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Vivien Leigh was a bisexual adulterer according to new biography

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She was described as ‘the essence of English womanhood’ by the then poet laureate John Betjeman.

On top of that, Vivien Leigh’s romance with Laurence Olivier was a fairytale that wowed 1930s Hollywood.

It was, of course, all too good to be true but the full extent of Miss Leigh’s fall from grace can now be revealed.

According to a new biography, the actress who starred as southern belle Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind was a serial bisexual adulterer.

Her marriage to Olivier was a sham, with both cheating on one another within months of becoming lovers in 1937, according to unpublished memoirs and witness accounts.

At least three of the Oscar winner’s lesbian conquests are revealed in ‘Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara’, to be published in the U.S.

And, according to reports, the biography describes her insatiable appetite for ‘rough trade’ – male prostitutes picked up at Scotty’s, a Los Angeles brothel that masqueraded as a petrol station.

‘In the 1940s the world’s most recognisable star would drive down to Scotty’s with her friend George Cukor, the initial director of ‘Gone with the Wind’, and they would pick out young men for the night,’ a publishing source said.

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