404:. Broughton appeared to consent to the affair but privately admitted to misgivings about their frequent outings together. Erroll was murdered three months later, which created one of the greatest murder mysteries of the 20th century. Broughton was arrested for his murder but was acquitted shortly after for lack of evidence. Caldwell supported her husband's story but he returned to England in December 1942 and was found dying from a morphine overdose in a Liverpool hotel a few days after his arrival.
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Broughton. Caldwell will probably be remembered as she is portrayed by Greta Scacchi in the film "White Mischief",
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Caldwell may have lacked in classic beauty, she more than compensated for in style and boldness, attracting many proposals of marriage. By the time she was twenty-two, Caldwell was to be seen gracing society
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Caldwell had returned to her glamorous life-style in Budapest.
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