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Just because a biographer "had to speculate" doesn't make his/her speculations any more valid. Alan Ladd had been dead for almost 30 years when McGilligan's book came out. You can "speculate" about anyone 30 years after they've died. But the *fact* remains that McGilligan was unable to find one shred of evidence to support his "speculations."

According to your logic, Wikipedia editors should remove the section of the Montgomery Clift article that cites Patricia Bosworth's biography that came out twelve years after he died. Her book uses pure speculation to say Clift was bisexual. One "witness" was Elizabeth Taylor, who was well-known for never gossiping about any close friends of hers. I tried removing the Bosworth section of the Clift article, and someone else put it right back in. So that's what has to happen to the Alan Ladd article.