In the latter years of 1920’s, Jeanne La Mar was reported by a news article in the Chicago Tribune, January 3, 1928, that a fight took place with her husband. The headliner read the following: Woman Boxer Loses Bout with Mate; Calls Police. They stated that the night before there were excited cries by a female who sounded like she was being murdered. In Los Angeles, California, the Hollywood police showed up to the apartment she was living at the time and that they found “Professional Boxer Jeanne La Mar, engaged in a fist fight with her manager/husband, Thomas Failace.
She had just married Failace on December 20, 1027.
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