Runners-up: Prince Harry, Chelsy Davy and Liz Taylor husband # 8 Larry Fortensky
After the Royal Wedding, my loyal readers might expect an expose of a British drunk or two. Let’s make it a twosome: Prince Harry and his girlfriend Chelsy Davy. The wedding party likely tightly controlled these two, as both are known to engage in drunken antics. Harry often appears in British tabloids with a cigarette and beer in hand, has reportedly turned into a “drinking machine” and “never sips his drinks; he gulps them.” He had to be pulled away from another man at a night club after the man made “comments” about Chelsy and Harry screamed, “I’ll kill him.” Harry was “really smashed.” As Harry and Chelsy have had an on-and-off again relationship for at least five years, the addiction-aware would expect Chelsy to be a big-time enabler or a co-addict. The addiction-aware would not be disappointed. Chelsy can be seen in this photo
appearing quite sober and in this one
(see the web site version of this)
(see the web site version of this one too–it’s well worth it)
appearing quite drunk. The 20-something Zimbabwe-born beauty was drunkenly carried home from a Durban, Australia race in 2008 and there have been, no doubt, many other instances that have gone unmentioned by the media.
Elizabeth Taylor’s husband # 8, Larry Fortensky, who was denied a financial bailout by the late star before she died when he couldn’t pay his $5,800 monthly mortgage. The baffling thing is he purchased the Temecula, California three-bedroom home in 2002, long before the peak of the late, great real estate bubble, with money he received in the settlement from the couple’s 1996 divorce. Oops, correction! It’s not baffling….Fortensky injured himself in 1999 when he fell down a staircase drunk, making him unable to work. Wait! That was in 1999 and he purchased the home with the settlement proceeds long after his drunken fall! Ok, so maybe he leveraged the purchase a bit…and then a bit more with cash-out refi’s for a little spending money. Imagine that! Yup, he bought the place for $330,000 but with a second mortgage (and who knows how many others) ended up owing more than $700,000 on a now-foreclosed home that’s plummeted from its peak value to under $450,000. (Unfortunately, Taylor gave him money to fritter away anyway, leaving him an $800,000 bequest.)