Dear TCL Readers, Over the weekend, The Cut published my latest feature, on the brief life and tragic death of a young woman who, like so many young women half a century ago and now, left a small town, and her original name, behind for big city dreams. She met a man and fell in love and when she learned the romance was built on lies, she jumped from the Queensboro Bridge in the wee hours of a summer night in 1966. She called herself Estelle Evans, but her real name was Gloria D’Argenio. She knew him as Michael King, but he was really Meir Kahane, and would go on to found the Jewish Defense League.
Just to say I value your writing, and thank you. Rebecca Roxburgh Butler