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THE GIRL
Virginia Rappe, the girl Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was accused of raping and killing, was born in Chicago in 1896. At 16 she was an artists' model. She had a spectacular figure, a happy disposition and a disregard for convention. At 17 she was engaged to a 40-year-old sculptor, John Sanple. During an impromptu art show on an apartment house roof, he jumped and committed suicide. She wasn't there at the time. No reason was ever given for his final act
Grief -stricken, she quit modeling for several months after his death. During this period she studied sketching and dress designing. One day at an art exhibit she saw an art piece by John Sanple and broke down sobbing. Her mother recommended she leave Chicago to visit an aunt in San Francisco.
By the age of 21, she was earning $4,000 a year in the Bay City as a dress designer. She was extremely popular, a good dancer and talented. One of her bosses was a young man named Robert Moscovitz, the heir to a considerable dress manufacturing dynasty. Robert had use of only one arm, the result of an accident soon after birth.
She and Robert began dating seriously. She told friends: "He is the most considerate man I ever knew. He's almost too good to be real."
One icy night after the theatre the trolley car in which they were riding was in a serious accident. Robert was pinned in the wreckage and suffered a broken back. Virginia had a brain concussion.
Virginia recovered quickly, and after two weeks she
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