Jackie Coogan made Hollywood's first child star fortune and never got to spend a dime of it himself. Between 1923 and 1936 alone he earned just over three million dollars, with a few million more in property and contracts on top of that, and he'd been told the whole pile would be his once he turned 21. By the time he actually asked for it, his mother told him flatly that none of it had ever been his to begin with. What happened in between, the mansion, the furs, the diamond s

On the night of August 8, 1969, five people were murdered at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, and the story that came out of it, Charles Manson, a race war he called Helter Skelter, a group of young followers acting on his orders, has been repeated so many times it feels like a closed case. Books got written, a prosecutor became famous, everyone involved either died in prison or spent decades fighting parole boards. But pull on two threads still hanging off that story and it

In 1957, barely into his twenties, Lucien Clergue published his first photography book, and it came with a cover designed by Pablo Picasso, an introduction written by Jean Cocteau and poems selected from the surrealist Paul Éluard. Most photographers spend a lifetime chasing that kind of company. Clergue got it before he'd had a single major exhibition, and it wasn't luck. It was the payoff of a childhood spent surviving war, poverty and grief, and turning all of it into a ca