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Spite Work: The Trials of Virginia Rappe and Fatty Arbuckle

A reconsideration of the Fatty Arbuckle case of 1921-22 and the life and death of the victim, Virginia Rappe.

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“Cover up”? The first day into night for reporters assigned to the Arbuckle case
During the second Arbuckle trial of January 1922, the District Attorney of San Francisco, Matthew Brady, subpoenaed a witness who shed light on the comedian’s conduct in the immediate aftermath of Virginia Rappe’s during the …
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Did she keep a little black book?
Toward the end of the third trial in late March 1922, Milton Cohen, one of Arbuckle’s five defense lawyers, cross-examined Kate Hardebeck at length. She was a rebuttal witness for the prosecution and had been …
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Rappe as a working girl
The Arbuckle case narrative, while seeing some judicious cuts in the coming weeks, will not lack for fine detail. A case in point is Virginia Rappe’s modeling career, which began early, in 1905, at the …
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