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Self-Slain Beauty Known as Disturber of English Society
York July 22 A famed society siren Mrs Arthur Atherton later Mrs Eliot, called the Masscinate Disturber, died by suicide in her Curzon street London home leaving a trail of divorce trials and royal scandal. Her life linked Cape Town social circles, the Duke of Westminster, and several aristocratic liaisons amid a career of notoriety and legal battles.
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