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Titanic's Worst: 2 Nazis, A Killer & A Widow Who Blew MILLIONS On a Young Man | Madeleine Astor, etc

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These Titanic survivors made it off the ship, but their reputations should have gone down with it. This is the true story of Titanic's worst passengers.

Dorothy Gibson was a silent film actress who survived the Titanic and made a movie about it just four weeks later. Long before Billy Zane played a villain in the 1997 Titanic film, Dorothy Gibson starred in the very first Titanic movie ever made. While 1,500 people were freezing to death in the Atlantic, their bodies floating in the icy water, Dorothy Gibson was complaining about losing her new Paris fashions. She starred in a film produced by her married lover, stole him from his wife, and later killed a man. She also became a Nazi sympathizer and lived in Mussolini's Italy.

Alfred Nourney was a 20-year-old German fraud who boarded the Titanic as the fake "Baron von Drachstedt" to escape a pregnancy scandal back home. He conned his way from second class to first class to rub shoulders with the elite. When the ship was sinking, he refused to row the lifeboat, sat smoking his pipe while others worked, and hoarded blankets meant for other survivors. People were freezing in the water and this man hoarded blankets.

Madeleine Astor was the teenage bride of John Jacob Astor IV, the richest man on the Titanic. After he went down with the ship, she inherited millions. But she blew through her fortune on bad decisions, including her third husband, a young Italian boxer named Enzo Fiermonte. She was a desperate sugar mama who paid to keep a handsome man around, and it cost her everything.

These are the true stories of Titanic's worst survivors. It's another Hot Mess History compilation. Enjoy!

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Titanic's WorstThese TitanicDorothy GibsonBilly ZaneMussolini's Italy Alfred NourneyMadeleine AstorJohn Jacob Astor IVTitanic After

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