- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
- Height5′ 3½″ (1.61 m)
- Ms. Nesbit, artists' model and chorus girl, was at the heart of what was known at the time as the Crime of the Century. Her abusive husband, Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw, murdered 52-year old architect and socialite Stanford White (of the firm McKim, Mead, and White), who had taken advantage of 16-year old Evelyn and subsequently become her lover a couple of years before she married Thaw. Harry Thaw's mother mother quickly financed propaganda, even a film, to portray her son as a protector of women's virtue; at the same time, the media reported the very-married White's many other transgressions involving young women. After his first trial ended in a hung jury, Thaw was retried in 1908 and found insane. He was sent away to a mental institution for the criminally insane in upstate New York, from which he which he escaped once; in 1915 he was released with reputation untarnished--a homicidal hero.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ted Hull <theodore.hull@arch2.nara.gov>
- SpousesJack Clifford(1915 - 1933) (divorced)Harry Kendall Thaw(April 4, 1905 - 1915) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Her father, Winfield Scott Nesbit, was a lawyer who died when Evelyn was eight, leaving the family destitute and plagued by debt for years until her modeling jobs got them back on their feet.
- Began her modeling career at 15.
- Son, with Thaw, Russell Thaw.
- Shortly before her death, 1966: "Stanny [Stanford White] was lucky, he died. I lived."
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