Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter On 9 September 1921, Virginia Rappe died aged 30. A few days before that, the model, fashion designer and silent film actor had ...

In the summer of 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was on top of the world. Paramount Pictures had paid him an unprecedented $3 million over three years to star in 18 silent films, and he’d just signed ...

Guests to San Francisco's Westin St Francis Hotel still ask to see the room where an infamous bootleg-booze-soused party took place 90 years ago. The management are happy to show visitors the suite, ...

Virginia Rappe was a silent film actress who had a prominent role in Paradise Garden in 1917 — but she was just as well known for her sensationalized and mysterious death. Her death marked one of ...

During a recess in a murder trial last month, Deputy Public Defender Jeffrey Gilliam answered an emergency page from his wife, who was eight months pregnant. Using the court clerk’s phone, he heard ...