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Oct 1, 2022 · Louis McKay and Billie Holiday met while she was touring Europe and working on her autobiography sometime in 1956. Some reports say he acted as her pimp, eventually graduating to being her “manager” and brutally violent husband. He would also steal most of her money.
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Aug 4, 2021 · Billie Holiday had a tumultuous relationship with the law as a result of her drug use. She found a partner in crime with husband Louis McKay.
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Feb 5, 2023 · McKay and Holiday both got arrested for drug possession and married in 1957, one year following the incident, according to USA Today. McKay worked as a mafia enforcer, according to NPR. He is...
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Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Holiday began her career singing jazz music in Harlem nightclubs. In her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, Holiday explains that she first went by the stage name Billie Dove before taking on the name Billie Holiday. She went on to produce 12 studio records, three live albums, and dozens of top singles, including hit s...
In the ’40s, Holiday began running into legal troubles. In her autobiography, she describes her first arrest in 1947 for drug possession, saying it felt like the world was against her. It wouldn’t be her last legal problem. For example, Reutersreports that she was arrested again just two years later for possession of opium (she was later acquitted ...
After their arrests, Biography.com says the two “married in Mexico the following year.” Unfortunately, similar to Holiday’s other relationships, McKay and Holiday’s bond quickly soured. Some think he used her to build his success and wealth. “Like many other men in her life, McKay used Holiday’s name and money to advance himself,” explains Biograph...
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On March 28, 1957, Holiday married Louis McKay, a mob enforcer. McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive. They were separated at the time of her death, but McKay had plans to start a chain of Billie Holiday vocal studios, on the model of the Arthur Murray dance schools.
Apr 23, 2021 · “He’s trying to control my estate,” she says of her abusive third husband, Louis McKay. When Holiday died in 1959 without a will — but with a roll of $50 bills strapped to her leg, as the...
Jul 17, 2012 · Decisions around her death were left to her estranged husband, Louis McKay, who, by most accounts, was a louse. Clarke says McKay was a "wannabe gangster" who didn't pay for Holiday's...
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