The Deadly Love Triangles of High Society (Documentary)

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In this in-depth, full length documentary, "old money" society reveals its darkest secrets through deadly love triangles. From the shotgun blast that silenced a banking heir to the bludgeoning that freed a candy heiress, these scandals exposed the murderous secrets behind gilded facades. Truman Capote called one "the greatest murder mystery of our time." —————— Gain FREE access to secret full-length documentaries on wealthy families "too scandalous for YouTube" by joining our newsletter: https://www.substack.com/@oldmoneyluxury —————— TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 0:50 1. Ann Woodward 18:53 2. Candy Mossler 38:51 3. Vicki Morgan 58:26 4. Alice De Janzé 1:17:25 5. Blanche Molineux —————— Ann Woodward fired two shotgun blasts into her husband's face and claimed she mistook the banking heir for a prowler. The Woodward family accepted her story publicly while Truman Capote spent decades trying to destroy her, calling the case the greatest murder mystery of our time. When he finally published his account, Ann swallowed a cyanide capsule rather than face the exposure. Candy Mossler inherited sixty-five million dollars after her husband Jacques was found bludgeoned to death with thirty-nine wounds in their Miami apartment. She stood trial alongside her nephew Melvin Lane Powers—a handsome young man with whom she had been conducting an affair for years. The jury deliberated sixteen hours before returning not guilty verdicts, and Candy walked free to enjoy her inheritance. Vicki Morgan spent years as the mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, the department store heir and close friend of Ronald Reagan. After Bloomingdale's death, she filed a palimony suit claiming he had promised her lifetime support. Months later, her roommate bludgeoned her to death with a baseball bat while she slept, then claimed the existence of sex tapes involving prominent Washington figures. Alice de Janzé shot her lover Raymond de Trafford on a Paris train platform, then turned the gun on herself. Both survived, and a French jury acquitted her on grounds of crime passionnel—the unwritten law that passion excused violence. She returned to Kenya's Happy Valley, where aristocrats and adventurers lived by their own rules, and years later was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the anniversary of her former lover's death. Blanche Molineux married a man who had poisoned his romantic rival with cyanide-laced medicine sent through the mail. Roland Molineux stood trial in a case that transfixed Gilded Age New York, was convicted, then saw his verdict overturned on appeal. Blanche divorced him immediately and built a successful stage career, while Roland descended into madness and died in an asylum. Each woman navigated a world where wealth provided no protection and social standing made scandal more devastating. The drawing rooms of Fifth Avenue and the villas of the French Riviera concealed jealousies and betrayals that erupted into headlines. Juries proved remarkably sympathetic to beautiful defendants, and money bought legal representation that transformed obvious guilt into reasonable doubt. These cases reveal what happens when passion collides with privilege—when the rules that govern ordinary lives bend or break entirely for those with enough wealth to test them. The love triangles of high society proved deadlier than anyone outside those circles could imagine.