We all enjoy our privacy, but some celebrities really enjoy it. These infamous recluses completely disappeared from the public eye.
ATI CompositeFrom allow for : Emily Dickinson , J.D. Salinger , and Stanley Kubrick .
When we think of ill-famed recluses , the tale of Howard Hughes is often the first that get along to idea . In 1947 , the bizarre aviation genius and movie producer locked himself in a covering room for four months eat up cocoa bars and drink Milk River while living in his own filth . His modus vivendi would n’t get any less unknown over the next several decades .
However , stories like Hughes ’ are n’t all that uncommon among those who live their lives in the public eye .
ATI CompositeFrom left: Emily Dickinson, J.D. Salinger, and Stanley Kubrick.
Like the great flyer , all of the famous people below have lived as hermits at one point or another . For them , whether they hated the constant care or were merely extreme introvert , they took their quest for solitude to some truly extraordinary summit .
Bettie Page
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The titillating , black - banged pinup queen regnant was one of the most photographed hoi polloi of the 20th century . She help spearhead the American intimate gyration , act from a ( mostly ) clean-handed lingerie model to bondage and S&M fetish photoshoots .
Then in 1957 , she abruptly retired and extend into seclusion , becoming one of the most famous recluses of her time . Her life became so closelipped for so long that many were surprised to hear of her run in 2008 because they believed that she was already stagnant .
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What was Bettie Page up to all this time ? As it turns out , she go to Florida and became a born - again Christian . However , the new religion did n’t mix well with her developing paranoid schizophrenia .
On three dissimilar occasions , Page assaulted or threatened acquaintances or household penis with knives . At least two of these prison term she claims that God inspired her to do it . As a event , she spent some prison term in a mental mental institution , furthering her seclusion from the rest of the world .
She remain a solitary until her death , only make one public appearing , in 2003 . The juncture ? Playboy ’s fiftieth - anniversary political party .
