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In the early 70's, Clifford Irving wrote a bogus biography about Howard Hughes, famous tycoon and pre-war cinema and aviation icon, from which Martin Scorsese took inspiration for his movie The aviator. Afterwards, he sold the rights to the publisher McGraw-Hill and was given a 2½-year prison sentence in 1972 due to of his wrongdoing. Irving convinced his publisher that he'd developed a relationship with Howard Hughes, who by that time ... [+]