Evelyn Nesbit Bio
- Evelyn Nesbit
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Constellation: Capricorn
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Born In: Tarentum, Pennsylvan
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Profession:Actress
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Other Names:The Girl in the Red
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Ms. Nesbit, artists' model and chorus girl, was at the heart of what at the time was known as the Crime of the Century. Her abusive husband, Pittsburgh million-heir Harry Thaw, murdered 52-year old architect and socialite Stanford White (of the firm McKim, Mead, and White), who had taken advantage of a sixteen-year old Evelyn and subsequently become her lover a couple of years before Thaw and she married. Harry Thaw's mother quickly financed propaganda, even a film, to portray her son as a prote