Evelyn Nesbit

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<th colspan="2" class="" >Evelyn Nesbit</th>

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Evelyn Nesbit in 1900, photographed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_K%C3%A4sebier" title="Gertrude Käsebier">Gertrude Käsebier</a></td>

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<td class="">Florence Evelyn Nesbit

December 25, 1884

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentum,_Pennsylvania" title="Tarentum, Pennsylvania">Tarentum, Pennsylvania</a></td>

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<td class="">January 17, 1967 (aged 82)

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica, California</a></td>

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<th scope="row" >Nationality</th>

<td class="category">American</td>

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<th scope="row" >Other names</th>

<td class="nickname">Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw</td>

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<th scope="row" >Ethnicity</th>

<td class="category">Scots-Irish</td>

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<th scope="row" >Occupation</th>

<td class="role">Model, chorus girl, actress</td>

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<td class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw" title="Harry Kendall Thaw">Harry Kendall Thaw</a> (April 4, 1905 - 1915)

Jack Clifford (1915 - 1933)</td>

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<th scope="row" >Children</th>

<td class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_William_Thaw" title="Russell William Thaw">Russell William Thaw</a></td>

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<p><b>Evelyn Nesbit</b> (December 25, 1884 – January 17, 1967) was an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_%28art%29" title="Model (art)">artists' model</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus_line" title="Chorus line">chorus girl</a>, noted for her entanglement in the murder of her ex-lover, architect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White" title="Stanford White">Stanford White</a>, by her first husband, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw" title="Harry Kendall Thaw">Harry Kendall Thaw</a>.</p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Early_life">1 Early life</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Modeling_career">2 Modeling career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Relationships">3 Relationships</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Stanford_White">3.1 Stanford White</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#John_Barrymore">3.2 John Barrymore</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Harry_Kendall_Thaw">3.3 Harry Kendall Thaw</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Murder_of_Stanford_White">4 Murder of Stanford White</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Later_years">5 Later years</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Death">6 Death</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#In_popular_culture">7 In popular culture</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Non-fiction_accounts">7.1 Non-fiction accounts</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#References">9 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#Further_reading">10 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#External_links">11 External links</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>] Early life</h2>

<p>She was born <b>Florence Evelyn Nesbit</b> on December 25, 1884, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentum,_Pennsylvania" title="Tarentum, Pennsylvania">Tarentum</a>, a small village near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>. She was of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_American" title="Scotch-Irish American">Scots-Irish</a> ancestry. As a child, Florence Evelyn was strikingly beautiful, but quiet and somewhat shy.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> She had a younger brother, Howard.

The Nesbit family moved to Pittsburgh around 1893, when Evelyn was still a schoolgirl. Her father, a struggling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">lawyer</a> named Winfield Scott Nesbit, died that year, leaving behind substantial debts; his wife and two children were nearly destitute. For years Evelyn and her mother and younger brother lived in near-poverty, but by the time she reached <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence" title="Adolescence">adolescence</a> her startling beauty came to the attention of several local artists, including John Storm, and she was able to find employment as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_%28art%29" title="Model (art)">artists' model</a>.</p>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modeling career">edit</a>] Modeling career</h2>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carroll_Beckwith" title="James Carroll Beckwith">James Carroll Beckwith</a>, <i>Portrait of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbitt" title="Evelyn Nesbitt" class="mw-redirect">Evelyn Nesbitt</a>,</i> c. 1901.</div>

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<div class="thumbcaption">1901 photograph by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.</div>

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<p>In 1901, when Nesbit was sixteen, she and her mother moved into a tiny room at 249 W. 22nd Street in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Her mother had difficulty in finding work and after several weeks, Evelyn persuaded her to let her model again. Using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_introduction" title="Letter of introduction">letter of introduction</a> from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> artist, Evelyn met and posed for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carroll_Beckwith" title="James Carroll Beckwith">James Carroll Beckwith</a>, who introduced her to other New York artists. Soon she began modeling for artists <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_S.Church" title="Frederick S. Church" class="mw-redirect">Frederick S. Church</a>, Herbert Morgan, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_K%C3%A4sebier" title="Gertrude Käsebier">Gertrude Käsebier</a>, Carl Blenner and photographer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rudolf_Eickemeyer,Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (page does not exist)">Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.</a>

Eventually, Evelyn became one of the most in-demand <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_%28art%29" title="Model (art)">artists' models</a> in New York. She was seductively beautiful with long, wavy dark red hair and a slender, shapely figure. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dana_Gibson" title="Charles Dana Gibson">Charles Dana Gibson</a>, one of the most popular artists in the country at the time, rendered a pen-and-ink profile of Evelyn with her red hair arranged in the form of a question mark. The work, titled "The Eternal Question"<a href="http://evelynnesbit.com/pics/engibson.gif" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>, remains one of Gibson's best known works and Evelyn entered the ranks of the famous turn-of-the-century "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl" title="Gibson Girl">Gibson Girls</a>."

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_photography" title="Fashion photography">Photographic fashion</a> modeling, which was becoming more popular in daily <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspapers</a>, proved to be even more lucrative for Evelyn. Photographer Joel Feder would pay her $5 for a half-day shoot or $10 for a full day shoot (about $200 per day in 2006 dollars). Evelyn soon made more than enough money to support her family.</p>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Relationships">edit</a>] Relationships</h2>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Stanford White">edit</a>] Stanford White</h3>

<p>As a chorus girl on Broadway in 1901, Nesbit was introduced to acclaimed architect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White" title="Stanford White">Stanford White</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Goodrich" title="Edna Goodrich">Edna Goodrich</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Florodora_date_1-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-Florodora_date-1">[2]</a></sup> who was a member along with Nesbit in the company performing <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florodora" title="Florodora">Florodora</a></i> at the Casino Theatre. White—a notorious womanizer known as "Stanny" by his close friends and relatives—was then 47 years of age to her 16.

White had a loft apartment on West Twenty-fourth Street above <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Schwarz" title="FAO Schwarz">FAO Schwarz</a> with its walkup doorway situated next to the toy store's back delivery entrance. In her memoir <i>Prodigal Days</i>, Nesbit described her introduction to White at the apartment, decorated with heavy red velvet curtains and fine paintings, where White and a man named Reginald Ronalds poured her a glass of champagne and led her upstairs to a studio outfitted with a red velvet swing.<sup id="cite_ref-velvet_swing_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-velvet_swing-2">[3]</a></sup> While nothing untoward occurred on that first visit, the swing would later become notorious as accounts of its use were aired in the course of a murder trial, and some sources incorrectly state the activities that formed the basis for the 1955 film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Red_Velvet_Swing" title="The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing">The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing</a></i> took place at the "Tower Room" at the old Madison Square Garden, where White kept an office.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup> Nesbit states specifically that the swing and its related activities took place at the apartment on West Twenty-fourth Street.<sup id="cite_ref-velvet_swing_2-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-velvet_swing-2">[3]</a></sup> Although White reportedly derived sexual pleasure by pushing young women in the swing, naked or nearly so, as Nesbit later testified in court, she claimed her own later nude escapades with White were simply for his "aesthetic" delight.

Stanford White had endeared himself to Nesbit's mother by making arrangements for her son to be admitted to the Chester Military Academy near Philadelphia, and she placed so much trust in the architect that when she arranged an out-of-town trip, Stanford White and Evelyn Nesbit saw her off at the train station, where she left her daughter in his care.<sup id="cite_ref-White_care_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-White_care-4">[5]</a></sup>

Several nights after her mother left for Pittsburgh, Nesbit was summoned to the apartment by White, where the two shared dinner and several glasses of champagne before she was given a tour that ended in the "Mirror Room." On the same upper floor as the studio featuring the velvet swing, the ten-by-ten room held a green velvet-covered couch and walls and ceilings covered with mirrors. Later, after more champagne, the two returned downstairs and Nesbit tried on a yellow satin kimono before she "passed out." She recounted that she awoke in bed, nearly naked with White lying beside her, and that she "entered that room a virgin," but did not come out as one.<sup id="cite_ref-White_night_5-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-White_night-5">[6]</a></sup>

Later, Nesbit related this story to millionaire Harry Thaw after he repeatedly hounded her to know why she refused to marry him. She later did, but at the end of her life, Nesbit claimed that the charismatic "Stanny" was the only man she had ever loved.</p>

<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: John Barrymore">edit</a>] John Barrymore</h3>

<p>As White moved on to other young, virginal women, Nesbit was courted by the young <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore" title="John Barrymore">John Barrymore</a>, beginning in 1901. The two met when Barrymore caught a performance of The Florodora Girls and sent flowers backstage. Barrymore, who was from a well known theatrical family, was then 19 and seeking a career in cartooning. He was considered too poor by her mother to be a suitable match for the 17-year-old Nesbit. Her mother and White were enraged when they found out about the relationship. However, Nesbit was finally smitten with someone her own age and often returned to Barrymore's apartment after hours. White, still a strong influence in her life, arranged to send her away to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_school" title="Boarding school">boarding school</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne,New_Jersey" title="Wayne, New Jersey">Wayne</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> (run by the mother of film director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B.DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a>) in part to extricate her from John Barrymore. Barrymore in the meantime proposed marriage to Nesbit, in the presence of Mrs Nesbit and White, but Evelyn turned down his offer.</p>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw" title="Harry Kendall Thaw">Harry Kendall Thaw</a>, husband of Evelyn Nesbit</div>

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<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Harry Kendall Thaw">edit</a>] Harry Kendall Thaw</h3>

<p>Stanford White and John Barrymore were subsequently supplanted in Nesbit's life by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw" title="Harry Kendall Thaw">Harry Kendall Thaw</a> (1871–1947) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania" title="Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect">Pittsburgh</a>, the son of a coal and railroad baron. Prior to her relationship with Thaw, Nesbit dated a well known polo player named James "Monty" Waterbury (1875–1920) and the young magazine publisher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J.Collier" title="Robert J. Collier">Robert J. Collier</a>. Thaw was extremely possessive of Nesbit (he reportedly carried a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol" title="Pistol">pistol</a>), and obsessive about the details of her relationship with White (whom he referred to as "The Beast"). Thaw was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine" title="Cocaine">cocaine</a> addict and allegedly a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadism_and_masochism_as_medical_terms" title="Sadism and masochism as medical terms">sadist</a> who subjected women—including Nesbit—and the occasional adolescent boy to severe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellation" title="Flagellation">whippings</a>. However, following a trip to Europe, Nesbit finally accepted Thaw's repeated marriage proposal. They were wed on April 4, 1905, when Nesbit was twenty.

Nesbit had one child, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_William_Thaw" title="Russell William Thaw">Russell William Thaw</a>, who was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> on October 25, 1910 (he died in 1984 at Santa Barbara, California). A noted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_pilot" title="Aircraft pilot" class="mw-redirect">pilot</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, as a child he appeared in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood" title="Hollywood">Hollywood</a> films with his mother. The identity of his father, however, remains in doubt. While Thaw swore he was not the child's father (he was conceived and born during Thaw's confinement), Nesbit always insisted that he was.</p>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Murder of Stanford White">edit</a>] Murder of Stanford White</h2>

<p>On June 25, 1906, Nesbit and Thaw saw White at the restaurant Café Martin and ran into him again later that night in the audience of the Madison Square Garden's roof theatre at a performance of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%27zelle_Champagne" title="Mam'zelle Champagne">Mam'zelle Champagne</a></i>, written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edgar_Allan_Woolf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edgar Allan Woolf (page does not exist)">Edgar Allan Woolf</a>. During the song "I Could Love A Million Girls", Thaw fired three shots at close range into White's face, killing him instantly and reportedly exclaiming, "You'll never go out with that woman again.<sup id="cite_ref-shots_fired_6-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-shots_fired-6">[7]</a></sup> In his book <i>The Murder of Stanford White</i>, Gerald Langford quoted Thaw as saying "You ruined my life," or "You ruined my wife," and the <i>New York Times</i> account the following day stated "Another witness said the word was "wife" instead of "life"" in response to the arresting officer's report otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-shots_fired_6-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-shots_fired-6">[7]</a></sup>

Harry Thaw was tried twice for the murder of Stanford White. At the first, the jury was deadlocked; at the second (in which Nesbit testified in his behalf), Thaw pleaded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_insanity" title="Temporary insanity" class="mw-redirect">temporary insanity</a>. Thaw's mother (usually referred to as "Mother Thaw") promised Nesbit that if she would testify that White had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">raped</a> her and that Thaw had only tried to avenge her honor, she would receive a quiet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a> and a one million dollar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a> settlement. Nesbit got the divorce, but never saw a cent of the million. Immediately following Thaw's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquittal" title="Acquittal">acquittal</a>, she was cut off financially by Thaw's mother.

Thaw was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration" title="Incarceration">incarcerated</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteawan_State_Hospital_for_the_Criminally_Insane" title="Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane" class="mw-redirect">Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon,_New_York" title="Beacon, New York">Beacon, New York</a>, but enjoyed almost total freedom. Still, he tried to escape a couple of times to Canada. In 1913, he strolled out of the asylum and was driven over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> border into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherbrooke" title="Sherbrooke">Sherbrooke, Quebec</a>. He was extradited back to the U.S., but in 1915 was released from custody after being judged sane.</p>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Later years">edit</a>] Later years</h2>

<p>In the years following the second trial, Nesbit's career as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> performer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film" title="Silent film">silent film</a> actress and cafe manager was only modestly successful, her life marred by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> attempts. In 1914, she appeared in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Threads_of_Destiny&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Threads of Destiny (page does not exist)">Threads of Destiny</a></i> produced at the Betzwood studios of film producer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_Lubin" title="Siegmund Lubin">Siegmund Lubin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-siegmund_lubin_7-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-siegmund_lubin-7">[8]</a></sup> In 1916, after her divorce from Thaw, she married her dancing partner, Jack Clifford (1880–1956, born Virgil James Montani). He left her in 1918, and she divorced him in 1933.

In 1926 Nesbit gave an interview to the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a></i>, stating that she and Thaw had reconciled, but nothing came of the renewed relationship. Nesbit published two memoirs, <i>The Story Of My Life</i> (1914), and <i>Prodigal Days</i> (1934).

She lived quietly for several years in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfield,New_Jersey" title="Northfield, New Jersey">Northfield, New Jersey</a>. She overcame suicide attempts, alcoholism, and an addiction to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine" title="Morphine">morphine</a>, and in her later years taught classes in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramics%28art%29" title="Ceramics (art)" class="mw-redirect">ceramics</a>. She was a technical adviser on the 1955 movie <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Red_Velvet_Swing_%28film%29" title="The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (film)" class="mw-redirect">The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing</a></i>.</p>

<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Death">edit</a>] Death</h2>

<p>She died in a nursing home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica,California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica, California</a>, on January 17, 1967, at the age of 82.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-8">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-9">[10]</a></sup> Nesbit was buried in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Cemetery,Culver_City" title="Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City">Holy Cross Cemetery</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver_City,_California" title="Culver City, California">Culver City, California</a>.</p>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dana_Gibson" title="Charles Dana Gibson">Charles Dana Gibson</a> reportedly used Nesbit as the inspiration for his illustrations of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl" title="Gibson Girl">Gibson Girl</a>".</li>

<li>The author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery" title="Lucy Maud Montgomery">Lucy Maud Montgomery</a> used a photograph of Nesbit—from the Metropolitan Magazine and pasted to the wall in her bedroom —as the model for the heroine of her book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables" title="Anne of Green Gables">Anne of Green Gables</a></i> (1908).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_note-10">[11]</a></sup></li>

<li>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a>'s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun" title="Johnny Got His Gun">Johnny Got His Gun</a></i>, in chapter 14, the character "Bonnie" asks the protagonist if she looks like Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, because "all her husbands said she looked just like [her]."</li>

<li>The 2007 novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Warholic" title="Laura Warholic">Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Theroux" title="Alexander Theroux">Alexander Theroux</a> features a photograph of Nesbit for its cover.</li>

<li>Featured in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_%28musical%29" title="Ragtime (musical)">Ragtime (musical)</a>, one of the subplots includes the story of Stanford White's murder, and how it led to more fame and publicity for Evelyn. She sings in the songs "Crime of the Century" and "Atlantic City."</li>

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<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Non-fiction accounts">edit</a>] Non-fiction accounts</h3>

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<li><i>The Architect of Desire</i> – Suzannah Lessard (White's great-granddaughter)</li>

<li><i>Glamorous Sinners</i> – Frederick L. Collins</li>

<li><i>Evelyn Nesbit and Stanford White: Love and Death in the Gilded Age</i> – Michael Mooney</li>

<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Anne_of_Green_Gables" title="Looking for Anne of Green Gables">Looking for Anne of Green Gables</a></i> – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Gammel" title="Irene Gammel">Irene Gammel</a></li>

<li><i>The Murder of Stanford White</i> – Gerald Langford</li>

<li><i>The Traitor</i> – Harry K. Thaw</li>

<li><i>The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing</i> – Charles Samuels</li>

<li><i>The Story of my Life</i> – Evelyn Nesbit Thaw – 1914</li>

<li><i>Prodigal Days</i> – Evelyn Nesbit Thaw – 1934</li>

<li><i>American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White The Birth of the 'It' Girl, and the 'Crime of the Century'</i> – Paula Uruburu – 2008</li>

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<h3>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Fictional accounts">edit</a>] Fictional accounts</h3>

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<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Red_Velvet_Swing_%28film%29" title="The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (film)" class="mw-redirect">The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing</a></i> (1955 movie)</li>

<li>The 1975 historical fiction novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime%28novel%29" title="Ragtime (novel)">Ragtime</a></i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.L._Doctorow" title="E. L. Doctorow">E. L. Doctorow</a> was adapted into the two works below:

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<li>The film <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_%28film%29" title="Ragtime (film)">Ragtime</a></i>.</li>

<li>The musical <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_%28musical%29" title="Ragtime (musical)">Ragtime</a></i>. (in the song "Crime of the Century" and later in the show during the song "Atlantic City")</li>

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<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dementia_Americana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dementia Americana (page does not exist)">Dementia Americana</a></i> - A long narrative poem by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Maillard" title="Keith Maillard">Keith Maillard</a> (1994)</li>

<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Sweetheart%27s_the_Man_in_the_Moon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon (page does not exist)">My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon</a></i> – play by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Nigro" title="Don Nigro">Don Nigro</a></li>

<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_coup%C3%A9e_en_deux" title="La fille coupée en deux" class="mw-redirect">La fille coupée en deux</a></i> (A Girl Cut in Two) – film by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a> (2007)</li>

<li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Empire" title="Boardwalk Empire">Boardwalk Empire</a></i> – HBO Television Series - Character of Gillian loosely based on Evelyn Nesbit (2010)</li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_the_Pittsburgh_metropolitan_area" title="List of people from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area">List of people from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>] References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-0">^</a></b> <a href="http://evelynnesbit.com" class="external text" rel="nofollow">EvelynNesbit.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-Florodora_date-1"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-Florodora_date_1-0">^</a></b> <i>Prodigal Days</i>; Evelyn Nesbit, Julian Messner Publishers, New York, 1934, page 3.</li>

<li id="cite_note-velvet_swing-2">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-velvet_swing_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-velvet_swing_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <i>Prodigal Days</i>; Evelyn Nesbit, Julian Messner Publishers, New York, 1934, page 27.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-3">^</a></b> Dworin, Caroline H. (2007-11-04). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/nyregion/thecity/04swin.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"The Girl, the Swing and a Row House in Ruins"</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a></i>. Retrieved 2008-08-19.</li>

<li id="cite_note-White_care-4"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-White_care_4-0">^</a></b> <i>Prodigal Days</i>; Evelyn Nesbit, Julian Messner Publishers, New York, 1934, page 37.</li>

<li id="cite_note-White_night-5"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-White_night_5-0">^</a></b> <i>Prodigal Days</i>; Evelyn Nesbit, Julian Messner Publishers, New York, 1934, page 41.</li>

<li id="cite_note-shots_fired-6">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-shots_fired_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-shots_fired_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> "Thaw Murders Stanford White <i>New York Times</i>; June 26, 1906; page 1.</li>

<li id="cite_note-siegmund_lubin-7"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-siegmund_lubin_7-0">^</a></b> <i>Prodigal Days</i>; Evelyn Nesbit, Julian Messner Publishers, New York, 1934, page 276.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-8">^</a></b> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M5wRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6092,853626&dq=russell+thaw+dies&hl=en" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Mrs. Thaw Dies; Early Trial Figure"</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_News_Service" title="Los Angeles Times News Service" class="mw-redirect">Los Angeles Times News Service</a></i>. January 18, 1967. Retrieved 2010-10-09. "Mrs. Thaw, died Tuesday in a convalescent home here. ... After the murder trial she toured Europe with a dancing troupe where a son, Russell Thaw, was born. ..."</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-9">^</a></b> <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B10F93B58117B93CBA8178AD85F438685F9" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Evelyn Nesbit, 82, Dies In California; Evelyn Nesbit of '06 Thaw Case Dies"</a>. <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_press" title="Associated press" class="mw-redirect">Associated press</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect">New York Times</a></i>. January 18, 1967. Retrieved 2010-10-09. "Evelyn Nesbit, the last surviving principal in the sensational Harry K. Thaw-Stanford White murder case of 60 years ago, died in a convalescent home here yesterday, where she had been a patient, for more than a year. She was 82 years old."</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit#cite_ref-10">^</a></b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymXbhAyLuDo&feature=player_embedded" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Irene Gammel, Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and her Literary Classic (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009).</a></li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evelyn_Nesbit&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>] Further reading</h2>

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<li>Prodigal Days: The Untold Story of Evelyn Nesbit, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781411637092" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-1-4116-3709-2</a> also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1411637097" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1-4116-3709-7</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=54396" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Evelyn Nesbit</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626336/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Evelyn Nesbit</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" title="Internet Movie Database">Internet Movie Database</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.urbansculptures.com/buildingphotos/Plate-85-b.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">"Harry Thaw's trial"</a> Scans of a dinner program with Jurists' autographs, March 1907</li>

<li><a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/white/3.html?sect=13" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Crime Library: The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/century/index.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Murder of the Century</a> at PBS.org (includes excerpts from Nesbit's autobiographies</li>

<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5261" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Evelyn Nesbit</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a></li>

<li>Evelyn Nesbit stills from silent pictures <a href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sayrepublic&CISOPTR=3930&CISOBOX=1&REC=1" class="external text" rel="nofollow">photo #1</a>, <a href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sayrepublic&CISOPTR=3886&CISOBOX=1&REC=2" class="external text" rel="nofollow">photo#2</a>, <a href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sayrepublic&CISOPTR=3913&CISOBOX=1&REC=3" class="external text" rel="nofollow">photo#3</a></li>

<li>Evelyn Nesbit pics ex LA Times includes pic of funeral service <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2010/06/movieland-mystery-photo-2.html" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></li>

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