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In the 1920s she settled down in Seattle, Washington and invested in apartment houses. This gave her the opportunity to meet many rich men and was said to have married several times. She continued to travel and earned the monikers the “Toast of the Barbary Coast” and “The Belle of New York”. Louis”, in the Budweiser Pavilion at the World’s Fair.
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On the ground floor of the building was classiest dance hall and saloon in town, while the second floor contained ten small rooms which served as the brothel.Īfter her stay in Alaska, she returned to the Vaudeville circuit and in 1904, she became the “Voice of St. Today, her bordello still stands in Skagway, called the Red Onion Saloon. Nevertheless, she was fully entrenched in ‘the world’s oldest profession.” But Diamond Lil was a courtesan in the fullest sense of the word, only entertaining the obviously rich clients who could pay handsomely for what she had to offer. “Certainly nature had fashioned her into a perfect beauty and at first glance, she did appear to be a person of real refinement. Rosalie in June 1898 to meet her husband: She was described by Ella Lang Martinson, who was making a trip north on the S.S. She was said to have spent a couple of years in Skagway where she collected and wore other diamond-studded jewelry, including a white gold snake bracelet studded with 125 real diamonds that scaled the length of her arm. Red Onion Saloon, Skagway, Alaska, courtesy Wikipedia