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Claims to fame: Multimillionaire; U.S. Vice President under Gerald Ford; three-time failed presidential candidate; adulterer; divorcé; laughingstock
Lead-up: Rocky and wife Happy left respective spouses to marry each other, in 1962.
Moral apex: Still married to Happy, Rocky died in 1979, reportedly in the midst of humping 25-year-old assistant, Megan Marshack, in the Manhattan apartment he helped her purchase.
Redeeming aspect: Incident kept a lot of stand-up comics working for a long time.
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Rockefeller:
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
— 1 Timothy 6:9
[...] Leo reminds us of: Nelson Rockefeller, who died on top of the (unmarried) bit of fluff he was [...]