Lady Marguerite Alibert The Bordello Debutante
This episode may not be for children
Marguerite Alibert story is one of gritty survival followed by a lucrative life of sex work. Marguerite was a very smart woman born into poverty who rose above her status in life through several marriages and eventually murder.
The orphaned sex worker turned Debutante who would be known as The Bordello Debutante
Marguerite saw love not from a romantic’s point of view, but as a way to survive and thrive in life which lead her down a very peculiar road.
Welcome to peculiar occurrences I am your host Lilith Nova
(Intro)
Marguerite was born in 1890 to a working-class French family — her father worked as a cab driver, and her mother was a maid. When her younger brother was four years old, he was hit in the street and killed. Marguerite’s parents blamed her for his death since she was supposed to be watching him at the time, and they shipped her off to the Sisters of Mary boarding school. At age 15, the nuns placed her in a home where she likely worked as a domestic servant. At 16, she was thrown out for getting pregnant by an unknown man. The daughter she eventually bore was sent away to live on a farm in central France.
Marguerite rarely saw her daughter for the first 7 years of her life.
After she was turned out into the street and had her daughter sent away, Marguerite turned to sex work to make a living. She had seen that there was good money to be made by the upper-class sex workers, known as courtesans. A brothel owner, Madame Denart, discovered Marguerite and took her under her wing. She described young Marguerite as “the mistress of nearly all my best clients, gentleman of wealth and position in France, England, America and other countries… It was me that made a sort of lady of her.” And she did she taught Margarette how to behave in high class society and how to keep up in conversation with wealthy men. As well the barcelo they worked was very high class and known for being very discreet as well to feeding to pleasures of all kids especially those of a bi sexual nature. So Marguerite learned to be a expert in the art of pleasure an often dominated and controlled what happened in the bed room which many of her clients liked. She was expected to be a high class proper lady in public yet any mans desire in privet.
In 1907, Marguerite met a man named Andre Meller. She was 17; he was 40. He was wealthy and owned a stable full of horses, which Marguerite loved. He bought her an apartment so they could conduct their relationship in private, and she took his last name. She claimed that they were married, but in reality, Meller was still technically married to his first wife
In 1917, Marguerite was introduced to her next grand love affair — Prince Edward VIII. He was serving with British troops in France during WWI and had already lost his virginity to a courtesan “borrowed” from a friend. His friends decided that 23-year-old Edward needed to have a more thorough sexual experience — “a full education from an experienced woman.” Since a friend already knew of Marguerite, it was arranged that the two would meet. They had a passionate affair edward would send love letters to Marguerite with pictures of him self but her not being the sort of woman he could marry he lost interest with in a year or so. It was said that he would take her for rides in his Roles royce and that after the affair was over she may have used his letters and pictures to black male the prince for money.
Marguerite began to make a living by seducing and courting wealthy men, and it was paying off well. She was receiving many valuable trinkets and gifts — along with a settlement from Andre Meller the 1st husband a sort of hush money but she wanted more she wanted status as well as wealth. She found her first legal husband, Charles Laurent, in 1919. The marriage was not what either of them wanted and was dissolved after only six months, but Marguerite did achieve her end goal — a large divorce settlement. That money paid for her apartment, as well as a stable of horses, cars, and servants. Marguerite was getting close to the life she wanted.
Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey first met Marguerite Laurent in 1921, and was immediately taken by her even though she was escorting a wealthy businessman at the time. Ali was not technically a prince; he was, however, ridiculously wealthy and had been given the title of “Bey,” the equivalent of “Lord.” And was a young 22 year old handsome man He managed to arrange a meeting for the two of them in 1922 and soon proposed marriage to Marguerite and invited her to come live with him in Cairo. She hesitated but eventually agreed.
When she married Lord Ali, Marguerite had two clauses drawn up stating that she would be allowed to wear western clothing, and that she would be allowed to divorce him. In exchange, she would convert to Islam (and thus receive his inheritance). Just before the wedding, the divorce clause was thrown out — and he added a clause that would allow him to take extra wives.
Ali Expected Her To Be A Submissive Wife — That Didn’t Go Over Too Well
The marriage between Marguerite and her Lord Ali was, unsurprisingly, an unhappy one. A woman as shrewd, independent, and openly sexual as Marguerite was never going to be the submissive, obedient, and proper Islamic wife Ali desired. The couple fought like cats and dogs, occasionally in public. It was said that Marguerite humiliated Lord Ali with her behavior.
Marguerite grew increasingly unhappy with the way Bey Fahmy treated her — especially sexually. There were rumors in Egypt regarding the bey’s alleged homosexuality which was illegal at the time, and Marguerite claimed at one point to have been “torn” by “unnatural” intercourse. It was thought by those who knew her that she might be ramping up to another big divorce payout, as she was making a list of all the abuses that Ali had committed against her. It was said she reported hemorrhoids and tearing in her anus from unnatural sex forced on her by her husband she asked a Cairo doctor to make a report of her injuries in which he refused.
On July 9, 1923, the couple attended a showing of “The Merry Widow” in London. After they returned to their hotel, they had a violent fight, and the Lord left the room for a few hours. Around 2 am, when he arrived back there were three shots fired — Marguerite had shot Ali, execution-style, with the Browning .32 pistol that she had been keeping under her pillow. She was arrested, and Ali died of his injuries an hour later.
Years before she killed her husband, Marguerite had tried to blackmail Prince Edward by claiming that she had kept all of the scandalous letters he had sent her. Before the murder trial, she brought the blackmail tactic back into play.
We think there are about 20 letters…which are wildly indiscreet. He’s said things about the conduct of the War that might have been misinterpreted, he’s made rude remarks about his father, and there’s commonly a sexual content in them as well. They are not the kind of letters that he would have wanted the world to know about. So she used the letters to get the best lawyers and a Jury of oh most all woman bearly of legal age.
When Marguerite was tried for the murder of husband, nobody realized what was going on behind the scenes of her trial. Had they been revealed, the letters she had been holding onto from Prince Edward would have been incredibly damaging for the English Royal Family, and they were ready to do anything to keep the story away from the public. There was a deal made with officials in the court, and her past was not allowed to be brought up during her trial — this ensured that Prince Edward was not mentioned. Instead, they painted a picture of her dead husband that was so vile (and racist) the jury let her go with no convictions.
During her trial in September 1923, crowds lined around the building to watch. People would send servants to save them seats, and some even paid for a place to sit in the courtroom. Mostly because of Marguerite’s former job as a courtesan — and her connection to the British Royal Family — her trial became something of an event.
Thanks To Blackmail, A Jury In England Found Marguerite To Be A Victim Of Abuse By Her Husband
The family tried to stop her from getting anything of her husbands after his death and since there was no will it went to court yet a settlement was eventually reached to where she got a portan of his holdings and kept her Title and status she had gotten from him as LAdy Margrett
Marguerite Spent The Rest Of Her Life Living Comfortably In Paris
After the death of her husband and her non-conviction for his murder, Marguerite returned to Paris to live out the rest of her life. She played small parts in movies and continued to charm wealthy men until she eventually backed away from the public spotlight. She died at the age of 80, still carrying her husband’s title. She had succeeded in making affairs into a business — after she died, her grandson found that her lavish life had been funded by settlements from five different men.
So what do you think about this peculiar woman? Have you ever heard of Lady Marguerite Alibert The Bordello Debutante or her peculiar life. A part of me feels for everything she had to go through and the other part of me struggles to understand how she got away with all of this. But please I want to know what you think about this down below.
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