Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-03
TO SUE FOR DIVORCE
COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE,
FORMERLY MISS ANNA GOULD.
She Has Left Her Home and Gone to
a Hotel-Friends Trying
for Reconciliation.

According to Paris cable dispatches the
Countess de Castsllane, formerly Miss Anna
Gould. after having had her husband close
ly watched for some time, il to sue him for
divorce.
The countess Is understood to have left
tho Castellane mansion precipitately last
week, and for five days her whereabouts
were unknown to her husband or any men,
Der of his family. 1t was supposed she
had sailed for New York. However. an in
vestigation showed that she had not booked
passage on La Savoie. which sailed today.
The facts seem to be that the former
Miss Gould left the mansion after a scene
with Count Boni. when she Indignantly ac-
cused him. She left with only a handbag
and was accompanied by a maid.
During the last four days the countess
has been at the Hotel Bristol. In the Place
Vendome. The count has not been at home
since the countess left and he is supposed
to have been living at the club.
Friends Trying for Reconciliation.
An intimate family friend. who claims to
have seen both the count and countess.
says the family Is trying its utmost TO ef-
feet reconciliation between the couple
and to bring them together. According to
this friend, an amcable settlement OF the
trouble is expected For this reason, II Is
saio. the family is trying to avoid the un-
happiness OF the pupnCllN VI lllt sNoiS u
temporary domestic discord
1t is now within a month of eleven years
since Anna Gould was married TO the
Count Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane'
The ceremony was performed at the home
OF her brother George on March L. 1899. by
the late Archbishop Corrigan, a civil mar
riagc by Justice George Andrews following
From that time the Casteilanes have been
almost constantly in the public prints as
the result of the counts extravagances'
Uarrels political ambitions.
The wedding was one of the early IN
star ces Of the foreign nobieman capturing
the American heiresS, and, despite the bril-
liant ceremonies of a similar nature that
have taken place since II Is stlll VIVID III
he memo rieS of those who attended II.
The Casteilanes have three children,
George Boni and Jay, the last named being
the youngest and named after the rather OF
the countess.
When the couple left this country the
countess. who was then In her eighteenth
year, had as her share of the jay Goula
estate a fortune of S1S,oo0,UOO Whlch EleIu-
ed her an income of over S6o,Vo year,
This looked enormous to every one but the
count but it became evident within rev
months that he intended to show how 10
live UP TO It,
The Counts Extravaganza.
There wasn't a house in Paris that was
anything like what he wanted. Nothing
would do him but a copy of the Grand 1T
anon at Versailles, for several years he
bent himself to the task of producing the
copy He bought palaces to cut out the
mural decorations and install them In ms
Paris mansion, and he ransacked tie cor
tineut for the costliest art treasures 10 fur-
nish his palace. He built it on the Bois de
Boloene While he was scattering ms
money Paris laughed and the Gouios
frowned.
He spent a great fortune on the marble
foundations alone and he was so AFRAID
that the SG0000 a year might pile up before
he could spend it that he began to buy al
most everything that was offered to him IN
the art markets. Finally he was spending
faster than the $1S,0p.0Go could earn, and
friends of the Castellanes began to talk
about their debts.
Count Boni's subsequent troubles, his po-
litical career, his newspaper work, ms
u11arrels and the like have been kept before
the public pretty constantly. The latest
news from Paris won't create surprise. 1t
would take a good deal more than divorce
proceedings in connection with Count Boni
to do that.