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| -Obits- |
| Nobody does obituaries like the British press |
| 2007-07-06 |
| The Daily Telegraph Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies. The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table. When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 wonder if he gave Elton John any fashion tips???? I don't think "fashion" was involved in the "tips" that Elton got. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-06 18:15 |
| #4 wonder if he gave Elton John and fashion tips???? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-07-06 14:38 |
| #3 But, yes, this is a nice obit. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-06 13:28 |
| #2 What's funny is that if he hadn't been from the rich & famous crowd, he would just have been a asocial drunkard/junkie, going from one gloryhole to the other in public lavatories and giving BJ to truckers on highways resting area. That would have been quite sleazy and sordid, but since he was a count and all, well, it's different, you know. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-06 13:28 |
| #1 When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings. An air of sophisticated complexity? Only if practicing for a successful escape from a surrounded madrassah clad only in a burqa and high heels. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-06 10:10 |