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Hace 2 días · Socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, once lost the gem under a Stork Club table during an evening visit to the club. Ernest Hemingway was able to cash his $100,000 check for the film rights of For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Stork Club to settle his bill.
Hace 2 días · Doubleday €35.50. In 1912, an American socialite called Evalyn Walsh. McLean fell in love with a spectacular 45.52carat blue diamond called the Hope. She was buying a gem said to have been owned by Louis XIV – but it came with a curse attached. In the years that followed, Evalyn’s marriage collapsed, her husband died in a psychiatric ...
12 de may. de 2024 · Three months after her father’s death, 19-year-old Evie became the fifth wife of 57-year-old U.S. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds. Less than five years later, she died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills. Evalyn McLean found her daughter’s body. Evalyn survived her daughter by one year.
8 de may. de 2024 · He contacted Evalyn Walsh McLean, a wealthy friend of the Lindberghs who had evinced a desire to help locate the infant, and convinced her that he was in contact with the kidnappers. Means claimed that they had asked for $100,000 and that he required an additional $4,000 in travel expenses.
Hace 4 días · In 1910 the Hope Diamond was shown to an American mining heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean at Cartier’s in Paris. To make the sale, Cartier had to reset the diamond into a headpiece on a three-tiered circle of large white diamonds as McLean did not like the initial setting.
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in a formal photo from 1914, wearing the infamous cursed Hope Diamond
6 de may. de 2024 · Harding was also friends with socialite Evalyn Walsh McLean, who was at the time the owner of the supposedly cursed Hope diamond, which is said to have unnerved the curse-conscious Harding.
