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Jun 2, 2021 · Actor Ellie Kemper was crowned the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet Ball, a long-running debutante ball for St. Louis’ wealthy society. A group known today as the Veiled ...
Jun 2, 2021 · This has not stopped many Twitter users from expressing certainty that Kemper is a “KKK princess”: “Ellie Kemper was brought up in a wealthy family apart of an elite society,” said one ...
- michael.ordona@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Jun 3, 2021 · Misinformation crossed with caustic jokes gave birth to “Ellie Kemper is a KKK Princess,” which, while attention-grabbing, is not a true statement—obscuring a necessary critique of hegemonic ...
Jun 4, 2021 · A couple of days ago, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Ellie Kemper got a hard shove into Twitter’s ‘Trending’ sidebar, all because The Internet discovered the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ’s ...
Ellie Kemper was never deemed a “KKK Queen,” as some online have erroneously stated. And the fact of the matter is that the persistence of the Veiled Prophet Ball is an institutional failing ...
- Allegra Frank
Jun 7, 2021 · Kemper was crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at the event in 1999; that factoid launched a social media frenzy that falsely led some internet users to believe that Kemper had been a “KKK Princess ...
Jun 7, 2021 · Actor Ellie Kemper was called a 'KKK princess' for winning a debutante crown back in 1999. Now she has apologized after last week's online outcry.
