Errol Flynn
[A] slimy Jew is trying to cheat me ... I do wish we could bring Hitler over here to teach these Isaacs a thing or two. The bastards have absolutely no business probity or honour whatsoever.
-- Flynn, in a 1933 letter to German intelligence agent Hermann Erben
"I seriously doubt it, a guy like Flynn doesn't have to rape a girl. His problem is how to prevent them from raping him."
-- Flynn's girlfriend, Nora Eddington
"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living."
-- Flynn
"Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old."
-- Betsy Maxwell Cronkite
Represented by attorney Melvin Belli.
Supposedly slept with Howard Hughes, Tyrone Power, and Truman Capote.
Timeline
| 20 Jun 1909 |
Errol Leslie Thompson Flynn born, Hobart, Tasmania. |
| 1933 |
Offered part of Fletcher Christian in movie In the Wake of the Bounty. Flynn's mother is descended from Midshipman Young of the real HMS Bounty. |
| 1933 |
Arrives in London. |
| early 1935 |
Arrives in Hollywood. |
| Jun 1935 |
Marries French actress Lili Damita. |
| 20 Mar 1937 |
Meets with Abwehr agent Dr. Hermann F. Erben, Paris. This meeting somehow turns Flynn into a "Nazi spy." |
| 31 May 1941 |
Son, Sean, born. |
| Aug 1941 |
Loses his schnauzer puppy Arno, after the dog is swept off the deck of his boat Sirocco. |
| 1942 |
Became an American citizen. |
| c. 1942 |
Classified 4-F: "unfit for military duty." |
| c. 1942 |
Purchases a Van Gogh looted by the Nazis and smuggled out of France, for $48,000. Treasury Department. |
| Apr 1942 |
Divorces Lili Damita. |
| Nov 1942 |
Charged with (3 counts) statutory rape of Peggy LaRue Satterlee and Betsy Hansen. |
| Feb 1943 |
Rape trial, Los Angeles Superior Court. |
| 6 Feb 1943 |
Acquitted of rape. |
| Aug 1943 |
Marries Nora Eddington Black. |
| 10 Jan 1945 |
Daughter, Deirdre, born. |
| 12 Mar 1947 |
Son, Rory, born. |
| 7 Jul 1948 |
Divorces Nora Eddington. |
| Oct 1950 |
Marries Patrice Wymore. |
| 25 Dec 1953 |
Daughter, Arnella, born. |
| 1954 |
Signs a Last Will and Testament. |
| c. 1958 |
Flynn's attorney Melvin Belli appointed guardian of underage starlet/girlfriend Beverly Aadland. Aadland was Flynn's jailbait girlfriend the last two years of his life. |
| 9 Oct 1959 |
Errol Flynn and girlfriend Beverly Aadland fly from Los Angeles to Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 14 Oct 1959 |
Errol Flynn dies of a heart attack, Vancouver, British Columbia. Buried in Garden of Everlasting Peace, Glendale CA. |
| 1959 |
Posthumous autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways. |
| Apr 1970 |
Son, Sean Flynn, disappears in Cambodia. He was a photojournalist for Time/Life, Inc. |
| 1984 |
Son, Sean Flynn, declared legally dead. |
| 21 Mar 1994 |
Lili Damita dies, Palm Beach FL. |
| 1995 |
Chosen #86 of 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History, by Empire. |
| Mar 1998 |
Selected by People as one of the "Most Intriguing People of the Century." |
| 21 Sep 1998 |
Daughter, Arnella, dies. |
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