A dangerous, amoral, girl.
My Club, The Army Navy Club on Farragut Square, has remarkable guest speakers, one such, Susan Ronald, gave a great talk, the particularities of which, in abbreviated prose appears below and after that the video of her talk:
A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator – The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank’s millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars―like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence stayed on, fearing retribution by the IRS. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Göring’s Aerobank.
Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estée Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say “money doesn’t care who owns it,” Florence’s life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.
And now, the video:
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How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?
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JOHN DANIEL BEGG 
Exceedingly interesting. I’m not sure I would care to share tea with her, but very interesting.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM JOHN DANIEL BEGG wrote:
> John Daniel Begg posted: ” A dangerous, amoral, girl. My Club, The Army > Navy Club on Farragut Square, has remarkable quest speakers, one such, > Susan Ronald, gave a great talk, the particularities of which, in > abbreviated prose appears below and after that the video of” >
Tea maybe at distant tables