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She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as the obsessive and abusive fixation of her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
Updated September 19, 2023. The tumultuous relationships of early-1900s supermodel Evelyn Nesbit proved to be deadly when her husband murdered her former lover in what was called the “crime of the century.”.
In this interview, Paula Uruburu, associate professor and chair of the English department at Hofstra University, describes Nesbit, White, Thaw, and the murder of the century.
Her life was turbulent and eventful, and her fame peaked when she became embroiled in a murder, and what was then dubbed ‘the trial of the century’. Nesbit embodied her era in more ways than one.
When White was murdered by Nesbit's husband, it sparked the beginning of America's obsession with celebrity trials. SR. by Sarah Roberts. October 13, 2017, 8:07am. Snap. Evelyn Nesbit...
In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, was reported "to the ends of the civilized globe"; much of the...
American model-actress who became part of a sensational scandal when her ex-lover, architect Stanford White, was murdered by her millionaire husband. Name variations: Evelyn Nesbit Thaw; Mrs. Harry Thaw; Florence Evelyn Nesbit.
