Rumors that Fanny White had been poisoned caused a public outcry, which forced an inquest into her death.
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17 Facts About Fanny White
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Fanny White's mother died when she was just 8 years old, while her father died in 1847.
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Fanny White had the business sense and good luck to beat the odds.
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In 1851, Fanny White purchased a building at 119 Mercer Street, which she outfitted as a discreet, high-class brothel.
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Fanny White took White to visit the State Assembly Chamber, for which action he was censured by the Whigs.
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Rumors that Fanny White contributed her own earnings to Sickles' election campaign would haunt Sickles for the rest of his political career.
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Fanny White was rumored to be so angry that she followed him to a hotel and attacked him with a riding whip.
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In England, Fanny White accompanied Sickles openly to theaters, operas, and diplomatic events.
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Historians speculate that Fanny White talked Sickles into the introduction, and that Sickles was further motivated by his intense dislike of both the monarchy and of the editor of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
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The Life and Death of Fanny White alleges that White legally changed her name before she left for Europe.
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One source claims that Fanny White made a tour of the Continent – she "visited Paris, Baden-Baden, Vienna, and other interesting and fashionable aristocratic resorts, " and was removed from the Paris Opera by gendarmes after making a drunken scene – returning to New York later in the year.
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Back in New York, Fanny White established a second brothel behind the St Nicholas Hotel and resumed management of 119 Mercer Street.
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About 1857, Fanny White met criminal defense lawyer Edmon Blankman, seven years her junior.
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Fanny White helped to raise and she paid for the schooling of her niece, Lillian Bennett.
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Fanny White refused to sign the property over to Edmon when he asked for it.
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Fanny White's brother arranged for an autopsy to be conducted by Doctors Finnell and Sands, who concluded that Blankman had died of apoplexy.
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Fanny White's body was packed in ice and taken to Green-Wood Cemetery to be interred.
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