the black widow

Domenica Guillaume Walter, the Guillaume Walter Collection and L’Affaire Lacaze

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Phillipe Cendron painted this portrait of Domenica in the years before — well, everything (image via Wikimedia Commons)

Faking a pregnancy. Forging a will. Bribing a callgirl. Conspiring to murder.

Domenica Guillaume Walter concocted these schemes — and, likely, numerous others — to retain control of a world-changing art collection.

And in 1959, when tabloids broke news of her plots, the world couldn’t get enough of “the black widow” of Paris and her “L’Affaire Lacaze.”