Disgraced Minor Female Celebs

[VintageKell]

Marzena Kamizela is a Polish-born Swedish model. She grew up in Göteborg in Sweden and her career started in the traditional method for this thread when she won a beauty competition at the age of 16 .... she was then offered a modelling contract and the rest as they say is history. Her best known work is probably the work she did for Versace and for Martini, but she is fairly well known in both Poland and Sweden (but not apparently much elsewhere).

Anyway, like so many of these highly strung clothes horses, she could do with a good lesson in common decency and manners .... as so often seems to be the case with models, the story requires a mixture of drugs, alcohol, and a public transport system (Plane or Train), and then stand back and watch the utterly selfish and bad behaviour develop.

In this case, in May 2006, she was arrested after an air rage incident during a British Airways flight to New York ... During the incident, she was wrestled to the floor of the flight by the then Manchester City FC (and former England) footballer Danny Mills. The 32-year-old model had pushed away the flight attendants and then had bitten one of them, according to witness accounts. She then was spoken to by the pilot, and warned about the consequences of continued bad behaviour but she ignored him.

"We were astounded by the way the woman was behaving. We had to help hold her down so that the crew could apprehend her and tie her to her seat" said Mr Mills, who was sitting a few rows behind her. She was eventually restrained using handcuffs, and the aircraft made an emergency landing at the Happy Valley airbase in Goose Bay, Canada, where she was handed over to the police. The flight arrived with a three-hour delay in New York.

After spending the weekend in jail, until her case could be heard by a magistrate, Kamizela admitted assaulting three members of cabin crew and endangering the flight, when she appeared at a Goose Bay court. The Judge sentenced her to one year's probation, fined her CN$10,000 and ordered her to pay a further CN$18,490 as compensation to British Airways. And in something of another first for the thread, the judge said that she would have to remain in Labrador until the money for the fine had been transferred.

Kamizela, later said that she had pleaded guilty "to get this thing behind me" but said that the flight attendants had 'over-reacted' .... she claimed that the cause of her bad behaviour was her prescription treatment against flying anxiety having an adverse affect on her ..... and not any alcohol that she may also have imbibed.

Pictures:

She has no thread so .... actually not many pics at all

[VintageKell]

Agnes Ayres (b. Agnes Eyre Henkel), was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She began her career in 1914 when she was cast as an extra in a crowd scene after being spotted by an 'Essanay Studios' director. She then persuaded her mother to move to New York with her to pursue a career in acting (as you do after one scene as a extra) and got another lucky break ... she was very similar to established star actress Alice Joyce and was cast as her sister in 'Richard the Brazen' in 1917.

In those days, that was almost enough to become a star, but not quite. She followed this up with small roles until finally she got a starring role in the Civil War drama 'Held by the Enemy' in 1920. The following role, she got her breakthrough role, when she was cast as Lady Diana Mayo in 'The Sheik' in 1921 opposite Rudolph Valentino, and later reprised the role in 'The Son of the Sheik' in 1926. Other highlights were 'Forbidden Fruit' in 1921, and the Cecil B. DeMille epic 'The Ten Commandments' in 1923 ... she didn't know it but her career had peaked and although she continued to work the roles got less prominent and by 1929 she appeared in her last major role in 'The Donovan Affair'.

To earn money, she was forced to leave the film acting and she started played the vaudeville circuit. In 1936 she attempted a film comeback but was unable to secure starring roles, and after appearing mostly in uncredited bit parts she finally retired from acting in 1937. After this she lapsed into despondency and was eventually committed to a mental sanatorium.

Now, there are two ways that females stars make their careers, horizontally or vertically. Our Agnes wasn't above the horizontal for much of her career. She had married a soldier (Capt.Frank P. Schuker) during the early start to her career and when the US was entering the first world war, probably before he was posted overseas in 1917 (it was common at the time), but it appears to have not been a very active marriage, especially as he didn't have the good grace to perish and returned (they divorced sometime before 1924).

Anyway, shortly after her first marriage (and presumably after hubby was overseas, or at least out of sight), she entered into a semi public affair as the mistress of Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Lasky, and while this affair continued, she was safe and her career flourished ..... by 1923 this affair was over and Lasky had found new starlets to conquer. Her career noticeably declined in quality after Lasky stopped promoting her interests.

She married Mexican diplomat S. Manuel Reachi in 1924 and the couple had a daughter before divorcing in 1927 ..... she lost custody of the child when she was committed to the sanatorium. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage on December 25, 1940 at her home at the age of 48.

Trivia:

• For her contribution to motion pictures, Agnes Ayres has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6504 Hollywood Boulevard.
• In 1929, she lost her fortune and real estate holdings in the 'Crash of ’29'.

Pictures:

She has a small thread here already so only a few illustrative pictures and any follow ups to her thread please

[VintageKell]

Danielle Fishel is an American actress and television personality who graduated from Calabasas High School class of 1999. Her first break was as a 10-year-old she was discovered in a community theater and she moved on to do voice-overs and commercials (inc 'Barbie Girl' for Mattel). She then appeared on two episodes of the TV show 'Full House', and also had a small role on 'Harry and the Hendersons' .... good start! Then came her big break ... in 1993, at the age of 12, Fishel began the role of Topanga Lawrence on the series 'Boy Meets World' and the show ended in 2000 after seven years. With the TV came magazines and she was on the cover of 'Seventeen' in December 199 and on the cover of GQ's hottest stars to watch in GQ's 1997 September issue. Then came the awards, she took home a 1998 Young Star for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy TV Series. In June 1999, she was one of "The 21 Hottest Stars Under 21" as presented by 'Teen People'.

But since that show ended, things haven't gone quite so well .... two National Lampoon movies (DVD jobs) and a few films even more forgettable than those. TV hasn't been any kinder, in 2006 a guest slot on 'The Tyra Banks Show' and she became a special correspondent for The Tyra Banks Show, starting in early February 2007 ... but not for long. Then from August 2008 to March 2011 Fishel hosted 'The Dish' for the Style Network, and was also on Fuse TV as host of 'The Fuse 20', and was a guest star on the round table on an episode of Chelsea Lately ....

Diet: Following her appearance on the Tyra Banks Show she became a spokesperson for 'NutriSystem' because she had spent the whole show discussing her 'dramatic' weight loss with the use of Nutrisystems .... however by 2010, despite the contract she had regained a fair bit of the weight back, and told 'People magazine' that she could not maintain her weight by using NutriSystem ... Oops!

DUI: In December 2007, the Newport Beach Police Department reported that Danielle Fischel was arrested on an outstanding DUI warrant. Fischel was reportedly pulled over for a vehicle code violation when police found that she had an outstanding arrest warrant for a reported past DUI. Fischel was arrested and released on bail. According to the press reports, she went before a judge and cried ..... it seems her legal strategy worked and her probation was reinstated without further penalty.

Trivia:

• In real life, Fishel dated her Boy Meets World co-star Ben Savage.
• She also dated former 'N Sync member Lance Bass, who was her date to her high school prom.
• Her mother became her full-time manager.

Pictures:

She has a thread here already, so the usual illustrative pictures (no under 18's), and any follow ups to her thread please. Oh apologies if any dupes here, I tried not to, but I am in a rush tonight.

[VintageKell]

Shannen Doherty is an American actress, producer, author and television director (and god knows what else this polymorph has turned her hand to!). When her family moved to Los Angeles when she was a child, she immediately announced that she wanted to be an actress ... who knows, she may even make it

She started on TV at the age of 11 with guest spots on TV series including 'Voyagers!, Father Murphy', and 'Airwolf' and then a regular role in 'Little House on the Prairie' ... the end of the show in 1983, brought a lull before 1985 saw her in teen-comedy movie, 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' and then back to TV for the family drama 'Our House'. Her golden years between 1989 and 2001 included leading roles in 'Heathers', 'Beverly Hills 90210', 'Charmed'. Her career afterward consisted primarily of made-for-TV movies, though she also had a lead role in Kevin Smith's 1995 film 'Mallrats'. She returned to TV in 2008 with the spin off show '90210'.

After that, a series of TV show hosting jobs, unsuccessful films, and finally as a 'celebrity' contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars' for the tenth season .... when you start bouncing around in this area, things rarely get better ... WE Tv announced in July 2011, that she will star in a one-hour reality series that follows her and her fiance, Kurt Iswarienko, as they plan their wedding. The show is scheduled to premiere in 2012 ....

As usual its the personal life and behaviour that makes her that little bit special ...

Fightin' and Spittin':

She was allegedly removed from the teen soap "Beverly Hills, 90210" at end of 4th season in March 1994, because according to producer Aaron Spelling she was in constant conflicts with other cast members and repeatedly made late appearances on the set.

The Courts:

In January, 1993, she was sued for $36,000 by the United Bank in California which they claimed she owed them after bouncing more then 70 cheques.

Also in 1993 (busy girl ), Doherty's ex-fiance, obtained an order of protection against her after Doherty allegedly pulled a gun on him and "threatened to hire a few guys to beat me and to sodomize me"....

August 1996: Sentenced to anger-management counseling by the Beverly Hills Municipal Court for an incident that occurred when she got into an argument with 22 year man and smashed a beer bottle on his car window as he tried to drive away from her.

DUI:

In 2001, her truck was pulled over after it was spotted weaving on the highway. She was arrested after allegedly having a blood alcohol level of .13 and she was later sentenced to either 10 days in jail or 20 days of work-release duty, and was given three years probation, and was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine for drunk driving charges.

Nudity:

She has appeared in Pl*yboy magazine, firstly in December 1993, then in March 1994. She posed for the magazine again in December 2003, and has been featured in a 10-page pictorial .... always nude.

Trivia:

• Doherty was also twice nominated for the Saturn Award, Best Genre TV Actress for her performance in Charmed, in 1999 and 2000 respectively.
• She speaks French and Spanish, in which she can act just as well as she can in English
• Doherty was also twice nominated for the Saturn Award, Best Genre TV Actress.
• Suffers from the bowel condition Crohn's Disease.
• Is allergic to wool and chocolate.
• She earned a seven figure sum for posing in the December 2003 edition of Playboy.
• A Disney movie was made about her great, great, great grandfather. The movie was called 'The Fighting Prince of Donegal' in 1966.

Pictures:

Obviously, the nude work guarantees that she has a large thread here already, I can't therefore help any duplication. So credit to the original posters, and apologies for those which fans of this lady have seen before. Any follow ups to her thread please

[zabdart]

What?!? No mention of her famous nightclub fight with Paris Hilton? They both got arrested for that! The LAPD finally dropped all charges in the matter because they couldn't figure out which one to believe.

[VintageKell]

Mary Astor (b. Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke) was an American actress, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in 'The Great Lie' in 1941. Astor's father was a German teacher until the U.S. entered World War I when he found that a difficult vocation, so he moved to doing light farming. Astor's mother, who had always wanted to be an actress, taught drama and elocution, and it was from her that she got the acting bug.

She broke into show business via the tried and trusted method of entering a beauty contest in Motion Picture Magazine, becoming a semi finalist. With the end of the war, her father moved the family to Chicago as he resumed teaching German. 'Lucile' took drama lessons and appeared in various amateur stage productions. She re-entered the Motion Picture Magazine beauty contest in 1920 becoming runner-up in the national contest. Her father then moved the family to New York, to allow her to become an actress in motion pictures. Her photograph was seen by Harry Durant of Famous Players-Lasky and Lucile was signed to a six-month contract with Paramount Pictures. Her name was changed to Mary Astor during a conference between Paramount chief Jesse Lasky, gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and producer Walter Wanger She was still only 14 yrs old ..... different times!

Her first movies were silent, and either ended up on the cutting room floor, or were very small and her contract lapsed .... she worked independently on the 1921 two-reeler 'The Beggar Maid'. The following year, her first feature-length movies were 'John Smith' and 'The Man Who Played God'. She moved to Hollywood with her family to pursue her dream ... A new contract with paramount at $500 pw set her career up .... she starred in many movies such as 'Beau Brummel' in 1924. She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, and moved contracts between the studios with her fee rising to $3,750 a week. Then a sound check in 1929 resulted in her losing all her work (she was deemed to have too deep a voice) .... she was out of work for eight months in 1929.

She took to the stage, where the play was a success and her voice was deemed suitable for films, being described as 'low and vibrant'. Her first "talkie", 'Ladies Love Brutes' followed in 1930. She then had a fairly successful career, despite various revelations and scandals ... notable hits were 'Dodsworth' in 1936 and included 'The Prisoner of Zenda', and 'The Hurricane' in 1937, and 'Brigham Young' in 1940. All these were followed by her most famous role .... as scheming temptress Brigid O'Shaughnessy in John Huston's 'The Maltese Falcon' in 1941. Sadly, apart from her Oscar performance, the roles became more and more drab (apart from the as a prostitute in the film noir 'Act of Violence' in 1948). She continued to work in films, TV or the stage pretty much when she wanted to until her final role in the murder mystery 'Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte', starring her great friend Bette Davis in 1964.

She made one more screen appearance in the 1980, television documentary series 'Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film' in which she discussed her roles during the silent film period. Astor died on September 25, 1987, at age 81 and is buried in Culver city.

Private life:

Her parents kept her firmly under their control, especially her love life and finances, and the whole family lived in a large mansion "Moorcrest" in the hills above Hollywood. She was on a $5 a week allowance (at a time when she was making $2500 a week) and was only unchaperoned when going to work. Eventually aged 19, she climbed from her second floor bedroom window and escaped to a hotel in Hollywood ... she returned only when she was given $500 and no more chaperons. She only got full control of her earnings when she was aged 25.

Scandal ... her parent promptly sued her for financial support. She finally settled with them for $100 a month, plus they remained living in the house. Astor had dubbed it a "white elephant", and by 1932 she refused to maintain the house, especially as her parents invested heavily in the stock market and ran up heavy debts, which she was responsible for. Despite her high earnings she had to turn to the Motion Picture Relief Fund in 1933 to pay her bills because of her families debts. Otto Langhanke later put 'Moorcrest' up for auction in the early 1930's, expecting to get at least the $80,000 he had once been offered for it; times had changed and it finally went for just $25,000.

After the death of her father, and while attending her mothers death bed, she found out that they had both 'hated her' ... this was reinforced when she read her mother diary, in which all the families problems were blamed on 'terrible, selfish Lucile'.

Love Life:

John Barrymore tried to seduce her while she was just 18, and they were 'Secretly engaged' (yes that old chestnut), but her parents seem to have found out and stopped it ... and then Barrymore became involved with Astor's fellow WAMPAS Baby Star Dolores Costello, whom he later married.

She had then married to Kenneth Hawks, and she was settled until he was killed in a mid-air plane crash over the Pacific in 1930. She suffered delayed shock over her husband's death and had a nervous breakdown. During the months of her illness, she was attended to by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, whom she married on June 29, 1931.

By 1933 she was unhappy with her marriage, and she took a break in New York by herself. While there, she met the playwright George Kaufman and they had an affair, which she documented in her diary .... of course the marriage ended in a divorce. The scandal hit the press in 1935 when a custody battle resulted over their four-year-old daughter ... Thorpe threatened to use Astor's diary in the proceedings, which allegedly recorded her affairs with many celebrities of the day. The diary was never formally offered as evidence during the trial, but Thorpe and his lawyers constantly referred to it, and its notoriety grew.

Astor admitted that the diary existed and that she had documented her affair with Kaufman, but maintained that many of the parts that had been referred to had been forgeries. It had been 'stolen' by Thorpe from her desk, and the judge deemed it inadmissible as a mutilated document, and had it sealed and impounded. Astor claims it was then destroyed, with her permission. Her contract had a morality clause, but Samuel Goldwyn refused to invoke it because the filming was nearly completed.

Following her divorce in 1936 she immediately married film editor Manuel del Campo, and he left her in 1941. In her 1959 autobiography, she suggested that "Mike", as she called him, was her only real love of her life, and that he broke her heart when he left her.

Her final husband was Thomas Wheelock a stockbroker she had married on Christmas Day 1945, but she left him in 1951 but did not actually divorce him until 1955.

Drinkies:

As the quality of her roles in movies declined, her marriages came and went, and her endlessly demanding family problems took their toll, she turned to the bottle for solace ... She had admitted to having a problem with alcohol as far back as the 1930's, but she had never allowed it to interfere with her work. However by 1949 she was no longer able make that claim and she was admitted into a sanitarium for alcoholics.

She continued to struggle with the issue, and between 1950 and 1951 she took at least three 'accidental' overdoses of sleeping pills. On the third one she was taken to a hospital and the police reported that she had attempted suicide, and the story made headline news. She maintained it had been an accident. That same year, she joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and eventually with the help of a psychologist, she came to terms with her problems ...

Life Stories:

On the advice of her psychologist she wrote a series of cathartic accounts of her life, problems and angst. These were all best sellers as they opened up the Hollywood world that she had inhabited in an unusually frank manner for the time ...

• 'My Story: An Autobiography', was published in 1959, and dealt with health, marital and family issues.
• 'A Life on Film', published in 1971 and dealt with Hollywood life and gossip.

Quotes:

After making the sophisticated comedy 'Dry Martini' in 1928 she said that she "absorbed and assumed something of the atmosphere and emotional climate of the picture." It offered "a new and exciting point of view; with its specious doctrine of self-indulgence, it rushed into the vacuum of my moral sense and captivated me completely."

"There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?"

Trivia:

• Her father managed all her affairs from September 1920 to June 1930.
• Her family nickname was "Rusty".
• The house "Moorcrest" was rented by Charlie Chaplin before she bought it.
• She always declined offers of starring in her own right. Not wanting the responsibility of top billing and having to "carry the picture," she preferred the security of being a featured player.
• She wrote a number of novels 'The Incredible Charley Carewe', 'The Image of Kate', 'The O'Conners', 'Jahre und Tage' (a German translation of The Image of Kate), 'Goodbye, Darling, be Happy', and 'A Place Called Saturday'.
• She eventually retired to a small cottage on the grounds of the Motion Picture & Television Country House, the industry's retirement facility in Woodland Hills, where she had her own private table when she chose to eat in the resident dining room.
• Mary Astor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6701 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Pictures:

She has a small thread but with good content here, and therefore just a few illustrative pictures posted, and any follow ups to her thread There are two dupes but better quality than original posts on thread.

[VintageKell]

Sofia Rudieva is a Russian model and beauty queen who is the winner of Miss Russia 2009 ... so no pretense to be a 'writer or actress' etc .... phew, that's a relief. Mind you, there's time yet, because the little minx studied acting, until she joined a modelling agency when she was 15. She was planning to study at a university when she graduated from high school in 2008. By then she had three years of experience in the modeling business and had taken part in a number of professional fashion show .... so shame to waste it then

So in March, 2009, she won the Miss Russia 2009 pageant, and was awarded with a $100,000 prize, an amount not to be sneezed at, and she reportedly said she would donate most of her prize money to charity, for helping homeless animals ... a puppy was saved. In preparation for the 2009 Miss Universe contest, she prepared seriously by taking more training in modelling and acting, doing sports ... she did not make it to the final 15.

Scandal:

Then it all went tits up .... Nude photos of Rudieva were leaked and published in the online version of Perfect 10 magazine ... they were apparently taken just before or after the Miss Russia win in 2009, and of course this is a 'no no' in beauty pageant circles, so no Miss World for her. Julia Morley was quoted as saying that the selection of candidates for Miss world regulations of preclude any girls having done nude photographs. Also, Russia is rather prudish on nudity, so there was much gossip in the newspapers (including speculation that she had also shot a porno movie ). A lot of Russian newspapers, especially KR.ru and Komsomolskaya Pravda uploaded censored versions of the pictures .... but no fear lads, these are the other versions She was stripped of her Miss Russia title .... she is believed to be considering returning to further education.

Quote:

"I strongly believe that Russian women are strong in spirit. They can be both very strong and energetic on the one hand and tender and sweet wives and caring mothers, on the other. The Russian mother is the best in the world."

Trivia:

• Her parents separated when she was 12 years old, and she chose to stay with her father.

Pictures:

I searched and no thread or posts ... oh well, here we are then ...any follow ups would be better served on a thread of her own, or in a beauty queen thread, as she is well photographed on the web.






NB: I keep thinking of retiring from this thread, but girls just wanna have fun .... still it will end soon.

[VintageKell]

Renée Vivien (b. Pauline Mary Tarn) was a British/American poetess, known as the "Muse of the Violets", who wrote her works in French .... Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry (as if you really care LOL). She was born to a wealthy British father and an American mother (from Jackson, Michigan) and she grew up in Paris and London. Like a lot of the ladies who had certain interests at the end of the 19th century, as soon as she got her hands on her father's fortune when she was 21, she emigrated permanently to France .... where she adopted a bohemian lifestyle and dress, which were soon as as notorious among the fast set as was her verse .... Ooh La La

With her great wealth she lived lavishly, and was a fairly open in her lesbian interests (well, as open as one could be when it was illegal ), and she harbored a lifelong obsession with her closest childhood friend and neighbor, a lady called Violet Shillito who was apparently not aware of this prurient interest and didn't reciprocate it. The relationship therefore remained unconsummated.

In 1900 she abandoned the concept of 'chaste love', and went at it hammer and tongs with that great lesbian seducer (and fellow thread member) Natalie Clifford Barney. By 1901 the often tempestuous relationship with Natalie Barney had ended. Vivien was often very jealous and found Barney's infidelities too stressful so when Barney returned to the US for 6 months, Vivien chose not to follow and when Barney tried to pick up the affair upon her return, she refused to see her.

Anyway, by then she was deeply into the immensely wealthy Baroness Hélène de Zuylen (one of the Paris Rothschilds, who was bi-sexual, married and the mother of two sons) .... this relationship was considerably more discreet than that with Barney. She and the Baroness often traveled together and continued the affair for a number of years. As usual with these ladies the wholly lesbian member would consider it to be a 'sacred marriage', and this was confessed by Renée in letters to her confidant, the French journalist and Classical scholar Jean Charles-Brun. Still, 'marriage' or not, she was not faithful and she was also corresponding with Kérimé Turkhan Pasha, the wife of a Turkish diplomat in Istanbul ... this correspondence was intensely passionate was followed up by brief clandestine encounters

As we have seen in this thread, love never ran smooth in these lesbian sewing circles and in 1907 Zuylen abruptly left Vivien for another woman. This quickly fueled gossip within the lesbian coterie of Paris, and deeply shocked (although considering the fact that she was the one being unfaithful, I am not sure why), and humiliated, Vivien fled to Japan and Hawaii with her mother, becoming seriously ill on the voyage. This was followed by another blow in 1908, when Kérimé, upon moving with her husband to Saint Petersburg, ended their affair (Russia being not as accommodating of lesbians as Gay Parée ).

After these rejections, she spiralled into a cycle of alcohol, drugs, and sadomasochistic fantasies. Always eccentric and with the wealth to support them, she began to indulge her most bizarre fetishes and neuroses. She would entertain guests with champagne dinner parties, only to abandon them when summoned by a demanding lover. She alternated between highs and suicidal depressions, and she refused to take proper nourishment.

Like a lot of Victorians she romanticised death, and grief, so her being a poetess, it will come as no surprise that she tried to kill herself by drinking an excess of laudanum, a drug she was using (ala Edgar Allen Poe, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, both of whom she would have known of). She stretched out on her divan with a bouquet of violets held over her heart. The suicide failed, but while in England, she contracted pleurisy which upon her return to Paris, combined with her drugs usage, and alcoholism caused her to grow considerably weaker.

She died on the 18th of November 1909 at the age of 32; The reported cause of death was "lung congestion", but was likely to have been 'pneumonia complicated by alcoholism, drug abuse, and anorexia nervosa' .... to name a few possible causes.

Trivia:

• In 1901 Shillito died of typhoid fever, an event from which a guilt-ridden Vivien, would never fully get over.
• She may have published poetry and prose in collaboration with Zuylen under a pseudonym, Paule Riversdale.
• The French writer Colette (who has a post here, and also had an affair with Barney ), who was Vivien's neighbor from 1906 to 1908, immortalized this aberrant period in 'The Pure and the Impure', a collection of stories showing the spectrum of sexual behavior .... Natalie Barney reportedly did not concur with Colette's characterization of Vivien, but then she wouldn't would she?
• She wore expensive clothes and particularly loved Lalique jewelry.
• She was very well-traveled, especially for a woman of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
• She was known as the "Muse of the Violets", derived from her love of the flower and a reminder of her beloved childhood friend, Violet Shillito.

Pictures:

The last picture is probably a new one of Ms Barney (it was misattributed on the original source ... there are more on her post)





This is almost the last of the lesbian circle of Paris, connected by that cunning linguist Natalie Clifford Barney.

[VintageKell]

Deidre Faye Lulu Rankin is a Canadian model from Coburg Onatario .... she is a single mother of two children who was living on welfare, but who has worked spasmodically as a model in Ontario, most recently for a cover of 'Beautiful', a women’s lifestyle magazine in Cobourg, and she is on the front of the latest Cobourg tourism guide. So really a minor celeb, but who has got herself into major trouble.

Drugs:

Three years ago, she pleaded guilty to two counts of assault, possession of cocaine and several breaches of probation. At the time, her lawyer said Rankin considered drugs her major problem .... sadly lessons weren't learnt.

In December 2010 she was arrested at Jorge Chavez international airport in Lima in Peru along with four others by the country’s National Drug Control Directorate. This was because authorities there believed she was part of a group that allegedly tried to smuggle 52 kg of cocaine out of the country .... She was headed for Panama, then Portugal, and allegedly had bottles containing 12 kilos of cocaine. The other arrested men are nationals from Spain and Mexico, countries where the drugs were also allegedly headed.

One report stated she has begun serving time. She apparently expected to serve about two years ..... Peru's prisoners have to buy their own beds, bedding and clothing. She is being aided by a Christian fellowship branch in Peru.

Trivia:

• Her friends have set up a new Facebook page in a bid to raise money for a lawyer, and to get Rankin basic toiletries and other supplies.
• She is reportedly being held in the Santa Monica Women’s Prison, according to reports.

Quote:

“Good girl, bad company’’ she posted on her Facebook on Dec. 29 from the Canadian consuls office. Funny what peoples priorities are

Pictures:

Not many I'm afraid, she really was a low level model, but just enough to get her a mention here. Maybe this little bit of publicity may help her.

[VintageKell]

This tale was referred to my attention by zabdart, who felt that she fitted the thread profile, as he had never heard of her. Of course I had heard of this lady, but frankly I had forgotten about her ... so lets remedy that oversight now.

Margaret Campbell (b. Ethel Margaret Whigham) was a British socialite, whose activities came to the worlds attention when she was in a divorce from her 2nd husband ... but more of that later. It should be pointed out that in the 1920's and 30's, British and American socialites were followed as avidly by the press as movie stars, and the two groups mixed easily, and often married into each group. Her parents were Helen Mann Hannay and George Hay Whigham, a Scottish millionaire and she was an only child. She lived in New York for the first 14 years of her life being privately educated. In 1930, aged 18 she was presented at Court in London and was known as 'deb' (or debutante) of that year.

On 21 February 1933, she converted to the Roman Catholic faith, so that she could marry Mr Charles Sweeny in London. Such was the publicity surrounding her wedding (and the presses obsession in her Norman Hartnell wedding dress ... somethings never change), that the traffic in Knightsbridge was blocked for three hours. She had three children with Sweeny until their divorce in 1947.

Following the divorce, she was briefly engaged to a Texas banker, Joseph Thomas (of Lehman Brothers), but he dumped her. She also had a serious romantic relationship with Theodore Rousseau, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art but that romance also ended as she "feared that Ted was not 'stepfather material.'" ... but as she noted in her memoirs, "We continued to see each other constantly".

She also allegedly had an affair with Joseph Slatton, who was married to Jacqueline Kennedy's cousin. This affair led to his resignation from his Washington post in 1962 as he had access to the White House and there was a scandal.

On 22 March 1951, Margaret became the third wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll.

The Divorce Of The Century:

In 1963, The Duke of Argyll accused his wife of infidelity (what! Margaret unfaithful, never! ) ... anyway, he produced a lot of evidence to back up his claims .... this evidence included the famous set of Polaroid photographs of the Duchess, nude save for her signature three-strand pearl necklace. If this wasn't bad enough, there were also pictures of the be-pearled Duchess giving a blow job on a naked man whose face was not shown .. these became the 'headless man' photographs. The press had a field day and names put into the frame included Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Defence (who offered to resign from the cabinet when his name appeared).

Lord Denning was called upon by the government to track down the "headless man" ... handwriting samples of the five leading 'suspects' (Duncan-Sandys; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; John Cohane, an American businessman; Peter Combe, a former press officer at the Savoy Hotel; and Sigismund von Braun, brother of the German scientist Wernher von Braun) were compared with the captions written on the photographs. It is claimed that this analysis proved that the man in question was Fairbanks, then long married to his second wife, but this 'proof' was not made public. Years later, it was claimed that there were actually two "headless men" in the photographs, Fairbanks and Sandys — the latter identified on the basis of the Duchess's statement that the "only Polaroid camera in the country at that time had been lent to the Ministry of Defence."

The Duke backed these photographs up with a list of around 88 men who he believed had enjoyed his wife's favours during their marriage; the list is said to include two government ministers and three royals .... The judge, Lord Wheatley, commented that the Duchess had indulged in "disgusting sexual activities" ... oh no, cowboy style!

Needless to say the divorce was granted .... The Judge said that the Duchess of Argyll "was a completely promiscuous woman whose sexual appetite could only be satisfied with a number of men". The Duchess never revealed the identity of the "headless man," and Fairbanks denied the allegation to his grave .... well he would wouldn't he

Later Life:

For most of her life, she was associated with glamour and elegance, being a firm client (and advert for) both the Hartnell and Victor Stiebel couturier houses in London, before and after the war. Her great wealth, and notorious love life kept her in the headlines, and she was regarded with contempt and fascination in equal measure .....

However her fortune diminished, and she eventually opened her London house, 48 Upper Grosvenor Street, for paid tours. Even so, her extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died ... In 1978, her debts were such that she was forced to move from her house to a hotel suite with her maid, and shortly before her death, she found herself unable to pay the hotel bills, and her children placed her in a nursing home in Pimlico, London. Here she was photographed by Tatler magazine, for whom she had previously been a columnist, sitting on the edge of her bed in a grim single room.

She died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home where she spent her last years. She was buried alongside her first husband, Charles Sweeny, in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey ..... a sad end.

Additional Love Life:

She was a noted 1930's beauty ... a fact that many men were aware of, and she seems to have not bothered to keep her virginity long. Aged 18 she announced her engagement to Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick (aka as the actor Michael Brooke, in 'The Dawn Patrol' with Errol Flynn and David Niven). However she cancelled the wedding after starting an affair with Charles Sweeny, an American amateur golfer ... bye bye 'Mr Brooke', and bye bye 'virginity' (if she still had it).

She had an affair with the married George, Duke of Kent and followed this up with 'romances' with the playboy Prince Aly Khan (him of Rita Hayworth fame), the millionaire aviator Glen Kidston, the car salesman Baron Martin Stillman von Brabus, and publishing heir Max Aitken to name but a few (and there where others who claimed the privileges of her affections) .... well over a 100 men, if her 2nd husbands list of '88 men' was indicative of just one decade.

Quotes:

"Go to bed early and often".
"Always a poodle, only a poodle! That, and three strands of pearls! Together they are absolutely the essential things in life".
"I don't think anybody has real style or class any more. Everyone's gotten old and fat".

Trivia:

• In 1943, she had a near fatal fall down an elevator shaft while visiting her chiropodist on Bond Street. "I fell forty feet to the bottom of the lift shaft, the only thing that saved me was the lift cable, which broke my fall. I must have clutched at it, for it was later found that all my finger nails were torn off. I apparently fell on to my knees and cracked the back of my head against the wall". After her recovery, Sweeny's friends later noted that not only had she lost all sense of taste and smell due to nerve damage, she also had become sexually voracious. Given her affairs prior to this, its a weak excuse.
• Margaret wrote a memoir, 'Forget Not', which was published in 1975 but it was negatively reviewed for its name dropping and air of entitlement. It also didn't name names.
• London house, 48 Upper Grosvenor Street, had been decorated for her parents in 1935 by Syrie Maugham.
• Her last TV appearance was on a Channel 4 After Dark discussion programme about horseracing "so she said, to put the point of view of the horse"

Pictures:

Now try as I might, I couldn't find the black and white polaroids ... sorry.