14 Facts About Pepi Lederer

Pepi Lederer was the niece of actress Marion Davies, the mistress of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.

In June 1935, a 25-year-old Pepi Lederer committed suicide by jumping from a sixth-floor hospital window.

Pepi Lederer is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Pepi Lederer had a younger brother, Charles Pepi Lederer, known as "Charlie".

Pepi Lederer's brother became a well-known Hollywood screenwriter who co-wrote The Front Page, His Girl Friday, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Pepi Lederer often played pranks on Hearst's important guests, such as stealing actress Claire Windsor's "false bosom" and writer Elinor Glyn's red wig while they slept.

Pepi Lederer delighted in inventing outlandish stories about sensational events at Hearst Castle, and she planted these stories in Louella Parsons' syndicated gossip column much to Hearst's annoyance.

Pepi Lederer enjoyed the job and worked in London for the next five years on a generous allowance from Davies and Hearst.

Pepi Lederer told her friend, Louise Brooks, that she felt happy living in London as she was her own person for the first time in her life.

Davies and Hearst remained at San Simeon but, in an unusual move, they neither contacted Pepi Lederer nor invited her to any parties at Hearst Castle.

At this point, Pepi Lederer had become persona non grata at San Simeon due to both her worsening drug addiction and overt lesbian relationships.

On June 11,1935, Pepi Lederer took her own life by distracting her nurse with a request for food and then jumping from the sixth-floor window of her hospital room.

Plummeting six stories to the shrubbery below, Pepi Lederer broke her neck upon impact.

Pepi Lederer's body was interred in the family mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.