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Feb 9, 2024 · Following the ball, the Times published the full guest list (an honor normally reserved for White House state dinners), while Women's Wear Daily ranked the attendees' looks (Gloria Guinness and ...
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Feb 7, 2024 · A masked Gloria Guiness arriving at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball in the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images. Gloria Guinness
- Her Family Was Powerful
- She Lost Everything
- She Had A Swift Downfall
- She Fought Her Way to The Top
- She Had A Creepy Husband
- She Was Stunning
- She Became A Countess
- She May Have Been A Spy
- She Worked For The Wrong Side
- Her Friends Were Evil
On August 27, 1912, Gloria was born in Guadalajara, Mexico as Gloria Rubio y Alatorre—and even her birth hinted at the fame she would achieve. Her father Jose was a prominent journalist, while her mother Maria Luisa was an aristocratic dona descended from none other than Christopher Columbus. For all that, though, Gloria was in for heartache at a y...
As a young girl, Gloria spent her life getting tutored in the cunning ways of polite society, living on her mother’s family haciendas and meeting perfect women and powerful men. But it all unraveled in a brutal way. The Mexican Revolution ousted her family from their vast lands, and Gloria had to learn to fend for herself. And let me tell you, it w...
Although Guinness’s history is super shady (more on that later), her noble family likely fell into disrepair after the revolution, becoming all but impoverished. Did Gloria sit and cry her pretty little eyes out? Nah. Instead, she worked in a Mexican nightclub to make ends meet as a teenager. Yet some say there is another, darker version of this st...
According to one reading of events, Gloria’s job in a nightclub opened her up to more unsavory antics, with some even whispering that she once earned money as a teenage escort, clawing her way out of obscurity and into rich clients' beds. Whatever the truth, Gloria obviously knew how to ensnare men…which might explain her next move. Shutterstock
When Gloria was barely 20 years old, she met and married the Dutch sugar factory superintendent Jacob Scholtens. Yeah, 20 is a pretty young age to do that sort of thing—but it gets even creepier. At the time of the wedding in 1933, Scholtens was almost three decades older than her at 47 years old. Ew. Maybe that’swhy it was doomed. Shutterstock
Gloria’s face became famous in the 1950s as a symbol of American power and elegance. She had an incredibly long, thin neck, high cheekbones, and sharp, angular features that showcased big, brown eyes. Where many were clamoring over blonde bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, Gloria represented a beauty standard for the “old money” set. Getty Images
Gloria’s marriage to Scholtens started crumbling almost immediately, and two years later, the couple divorced. But she wasn’t done with love, not by a long shot: That very same year, Gloria tied the knot with Franz-Egon, the Count von Furstenberg. Yep, the young, beautiful Gloria was now German nobility—and she soon got into a scandal to match. Get...
Dark rumors also surround this part of Gloria’s life. With WWII on the horizon and everything in Germany going upside down, some persistent stories claim that Gloria worked as a spy during this time, all while she posted up in the neutral Madrid and waited out the conflict. Sounds juicy, but I wouldn’t be too hasty to praise her as a “shero”… Pixab...
If Gloria’s clandestine spy history is true, then we have to grapple with a very ugly possibility: That she did her espionage work for the wrong side. That’s right, the reports that say she was a secret agent also claim the high-class socialite was working for the German Axis powers, not the Allies. Even worse, there are chilling pieces of evidence...
The chic Countess von Furstenberg apparently had friendships with some of the most vulgar men in modern history, and I’m not talking just WWIII side characters. Among her closest friends, sources say, were Nazi right-hand man Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler himself. Sure, bad taste in buddies doesn’t mean she was a secret agent…but there’s more. Wi...
The Black and White Ball was a masquerade ball held on November 28, 1966, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. ... Gloria Guinness; Slim Keith; Patricia Kennedy Lawford;
Feb 8, 2024 · Feb 7, 2024, 7:36 PM PST. Truman Capote held a masquerade ball on November 28, 1966, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Bettmann/Getty Images. In November 1966, Truman Capote held a masquerade ...
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Nov 21, 2016 · A certain indulgent pleasure can be had in reliving the innocent wonder that inspired Capote’s Black and White Ball, a party its host had in some ways begun to plan as a precocious, lonely 8 ...
Oct 10, 2006 · Gloria Guinness, who had commissioned a white gown and mask from Castillo, sought de Langlade’s opinion about whether to drape her famously long neck with an extraordinary diamond necklace or an ...
