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Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) [1] [2] was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York City's Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1906.
Russell Thaw was treated indifferently by Harry Thaw and his family, who never accepted the boy as his biological son. Russell was born four years into a period of about seven years, following his father's killing of White, when Harry Kendall Thaw was largely confined to jails and mental institutions. Nesbit had testified that Russell had been ...
From her parents marriage, she was one of five additional children (that survived childhood), including Harry Kendall Thaw, who married the actress Evelyn Nesbit (and later murdered Stanford White over her affair with the architect), [4] [5] and Margaret Copley Thaw, who married George Lauder Carnegie, a nephew of Andrew Carnegie, and after his ...
Evelyn Nesbit: December 25, 1884 January 17, 1967 American Dancer. Nesbit was the focal point of a love triangle between her lover, architect Stanford White and her husband, millionaire Harry K. Thaw. Following White's shooting death at the hands of Thaw, Nesbit became a popular attraction onstage. [120] Alfred Newman: March 17, 1900 February ...
Benjamin Thaw Sr. (1859–1933), American banker and philanthropist (son of William Thaw Sr., father of William Thaw II) Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), American art dealer and collector; Evelyn Nesbit (c. 1884–1967), also known as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, artists' model and actress (married Harry Kendall Thaw 1905, div. 1915, mother of Russell Thaw)
Prince Harry and Prince William's mutual friend Hugh Grosvenor—aka the 7th Duke of Westminster—is getting married on June 7, and there's been a buncha speculation that the event could reunite ...
In 1867, she married William Thaw, Sr. (1818–1889) after the death of his first wife. [6] [7] Together, they had five children that survived childhood: Harry Kendall Thaw (1871–1947), who would later murder Stanford White [8] [9] [10] In his will, he left $10,000, less than 1% of his fortune, to wife Evelyn Nesbit.