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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Somebody needs to post about a famous "John" who got caught with a call girl. |
John Profumo?
" The wild-living Christine Keeler (pictured) had run away from home at the age of 16 and become a showgirl at Murray's cabaret club in Soho where, as she put it, she was employed "to walk around naked" -actually the showgirls wore very elaborate Cleopatra-style costumes with gold and feathers. This was where she had befriended another showgirl, Mandy Rice-Davies.
Keeler, a strikingly beautiful young woman, had also befriended Stephen Ward, a fashionable London osteopath who enjoyed sketching the rich and famous.
Ward introduced Keeler, then a feisty, but impressionable teenager, into a world which she had never before encountered, which was peopled with the rich and famous, aristocratic, charming and powerful men, all eager to meet her and take her out.
Through him, she lived the high-life, but her irresistible attraction for men would ultimately lead her down a dangerous path.
Difficult relations
Keeler cohabited with Ward platonically at his Wimpole Mews flat. And as well as a fondness for art, the urbane and well-connected doctor liked to surround himself with beautiful women, and to throw sex parties, which were attended by high-ranking and influential members of the establishment.
Keeler had a tempestuous relationship with Ward. She often ran away, but always came back and seems to have placed all her trust in him.
At Ward's trial in 1963, Keeler told the court: "We were like brother and sister. My life really used to revolve around Stephen. He had full control of my mind. I used to do more or less everything that he said. I thought I could never stand on my feet unless he was there and supporting me mentally." Ward courted the prominent and the powerful, and made friends easily - in fact, Roger Hollis, the then head of MI5, was said to be a frequent visitor to his flat.
Ward was also known for introducing women to men and there are lurid stories told of parties held at his home, involving two-way mirrors, sado-masochism and orgies.
The most infamous tale is that of the "man in the mask", a high-ranking member of the establishment, who served guests at Ward's dinner parties, naked, except for a mask and who ate his dinner from a dog bowl. Despite rumours he was a Cabinet minister, he has never been identified.
Friends and enemies
Keeler and Ward often spent weekends at a cottage belonging to one of Ward's friends, Lord Astor. It was at a party at Lord Astor's Cliveden country residence in Berkshire in 1961 that Keeler and Profumo first met.
According to Keeler, they flirted around the swimming pool and jokingly tried on suits of armour in the rooms of the mansion, but the War minister was smitten and the couple subsequently had a passionate affair.
Keeler often visited Profumo's home and his offices, but their affair was brief and would probably never have come to light were it not for a few complications in Keeler's love life - namely, that she had also slept with Ivanov, a solemn and patriotic Muscovite who was a spy. "
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/profumo.shtml
Not quite a call girl, I know but....
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MikeH
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Ming on rakastajani
May 1999
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Famous people who visited prostitues? The notorious liar Jeffrey Archer.
Last edited by MikeH on 02-12-2004 at 17:25
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Duns Scotus Erigenus, also known as Johannes Scotus Eriugena:
" Johannes Scotus Erigena, John the Scot
Irish Theologian and NeoPlatonist Philosopher
c800-c880
Irish theologian and NeoPlatonist philosopher. Translated and made commentaries upon Pseudo- Dionysius. The name Erigena means the same as Scotus, 'born in Ireland'. He is eulogised by Coulton as 'coming out of the darkness like a meteor', and by Russell as 'the most astonishing figure of the early Medieval period'.
Though a singular and enigmatic figure who stood outside the mainstream, it is now widely accepted that John Scotus possessed the finest and most original intellect of the early Middle Ages. He was highly proficient in Greek, quite rare at that time in mainland Europe, and was thus well-placed for translation work. Though born in Ireland he later (c845) moved to France, where he took over the school, the Palatine Academy, at the invitation of King Charles I (Charles the Bald, 823-77). He remained in France for at least 30 years. At the request of the Greek Emperor Michael (in c858) John undertook some translation into Latin of the works of Pseudo- Dionysius and added his own commentary. He was thus the first to introduce the ideas of NeoPlatonism from the Greek into the Western European intellectual tradition, where they were to have a deeply formative influence over Christian theology.
His frank, bold and free-thinking writing remained the subject of controversy for centuries. It was filled with rationalistic opinions and speculations, and was completely devoid of censorship or deference to orthodox theology. His work 'De divina praedestinationae', (On Divine Predestination) was written c851 to support Hincmar (c806-82) in the Predestination debate with Gottschalk (c820-68). Many thought it went too far, and was thus condemned by the Councils of Valence (855) and Langres (859) as 'pultes Scotorum' (Irishman's porridge) and 'the invention of the devil'. "
http://www.theology.ie/theologians/eriugena.htm
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
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John Kerry
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