Callipygian, thanks for the post! I was waffling on Mr. Turner and this makes it a lock. Will also keep an eye out for the Kray Brothers.
According to the linked article, the ten-minute-younger one was alleged to have had an affair with Lord Boothby, which the BBC confirmed in a documentary they called The Gangster and the Perverted Peer. (I expect the program, like the trailer, is not for the faint of heart. ) Pope sounds like a really good story teller and if he doesn't manage to work some poop into a paranoid poof story, I don't think he's trying.