Prize Pulitzer

June, 1985

The divorce trial was lurid, and when it was over in November 1982, the greatest name in American journalism--Pulitzer--had been publicly defamed in a welter of allegations that ran from incest and homosexuality to adultery, black magic, drug smuggling, drug abuse and threats of murder.At issue was the inherited fortune of 52-year-old Herbert "Pete" Pulitzer of Palm Beach and the custody of five-year-old twin boys from his marriage to Roxanne, a 31-year-old former cheerleader from a sm...

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