Marguerite Alibert lived many different lives. She had gone from poverty to prostitution to princes – not just one, but two. She was a beautiful yet hard woman who survived the gritty world of Paris poverty, only to mingle among France’s elite. Marguerite viewed sex and love not from a romantic perspective, but as a means to first survive, and later thrive. She managed to transform herself from a prostitute, to a consort, to a defendant in the trial of her husband’s murder. In 1923, Marguerite shot her second husband three times in the back at the Savoy Hotel in London. In the end, Marguerite went down in history as the French prostitute who got away with murder.
