Thorpe affair
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title:
Thorpe affair
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The Thorpe affair of the 1970s was a British political and sex scandal that ended the career of Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party and Member of Parliament (MP) for North Devon. The scandal arose from allegations by Norman Josiffe that he and Thorpe had a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s, and that Thorpe had begun a badly planned conspiracy to murder Josiffe, who was threatening to expose their affair. Thorpe, while admitting that the two had been friends, denied any such r
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1970s British political and sex scandal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair
date created:
2014-04-19T16:41:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:13:20Z
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