Madcap May:


Printed:	2013	Author:	Richard Kurin
Publisher:	Smithsonian Books	ISBN:	978-1588343260
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Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher's blurb:
May Yohé was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a romantic who had numerous lovers and at least three husbands--though the tabloids rumored twelve. One included the playboy son of the Mayor of New York. May separated from him--twice--and cared for her next husband, a South African war hero and invalid whom she later shot.
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