Missy
P.S. Be sure to read the current editions as well!
2009 MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT BEGINS PUBLISHING The first few months I was finding my way. In August 2022 I took down posts from the early months...
November
ANNABEL VANE-TEMPEST - STEWART BIRLEY GOLDSMITH
Jimmy Goldsmith Stole Her From Her Husband and She Let Him!
TAKEN DOWN November 2024
December
GLORIA SWANSON
The Early Hollywood Star and Joseph P. Kennedy, Film Producer and Father of U.S. President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
2010
January
WALLIS SIMPSON aka the Duchess Wallis Windsor
The American Divorcee Whom a King Gave Up His Throne For
February
DIANE DE POITIERS
Mistress of King Henry II of France
March
HELEN GURLEY BROWN
She Tried Mistressing and Hated It, Before She Was Married to David Brown or Became a Successful Cosmopolitan Magazine Editor
April
PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE
Spendthrifty Gold Digger Who Ended Up With One of the World's Largest Diamonds
May
CAMILLA SHAND PARKER BOWLES WINDSOR
The Duchess of Cornwall Who Will Someday Be Queen
June
EVA BRAUN HITLER
Finally Married To the Nazi Leader In the Final Moments Before a Dual Suicide
July (Taken down June 2023)
SONDRA LOCKE
Actress Kept by Co-star Clint Eastwood Wrote About It
August
MARIA CALLAS
The Opera Diva Who Lived Through the Heartbreak of Ari Onassis
September
NICOLE COSTE
Mistress of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Mother of His First Son
October
ANGELYNE
Is this Billboard Queen a Mistress or a Savvy Business Woman?
November
LESLIE MC RAY
Book Author, Actress, Active Film Producer, and Survivor of Sadism
December
MICHELLE TRIOLA MARVIN
2011
January
CHINESE CONCUBINES
Historical and Modern
February
ALINA KABAEVA
Athlete, Cover Girl, and Reputed Mistress of Russian President Vladimir Putin
March
CLARETTA PETACCI
Mistress who Died By Hanging With Her Man, Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
April
JERRY HALL
Model Mother of Four of Mick Jagger's Children Hung In There Longer Than Other Women
May
KARIN STANFORD
The College Professor and Reverend Jesse Jackson
July
KEPT MEN (Mantresses)
More Women With Money Are Keeping Men
August
GEORGIA O’KEEFE
The Artist First Kept by Photographer Alfred Steiglitz Kept a Younger Man in Her Old Age
September
VICTORIA GRIFFIN
Self Confessed Mistress and Interpretations of The Other Woman
October
STEPHANIA SOLOMONE
In Love With A Catholic Priest - Unable to Marry
November
MADELEINE DUNCAN BROWN
Mistress and Secrets Keeper of Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mother of Their Son
December
SUSAN GRIFFIN
2012
January
MARY BOLEYN
One Lover Who King Henry the 8th Didn't Behead
February
Revisiting THE RULES FOR DATING- Do they apply to Mistresses?
March
Get Off The Back Of MONICA LEWINSKY
Why Not Blame President Bill Clinton?
April
MAY FUNG YEE PANG
Years Called “The Long Weekend” with Ex-Beatle John Lennon.
May
LORD BATH (the Loins of Longleat)
and his Many Mistresses (He calls them "Wifelets"!)
June
RIELLE HUNTER
and Politician John Edwards – The Scandal Ruined His Political Career
July
CORA PEARL
Brought Out Naked on a Silver Dish, Lined With Violets
August
KLONDIKE KATE
Kathleen Eloisa Rockwell – A Woman of the American Frontier
September
RUTH KLIGMAN
Mistress of Fellow Artist Jackson Pollock
October
SCOTT THORSON taken down July 2024
Young Kept Companion of Homosexual Entertainer-Pianist Liberace : A Film Made of Their Relationship
November
CARRIE PHILLIPS
CARRIE PHILLIPS
and the United States President Warren Harding Affair
December
Special Edition
2013
January
Architect LOUIS KAHN
and his Two Families
February
Special Edition
SUGAR MOMMA and DADDY MONTH
March
VIRGINIA “The Flamingo” HILL
and Mafia Gangster Ben "Bugsy" Siegal - The Inspiration For the Flamingo Hotel in Early Vegas.
April
HARRIETTE WILSON : One of Four Mistress Sisters of Regency England
May
GEORGE REEVES - Superman
Did Toni Mannix, the Woman Who Kept Him, Have Him Murdered?
June
JILLIAN LAUREN
From New Jersey to Modern Harem
July
MARION "ROSEBUD" DAVIES : MISTRESS OF NEWSPAPER MAN AND HEARST CASTLE BUILDER WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
August
RUTH TRYANGIEL
Mysterious Musical Muse of Bob Dylan
September
MARILYN YOUNG and MIYOKO WATTEI
Two Women Who Tried to Win Chess Champ Bobby Fischer
October
EHRENGARD MELUSINE VON DER SCHULENBURG and SOPHIA VON KIELMANSAGG
aka "The Elephant" and "The Castle" - German Mistresses and the first King George
November
MATA HARI
Tantalizing Courtesan and Spy Who Got the Death Penalty
December
Special Edition
2014
January
ROSALIND SECOR CHETWYND : Mistress of Artic Explorer Sir Earnest Shackleton
February
LOUISE BROOKS : Hollywood Actress of the Silent Screen Era
LOUISE BROOKS : Hollywood Actress of the Silent Screen Era
March
PATRICIA KENNEALLY and PAMELA COURSON : Which One Was the Wife of The Door's Singer Jim Morrison?
April
Special Edition
SISTER WIVES of the Mormon Fundamentalists
May
FAITH DOMERGUE : Howard Hughes' 15 Year Old Mistress
June
GRACE DALYRUMPLE ELLIOT known as "Dally the Tall"
July
SLAVIC WOMEN : Imported as Brides and Mistresses - Turned Out as Prostitutes
SLAVIC WOMEN : Imported as Brides and Mistresses - Turned Out as Prostitutes
August
LITTLE EDIE BOUVIER BEALE of Grey Gardens Fame. Her Affair With a Married Man May Have Done Her In.
September
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY : Lesbian in Paris who Kept Other Women
October
ANNA LACHAPELLE CLARK : Youthful Mistress and Wife of W.A. Clark an Industrialist and Founder of Las Vegas
November
HILDA LEZARD and the Mysterious John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th Duke of Rutland
December
2015
January
The GRIMALDI CURSE and the MISTRESSES OF THE PRINCES OF MONACO
February
VERONICA FRANCO
16th Century Poet Writer and Courtesan of Venice
March
GINGER ALDEN
Live-In Mistress Waiting To Be the Wife of Early Rocker Elvis Presley
April
Madame LEONTINE PAULINE “NINETTE” AUBERT
Mistress of Benjamin Guggenheim - He Went Down With the Titanic, She Survived
May
MARITA LORENZ
Mistress of Fidel Castro and General Marcos Peres Jimenes turned CIA collaborator
June
BETTINA
Red Head, Freckled - The First Supermodel and Mistress of Aly Khan, International Playboy
July
BILLY MC CANDLESS - Chris's Mom
Her Son's Death in the Alaska Wilderness Has Spawned Books, Documentaries, and Films, But Was His Parent's Relationship the Source of His Pain?
August
BOB HOPE
So Many Women So Little Time - Who Was The Long Married Comedian – Actor and Patriot’s Mistress? SANDY VIINGER For One
September
The Empress of China CIXI
She Rose Up From the Harem to Co-Rule China
October
PATRICIA SIKORA
Mistress of Lawyer Johnnie Cochran of O.J. Simpson Trial Fame
November
NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON
Mistress of O.J.Simpson - Wife of O.J. and Most Famous Unsolved Murder Victim
December
Special Edition
SOME MISTRESS FILMS and BOOKS YOU'LL BE INTERESTED IN
2016
January
CLARA BOW
Actress, First "IT Girl" and Roaring Twenties Mistress of Old Hollywood Film Producer B.P. Schulberg
February
ISADORA DUNCAN
Mother of Modern Dance and Mistress of Paris Singer; She Did Positive Affirmations to Attract a Wealthy Patron
March
VICKI MORGAN
Money Mad Mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale : Was She Really So "Bad" When She Stuck by Him on His Deathbed?
April
CAMILLA SHAND - DUCHESS OF CORNWALL
The Most Famous Mistress of the Last Half Century - Will She Become Queen When Charles Becomes King?
May
MARILYN MONROE (Norma Jeane Baker)
Mistress of Super Agent Johnny Hyde Early in Her Career
June
NANCY LEE ANDREWS
Photographer - Mistress of Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) Before He Fell In Love With Actress Barbara Bach
July
PORN ACTOR JOHN C. HOLMES and Wife SHARON GEBENINI and MISTRESS DAWN SCHILLER Love Triangle Relationships Played Out Through The Wonderland Murders
August
META CARPENTER : Long Years of Long Distance Love With the Pulitzer Prize Winning American Author, William Faulkner
September
CELESTINE EMAROT- MISTRESS OF BARON CHARLES de CHASSIRON and FERDINAND De MONTGUYON and the French Ballerina Courtesans
October
GROUPIES - Are They Really So Different Than Mistresses?
November
ELIZABETH L. RAY : Mistress of Representative Wayne L. Hays. She said, “I Can’t Type, I Can’t File, I Can’t Even Answer The Phone.”
February
March
December
Special Edition
EARN AN ANGEL WING : HOLIDAY GIVING and CHARITIES
2017
January
SHERYL WEINSTEIN Had a Sweet Hot Extra Marital Relationship With Financial Whiz and Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff
February
EVELYN NESBIT : Teenage Beauty and Mistress of Architect Stanford White: Before It Was All Over There Was A Murder
March
KATHLEEN “KICK” KENNEDY ; Sister of J.F.K., Widow of Billy Hartington, Mistress of Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam When They Died in A Plane Crash
May
June
July
April
HOLLY MADISON – Hugh Hefner’s Harem Bunny Favorite
May
The Lovely LINDSAY MILLS; Edward Snowden’s Mistress?; Honorary Mistress of the Month
June
EVEY – Singer-Songwriter James Taylor’s Japanese New York Mistress and His Wife, Singer-Songwriter Carly Simon
July
King of Soul RAY CHARLES : Two Known Mistresses : MARGI HENDRIX and MARCIE SOTO
September
October
February
August
The Secluded BRUNA PALOMBO – A Life Time Of Mistressing Aldo Gucci of the Fashion House
September
PAUL NOVAK – 27 Years as Mae West’s Much Younger Live-In Companion: Protective and Loving Till The Day She Died.
October
ASSIA GUTMAN ; “She Devil” Seductress Blamed for Sylvia Plath’s Suicide : Mistress of Poet Ted Hughes
December
January
MARGUERITE ALIBERT - Sex Worker, Courtesan, Mistress, Wife - Her Men
February
LOLA MONTEZ : Volatile Temptress and Mistress of King Ludwid I of Bavaria who changed history.
March and April
PAMELA DIGBY CHURCHILL HARRIMAN : From Dumpy Debutant to Ambassador to France (Men who Married her, Kept her, and Married her.)
November
Righteous Gentile OSKAR SCHINDLER’S Mistresses: AURELIE SCHLEGEL, EVA “MARTA” KISZA and GISELLA SCHEIN – Nazi Mistresses – His Wife’s Loyalty
December
Special Edition
INTO THE HOLIDAYS : MORE FILMS ABOUT MISTRESSES and COURTESANS YOU'LL WANT TO SEE
2018
January
J. PAUL GETTY; Billionaire With Wives, Mistresses, a Harem : ANN RORK, LOUISE "TEDDY" DUDLEY LYNCH, PENELOPE KITSON.
February
CYNTHIA BECK : Mistress of Gordon Getty, Mother of Three Daughters Who Changed Their Surname to Getty
March
MINEKO IWASAKI: From Japanese Geisha to Wife, Mother, and Artist
April
COMTESS VALTESSE DE LA BIGNE : 18th Century Parisian Sex Worker to Courtesan, to Mistress
May
DORCAS HARDIN : Mistress of Billionaire Art Collector and Horse Breeder Paul Mellon
June
COCO CHANEL – Fashion Designer : Nazi and Spy or Society Woman in Love?
July
SALLY HEMMINGS; Was She a Willing Mistress to Thomas Jefferson or a Raped Slave?
August
MISTRESSES OF THE RIVIERA - Doris Delevingne, Daisy Fellowes, Pamela Digby Churchill, Diana Guiness, Diana Manners - just to mention a few.
MISTRESSES OF THE RIVIERA - Doris Delevingne, Daisy Fellowes, Pamela Digby Churchill, Diana Guiness, Diana Manners - just to mention a few.
September
GYPSY ROSE LEE - Stripper Mistress in New York of Waxy Gordon
October
BARBARA BLAKELEY MARX-SINATRA : Twice a Mistress Thrice a Wife (Of Singer Frank Sinatra)
BARBARA BLAKELEY MARX-SINATRA : Twice a Mistress Thrice a Wife (Of Singer Frank Sinatra)
November
CAMILLE "TONI" LANIER MANNIX, THE GEORGE REEVES DEATH, and EDGAR J. MANNIX, MGM FIXER (First covered May 2013 - so read that month too!)
CAMILLE "TONI" LANIER MANNIX, THE GEORGE REEVES DEATH, and EDGAR J. MANNIX, MGM FIXER (First covered May 2013 - so read that month too!)
December
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG - TRUTH IS HER RELIGION - Honorary Mistress of the Month.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG - TRUTH IS HER RELIGION - Honorary Mistress of the Month.
January
MARGUERITE ALIBERT - Sex Worker, Courtesan, Mistress, Wife - Her Men
February
LOLA MONTEZ : Volatile Temptress and Mistress of King Ludwid I of Bavaria who changed history.
March and April
PAMELA DIGBY CHURCHILL HARRIMAN : From Dumpy Debutant to Ambassador to France (Men who Married her, Kept her, and Married her.)
May
KOLA BOOF (NAIMA BINT HARITH) UNWILLING MISTRESS OF THE TERRORIST OSAMA BIN LADIN
June
CAROL MALLORY : MODEL, ACTRESS, WRITER: NINE YEARS AS MISTRESS TO NORMAN MAILER
July
MISIA SERT ; THREE MARRIAGES - THIRD TO ARTIST JOSE MARIA SERT; THE ACCOMMODATION
August
"MISS HOOD' LEANNE EDELSTEN AND THE RESPECTED LITERARY AUSTRALIAN CLIVE JAMES
September
"M' OCTAVIA JOSEPHINE MARCHAND : MISTRESS OF ART COLLECTOR GEORGE ALOYSIUS LUCAS
October
LUCY MERCER RUTHERFURD : FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S MISTRESS WHOSE EXISTENCE WRECKED ELEANOR AND ENHANCED HIS LIFE
November
MARGUERITE "MISSY" LEHAND :OFFICE WIFE AND WARM SPRINGS MISTRESS OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
December
Special Edition
ARE THE FRENCH SEXIER or IS THAT A STEREOTYPE?
2020
January
ART HISTORIAN ANNE PINGEOT ; MISTRESS OF FRENCH STATESMAN AND PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERAND
February
Special Edition
MALE FEMALE MASCULINE FEMININE HETEROSEXUAL HOMOSEXUAL BISEXUAL
A look at new genders and sexualities (This is not X rated)
March
HEIDI FLEISS : GIRL NEXT DOOR TO HOLLYWOOD MADAM TO BIRD SANCTUARY
April
ELIZABETH MCOURT TABOR "BABY DOE" : MISTRESS OF COLORADO SILVER MINING MILLIONAIRE HORACE TABOR : Their Rags To Riches Story.
May
NICKY T. : THE OBSCURE BELGIAN ESCORT and MISTRESS WHO BROKE ATHINA ONASSIS ELEVEN YEAR MARRIAGE and "GABY" LANDHAGE the MISTRESS WHO MARRIED ATHINA'S FATHER and RAISED HER
June
LIDA BAAROVA : MISTRESS OF NAZI JOSEPH GOEBBELS WHO PAID THE PRICE FOR ASSOCIATING WITH NAZIS
July
JUDITH KATHERINE IMMOOR AKA CAMPBELL EXNER : MISTRESS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY : COURIER BETWEEN KENNEDY AND MOBSTER SAM GIANCANA
August
MIMI ALFORD : BEFORE MONICA LEWINSKY THERE WAS A J.F.K. INTERN IN THE WHITE HOUSE
September
MARY PINCHOT MEYER : WAS SHE THE PRESIDENT'S TRUE SOUL MATE? WAS SHE ASSASSINATED BY THE C.I.A?
October
SUSAN "SHOE" MARY TAYLOR : "HIPPIE" MISTRESS OF JONATHAN GUINNESS, 3rd BARON MOYNE
November
APRIL KIRKWOOD : THREE DECADES AS MISTRESS OF SINGER FRANKIE VALLI of THE FOUR SEASONS
December
Special Topic
MAIL ORDER BRIDES - INTERNATIONAL MEET UPS - MATCHMAKERS - THE BUSINESS OF MARRIAGE
2021
January
BERNIE TIEDI : ABUSED and CONTROLLED KEPT MAN OR MURDEROUS CON ARTIST?
February
PEARL KAZIN : MISTRESS RECIPIENT OF IMPASSIONED LOVE LETTERS FROM WELSH POET DYLAN THOMAS
March
THE OBSESSED MARY BARONESS OF VETSERA - CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF - AND THE SELF PRESERVING "MIZZI" KASPER
April
Special Topic
SEX TRAFFICKING : MORE PEOPLE ARE SEX TRAFFICKED TODAY THEN THERE WERE EVER AFRICAN SLAVES IN AMERICA
May
ANNA BEY : UPLEVELING INFLUENCER and HONORARY MISTRESS OF THE MONTH
June
CLEOPATRA DIANE DE MERODE and KING LEOPOLD II OF BELGIUM : THE FIRST CELEBRITY - CALLED A COURTESAN SHE DEFENDED HERSELF AND WON
July
BARBARA LODEN : TALENTED ACTOR AND DIRECTOR : MISTRESS, THEN WIFE OF CONTROVERSIAL HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR ELIA KAZAN
August
JANE LAHILAHI YOUNG KA'EO : MISTRESS OF KING KAMEHAMEHA III of HAWAII and BEARER OF HIS SONS
September
LADY ELIZABETH GEORGIANA ALICE CAVENDISH : NMNK MISTRESS OF POET LAUREATE JOHN BETJEMAN
October
SYBILLE DE SELYS LONGCHAMPS : MISTRESS OF KING ALBERT II of BELGIUM and MOTHER OF ARTIST DELPHINE BOEL : 18 YEARS OF LOVE IS NOT A SEX SCANDAL
November
MELANIE DE GAUFRIDY DE DORTAN : THE FIRST MISTRESS OF ALFONSO XIII de BOURBON of SPAIN
and
CARMEN RUIZ MORAGAS : SECOND ACKNOWLEDGED MISTRESS OF KING ALFONSO XII : EIGHT YEARS AS LOVERS - LUXURY and VOLATILITY
December
CELEBRATING INCLEMENT WEATHER AND THE COZINESS OF STAYING INSIDE or SINGING IN THE RAIN!
January
DORIS DELEVINGNE : THE GIRL WITH THE BEAUTIFUL LEGS : VISCOUNTESS CASTLEROSSE : AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FOX
February
TULLIA D'ARAGONA : A RENAISSANCE COURTESAN POET WITH A CATHOLIC CARDINAL AS A FATHER
March
"GEORGE ELIOT" HONORED ENGLISH LITERARY PERSON WHO LIVED THE MOST UNCONVENTIONAL "VICTORIAN" LIFE
April
THE FIERY VERITA BOUVAIRE : HOLLYWOOD HAIRDRESSER and MISTRESS OF TOUGH GUY ACTOR HUMPHREY BOGART , YES EVEN WHEN HE WAS MARRIED TO THE LOVELY LAUREN BACALL
May
JEWELL DIANNE "LADY" WALKER - A MISTRESS OF BILLIONAIRE J. HOWARD MARSHALL - WHO WENT CHRISTIAN AND DIED OF A FACE LIFT
June
LADY IDINA SACKVILLE : SCANDALIZED THE ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY WITH HER FIVE DIVORCES
July
ALICE DE JANZE - THE AMERICAN HEIRESS WHO LOVED AFRICA MORE THAN ANY MAN OR HER CHILDREN
August
ROXELANA THE RUTHENIAN SLAVE GIRL WHO BECAME the QUEEN TO TURKISH SULTAN SULEYNMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
September
THE STRANGE CASE OF "BLOOD AND GUTS" GENERAL GEORGE PATTON and MISTRESS JEAN GORDON : DID HIS WIFE'S CURSE PUSH HER TO SUICIDE?
October
LIANE DE POUGY : BISEXUAL PROTOGE OF VALTESSE DE LA BIGNE in BELLE EPOCH PARIS : FROM COURTESAN TO PRINCESS TO NUN?
November
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY : LIBERTINE AMERICAN EX-PAT WHO PERSUED LIANE DE POUGY and RAN A LITERARY SALON IN PARIS FOR DECADES
December
A HOLIDAY EDITION WITH A LITTLE FOCUS ON FASHION
(Fashion Personality Memoir Reviews and a lot else!)
January
THE JEANETTE MACDONALD - NELSON EDDY 30 YEAR AFFAIR : THE SOPRANO AND THE BARITONE NEVER LET GO OF EACH OTHER WHILE MARRIED TO OTHERS
February
MITZAH BRICARD : AT ONCE UNKNOWABLE and OPINIONATED : THE ONCE GRAND-HORIZONTAL and INSTINCTUAL FASHION MUSE of CHRISTIAN DIOR
March
ISABEL ROSARIO "DIMPELS" COOPER : FILIPINA ACTRESS and MISTRESS OF FAMOUS MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR,
April
PULITZER-PRIZE NOMINATED REPORTER DOROTHY KILGALLEN and POP SINGER JOHNNIE RAY : A FLAUNTED UNCONVENTIONAL ROMANCE IN THE 1950's BEFORE SHE DIED
May
THREE MISTRESS MAY : MORE ON DOROTHY KILLGALLEN (JOHNNIE RAY), QUEEN CAMILLA (KING CHARLES III) and AN UPDATE ON MAY FUNG YEE PANG ( ex-Beatle JOHN LENNON! Her documentary about their Lost Weekend is in theatres.) How did I squeeze all three of them into one month?!
June
FANNY MURRAY : FROM TEEN PROSTITUTE TO MOST POPULAR COURTESAN IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND : ENTERED INTO THE LIFE and REDEEMED OUT OF IT BY ALTHORP SPENCERS
July
"THE HOTTEST BLAZE IN BURLESQUE" BLAZE STARR and THE CONTROVERSIAL LOUISIANA GOVERNOR EARL K. LONG : A ONE YEAR AFFAIR MADE INTERNATIONAL NEWS
August
REVISITING POSTS FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF MISTRESS MANIFESTO : THIS SHOULD BE FUN! (Posts from 2009! Wow I've been writing this for years! Remember Declarations For Mistresses?)
September
SARAH DUCHESS OF YORK : STANDING BY HER MAN NO MATTER WHAT : DIVORCED TO HER EX HUSBAND PRINCE ANDREW : HONORARY MISTRESS OF THE MONTH
October
MARIA LACZYNSKA - WALEWSKA : MARRIED POLISH MISTRESS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE FROM 1806 TO 1810 (They had a son.)
November
THE THEFT OF CHOICE : SPECIAL EDITION of MISTRESS MANIFESTO FEATURING CASSANDRA PETERSON (Rape is a serious crime.)
December
SUGAR BABY? SUGAR DADDY? : PLAYING IN THE FANTASY
January
SONDRA LOCKE The Girlfriend in CLINT EASTWOOD Films and His Mistress Offscreen
February
FLIRTING 101 The Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot Flirting Issue
March
NINA BARONESS VAN PALLANDT - Actress Singer and Married Mistress of Author CLIFFORD IRVING
April
DORCAS HARDIN - More Than Three Decades as Mistress of Billionaire Art Collector PAUL MELLON
May
OLGA RUDGE VIOLINIST MISTRESS OF POET EZRA POUND : WRITING LETTERS TO EACH OTHER BEGAN AND PRESERVED THEIR LONG RELATIONSHIP
June
THE ECCENTRIC and HIGHLY OPINIONATED LADY COLIN CAMPBELL (GEORGIE ZIADIE) : MISTRESSES WERE UNDERSTOOD A CERTAIN WAY
July
SOPHIA BADDELEY : HIGHLY PAID GEORGIAN COMEDIC ACTRESS : BECAME A COURTESAN AFTER MARRIAGE and A HEARTBREAK but BEING ON STAGE SAVED HER.
August
CATHERINE WALTERS : IRISH-ENGLISH HORSEWOMAN WHO EVEN IMPRESSED THE FRENCH and RETIRED WELL
September
SCOTT THORSON ! LIBERACE'S BOYTOY REDUX : A YOUNG KEPT COMPANION - BROTHER - SON - LOVER (Scott passed away just before these posts!)
October
MARIA CALLAS : WE REVISIT THE GREATEST OPERA SINGER - DIVA and MISTRESS OF SHIPPING MAGNATE ARI ONASSIS
November
AUDREY MUNSON : AMERICA'S FIRST "SUPERMODEL" : AN ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT WITH A MARRIED MEN LED TO HIS SUICIDE AND THE END OF HER CAREER and SANITY
December
A MERRY OLDE ENGLAND CHRISTMAS A small collection of past posts featuring a variety of British Mistresses.
January
A NEW YEAR, A NEW MONTH, NEW PROJECT : WHAT'S HAPPENING AT MISTRESS MANIFESTO! REVISITING SOME MISTRESSES I'VE PROFILED IN THE PAST. I hint that I'm s l o w l y writing a book. LESLIE MCRAY : BOOK AUTHOR, ACTRESS, ACTIVE FILM PRODUCER : WE REVISIT HER DARK MEMOIR
February
LILLIE LANGTRY : THREE YEARS AS THE MISTRESS OF SEX ADDICT EDWARD ALBERT, PRINCE OF WALES IN THE 1870'S : SHE FOUND HER WAY FORWARD IN MODELING AND ACTING
March
NICOLE COSTE : PRINCE ALBERT II IS RUMORED TO HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM MARRYING HER BY HIS FATHER : HER LOVE CHILD WITH THE PRINCE IS ACCEPTED AND REACHES ADULTHOOD
April
AYN RAND ; LONG MARRIED SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST - KNOWN FOR HER OBJECTIVIST PHILOSOPHY - FRANK O'CONNOR HER HUSBAND - NATHANIEL BRANDON HER MUCH YOUNGER MARRIED PSYCHOLOGIST LOVER
May
"MRS. SMITH" : THE MISTRESS WHO LASTED 65 YEARS THROUGH OLD HOLLYWOOD ACTOR MICKEY ROONEY'S EIGHT MARRIAGES
June
EMMA HAMILTON (AMY LYON) : HER MISTRESS MOM PROVIDED A BETTER LIFE FOR THE BOTH OF THEM : EMMA GREATLY EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS FOR SOMEONE BORN TO BE A DOMESTIC SERVANT
July
CAROLE TREGOFF : MISTRESS OF SOCIETY SURGEON BERNARD FINCH and CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE BARBARA FINCH
August
MONICA LEWINSKY : A SURVIVOR WHO IS MOVING FORWARD and STILL EVOLVING
(Also see March 2012 : Get Off The Back Of MONICA LEWINSKY
Why Not Blame President Bill Clinton?)
September
MARIE DUPLESSIS : GRAND HORIZONTALES : PARISIAN COURTESANS OF THE NAPOLEAN III ERA
October
BOHEMIAN POET NORA MAY FRENCH : AN EARLY 20th CENTURY LOVE GONE WRONG STORY OF MONTEREY CALIFORNIA : THE CYANIDE LOVE TRIANGLE
November
SARAH BERNHARDT : DAUGHTER OF COURTESAN YOULE VAN HARD : TRANSFORMED HERSELF INTO A WORLD FAMOUS ACTRESS AND A NATIONAL ICON OF FRANCE KNOWN FOR HER OWN "SCANDALOUS" LIFE
December
HAVING A MERRY DOGGY CHRISTMAS : IT'S NATIONAL MUTT DAY!
January
VIRGINIA LOUISE ROBERTS GIUFFRE : WE CAN'T NOT HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAID : FORCED PROSTITUTION AND INTERNATIONAL SEX TRAFFICKING : A DEVASTATING BOOK
February
March
TO BE CONTINUED....


