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Mr. Blumenthal claims that the physical aspect of his affair with Ms. Rand ended with the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957.   

This may or may not be true.  Mr. Blumenthal and Ms. Rand were still very close, as Mr. Blumenthal remained a member of Ms. Rand's Objectivist inner circle and continued to attend meetings in her apartment until she excommunicated him in 1968.  

In 1968 Ms. Rand publicly denounced her young paramour, Nathan Blumenthal, when she discovered that he was having an affair with another woman.  She was especially pissed upon learning that the other woman was not Mr. Blumenthal's wife.