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Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century

Published: March 12, 2016, 6:29 p.m.

(Samantha) In December 1900 the beautiful, fifteen year old Evelyn Nesbit arrived in New York. Within a year she became the \u201cglittering girl model of Gotham,\u201d the first iconic American sex-goddess. Her fame would transform into notoriety after June 25, 1906 when her millionaire husband, Harry Thaw, murdered Evelyn\u2019s one time lover, Sanford White, in what was known by contemporaries as \u201cthe crime of the century.\u201d