# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-thorson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:32:49.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-thorson"
name: "Scott Thorson"
slug: "scott-thorson"
description: "Scott Thorson was an American known for his relationship with and lawsuit against Liberace. Thorson wrote a memoir on his time with Liberace, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, which was published in 1988 and adapted into the Emmy-winning film Behind the Candelabra in 2013. Thorson was also a key witness in the trial for the 1981 killings, known as the Wonderland Massacre."
tagline: "American showman (1959–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-01-23"
deathDate: "2024-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.66206
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1281443/"
    handle:    "nm1281443"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%80%83%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E7%B4%A2%E7%88%BE%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "史考特·索爾森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Thorson"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261061"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1778237"
    title: "Scott Thorson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump