Evening star., 1944-12-15
Lupe veIez Ends Life;
Leaves Note Blaming
Unrequited Love
By the Associated Press.

don's most colorful figures, has
passed from the Hollywood scene.
Her suicide was as spectacular
as her meteoric rise from q 15-year-
old shopgirl in Mexico to a full
blown movie actress.
The 34-year-old actress was found
dead in her lavlishly furnished
home yesterday. An overdose of a
hypnotic drug was ascribed as the
probable cause of death.
Tucked into the satin pillow case
of Lupe's silk-sheeted bed were two
notes, in her angular handwriting,
that indicated generalization.
Note Addressed to Actor.
One, addressed only to Harald
but which police said was for
Harald ACKNOWLEDGMENT, French
actor known in Hollywood as Harold
Ramona. said:
May God forgive you and forgive
me, too, but prefer to take my own
life away and our baby's before !
bring him with shame, or killing
(sic) him. How could you, Harald,
fake such great love for me and our
baby when all the time you didn't
want us? I see no other way out
for kle. SO good-by and good luck to
you. Love, Lupe."
To Capt. w. w. White of the Bev-
erly Hills police, Ramona said:
u told Lupe I would marry her if
she was expecting an infant. I told
her of my great love for her and
begged her to marry me. She
laughed and said she wasn't expect
ing baby at all, that the whole
thing was only joke. A ter
rible, awful joke"
1t was only short time ago that
Lupe gayly told newsmen that she
was going to marry Ramona, for
merly in the French Army, because,
when she became obstreperous, 'he
tell me where to go; he's the only
man who knows how to handle
Lupe."
Quarreied Over Politics.
Then Lupe and Harald quarreled
over politics. She announced they
were through and brusquely added
that she preferred her dogs, chips
and chops, anyway, and was going
on to New York and forget about
romance.
Yesterday morning servants found
her snuggled in her bed, her long
black hair in disarray across her
pillow. Sleeping pills were spilled
on the silk coverlet; there were
others on the night stand. Lupe
had been dead about two hours. An
tnhalator was of no avail
An autopsy showed Lupe would
have become a mother in five
months. DR.. Victor Cefalu, the au-
topsy surgeon, said he found no
natural cause of death. He will
make a chemical analysis of the
stomach content.
To Lupe's secretary, Mrs. Beulah
Kinder, whom she addressed as
MY dear friend" she left a note
saying: You and only you know
the facts for the reason I am taking
my life. May God forgive me and
don't think bad of me. Take care
of your mother, so good-by and try
to forgive me. Say good-by to all
my friends and the American press
that were always so nice to me-"
Decided to Quit Fighting.
Lupe, who only Wednesday had
told Estelle Taylor, actress and for
mer wife of Jack Dempsey, I've
never known man with whom I
didn't have to fight to exist" had
decided to quit fighting.
The former sweetheart of many
of flmdom's great, including the
late John Gilbert, Arturo De Cor
doba, Producer Winfield Sheehan
and Gary Cooper, was tired of
everything. Her only marriage, to
Johnny (Tarzan Weismuller, one
time Olympic swimming star, ended
with divorce.
Lupe, who was christened Guada-
lue Villalobos Velez in San Luis
Potosi, Mexico, was under a $4,000
a-week personal appearance con-
tract and had another for radio
broadcasts.
The last bizarre touch to the
whole proceedings was given last
night by Ramona, who was born
Peter Maresch. in Vienna, June 9,
1917. He decided to tell his story
at press conference in his apart
ment. The sum and substance of
this public gesture was this:
Il loved Lupe-I knew about the
child-but I didn't know what to
do"
Became Engaged Last July.
Ramona said that when Lupe's
doctor told him she was going to
have baby Il called her up and
asked her to marry me-"
I insisted on a wedding event."
the actor added, but she laughed
at me and said: Tn only kidding.
I'm not expecting a baby at ALL"
The actor said he had known
Miss Velez for about a year and
that they became engaged last
July Il was very much in love
with her, wanted to marry her"
said Ramona. Our plans were
made to that end.
circumstances were such that we
had to postpone the date of our
marriage. She then made plans
to leave at once on a personal ap-
pearance tour, and announced to the
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