20 August 2015

NYC #38: Lola Montez, Green-Wood Cemetery (8), Brooklyn

'BORN AT
GRANGE, COUNTY SLIGO
FEBRUARY 17, 1821.
KNOWN AS
LOLA MONTEZ,
COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD.'
 
And on the other side of the tombstone:
 
'MRS.
ELIZA GILBERT
DIED
Jan. 17, 1861
Æ. 42.'
 
Born Eliza Gilbert, she became the much more erotic Lola Montez, famous as a dancer, an actor, and a courtesan. Her lover King Ludwig I of Bavaria made her Countess of Landsfeld. She is variously said to have died of pneumonia, cholera, or syphilis.

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