jan 12, 1978, Page 13 | https://www.newspapers.com/image/721841963/</ref>
* Actor [[Errol Flynn]] had a two-way mirror on a ceiling installed so that he could watch his guests sleep and make love. Flynn filed a multi-million dollar libel lawsuit against the magazine for publishing this story. Later, after Flynn had died, his widow admitted the story was true when she sold the home.<ref>"Errol Flynn's 1m Funhouse", Evening Standard, Jan 12, 1978, Page 13 | https://www.newspapers.com/image/721841963/</ref>
==Hollywood Fights Back with Propaganda==
==Hollywood Fights Back with Propaganda & Lawsuits==
Hollywood fought back against Confidential with an anti-Confidential propaganda film, ''Slander'' (1956). In the movie, the Publisher is killed by his own mother. Hollywood again featured a clone of Confidential in 1997's "L.A. Confidential" where the name of the publication is featured as "''Hush Hush''."
Hollywood fought back against Confidential with an anti-Confidential propaganda film, ''Slander'' (1956). In the movie, the Publisher is killed by his own mother. Hollywood again featured a clone of Confidential in 1997's "L.A. Confidential" where the name of the publication is featured as "''Hush Hush''."
[[Mike Wallace]] interviewed Confidential's Private Investigator Fred Otash in 1957.<ref>"
[[Mike Wallace]] interviewed Confidential's Private Investigator Fred Otash in 1957.<ref>"
Interview with Fred Otash", August 25, 1957, | https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll90/id/25/rec/28</ref>
Interview with Fred Otash", August 25, 1957, | https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll90/id/25/rec/28</ref>
A libel suit against Confidential Magazine brought by actress Dorothy Dandridge, related to claims in the May 1957 issue of the magazine as part of an article called "What Dorothy Dandridge did in the Woods", <ref>"Confidential Settles Libel Suit by Dorothy Dandridge." *The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet*, 26 May 1957, p. 32.</ref> was settled for $10,000 in early June 1957.<ref>Levette, Harry. "Gossip of the Movie Lost." *The Call*, 7 June 1957, p. 8.</ref>
==California Criminal Libel Trial==
==California Criminal Libel Trial==
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