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LOS ANGELES, Jul 26, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Rupert Pole, longtime lover of Anais Nin and literary executor of her prolific writings, has died in California at the age of 87.
The Los Angeles Times said Pole, an actor who later became a forest ranger, was found dead in his Silver Lake home July 15 after a recent stroke.
The couple's love affair began in the elevator of a Manhattan apartment building in 1947 and the relationship continued for 30 years. The couple married in 1955, despite Nin still being married to husband Hugh Guiler.
The Times said Pole spent years pretending not to care that his wife was a bigamist. Her 1977 obituary in the Los Angeles Times named Pole as her husband, while the New York Times named Guiler, the newspaper said.
After Nin's death, Pole oversaw the publication of four unexpurgated volumes of her erotic journals.
The Times said the uncensored diaries sold thousands of copies and introduced Nin's work to a broader audience. Writer Erica Jong, a latter-day advocate of women's sexual freedom, called the diaries "one of the landmarks of 20th century literature."
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