.. when Frederick Gebhard and she bought ranches next door to each other in Lake County, California. She built a winery there that made red wine. She sold the business in 1906, and the “Langtry Farms” are still in business in Middletown, California today.
The divorce between Lillie and husband Edward Langtry finally came to be in 1897. Langtry said her US citizenship and ownership of property in the US made it clear she had no intention of being married to him any more. The “New York Journal” that year published his account of his relationship with her.
(Editor’s note: we wonder why it took him that long! There was yet another affair with a member of British Parliament in there that we didn’t even report on. She’d been having affairs since the 3rd week she was married to him.)
(Advertisement: on the side of everything else, Lillie posed for advertisements aimed at women. The public loved her!)