Evelyn Nesbit: Model. Chorus girl. Gibson Girl. “It” girl. Junkie.Wife of the inventor of the speedball. Inspiration for ‘Ragtime.’ Badass bitch.
Bonus badass factor: Lost her V to this guy, Stanford White. White, and his mustache, would later pay a hefty price for bedding the most desirable woman in New York — during a raunchy chorus number of “I Could Love a Million Girls” at Madison Square Garden, Nesbit’s husband, the famed cokehead Harry K Thaw, fatally shot White point blank in the face.
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