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Scott Thorson (January 23, 1959 – August 16, 2024) was an American known for his relationship with and lawsuit against Liberace. Liberace. Relationship
Scott Thorson, the former lover of Liberace and a key witness in the trial for the 1981 killings known as the Wonderland Massacre, died in Los Angeles on Aug. 16. He was 65 and was a patient at a ...
Scott Thorson, who wrote about his relationship with Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, has died. He was 65. Thorson published his memoir in 1988 a year after the famed pianist’s death, and was ...
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 American biographical comedy drama television film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese, based on the 1988 book of the same name by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson. It dramatizes the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with Thorson. [3]
In 1982, Scott Thorson, Liberace's 22-year-old former chauffeur and alleged live-in lover of five years, sued the pianist for $113 million in palimony after he was dismissed by Liberace. [66] Liberace continued to deny that he was homosexual, and during court depositions in 1984, he insisted that Thorson was never his lover.
Scott Thorson (left) and Liberace in 1979. "The doctor came up, and he was drunk when he was shooting Liberace full of Demerol," Thorson continues. "I had to take the needle away from him.
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace is a memoir by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson, published in 1988 by Dutton, and reissued in 2013. In 2009, it was reported that Thorson was working on a sequel, but as of his death in 2024 it had not materialized. [1]
In 1990, Nash was charged in California state court with having planned the murders, and Diles was charged as a participant. Thorson testified against them, but the trial ended with a hung jury vote of 11–1 for conviction. [12] A second trial, in 1991, ended in acquittal for both Nash and Diles. [13] Diles died from liver failure in 1997. [14]