in his book "scandals and follies", author lee davis writes that, "by 1911, [ziegfeld] was insanely in love with lillian lorraine and would remain so, to one degree or another, for the rest of his life, despite her erratic, irresponsible, often senseless behavior, her multiple marriages to other men, his own two marriages and his need for all his adult life to sleep with the best of the beauties he hired."