Alice Magdalen Sarah Ormsby-Gore was a British aristocrat who was part of the fashion and arts counter-culture in London during the 1960s.
32 Facts About Alice Ormsby-Gore
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The Alice Ormsby-Gore family were, by descent, an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family who once owned a large country estate in County Leitrim.
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David Alice Ormsby-Gore succeeded as the 5th Baron Harlech in February 1964.
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For example, Alice Ormsby-Gore was present at the dedication of the Kennedy memorial site at Runnymede, England, on 14 May 1965.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore's father was romantically linked with Jackie Kennedy in 1968.
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The Alice Ormsby-Gore family attracted the attention of the American media.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore returned to the UK in 1965 with her parents, and had only just turned 15 when on 30 May 1967 her mother was killed in a car accident.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former US Ambassador to the Court of St James's.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was still in New York when Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore returned to the UK sometime in the summer of 1968.
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The Alice Ormsby-Gore sisters had a passion for artistic and exotic clothes, and in the late 1960s they bought some of the Ballets Russes' vintage costumes at auctions.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore is working for a welfare organisation which, among other things, helps drug addicts back to a normal life.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore first came into contact with this lot of "do-gooders" when she was running a "peace circus".
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was photographed by David Montgomery for the 'New Londoners broad at home' article in the 15 March 1969 issue of British Vogue.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was photographed by Norman Parkinson, Clive Arrowsmith, Tessa Traeger, Patrick Lichfield, and Francesco Scavullo.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore is featured in a 25 May 1973 Telegraph magazine colour photoshoot of clothes by Bill Gibb.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore has worked as a photographic model and helped train horses.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore's father was fond of music and she had grown up with his collection of jazz.
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Mlinaric, a friend of Alice Ormsby-Gore, took her with him, when visiting Clapton.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was named as his girlfriend in an interview with Chris Welch, and lived thereafter partially at Hurtwood Edge.
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Also during the summer of 1969 Alice Ormsby-Gore entertained Marc Bolan and his girlfriend June Child at Hurtwood Edge.
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The friendship between Bolan, Child and Alice Ormsby-Gore led to her being a witness at their wedding on 30 January 1970.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore is often described as being a fiancee of Clapton, but it is doubtful that this was ever more than newspaper speculation and leading questions by journalists.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore played a significant role in encouraging Clapton to play a concert, with a select backing group of rock star friends, at the Rainbow on 13 January 1973.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was treated separately at a nursing home near Regents Park in London.
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On 5 November 1974, aged 22, Alice Ormsby-Gore found her elder brother, Julian Alice Ormsby-Gore, dead in his apartment from gunshot wounds, an apparent suicide.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore's life showed none of the usual traits of the 'socialite'.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was treated in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for a time with liver and pancreas illness caused by alcohol.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore was persuaded to register at the Priory Hospital in South West London for treatment for heroin and alcohol addiction for three weeks in October 1994.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore stuck to her guns and died, tragically, the following year.
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Alice Ormsby-Gore died on 5 April 1995 after taking heroin which unwittingly was six times the fatal dose.
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At the inquest pathologist Dr Milena Lesna stated that medical records revealed Alice Ormsby-Gore had made "remarkable progress" since the start of the year to break her addictions.