The Dark Story of Hearst Castle: The Palace Its Owner Left in TEARS and Never Saw Again

The Dark Story of Hearst Castle: The Palace Its Owner Left in TEARS and Never Saw Again The official story of Hearst Castle is a love letter. A newspaper king, a gifted architect, a hill above the Pacific, and twenty-eight years of building that ended with a gift to the people of California. But in May 1947, William Randolph Hearst rode down the Enchanted Hill in tears and never came back. Ten years earlier, his empire had been $126 million in debt. His zoo was closed, and the zebras were let loose on the ranch. A Spanish monastery he had shipped over stone by stone ended up scattered through a park. His art went on sale on the fifth floor of a department store in New York. The woman who ran the castle for twenty years wrote him a check for a million dollars and was not allowed at his funeral. And on November 5, 1950, he had signed one document his family did not want to exist. Chapters: 00:00 — The morning he left the hill 02:51 — ACT I — THE RISE 07:17 — ACT II — THE FACADE 12:26 — ACT III — THE DEBT 18:07 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 21:10 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Hearst Castle, history and art — https://hearstcastle.org/learn/histor... American Heritage, Lord of San Simeon (1961) — https://www.americanheritage.com/lord... TIME, The Press: Hearst's Bombshell — https://time.com/archive/6886329/the-... Julia Morgan Papers, Cal Poly — https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13... American Heritage, William Randolph Hearst's Monastery — https://www.americanheritage.com/will... #documentary #history #HearstCastle #oldmoney