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Pell's father died in an automobile accident on the night of August 3, 1913, when a train from the Long Island
Railroad crashed into his car at a crossing. Isabel Townsend sued for $ 250,000, but both she and her daughter were left penniless. Pell was cared for by her paternal uncle,
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235:. She moved inland into the mountains and served for four years, until September 1944, and was known among the resistance as "the girl with the blonde mèche (lock)". Pell was captured by Italian soldiers and interned at
239:, but continued to smuggle information to the resistance during her daily walks at the camp. When she was released, she disguised herself as a peasant and went to a mountain forest with her lover, the Marquise
500:"FOUR WATCHED PELL SPEEDING TO DEATH; Witnesses Describe How They Foresaw Auto Would Be Hit at Crossing. ASSERT TRAIN WAS LIGHTED Some Say They Heard Whistle Blown, but Others Are Not Sure – Trial Nearing End"
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In 1933 Isabel Pell and another woman, the wife of Henry T. Fleitmann, a partner of De Witt, Fleitmann & Company, were rescued after a flight between
Copenhagen and Faleknberg crash-landed into the
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After the war, Pell moved back to New York City at 30 East End Avenue. She died at the age of 51, collapsing while dining with her friend Anne
Andrews at La Reine Restaurant, 139 East 52nd Street.
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243:(1908–1992). A report in the Associated Press recounts how, in 1944, Pell rescued a contingent of American soldiers surrounded by the enemy in
281:(1881–1968), both rumored to be her lovers. Sargent said that Isabell was "handsome, wonderfully handsome". Pell used to visit Sargent at her
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Isabel Pell's mother, April 10, 1923, Gift of
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soprano became public. She moved to Paris, joining many other eccentric heiresses who sought freedom. In a story recounted by
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in New York City. She made her debut in 1920, at the Piping Rock Club, and was known as a skilled horsewoman in
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is a memoir written by Eve Pell, a reporter in San
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We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante
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That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta
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470:"La Femme à la Mèche Blonde"
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732:"Life, Volume 95, Part 2"
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533:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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843:Sheehy, Helen (1996).
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