“BLONDE VENUS”
INVOLVED IN TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIRS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 20. The Athens correspondent of “The Daily Express” reveals the tragic love affair of Baroness von Tropp, known as the “Blonde Venus,” and King Zog, of Albania. The Baroness was found to-day with a bullet in the brain on a lonely beach at Phaleron Bay. She left her Viennese husband a year ago, and went to live with King Zog at Tirana. Here she met Kemal Bey, Marshal at the King’s Palace, and fell in love with him. King Zog, furious, issued a regulation forbidding civil servants to marry foreigners, while Kemal Bey was sent to Athens as Albanian Minister. The baroness later secretly followed Kemal Bay to Athens, although she told King Zog she was going to Corfu. Finally, fearing that she would blast Kemal Bey’s career, the baroness committed suicide.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19805, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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