metsurf t1_ixdwl71 wrote on November 22, 2022 at 6:34 PM

Reply to comment by TopAbies9056 in TIL that Evelyn Nesbit, dubbed "the world's first supermodel" became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden in 1906. by TopAbies9056

Ragtime by EL Doctrow has a fictionalization of this incident. Was she also the model for St Gaudens Diana which had been at the second iteration of Madison Square Garden?

jasnel t1_ixfbg1y wrote on November 23, 2022 at 12:29 AM

That’s a great movie.

Madame_Medusa_ t1_ixfkj52 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:43 AM

Which was turned into an amazing musical that is well overdue for a revival, imho.