Nina
Hamnett
West Walian bohemian artist who became a hopeless alcoholic. Fell
out of a window whilst pissed and impaled herself on railings.
Anna Kashfi
Cardiff girl who conned Marlon Brando into marrying her by
pretending to be an Indian princess. Their son Christian was
convicted of manslaughter. Last heard of in a trailer park in
California.
Rachel
Roberts
After the collapse of her marriage to Rex Harrison Welsh actress
Roberts found solace in booze and drugs. She died in LA of a
barbiturate overdose.
Llewela
Isherwood Jones
Anthony Burgess often came home to find his alcoholic Welsh wife
blotto on the sofa with Dylan Thomas. During WW2 she was
assaulted by a gang of American GIs, an episode that would later
inspire the violent rape scene in A
Clockwork Orange.
Gwen John
Before developing an obsession for nuns Welsh artist John was
involved in a sexual menage a trois
with August Rodin and a Finnish sculptress.
Betty
Jones
Betty was a Welsh stripper who hooked up with an American GI and
went on a killing spree. Found guilty of murder, they were both
given the death penalty. However, she won her appeal and served
only 9 years in Holloway prison. The American soldier was hanged.
Betty broke death-row sartorial etiquette by appearing before the
hanging judge without
wearing a hat.
Ruth Ellis
The Rhyl-born murderess was the last woman to
receive the death penalty in Britain. She shot her lover Stephen
Blakely outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, London. She was
hanged on 13 July 1955 at Holloway prison.
Mary Evans
William Burroughs located the psychological motivation for his
writing not in the accidental shooting of his wife but in his
childhood relationship with Welsh nanny Mary Evans. Hypnotherapy
failed to retrieve a buried memory which he suspected might have
been of a sexual nature.
Mandy
Rice-Davis
Along with pal Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davis attended posh
orgies and ended the political career of John Profumo.
Helen
Morgan
Miss World for four days in 1974 before the world discovered she
was an unmarried mother.
Bev Cocks
Wrexham hardcore porn actress who has a Welsh dragon tattooed on
her arse. Her performances in The Claire
Bitch Project and Lock
Cock and 2 Smoking Bimbos are still much
talked about.