"Jean Struven Harris" was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s as she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book Scarsdale medical diet/The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.

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Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Slippery bunch, angels, hiding their nasty little sins behind curtsies and compliments, Bibles and badges.