William Randolph Hearst screamed illegal and slander when he learned that Orson Welles was producing, writing, and starring in a movie which was based upon his life. While Hearst fought to ban the ...

Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, who, by the 1930s, controlled a vast media empire, achieving unprecedented power. A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s ...