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(January 18, 1951 - January 25, 1955) (divorced) (2 children)
18 January 51 secretly marries Joseph Austin Wade, Jr., in a civil ceremony in Newcastle, Delaware. A religious ceremony is performed shortly afterwards by the Reverend Agnellus Kelly in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi in New York. Wade’s the son of Mrs. Joseph Austin Wade of Philadelphia and the late Mr. Wade, and he studied at Yale College after his graduation from Phillips Exter Academy. During World War II, Wade served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces. He is president of J. A. Wade & Co., cotton brokers.
Early June 51 her parents disclose her secret wedding to the press
October 52 she and Claude Cartier, the young jewel heir, are a Colony twosome
October 53 leaves New York for "parts unknown" to think about her recent reconciliation with Wade
April 54 she and Wade drop the divorce suit that she began in Florida
will not divorce Wade in Palm Beach, Florida. She is at her uncle’s Miami Beach mansion in a jittery state.
May 54 her escort at the Viennese Lantern is Prince Christian of Hanover
20 July 54 a raiding party bursts into Bob Sweeny’s Hotel Westburn suite on New York’s fashionable Upper East Side. With Wade are his sister, Mrs. John Hearst, and private detectives Joseph Barrett and Elsie Berry. Sweeny, a former British amateur golf champion, unsuccessfully tries to bar Wade’s entrance after opening the door. Pamela’s allegedly caught nude.
November 54 is seen out with Ted Peckham of escort service fame
25 January 55 her divorce from 40-year-old Wade goes to court in New York City. Private detective Joseph Barrett testifies that Pamela was wearing "no clothes at all" and Sweeny was in pajamas when a raiding party burst in on them last July 20. Pamela has two sons by her marriage to Wade and doesn’t contest the divorce. In 1953 Sweeny was on the opposite side of a divorce action after producing testimony of his wife Joanne Connelley’s visit in a hotel with Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa.
January 55 Wade won’t give back her baby photos
