Biggest controversy: Stanford White was well-known as both an architect and a womanizer when the 47-year-old met 16-year-old Nesbit. (She may have been as young as 14; her mother often lied about ...

Harry White was Evelyn Nesbit's lover both before and after she met Harry Thaw, ... 1998 as part of the “Big Town” series on old New York. Find more stories about the city’s epic history here.

Evelyn Nesbit, the former actress and model, was featured in an online advertisement that promised: ... The ad was placed by a website named Bon Voyaged, and was likely years old.

Among them were Harry Kendall Thaw — 35-year-old heir to the Pennsylvania Railroad fortune — and his 21-year-old wife, Evelyn Nesbit, a model and chorus girl, visiting New York from their ...

It was here, on a night in 1901 when her mother was out of town, that White drugged and raped the 16-year old Nesbit. She told no one and continued to see White over the course of the year.

Who was Evelyn Nesbit? ... White was the dynamic, personable fifty-two-year-old architect of the firm McKim, Mead and White, which had transformed New York City with elegant public buildings, ...

It is stated that when Evelyn Nesbit was ten years old Thaw paid for her tuition at a dancing school here. William F. Braun, who for years has conducted a dancing school in Pittsburg, ...

FOR 17-YEAR-OLD Evelyn Nesbit, 1903 had started as a pleasant respite from her hectic life in the public eye in New York City. She was, temporarily, a student in a ...

'The Girl on the Velvet Swing' retells the sordid story of murder involving Evelyn Nesbit, architect Stanford White and Harry Thaw. A 3-star review.

Evelyn Nesbit achieved great fame more than a century ago as a model. She revolutionised cultural life, writes Lindsay Baker. What makes a supermodel? A preternatural beauty, of course, but there ...