Alan Gershwin.
I bet you didn’t know George Gershwin had a son. That’s okay: apparently, George didn’t know either.
I kid a little bit. But this is a long, fascinating, and kind of sad obituary:
For 70 years or so, Alan Gershwin insisted he was George Gershwin’s long-lost son. And with his death on Feb. 27 at 91 in a Bronx hospital, the curtain came down on what was surely the Gershwins’ most bizarre show ever, revolving around whether this affable but monomaniacal man was one of the greatest victims in American musical history, or a grifter running a long-term con, or someone suffering decades of delusion.
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