the madam who ran a high-class Victorian-era brothel and was the model for Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With the Wind, is woven into the colorful fabric of Lexington's history.

Backlit with a red glow, the lamp is prominently on display in a famous scene where Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) confides his feelings for Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) to Belle Watling (Ona Munson).

the inspiration for Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind.” Brezing was a notorious madame in the late 1800s, early 1900s, who operated a few brothels in Lexington ...

In the movie “Gone With the Wind,” Belle Watling, the bawdyhouse madam who saves Rhett Butler and friends by providing them an alibi to Yankee interrogators, asks Scarlett O’Hara’s friend ...

The film details Brezing's journey from hardscrabble youth to the Baroness of the Brothel, while becoming the nearly undeniable inspiration for Belle Watling from "Gone with the Wind." ...