THE BROTHER WHO SANG THROUGH THE STORM Thirteen years after Robin Gibb’s death, the silence around his private battles began to break.His children were not trying to destroy the legend.They...
THE MAN WHO STAYED SILENT UNTIL THE MARRIAGE WAS ALREADY GONE For years, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford looked like the kind of couple television could not break.Then the cameras...
THE SONGbird WHO DISAPPEARED FROM THE STAGE TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE She gave the world songs that sounded like comfort.But inside the machine that made her famous, Christine McVie...
THE MARRIAGE THAT BROKE AFTER THE CAMERAS STOPPED Ruth Langsford smiled beside Eamonn Holmes for years while Britain called them television’s golden couple.But behind the easy jokes and familiar morning-show...
THE LAST SMILE OF ALAN OSMOND He smiled in the final photo as if pain had never learned his name.But behind that smile was a forty-year battle he had spent...
THE GRANDDAUGHTER WHO REFUSED TO LET ELVIS BECOME A BRAND Riley Keough did not inherit Graceland like a trophy.She inherited it like a storm.And when the last private pieces of...
THE WIFE WHO LIVED IN LINDA’S HOUSE Paul McCartney married Heather Mills with the world watching for a happy ending.But inside the house they shared, another woman’s memory was still...
THE WOMAN WHITNEY HOUSTON HAD TO LOVE IN SILENCE Whitney Houston gave the world a voice that sounded almost too perfect to be human.But behind that voice was a secret...
THE FRIEND WHO HELD GEORGE MICHAEL’S SECRET BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW HIS NAME He died on Christmas Day, while the world was still playing the song that made heartbreak feel...
THE SONG HE FINISHED ONE DAY BEFORE HE DIED He walked into Fame Studios knowing his body was running out of time.The cancer had already returned, and the doctors had...
WHEN LOVE ENDED, LOYALTY STAYED He lost the voice the world knew.But in the quietest, most frightening days of his life, one woman still knew how to reach him.Cher did...
THE WOMAN WHO HID HER PAIN FROM HOLLYWOOD — UNTIL SHE TURNED HER SCARS INTO A VOICE MILLIONS NEEDED She smiled for the cameras while her body was fighting a...
THE LETTER PAUL NEWMAN LEFT ROBERT REDFORD — AND THE FRIENDSHIP HOLLYWOOD NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD He opened the envelope expecting a few simple words. By the time Robert Redford finished...
THE DAY SUPERMAN COULDN’T MOVE — AND ROBIN WILLIAMS WALKED IN WITH THE ONE THING DOCTORS COULDN’T GIVE HIM He woke up unable to move. The room was quiet in...
THE LOCKED DOOR THAT CHANGED DEMI MOORE FOREVER At fifteen, Demi Moore stood outside a locked front door and felt something in the silence break. No scream.No warning.Just a house...
THE MAN CBS ALMOST GAVE UP ON — UNTIL A MUSTACHE, A FERRARI, AND ONE IMPERFECT DETECTIVE CHANGED TELEVISION FOREVER Six failed pilots had a way of making a man...
BEFORE THEY BECAME LEGENDS, THEY WERE THREE TIRED ACTORS LAUGHING ON A DEATH STAR SET She walked onto the Death Star set with Princess Leia buns, a white robe, and...
THE VOICEMAIL THAT BROUGHT ROBIN WILLIAMS BACK TO BILLY CRYSTAL Robin Williams didn’t begin with an apology.He began with a llama, a fake accent, and a joke so strange only...
SHE LOVED A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND—UNTIL SHE REALIZED SHE WAS DISAPPEARING BESIDE HIM She smiled for the cameras, but behind the flashbulbs, something inside her was getting quieter.He called it love.She...
HE LEFT MEDICINE FOR A $50-A-WEEK SONG — AND THE WORLD THOUGHT HE WAS THROWING HIS LIFE AWAY He was supposed to become a doctor.Instead, he sat in a Brooklyn...