Evelyn Nesbit, the American Eve

Video gallery of images for the new book by Paula Uruburu, American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the It Girl and the Crime of the Century.

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[crubeo]

There's actually no evidence that Evelyn ever became pregnant by Barrymore. She was sent to the school in NJ to get her away from him, not because she was pregnant. There's a lot of urban myth surrounding her - the book clears it all up - and the truth is stranger than fiction.

[jsnyc40]

I am reading this book right now and it's excellent--very well-written and engaging. The Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White story is fascinating and tragic. If this had happened today, Evelyn would be a star like Britney, etc. She was very beautiful. It's a shame that she had to suffer so much. She deserved better!

[crubeo]

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Paula Uruburu

[MyClip456]

she was very beautiful

and i dont think that she was gold digger

i think she had bad mother

but she lived different time where were other options than today are like s before marriage was forbidden

[dpoissant100]

for some reason my grandmother Elizabeth Delahanty Moore NAMED my mother after this woman in 1909

[KittyKattyYukiLvr]

@creolelady182 ...she nearly did...White was married and Thaw's mother promised her one million.

[louisa1832]

@mbond36 You and Stanny.

[louisa1832]

@creolelady182 Ha ha ha! That's ONE way to look at it!

[cynthiacher]

@HotButterOnToast No, that doesn't let him off the hook. But she wasn't exactly an untouched innocent when she became Stanford White's lover. She became his mistress; she would have married him but he lost interest. I think that may have been why she told crazy Harry that she had been "ruined" by White; she wanted to get back at him and figured nutty Harry would have him beaten up or something. Instead looney Harry killed him, and got off with a minor stay in a posh mental institution.

[HotButterOnToast]

@cynthiacher so she was a "chorus girl" and that excuses a 47 year old man getting a 16 year old drunk?

[cynthiacher]

@jscorpion000 She wasn't that bright. For Stanford White, she was just a plaything to be enjoyed for as long as he wanted her; she didn't have the brains to realize that. He didn't "corrupt" her; she was a CHORUS GIRL, but God's sake. As for Harry Thaw...well, the fact that she married him was further proof she was an airhead. Thaw was rich, but he was also revoltingly ugly and criminally insane. Of all the guys she could have married and she picks HIM? Yes, she was dumb as a tree stump.

[puruburu]

@atfatw The book I think you are referring to is Suzannah Lessard's Architect of Desire . She is a great-granddaughter of White and offers her own personal observations about her family history.

[atfatw]

recently, a book written by white's great granddaughteer claimed that child molestation runs in white's family of kennites and that she was molested repeatedly by all the males in that family while growing up.