Famous personalities and their dirty hidden truth

History can be fruitful, traumatic and filled with a LOT dirty secrets. What is usually seen on the big picture is a happy and clean slate where as the back of the mirror usually has a filthy dark side to it. Listed below are the famous personalities who managed to hide their grey side by flashing their power and using their wealth.

Thomas Edison

Who doesnt know the about the man who ‘invented’ the light bulb. Well, this ‘truth’ is not entirely true infact he never really invented the light bulb. Electric lights and so did the glowing night bulbs however, they were only present in the street lights and not for any household purposes. What he actually did was, he tried out over 6000 materials which would be perfect for a filament and eventually he was successful after finding the right one which was, carbonized bamboo. Back in those age and times it was particularly easy to make an impression about oneself and spread false “facts”. Another lie that has been attached with him is that he never had any formal education and was entirely self-taught, when infact he had 3 years of formal eduction and also attended New York City’s Cooper Union chemistry classes when he was a budding inventor.

Pablo Picasso

The world famous painter Pablo Picasso didn't have quite the reputation in his personal life. The painter was married twice and couldn’t remain faithful to either one of them or to the numerous amount of mistresses he had. Olga went through a mental breakdown and was in severe depression after she found out about his affair with a 17 year old young girl. She separated from him and even asked for a divorce but Picasso turned her down because he didnt want to divide his property. Picasso dumped the 17 year old for his next muse who was a photographer and artist, Dora Maar. However, he dumped her as well for a much younger Francoise Gillot. Maar came crashing down and went through a severe mental breakdown leading her to a nun like seclusion. Picasso once told Gilot, “Women are machines for suffering” and “For me, there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.”

Winston Churchill

Touted as the ‘greatest Britain ever born’, we’d beg to differ with the title bestowed upon Winston Churchill. He was infact one of the main reasons behind the Bengal famine which took place between 1943-44, a period coinciding with World War II. About 4 million Indians (unseparated India) died during this horrific period. Tax during that period was increased upto 60% when famine was rapidly spreading across Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and Bangladesh. When USA and Canada offered to help with food supplies, they were denied outright whereas when Australia offered wheat, it was transported to the British troops fighting the war. The hate that Churchill had for Indians was extremely visible, he also went on record and made a statement saying, ““I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”

Henry Ford

Ford cars are everywhere around the World; Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company is being regarded as the pioneer of automobile. However, behind his great invention was a staunch Nazi supporter who promoted his views through newspapers and books.This was majorly because the automobile company owned the newspaper, Dearborn Independent. It is also said that in his European division plants, he used to make equipments for the Nazi military.  

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens who is often regarded as ‘the greatest novelist of the Victorian era’, parted ways with his wife with whom he had 10 children after he fell in love with a young 18-year-old actress. To save his reputation, he went ahead and published a letter where he accused his wife of being a bad mother, of being depressed and that she was the reason behind the separation. However, his affair came out in the open years later when his daughter mentioned about it in her biography.  

Christopher Columbus

From the looks of the stories gone by it was very easy for people to create an image about themselves and spread fake ‘truth’. Christopher Columbus somehow convinced and ‘marketed’ the fact that he indeed discovered America when in reality there was a sufficient amount of population residing there. Many say that he was a ‘slave trader and a dictator’ and had kidnapped 25 people from the Island to ‘introduce them to Christianity’. However, he never lived up to his ‘promise’ and about 18 people died on their journey back.

Mahatma Gandhi

Well there many stories afloat about the ‘Father of the Nation’, Gandhi, in his own autobiography mentioned about hitting his wife when he was young. He also accepted the fact that he was into lewd pleasures which was all because of lust and possessiveness. It is also widely reported that he slept with two naked 18 year olds to test his will-power. He refused the doctors to give his wife penicillin which led to her death, whereas he accepted quinine to save his own life.