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Ava Gardner
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Gardner lived so much of her life in the spotlight that the tabloid coverage became part of her story. (This book would have benefited from better photographs to capture what all that fuss was about.)
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Ava became pregnant [by actor Howard Duff, in 1948] and decided to have an abortion. He botched the job, not completely removing the fetus. The aftermath was appalling. Her womb was so badly cut that it probably would have been very difficult to have any children. The event so traumatized her that she never fully recovered from the shock, and never had a child.
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Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time.
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Like a number of her characters (such as Pandora Reynolds in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises), Gardner became an American expatriate, living for many years in London. She died there of pneumonia after having completed her autobiography, which was published posthumously.
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The problem with the Chloe Ava bag (as well as Ms. Gardner herself) is that both are unobtainable in some way. Gardner for obvious reasons and the Chloe bag because $1800 is just too much money for most to pay. But that doesn't mean you have to go without – Baghaus has not one but two bags inspired by the Ava.
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Prosecutors say Sykes took more than $1 million worth of property between 2001 and 2005, when she worked as a nurse caring for Gardner's older sister, Myra Pearce. Pearce, Gardner's closest living relative, inherited the estate after Gardner died in 1990.
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