5/8/2023 0 Comments American Eve by Paula Uruburu![]() ![]() Nesbit, so young, couldn’t break free of either man seeing no alternative, she married Thaw, and tension built and built until the inevitable tragedy occurred. Thaw more or less kidnapped Nesbit, whipped her habitually and forced her to tell him the nitty-gritty of her relationship with White. Thaw was mad, a sadist who set about pursuing Nesbit as he had various other of White’s many young mistresses. ![]() ![]() Thaw, heir to a Pennsylvania coke and railroad fortune. White, the builder of an earlier Madison Square Garden and other grand Romanesque wedding-cake structures, was himself the focal point of obsession and crazy social envy of a young millionaire named Harry K. She was the mistress of Stanford White, New York’s celebrated architect. By THE time she was 16, Evelyn Nesbit was the face of her age, a stunning beauty with a “heart-stopping scarlet stare,” a famous artist’s and photographer’s model whose image, in the earliest years of the 20th century, was used to sell everything from soap to chocolate, sewing machines to powdered toothpaste. ![]()
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