Peggy Joyce
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Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce (Constance Rosenblum) [2000] (ISBN: 0-8050-5089-2)
 

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Peggy Hopkins Joyce was an American actress and celebrity, famed as much for her several marriages to wealthy men, colorful divorces, scandalous affairs, and generally lavish lifestyle as for her work on stage or screen.

Born Marguerite Upton in Berkley, Virginia, she was known as "Peggy", a traditional nickname for Margaret or Marguerite. "Hopkins" and "Joyce" were the surnames of her second and third husbands, respectively (of six overall).

She debuted on the Broadway stage in 1917 in the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1923 she caused a sensation in the annual Earl Carroll`s Vanities. In 1933, she played herself in the film, International House, which contained some good-natured joshing about her love life.

Her life had its tragedies. Guillermo Errázuriz, brother of the equally scandalous Blanca Errázuriz, killed himself in Paris in 1922, despondent over her.

She owned the Portuguese Diamond, one of the most expensive in the world, that she sold to Harry Winston and which is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce died in New York City in 1957, aged 64.
 

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    Name Peggy Joyce
    (Marguerite Upton)
    Other Name(s) Peggy Hopkins
    Height 5' 3˝"  (161 cm)
    Build Slim
    Eye Color Blue
    Hair Color Blonde
    Date of Birth May 26, 1893
    Birthplace Berkley, Virginia
    Star Sign Gemini
    Died June 12, 1957 (Aged 64)
    Location of Death New York City, New York
    Nationality American
    Ethnicity White
    Occupation Performance Artist
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  • Thought to be the inspiration for Lorelei Lee, the character created by Anita Loos in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
  • In February 1928 she acquired the Portuguese Diamond from Black, Starr & Frost. She traded a $350,000 pearl necklace for the diamond and $23,000 in cash. According to New York newspaper accounts, it was mounted on a diamond-studded platinum choker to be worn close around the throat. The jewelry firm`s spokesperson at the time indicated that the diamond was found at the Premier Mine, Kimberly, South Africa, in 1910, and that the firm had obtained it shortly after its discovery. Sometime prior to 1946 she placed the diamond on consignment to the group of jewelers mentioned above, in an unsuccessful attempt to sell it. Harry Winston acquired the Portuguese Diamond from her in 1951, and for the next several years it traveled the country as part of his "Court of Jewels" exhibition. In 1957, Winston sold the diamond to an international industrialist, who then traded it back in 1962. In 1963, the Smithsonian acquired the Portuguese Diamond from Mr. Winston in exchange for 2,400 carats of small diamonds.
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