Hotty from History #22 Alice de Janzé, née Silverthorne (28 September 1899 – 30 September 1941)
- She was one of the most prominent American socialites of her time. Whilst most of the American Heiress set were busy dancing the charlston and sniffing smelling salts, our Alice was setting the bar for Merry Murderesses everywhere…
- She slept around, did Alice. This obviously isn’t the hallmark of a hotty, but when you are as dashing as she was, it’s plain to say that everyone who got to go to bed with her had a good time. It was probably only once they’d been shot that they started having post copulatory regrets.
- In the 20s, she found herself in the infamous Happy Valley set made up of white expats in Africa. Here she indulged in copious amounts of drugs, sex, and Jazz. We at hottiesfromhistory do not promote hedonism but we certainly think that it seems like a highly enviable hotty lifestyle when considered from chronilogically afar.
- She shot both her lover and herself in a Paris railway station, but both survived. She got away with a small fine and later wed her unfortunate lover…and soon after that divorced him.
- She was then accused of the murder of another ex lover, Lord Erroll. Luckily for her, she had a very believable alibi: that she had been enjoying an amourous evening with another Happy Valley resident. However, there is widespread evidence that she may well have done it, including a letter written in her own hand confessing to the murder. She was also heard to say, after kissing the dead Erroll’s lips in the mortuary, “Now you are mine forever”. Yes, incredibly creepy and a bit disgusting, but nontheless romantic. Followers should be reminded that people from history who were hot are automatically excused from being sociopathic homocidal maniacs.
- She commited suicide and her motivation for shooting herself this time is said to be because she was depressed about losing her youth and beauty. She did it two days after her 42nd birthday, having ticked just about all the hottiesfromhistory boxes through the space of her short life.
- She asked her friends to throw a cocktail party on her grave. That is surely just about the most wonderful thing this blogger has ever heard of. When I die, please come en masse to Britain and crack out the Bollinger and the Absinthe. Historical fancy dress an absolute necessity.
-Georgia
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