Some years earlier, Willie had met a lovely blond woman named Nellie Neustretter at a racetrack in France and had installed her in apartments in Paris and Deauville. He’d not only kitted her out in finery and servants, but he carried on with her publicly and didn’t even have the decency to deny it when Alva confronted him. Nellie was twenty-five with a toddler and a weeks-old baby.
