Disgraced Minor Female Celebs

[VintageKell]

Tania Zaetta is an Australian actress and television presenter who also stars in Bollywood .... so she nicely bridges my trip to India back to more certain ground. She is not Indian, and her career started in Australia in 1977, where she co-hosted the Seven Network TV show 'Who Dares Wins' (a game show). She then starred in the ninth season of Baywatch. She then got a hosting job on Sky1 TV with 'Mission Implausible' and other TV work such as Zaetta hosting a series of TV specials in New York on 'The Great Outdoor Games' for the American sports network ESPN, and in San Francisco to host TV specials for the '2000 Summer X Games' and so it goes up until 'Australian Dancing with the Stars, Season 3'.

Meanwhile, she was pursuing a film career .... initially via Bollywood, when in 2005, she was in 'Bunty aur Babli' and later that year, another Bollywood movie 'Salaam Namast'e which was shot in Australia. She then moved more mainstream in 2008 with her fourth film 'Mr. White Mr. Black'. In April 2010, Zaetta commenced filming on the Sunshine Coast for her latest movie, 'Just Like U'.

So far so Bollywood ... or whatever

However controversy has recently taken to following this lady around ..... she co-founded a charity, 'Peace for the Children', but in 2011 the Australian Office for Fair Trading discovered that it was not in fact a registered charity, and an audit of the charity showed that it had directed less than a quarter of its income towards charitable projects ..... hmm.

Then there was the little matter of her 'supporting the boys in Afghanistan' ... in a 2008, a 'draft ministerial "hot issues brief" was leaked to the press, that intimated that Zaetta had engaged in sex with a member of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) .... this claim was strongly denied by the actress "That is the most ridiculous story I've ever heard about my life - and I've heard plenty over the years in this industry". It was also mocked at by fellow tourers, "I've heard of quickies mate, but you'd have to be really quick - we didn't have time to do anything," said John Clinton, from the country rock band The Wolverines who were on the tour. The story was later dismissed, and she won damages.

But anyone awaiting her next brush with the press, didn't have to wait long, when in March 2011 Zaetta was arrested for obstructing police, and causing a public nuisance over an alleged disturbance at a Queensland nightclub. She spent the night in the Southport police watch house. She was first issued with a $400 on-the-spot fine for allegedly refusing to leave a licensed premise.

A statement released by her management, Zaetta will "protest her innocence to the charges and strenuously defend the matters in Court. Any inference or suggestion through media reports that alcohol has played any role in this matter are ludicrous and baseless".

She was due to face court on April 4 and I have not found out any further details of the events that led to the arrest, nor what the outcome was ....

Pictures:

She has a thread here already .... so just a few pictures to illustrate the tale, and any follow up pictures to her thread please

[VintageKell]

Lya De Putti was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters. But this brief description from Wiki (and the rest of the biography), doesn't begin to give this little minx the full credit she deserves ..... apologies in advance for a long bio section, but I hope you will agree that she was worth it

She was born at her parents' estate in Vecse in Hungary, in the somewhat faded 'country aristocracy' of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her parents were the former Countess Maria von Hoyos, and a baron of Italian descent, who was a cavalry officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army ... she enjoyed all the advantages of a well-bred and privileged upbringing. But she was to say the least precocious and wilful, with family stories of her at the age of eleven, running away from home to join a travelling circus. She returned home when her sister Mitzi went to fetch her the next day, apparently she was disappointed with the lack of glamour of the life outside of the circus ring.

This and other escapades prompted her parents to send her to a convent boarding school run by Ursuline nuns .... but aged just 14 she managed to somehow become known to the male students at a nearby boys' academy. Shortly afterwards her teachers intercepted a love letter from an Army officer in his early twenties ... the letter and its contents caused a major scandal and almost resulted in expulsion from the convent (but money and rank talks, so she she remained) .... however her parents, forewarned that Lyla was already 'a woman' decided to get her married off before she made a good marriage impossible

Her father died around this time, and her mother chose Zoltan de Szepessy as the man to take Lya off her hands ... he not only owned a considerable amount of land, but was also a respected district judge. She was just 15 when the engagement was announced and Amalia and Zoltan were married in 1912 not long after her sixteenth birthday (some websites suggest that she was actually 14 and pregnant). Initially the marriage went well, and Amalia gave birth to two daughters—Ilona and Judith—born in 1914 and 1916 respectively, but the start of WWI saw Zoltan away with the army and Amalia volunteered as a nurse in the local hospital ...... changing bedpans seems to have been the final straw.

She defied all convention and social pressure and simply abandoned her children, family and friends and cutting all ties, went to seek a stage career in Budapest. De Szepessy filed for divorce in 1918. From then on, both de Hoyos and de Szepessy clans ostracized Amalia completely and erased her from the families records ... it was as if she never existed.

In Budapest, she first used the name Amalia Putti for professional purposes. Later Amalia shortened her first name to Lia (or Lya). She had a depressive bout, as well as acute financial difficulties but although totally untrained, she auditioned for and got a part in a musical revue at the Royal Orpheum theatre .... She performed a wild Hungarian dance in the show and also introduced a ballad that achieved considerable popularity Audiences loved her. Lya Putti scored a sensational hit in her first professional engagement. Shortly after this she starred in the only feminine role in the film 'A Császár Katonái' (Soldiers of the Emperor) which was released in the fall of 1918 just before the end of the war and the empire ... a critic wrote that she was a promising new talent who had a chance to become a star but she needed to lose weight. She had, in the space of only a few short months, become a stage and film star, and with this fame she also acquired many new friends and quite a few admirers. Several suitors gifted her expensive furs which she valued far more than the jewelry that she also received .... the new friends included the film director Alexander Korda (formerly Sándor László Kellner), and his future wife, actress Antonia Farkas (who used the stage name Maria Corda).

But with the war ended, the Empire broken up and Europe in turmoil, Lya was allegedly caught up in the 1918 revolution that swept Budapest. Béla Kun, formerly a Hungarian officer and ex-prisoner of war in Russia, led a Communist uprising that was only defeated when Romanian troops occupied the city for four months. Some actors who participated were imprisoned and put to death. Lya, was accused of being a spy, and had to escape from Budapest. This escape had been engineered by Romanian General Mardarescu, the leader of the invading army, and he accompanied Lya to Bucharest and shared her sleeping car on the train, even though he was old enough to be her father. Oddly (considering her age) in Bucharest, she first studied ballet and appeared on local stages there as a classical dancer. The next step was Bucharest's renowned Alhambra Theatre as a star performer ... she must have had some training while a child. But scandal wasn't far away and her role as mistress of General Mardarescu was terminated when Queen Marie of Romania, a friend of Mardarescu's wife, intervened.

She was then involved, apparently innocently, in another admirer's fraudulent bankruptcy scheme, and his subsequent suicide, and following this reputation damage, Lya found Bucharest no longer welcoming, and she was invited to leave the country. She was now effectively stateless and in grave danger of being killed as her protectors had abandoned her, but once again an admirer stepped forward. Louis Jahnke, Secretary of the Norwegian Embassy in Bucharest used his office to get her smuggled out of the country with a forged passport,with just her furs and jewels (don't know about her knickers!). In the summer of 1920, she travelled to Berlin to make a new start in the movies and in 1922, Jahnke joined her in Germany and became her second husband.

In Berlin her career mirrored her earlier one, when she starred in the ballet, where she became the premiere danseuse at the Berlin Winter Garden in 1924 .... this was followed by her first important German film, 'The Mistress of the World'. She followed this success with noteworthy performances in 'Manon Lescaut' and 'Varieté' both in 1925. She then tried her luck in the US in February 1926, where she told reporters she was twenty-two years old ... the ocean liner's records listed her as having been twenty-six .... (this is where some confusion about her marriage age comes from).

Lya was generally cast as a vamp character, and was similar in style to Louise Brooks or Colleen Moore. De Putti starred in D. W. Griffith's 'The Sorrows of Satan' in 1926. The US version featured one scene that had her fully dressed, but the European version had De Putti topless. But this was the highlight, and she had left the screen by 1929 to attempt to re-start her career on Broadway, but her efforts were hampered (as were her later Hollywood 'talkies' efforts) by her foreign accent. She then went to England to make silent movies and study the English language for another attempt to conquer the states.

While back in the US she was hospitalized to have a chicken bone removed from her throat, and contracted a throat infection. She was taken to the Harbor Sanitarium, then located at 667 Madison Avenue. She reportedly behaved irrationally and hid from the nurses. Eventually she was found in a corridor but she had developed pleurisy in her right side, followed by pneumonia in both lungs, and that was the cause of death aged 32.

To be fair, she packed a lot of lifetimes, including 37 movies, into those thirty odd years!

Trivia:

• De Putti was once rumored to be engaged to Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraten, a former husband of the American oil heiress Millicent Rogers. She denied the engagement.
• When she died in 1931, aged 32, she left just £800 (UK equivalent at the time), and a few bits of jewellery. Four years earlier, £800 was her weekly wage.
• Her first husband, Zoltán Szepessy, committed suicide shortly after her death. It was said that he had never got over her leaving him and the children.

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[VintageKell]

Pina Menichelli was an Italian actress and silent film star ..... she was born to the stage. Her parents, were both touring theatre actors, who performed in Sicilian dialect,and were part of a dynasty of performers, which included Nicola Menichelli, an important eighteenth century comedian. Unsurprisingly her older sister Lilla, younger sister Dora and brother Alfredo all also became actors .... her early career was in provincial theatre.

While on tour in 1909 of Argentina, she had married and had only returned to Italy in 1912, when she then made around thirty-five films under 'Cines of Rome' in the period 1913 to 1915 .... before moving the Itala Films, where Menichelli was launched as a film star in the lead role in 'Il Fuoco' (The Fire) in 1915. She followed up that hit, with 'Tigre Reale' (Royal Tiger) under the same director. This cemented Menichelli's status as a screen diva. The two roles attracted reviews on her "...erotic charge, seductive glances and provocative body movements" which established her as the femme fatale of Italian silent cinema. She next moved to 'Rinascimento Film of Rome', who were in something of a monetary crisis, but her films continued to do well, as she was popular internationally. In 1923, in the final fully active year of her career, Menichelli starred in two light-hearted romantic comedies, which marked a change from her usual serious roles, and both films were very popular with the public.

As usual, if it wasn't the career, then it was the private life where there were problems .... as mentioned, during a theatrical tour of Argentina in 1909, Pina Menichelli married an Italo-Argentine, Libero Pica, and the couple had three children ..... The scandal came when, while she was pregnant with their third child the couple separated ... leaving her to have the child alone. In 1912, and a very Catholic Italy, this was a great scandal, and the fact that it was public knowledge made her status as a 'separated woman' shaming on her and to a lesser extent her husband.

Her first husband, always refused to petition the church to annul their marriage (The Catholic Church does not accept divorce), preferring not to be seen as 'divorced' in the eyes of the public, and in anycase divorce was illegal in Italy (I believe that state divorces only became legal in 1970), and also would have caused issues in Church at that time. So, she had been forced to conduct a relationship with the founder of Rinascimento Films and her boss, while still married .... this was again, something of a public scandal, although her impossible position was mirrored by many couples in Italy, so there was an undercurrent of private sympathy.

When her husband died, she immediately married Baron Carlo D'Amato in 1924. She also retired from public life, but after two years off, she made her final movie in 1925, and refused all contact with later film historians. Strangely Menichelli also destroyed all the documents and photographs relating to her film career which were in her possession..... the reason for this is not known. Menichelli died in Milan on the 29th August 1984.

Trivia:

• During her four years at Itala Films, Menichelli's career had reached great heights, and her salary had increased from 12,000 lira per year to 300,000 lira per year.
• Menichelli earned the nickname 'Our Lady of Spasms' for her abrupt gestures in the film 'Il Fuoco'.
• Her status as a 'separated' and shamed woman contrasts strongly with Emilio Ghione, one of Italy's leading male film stars of the 1910s, who managed to hide his separated wife from public view, and thus avoided the opprobrium that she suffered.

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[VintageKell]

Tina Higginson is a lads mag and promotions model in the UK .... she describes herself as a 23 years old from Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, UK, who is apparently a Bubbly brunette that loves life] and always smiling (except if the photographer asks for the moody look hehe) ' Who has 'been modeling for about 3 years now and loved every second of it'. While most of her work is 'glamour and commercial', and she says that she is a 'slight entrepreneur' and runs her 'own Media, Events and Promotions Company', which she runs from home. Aside from all that she is 'also' a journalist' ..writing for a variety of publications ranging from the 'News of The World' to 'Lads Mags' and 'Womens Weeklys' .... 'lol so v busy but wouldn't change a thing - LOVE MY LIFE! hehe happy bunny xx' ..... anyway that's the background

But last August, she became embroiled in a scuffle with an off-duty Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) in a nightclub in Hertford. She was out celebrating a friend’s birthday on August 22, in the 'Stone House night club' in Hertford, when she went to the bathroom. When she returned, she was involved in an altercation on the stairs of the packed club, with another lady (who she only later discovered was an off-duty PCSO). They were both escorted outside by 'security', but the altercation continued there, and the police intervened. The police apparently let the PSCO leave, which upset Ms Higginson, who was bundled into a police van by 'four burly officers'. She then claimed that these 'burly officers', put her (5ft 3in) in ankle restraints, leg restraints and handcuffs before she was taken to Hoddesdon Police Station ... well close to home then

She then alleged that she was forced to undress in front of two male officers and remained sobbing in the cells for the night. She then told the 'press' that she sustained heavy bruising to her arms, legs and a graze to her shoulder which has left a scar – and has also been permanently scarred where the cuffs were applied to her hands and ankles. ”I’m disgusted with the way I was treated” said Tina, who has modelled for Ann Summers and a string of magazines and newspapers shoots, including lad Mags, Loaded, Zoo and Nuts. ”There were four male officers over six feet in their 30s holding me, a 5’3? 21-year-old girl down. They dragged me away behind a police van where nobody could see, and I wasn't wearing much, so everything was hanging out.”

She added: ”The female officer asked for my phone and I didn't understand why she wanted it. I wasn't resisting arrest I just didn't want to hand my phone over. Then the male officers put handcuffs, ankle cuffs and leg restraints on me so I couldn't move – I was like a worm – then they threw me into a puddle of someone’s pee" ..... that's British police for you, always taking the piss ..... ”At this point I was totally freaking out and crying. I was practically having a panic attack and nobody was listening to me. Then two male officers picked me up and threw me into the back of the van." .... wait for it, you know its coming

.... ”That was when I was supposed to have dug my nail into his hand but it wasn't intentional. At the police station they put me in a cell and gave me a paper suit which two female officers put me into in front of two male officers. It was like a house party in the cell for them. They didn't let me shower so I was still covered in urine. It was awful. In the morning an officer came in and asked me how I came to be covered in so many bruises. When I told her that they were from police and she was completely shocked.” .... Ms Higginson was charged by the police with assault by beating and resisting arrest and also with a public disorder offence and assaulting a constable, these latter two charges were later dropped. However at Hertford Magistrate’s Court on October 28th Tina pleaded guilty to both the main charges, and was ordered to pay a £700 fine.

Her defence lawyer said that Tina had accepted the charges although she had been understandably upset by the actions of police outside the club. ”Miss Higginson was extremely upset and she accepts that she used some abusive language outside in an effort to explain what had happened. She could not understand why she was being arrested when Victoria Finch wasn't being arrested. She disputes that she dug her nails into the officer but she accepts that she didn't go quietly. Four police officers got involved. They threw her onto the ground into a large puddle of urine and she was lying face down with four police officers on top of her. She has already suffered as a result of this incident and was humiliated by landing in this puddle of urine.”

The Chair of the magistrates bench said: ”Hopefully this is a lesson to try to be a bit calmer in these circumstances because clearly you found it hard to resist lashing out in some way or other when you were aggravated.” he the passed sentence and Ms Higginson was ordered to pay £385 in fines, £300 in court costs and a £50 victim surcharge. She was not awarded any compensation for her injuries ...... she didn't give up though. Speaking outside the court she said: ”I wanted to plead not guilty but I felt that I had no chance going up against police officers. There were three witnesses who were willing to come forward, but there was no point in trying to go up against three police officers and a PCSO. I just wish there had been CCTV in the club so that I could prove that I did nothing wrong. It’s very frustrating.”

Ms Higginson revealed that she planned to make a complaint to the police about her treatment and injuries ..... but a spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Constabulary pledged to investigate the incident only when they receive the complaint. ”Hertfordshire Constabulary has received no complaints in relation to this matter and therefore we have no further comment to make at this time.”

And that was that, as far as I know .... unless you know better

Trivia:

Her Vital Statistics are:
Waist: 65cm / 25in
Chest / bust: 86cm / 34in
Hip / inseam 85cm / 33in
Shoe: 5
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Weight 8st. 7lb. (54kg)
Hair: color Brown
Eye: color Green
Build: Slim

Well I had to put something

Pictures:

I may not be posting for a couple of days, so plenty of pictures in this one .... I hope they are all her, as I had to trawl a lot of model and 'page 3' type sites for this collection







If any of these aren't the right girl (and you know this for sure), message me and I will remove em ....

[nathanholn]

I cannot be bother to look up much on the case i would much rather be looking up something else ,but from what you read she had piss poor legal representation off course things aint what they used too be but from the brief evidence followed proper police procedure, wasn't followed unless community support Officers which are not the same as police officers have a different set of rules ...But as i recall being told once a more senior officer should have been involved straight away and they certainly should not of sent the other woman home!!!
Mind due i am dredging memories from a while back and these days the britsh police shoot you for being Brazilian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...les_de_Menezes

[VintageKell]

Originally Posted by nathanholn

I cannot be bother to look up much on the case i would much rather be looking up something else ,but from what you read she had piss poor legal representation off course things aint what they used too be but from the brief evidence followed proper police procedure, wasn't followed unless community support Officers which are not the same as police officers have a different set of rules ...But as i recall being told once a more senior officer should have been involved straight away and they certainly should not of sent the other woman home!!!

Well that's one possible interpretation.

But another could be that she was just 'fighting drunk', and refusing to obey the police when she was told to calm down, whereas the other girl did .... the clues might be "I wasn't resisting arrest, I just didn't want to hand my phone over." and "I was totally freaking out" or maybe "That was when I was supposed to have dug my nail into his hand but it wasn't intentional" ... this thread is full of girls who got into trouble in nightclubs ... You pays your money and takes your choice

Girls and Alcohol and Nightclubs: Modern ones that is ....

• Tania Zaetta
• Brigitta Bulgari
• Ms Dynamite
• Kelis Rogers-Jones
• Amelle Berrabah
• Rachel Christie and Here

[VintageKell]

Estella Dawn Warren is a Canadian actress, former fashion model, and a former synchronized swimmer. Obviously she was a synchronized swimmer before anything else, and she is a three-time Canadian national champion, and the solo bronze medallist at the 1995 Junior World Championships. Her career according to her Wiki entry is rather limited, but I will do my best ..... As a model she has appeared in various magazines, of which for our purposes, the most important are probably 'Sports Illustrated', 'Vogue', and 'Vanity Fair'. She has also done some TV work appearing in two television commercials for Chanel No. 5 perfume, as well as for Samsung. She hosted the televised special for the 'Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue's', 2000 edition. She then went more mainstream in 2005, appearing in episodes of 'Law & Order' and its spin-off 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'... that year she also appeared in 'Ghost Whisperer', in a credited role.

She has also branched into movies and has had walk on and bit parts in various movies, although I'm not sure she is credited in any of them (I couldn't be bothered checking) .... the only one I recognised was 'Planet of the Apes' in 2001.

Finally, this week she has been a very silly girl ..... On Tues May 24, 2011, she was arrested after she allegedly drove her Toyota Prius into three parked cars, and then attempting to flee the scene of the carnage. One of the owners of the cars approached her at the site of the collisions. He said "She was obviously drunk, and acting crazy... A few more residents approached her, but she started yelling and accused us of stealing things from her... When I told her she had to wait for the police to arrive she lashed out at me and started to ‘girl-slap’ me on my chest and arms" ... she made a run for it but unsurprisingly the police eventually found her, and arrested her for suspected DUI. During the arrest, she allegedly decided that a fight was required, and she kicked one of the police officers, and then struggled and fought against being handcuffed.

Later at the police station, when her arrest was being booked in, she managed to slip her cuffs, and made another break for freedom, 'run Estella, run', by escaping towards the backdoor of the police station ... but she was quickly recaptured. "We're talking seconds," the LAPD rep said, to defend the honor of the Shield

When the mayhem ended, and calm and order was restored, she was charged with the DUI, plus resisting arrest, assault, and finally to cap it all, felony escape. Her bail has been set at $100,000 .... this was apparently not immediately met ... she had better get bail funds soon, as those American jails (where they hold those not convicted, as opposed to prison, where you go when you are) are really no fun, and a pretty little thing like her will soon be invited to a bottle party

Trivia:

• She was named Maxim Magazine's Hottest Woman in 2000
• She was ranked Number 61 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement, and
• The November 2007 entry in Stuff magazine's 2006-07 pinup calendar.
• She has featured in music videos for INXS's and Dr. Dre's.

Pictures:

She has an extensive thread already .... so just a few pictures to illustrate the tale, and any follow up pictures to her thread please Apologies and credit to original posters if any dupes, its just too hard to cross check every picture. To be fair to myself, I did look and didn't spot any, which is more than the posters on her thread have apparently done, its littered with dupes

[VintageKell]

Ruan Lingyu (born Ruan Fenggen) was a Chinese silent film actress. Like many of the girls on this thread, she was born to a working-class family. Her father died when she was young, and her mother brought her up alone, while working as a housemaid. She entered the movies business in 1926, at a time when the term 'actress' was often synonymous with that of 'prostitute', and 'good girls', were obviously reluctant to take up the 'profession' (so much so, that one of the male stars of the time, Lai Man-Wai, was forced to play his own female lead in his first film ), mostly to help make ends meet. She signed up to the Mingxing Film Studio, and made her first film at the tender age of 16 in 'A Married Couple in Name only' (挂名的夫妻).

She quickly moved to another studio in 1928, where she shot six films and after she moved studios again, her breakthrough came in the 1930 film 'Spring Dream of an Old Capital' (故都春梦 or 'Reminiscences of Beijing'), which was a big hit in China, and in which somewhat ironically she was cast as a prostitute. Her most memorable works came after this in a string of lead roles, and in 1933, she was voted second runner-up in a poll held by the 'Star Daily' newspaper for China's "movie queen". She again portrayed a prostitute (bringing up a child) in her most famous role in the movie 'The Goddess' (神女, Shennü) in 1934, a movie which is often hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese silent cinema. Later that year, she made her penultimate film, 'New Women' (新女性), where she played an educated Shanghai woman forced to death by an unfeeling society (an oddly prescient role) ..... cheerful story lines, these Chinese movies, eh? A final film, 'National Customs' (國風) was released shortly after her death, and brought to an end a career of at least 12 films.

As usual with our girls, if it wasn't the career, then it was the private life that brought the problems, and so it was with Lingyu. When she was 16, she was married to Zhang Damin, the son of the family her mother worked for. As this was a wealthy family, things looked good, but after she started working, Zhang and Lingyu were thrown out of his family home, because he was a spendthrift, and chronic gambler (a Chinese vice, if ever there was one). He now was supported solely by her movie salary. But unable to tolerate Zhang's gambling ways, Ruan separated from him in 1933, and began cohabiting with Tang Jishan, a wealthy tea tycoon. This was very much against the social norms of the time, and would be a very shameful thing if it became public knowledge. However, as a meal ticket is a meal ticket, so in 1935, Zhang filed a lawsuit demanding maintenance from Linqyu. The tabloids in pre-revolutionary China, seized on this opportunity to probe into her private life, and exposed her cohabitation, which put her under intense scrutiny and social pressure .... her life began to unravel.

The film 'New Women' opened in Shanghai (maybe not a good choice given that there was a scathing depiction of the Shanghai tabloids in the movie), and received bad reviews in the local press. The director was forced to make extensive cuts to the film, but the tabloids had drawn blood and they continued with the headline coverage of Linqyu's private life, centered around her lifestyle and her lawsuit with her first husband, Zhang Damin. She eventually succumbed and was found dead of barbiturates in Shanghai on March 8, 1935, at the age of 24. In the China of the times, both her lifestyle and manner of death were shameful events which brought shame and loss of face to her and her family.

She seemingly left a note, apparently blaming the press ... it contained the line which said "Gossip is a fearful thing" (人言可畏). However there is a sting to this particular tale. Recent research has suggested an entirely different take on these events ... firstly, its been suggested that the death note was forged, by her lover Tang Jishan. Then, China's preeminent intellectual, Lu Xun, who was apparently appalled at the details surrounding Lingyu's death, wrote a public essay, entitled "Gossip is a Fearful Thing", denouncing the tabloids for their involvement in her death. Finally, researchers now believe her deteriorating relationship with Tang Jishan may have contributed to her apparent 'suicide' (or death). It's now believed that Tang had been beating her throughout the relationship, and that he had physically abused her on the night of her 'suicide'. There is no proof positive that it wasn't a suicide, but suspicion now surrounds the whole affair.

As one of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her tragic death at the age of 24, led her to becoming an instant 'icon of Chinese cinema'. Her funeral procession was reportedly three miles long, with three women committing suicide during the event .....

Trivia:

• In 1992, Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan made a movie about her life, 'Centre Stage', starring Maggie Cheung as Ruan Lingyu. Cheung won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress for this role.

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(I told you that if you sticked by me, you would see the world LOL).

[Fabrizio]

Wikipedia

Roxanne Pulitzer is a novelist and actress. She attracted media attention in the 1980s during her divorce trial.

Biography

Roxanne Renckens (Pulitzer) was married to Palm Beach-based newspaper tycoon Herbert Pulitzer (heir to Pulitzer, Inc.. She attracted media attention in 1983 when she divorced her husband. Many of the headlines about her were unfavorable and referred to her as "Foxy Roxy".

Roxanne was a former cheerleader from Cassadaga, New York. Her first husband was Peter Dixon, whom she left while they were living in South Florida. She met Pulitzer at a party, married and had twin sons, Mae and Zac. In 1982, Herbert sued for divorce. Roxanne was granted custody in an emergency hearing. Circuit Judge Carl Harper slapped a gag order on all parties involved, to little effect. Herbert's main accusation was that Roxanne wrecked their marriage with adultery and drug abuse. Both claimed that the other had sexual encounters with Jacquie Kimberly, wife of James Kimberly, heir to the Kleenex fortune. Judge Harper eventually granted Herbert Pulitzer custody of the children. Roxanne appealed three times but was unsuccessful.

In 1992, she married again, to speedboat racer John Haggin Jr.

Literary and media career

Pulitzer is the author of novels Prize Pulitzer, Facade, Twins and the The Palm Beach Story. She later adapted her The Prize Pulitzer: The Roxanne Pulitzer Story (1989) into a made-for-television movie written from her point of view. She also appeared on the June 1985 cover and interior of Playboy Magazine. The $70,000 she received was used to pay her divorce bills.

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Also a digital set from the Pl@yboy Cyber Club - Credit to Apsara (click on his name)

[VintageKell]

Louise Lovely (born Nellie Louise Alberti), was an actress and silent film star .... she was also one of the first Australian motion picture actresses to find success in America. At one point she was also another in the long list of actresses said to be a rival to the undoubted number one silent star and movie royalty, Mary Pickford. She made her professional debut as a child actress, using the stage name of Louise Carbasse and appeared in many roles .... she also started in movies, appearing in a series of popular local movies. So maybe its not surprising that at age 16 she married fellow actor Wilton Welch in February 1912 (but more of that later). In 1914 they emigrated to the US, where as legend has it, Universal Studios head Carl Laemmle gave her a contract but also re-christened her 'Louise Lovely' (apparently much to her horror ). When observing her screen test for the first time, he blurted out "She's lovely in her work and in herself. Call her Louise Lovely..." and when her contract ended with them ended, they initially threatened her with legal action if she used the name 'Louise Lovely' while working for any other studio.

Her debut was in 'Stronger Than Death' in 1915 and she went on to become one of Universal's major early stars (and a challenger to Mary Pickford's status as the golden girl of early silent cinema), but she made the mistake of arguing too much about her contract terms, and was dropped by the studio in 1918, after she had stormed off the studio lot. Universal had neither raised her salary, nor allowed her to accept an invitation from Pathé Frères to work in France (she spoke perfect French). For a year she was blacklisted by the studio but made a few films for independent producers. Her contract was picked by Fox, where she starred in a series of Westerns (Universal eventually having agreed to let her keep the stage name), but the loss of career momentum and change of direction into westerns meant that her career never quite matched that of her earlier period.

By 1924, she and her husband had left Hollywood, and returned to Australia to become film producers. They organised a national talent search (Australia's got talent?) ... these were highly publicised with over 23,000 actors and actresses attending them at locations across the country ... but only twenty were selected to appear in what turned out to be Lovely's last film 'Jewelled Nights' in 1925 (which was written and directed by herself and her husband). It was a critical success, but it did not recoup its high costs of £8,000. This was the first sign of a slump in the Australian film industry that was to last for around fifty years. Lovely was offered no more roles, and could not afford any further independent productions, and thus ended her film career of over 60 titles, and she made a return to the Australian stage, where she worked the rest of her career, the latter part as the manageress of the Prince of Wales Theatre's sweet shop in Hobart Tasmania, where she worked until her death in 1980.

It was at the end of her film career in 1925 that Lovely's marriage to Wilton Welch disintegrated .... He was said to be 'bisexual', but may have simply been more 'homo' than 'bi' sexual. She later confided in an interview for the Canberra Times in 1999, that their marriage had remained unconsummated for the first four years until 1916, and not very active in that area after that .... having married as a child, she had not had anyway of judging that this was particularly unusual ... She re-married in 1930 after her return to the stage to theatre manager Bert Cowan, a marriage that lasted for the rest of her life.

Trivia:

• It is likely that Lovely played a part in bringing, Agnes `Brownie' Vernon, to Australia, where she became a major star of the local silent film industry.
• In the year 2000 The The Australian Film Institute named their equivalent of the Oscars The "lovelys" in her honor.

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