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Mabel Boll (December 1, 1893 – April 11, 1949), known as the "Queen of Diamonds", was an American socialite involved in the early days of record-setting flights in the 1920s. She garnered nicknames from the press, including "Broadway’s most beautiful blonde" and the "$250,000-a-day bride". ==Early life== Boll made many claims later in life that she was an heiress and was a member of a wealthy family. The truth was that her father, George, was a bartender in Rochester, New York. She was, however, attractive, a short, dark-eyed, and "vividly blonde" beauty. Her early employment was selling cigars in Rochester.〔"Aeronautics: Tale of Two." ''Time'', June 18, 1928.〕 Boll became an experienced horse rider,〔Sloate 1990, p. 41.〕 and married businessman Robert Scott in 1909.〔 In 1914 she had a son, Robert Scott II. Boll was known as "The Queen of Diamonds" because of the amount of jewelry she publicly displayed.〔Naughton, Russell. ("Mabel Boll." ) ''The Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering (CTIE)'', 2015. Retrieved: February 7, 2013.〕 At times, she would wear over $400,000 in jewelry in public and was photographed wearing a sweater made of gold and platinum.〔''The Atlantic Monthly'', Volume 159.〕 In 1922, Boll married Colombian coffee king Hernando Rocha, who presented her with over a million dollars in jewels and an emerald-cut diamond bearing her name "The Mabel Boll". The diamond was purchased by the Harry Winston collection upon Boll's death in 1949. In 1934, Boll made headlines again as the "Countess de la Porceerei" in Nice, France when her 27-year-old boyfriend Georges Chariot shot himself on her lawn.〔''Rochester Evening Journal'', May 15, 1934.〕 In February 1940, Boll married for the fifth time, a harp player from Florida.〔""A Woman's New York: Barrymore topic of day; Mabel Boll remarries." ''The Washington Post'', February 9, 1940.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mabel Boll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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