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Sunday, 28 July 2013

Conrad Hilton Jr., 1926–1969 (American socialite, hotel heir)

* Handsome hotel heir, Conrad Hilton Jr., had maidenly Venus in Gemini smack-bang on his Ascendant and with no close aspects except for a sextile to its ruler, Mercury in glamour-puss Leo. He liked the ladies and he is remembered for his short marriage to one beautiful future star in particular. Not the beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor, with whom he had an affair in his teens while she was his step-mother. And not the second of his two 18-year-old brides, oil heiress Patricia McClintock, but the other young lady: the budding screen legend Elizabeth Taylor. When he died young, at the age of 42, Hilton was fated to be identified in headlines as "ONCE WED TO LIZ TAYLOR." A renowned playboy and gambler, Hilton had philandering punter Jupiter on his MC opposite majorly boozy Neptune in Leo on his IC (and its ruler the Sun conjunct do-or-die Pluto). His death from a heart attack was brought about by many years of hitting the bottle.

WIKIPEDIA BLURB

Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. (July 6, 1926 – March 31, 1969) was an American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director. He was one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).

Hilton was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was Conrad Nicholson Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, and his mother was Mary Adelaide (Barron). Hilton grew up with three siblings: William Barron Hilton, Eric Michael Hilton, and Constance Francesca Hilton. He was the great-uncle of Paris and Nicky Hilton, the latter sharing his nickname. He attended New Mexico Military Institute.

Hilton had an affair with his step-mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, in 1944. He was Elizabeth Taylor's first husband (May 6, 1950 – January 29, 1951) with the marriage ending in divorce. In 1958, Hilton married oil heiress Patricia "Trish" McClintock. They had two sons: Conrad Nicholson Hilton III and Michael Otis Hilton.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Madame de Loynes, 1837-1908 (French high society hostess, demimondaine)

* The Comtesse de Loynes ― immortalized in this portrait by Amaury-Duval with her "penetrating gaze [which] seems to be appraising us, as we stare back" ― had Capricorn rising ruled by Saturn in Scorpio on her MC at the apex of a fixed T-square.

BIOGRAPHY by "Masaccio"

The famous Madame de Loynes held an influential salon in Paris beginning in 1860 until her death in 1908. . . . She [had] moved to Paris at the age of 15, where she became a part of the Paris demimonde, upper class men and women who ignored middle-class sexual values, and lived on the fringes of fashionable society. Her first significant lover introduced her to Prince Napoleon, the cousin of the Emperor Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire from 1852-70. The Prince, known as Plon-Plon, set her up in an apartment on the Champs Elysees. There she became engaged to Ernest Baroche, who held several important posts in the French government. He died in the Siege of Paris in 1870, leaving her a considerable fortune. She married the Comte Edgar de Loynes, who bestowed the title Comtesse de Loynes on her, and promptly disappeared into America. She kept his money and position, and became respectable.

Photo Credit: Jeanne Detourbay, future comtesse de Loynes, par Amaury-Duval - Musée d'Orsay.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Marie Anne Detourbay, 18 January 1837, 07:00 (7 a.m.) LMT (-0:16:08), Reims, France (49n15, 04e02). ASC: 12 Capricorn. RR: AA (from birth record). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes certificate no. 72 in the Reims register of births at the Marne archives.

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Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Newsmaker: Cooper Hefner (American businessman, Playboy heir).

* This month, Cooper Hefner will start running Playboy enterprises with the continued help of his 87-year-old father, Hugh Hefner.

Cooper is the youngest son of Playboy creator Hugh Hefner. Following his graduation in film production studies in May 2013, Cooper will inherit Playboy enterprises and start running the company with the continued help of his father and advisors. The younger Hefner sees this as his chance to re-introduce the magazine to a modern audience.

Read more from his Twitter profile.

Photo Credit: Cooper Hefner, ‏@cooperhefner, 23 March 2013, "Having a beer in the dining room before the masquerade party begins.."

HOROSCOPE NOTES: FATHER-SON SYNASTRY

Cooper's Venus in Leo is exactly conjunct Hugh's Neptune: they share an interest in promoting photographic imagery of young women. The younger Hefner's North Node in Capricorn is conjunct his father's South Node, indicating that he might take over the family business. Both charts are below.

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Cooper Bradford Hefner, 4 September 1991, 10:22 (10:22 a.m.) PDT (+7), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA (34n03, 118w14). ASC: 29 Libra. RR: A (from news report). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Nadine Brozan, New York Times, 6 Sep. 1991, p. B4: "COOPER BRADFORD HEFNER, weighing 8 pounds 1 ounce, was born at 10:22 A.M. on Wednesday in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles."

Hugh Hefner chart: Lois Rodden quotes birth certificate in hand from Tom and Thelma Wilson.

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