THE DAILY EXPRESS

London, England

14 February 1955

(page 3)

'Vanished' Tiger Woman is Found.

The "Tiger Woman" has been found. Former Epstein [Jacob Epstein] model Betty May turned up yesterday to tell how she "vanished" 20 years ago.

This gay glamour girl of the 1920's, four times married, was the "Tiger Woman" of her autobiography.

"Won't it be fun if my publishers have accumulated some royalties for me?" she said. For it was a request for news of her from her publishers that put Betty May in the headlines again this week-end.

She sipped tea in a semi-basement bed-sitter in Luton-road, Chatham, yesterday. Still vivacious, still audacious, owning to 60 years, but looking little more than 40.

Memories . . .

After she disappeared from London she "went North," she said. Then for three years after the war she camped out in a beauty spot. After that, to her bed-sitter in Chatham.

She talked about her book [Tiger Woman]—"It's years since I even saw it. I'd forgotten all about it until I saw the story in the Daily Express."

She remembered the time she was a key witness in a libel action brought by Aleister Crowley against a woman writer who alleged he dabbled in black magic.

She remembered the time a young man asked her to lend him the price of a drink in the Café Royal. She paid for the brandy, he drank it, pulled out a revolver and shot himself—and Betty May discovered he had just murdered his girl friend.