Unrequited love: Which famous person loved without reciprocity

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

True love is not always mutual. Sometimes it, like a serious illness, tortures and eats a person from the inside. It is all the more sad to see a similar picture among famous personalities. They have earned the recognition of millions, have become truly successful and popular. However, personal happiness remained beyond understanding for them. Sometimes such feelings ended in suicide or insane asylum.

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner: a clash of two outstanding personalities

Fatal love burst into Frank Sinatra's life unexpectedly. The most popular singer of the century, a bosom friend of presidents and crime bosses once saw Ava Gardner, and could no longer live without her. He was credited with having affairs with Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe, he was married and had three children. However, none of this was considered an obstacle to a relationship with the fatal beauty.

Their acquaintance at the premiere of the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" ended in a complete insanity of the singer. As Sinatra himself said, Gardner poured something into his glass.

At that time, the temperamental beauty and one of the brightest Hollywood stars had already managed to get married twice and have an affair with the multimillionaire Howard Hughes. Unable to compete with Hughes financially, Frank Sinatra showed his hot southern temperament in courtship. He dedicated his best songs to the woman and arranged unusual dates for her. Refused over and over again, Sinatra suffered from a love fever, went mad with jealousy and lost his voice. Ava's rare favor made him delighted.

Unable to withstand the pressure of Sinatra, Gardner gave up and they began to meet. This happened secretly, hiding from the press, the wife of Frank and Hughes, with whom the woman did not break off relations. And in parallel, Ava was having an affair with the Spanish bullfighter Richard Green. Only after bringing Sinatra to an overdose of sleeping pills, the woman finally agreed to marry him.

However, this did not bring relief to the singer either. In his paranoid desire to possess Ava completely, he followed her every step and rolled her scenes of jealousy. Unable to withstand violent quarrels, Gardner filed for divorce … And until the end of her life she continued from time to time to secretly meet with Frank. READ MORE …

Ivan Turgenev: 40 years at the feet of one woman

Ivan Turgenev and Pauline Viardot never had a full-fledged relationship. While she achieved fame as an opera singer, married and gave birth to children, he remained a passionate admirer of her throughout his life. Turgenev met Viardot when he was only 25 years old, and she was 22. At that time he was still a little-known poet, Viardot shone with might and main on stage and did not know the end of her fans.

Outwardly, the woman did not correspond much to the accepted canons of beauty. She had large features and sloping shoulders, and when she walked, she slouched noticeably. But this did not prevent Heinrich Hein, Hector Berlioz, Leo Tolstoy and other famous contemporaries from considering her exotic appearance. Turgenev not only agreed with them: he sang the beauty of Polina, comparing her to a sorceress. He called the singer's voice "velvety, without sugary sweetness, but bitter as an orange."

Viardot never showed special favor to the writer, but he followed her everywhere. Already being a famous writer, he moved to Baden, Paris and other cities for his beloved, which could not be prevented even by his official expulsion. Ivan Turgenev treated the singer's four children as his own. Insanely suffering from the tacit status of "snuggle", he tried many times to distract himself from other women, but again returned to Pauline.

This fruitless relationship lasted forty years, but did not lead to a happy end - Viardot did not reciprocate Turgenev's. READ MORE …

Vladimir Mayakovsky: vicious triple alliance

Love is a cruel lady. And sometimes she brings people of radically different classes and degrees of charisma together. So it was with Mayakovsky and Lilia Brik.

Brick was never considered a beauty, but this did not stop her from charming and falling in love with men. The married lady did not hesitate to talk about herself in a somewhat frank manner, emphasizing that she loves only one man: "one Osip, one Vitaly and one Volodya."

The relationship between Lilia and Mayakovsky looked strange even at the stage of acquaintance. The young poet came to visit the Brik couple to ask for help with the publication of the book. Lilia's husband, Osip, reacted to Mayakovsky's plans with enthusiasm and gladly offered him his help in the professional field. And in parallel with this, the relationship between Vladimir and Lilia developed. Mayakovsky at first sight irrevocably fell in love with a woman, and was not even going to hide it.

A short time after they met, on the door of Brikov's apartment a meaningful sign appeared: “Briks. Mayakovsky . The poet not only moved to the couple, he received the tacit consent of her husband to have an affair with his wife.

However, this did not make him happy. Careless and windy Lilya loved to dizzy. She convinced Mayakovsky that she maintains an exclusively platonic relationship with her husband. And at the same time, she did not hide romances with other men. Brick treated her lover's suffering philosophically, claiming that it helped him write good poetry.

And Mayakovsky not only suffered, he painfully and with notes of madness experienced each new hobby of Lilia. At such moments, the poet was completely unaware that their triple alliance also looked rather dubious.

In those rare moments when the poet tried to distract himself from his pernicious feelings, Brick did not hesitate to intervene. For example, she controlled Mayakovsky's communication with Tatyana Yakovleva, a promising Chanel model. Showing obvious displeasure with Mayakovsky's new hobby, Lilia did not hesitate to accept expensive gifts and checks from him for the maintenance of her official family. And at the most terrible moment, she was traditionally not around - when Mayakovsky laid hands on himself, Brik carelessly rested with her husband in Europe. READ MORE …

Auguste Rodin: the maelstrom of passions and betrayal that led to a mental hospital

The love story of 40-year-old Auguste Rodin and young Camille Claudel, who at the time of their acquaintance was not even 20 years old, began happily. The girl was introduced to Auguste as the most talented student of the famous workshop on the rue Notre Dame de Champs. And she agreed to do the most rough work for the then unknown sculptor: clean up in the workshop, knead the clay and carry out any of his orders.

The girl understood at first glance: her happiness was hidden in the man with piercing blue eyes. Rodin's feelings were mutual. He idolized Camilla, considered her the embodiment of the ideal of a woman and his muse. The sculptures shared with her the most intimate ideas, they worked and created together, and at night indulged in love joys.

It was after Camilla's appearance that recognition and fame finally began to come to the master. And she remained faithful to him, even after learning about a vicious relationship with a commoner and the birth of an illegitimate son. The girl believed: there was no one better for her for Auguste, and he was about to propose to her. However, this did not happen. The great sculptor was in no hurry to marry Camille or break off relations with his mistress. Moreover, he sincerely did not understand the suffering of Claudel - because for him she is always in the first place and she has nothing to compete with the other.

The story ended tragically 15 years after they met. Upon learning of Camilla's accidental pregnancy, Auguste forced her to have an abortion. This finally trampled and humiliated Claudel, which is why she left the great sculptor. Even her favorite pastime did not help her to regain strength, and Camilla spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital. Auguste's suffering was no less: on his deathbed, he raved only about his Muse.

Of great interest is the love story of the genius physicist Albert Einstein and the Soviet intelligence officer … Only a few knew about this connection.