dawnbreak wrote:
My ex from my university days had grandparents who worked for Elton John when she was a schoolgirl, so I got to hear what an egotistical, self-centred prick he was long before it became public knowledge. Her grandfather once had to intervene to stop Elton killing his own father during one of his tantrums.

This was not long after the time when Elton was living in a sham marriage with a German woman called Renate. My ex said it was so sham that on their honeymoon, he had brought his gay lover and she had brought her lesbian lover.

There was also the time when, she said, Elton had brought back a rent boy and refused to pay him. Sleeping with the great Elton John should have been payment enough, apparently. So the rent boy stole one of his expensive watches on his way out and it never got reported to the police. I stress that I only have my ex's word on this story, of course...

But anyway, to get to the point, she explored the many rooms in his mansion when staying in her grandparents' apartment there and jotted down what she found in a notebook which she showed me. It's a long time ago now, so I don't remember the full details, but essentially he had many rooms that were packed floor to ceiling with souvenirs that he had picked up from his many world tours. Most of this stuff just got chucked into these rooms and hardly saw the light of day again until he sold most of it off in a big auction that was well publicised at the time.

I don't recall any mention, ever, of blood in the house. I think someone has been making some shit up there, Dawnbreak. I'm trying to remember if she mentioned anything satanic on the walls there. She did mention "weird stuff", including some African sculptures that he'd brought back, but she didn't go into much detail.