Roger Thiedeman in The Sunday Times 6 July 2025, where the title reads “Maureen Hingert and the Howard Hughes connection”
Howard Hughes
Since the passing in Los Angeles, California on June 29, 2025 of Maureen Neliya Hingert, many have been moved to pay tribute to the Ceylonese woman who, as an 18-year-old, placed third (second runner-up) in the 1955 Miss Universe beauty pageant.
Some of the material written about Maureen over the years, and repeated recently, is mythical; some of it is matter-of-factual. But what most people probably don’t know is that Maureen Hingert’s subsequent career as a movie starlet, brief and unremarkable though it was, came about through her marriage to an influential man on the contemporary Hollywood scene, and his relationship as an advisor and confidant to one of the world’s best-known but reclusive, eccentric, and entrepreneurial billionaires then and now.
