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Billie Holiday

[1] Born in Philadelphia, per birth certificate. Sources vary as to Baltimore or Philadelphia, with even some book-length biographies listing the wrong city. Furthermore, Billie's birth certificate has the name "Elinore Harris" and not "Elinore Fagan" on it, though her maternal grandfather's last name is Fagan (not Pagan) and her mother did adopt that last name later. Billie's parents were unmarried.

Father: Clarence Holiday
Mother: Sadie Harris (later "Sadie Fagan")
Boyfriend: Orson Welles (actor/film director)
Girlfriend: Tallulah Bankhead (actress)
Boyfriend: John Levy
Husband: Jimmy Monroe (m. 25-Aug-1941, div. 1957)
Boyfriend: Joe Guy (common law husband, separated 1957)
Husband: Louis McKay (m. 28-Mar-1957, until her death)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2000 (pioneer)
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1540 N. Vine St. (recording)
unknown detox facility 1947
Raped 1926
Prostitution Harlem, NY 1929
Drug Possession: Heroin 1947
Inmate: Alderson Federal Prison Camp (1947-48)
Drug Possession: Heroin San Francisco, CA 22-Jan-1949, acquitted
Drug Paraphernalia Possession San Francisco, CA 22-Jan-1949, acquitted
Drug Possession 1951
Drug Possession 1956
Drug Possession 1959
Died Intestate
Risk Factors: Depression, Smoking, Alcoholism, Marijuana, Opium, Heroin

FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
New Orleans (18-Apr-1947)

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