Did Irving use his wife to cash the checks he received for Howard Hughes?
Yes. He insisted that McGraw Hill make the checks out to H.R. Hughes, then sent his wife to a Swiss bank to cash them as Helga R. Hughes. Later, when the scheme began to unravel and the press began to question Irving about Edith’s involvement, Irving responded with typical mendacity: “Do you really think I’d involve my family in an enterprise like this?” he would thunder. “My wife, my children, whom I love?” Well, yeah, Clifford, we do. Children? The film never showed any children. Clifford and Edith Irving had two sons, who were just 2 and 4 years old at the time. The filmmakers cut them, apparently to keep the attention on the couple’s own rocky relationship. Or maybe they didn’t want to hire child actors. Another change the film made was to relocate the Irvings and Suskind from Ibiza, Spain, where they actually lived, to suburban New York, presumably to more easily show the two men racing around the country digging up material on Hughes. Did they really steal the manuscript of Noah
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