Did he cause you some difficulty with respect to accusing you of being a Communist?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. I don't know if you have a letter, I wish I would have a letter what he did. You see I had charge accounts throughout the country, because I was making very good money. Lord and Taylor, Saks, all the biggest restaurants everywhere. And when that happened, I actually told him that is the end, I am divorcing you, and that is it, and there will be no change back, nothing at all, he sent out letters to all of these places, to all the restaurants, all the department stores, including Niemans, and I believe Niemans showed me the letter, and there was a Golden Pheasant Restaurant--they showed me the letter--that so and so, and he expressed in a horrible way that Eugenia Fomenko Bogoiavlensky, my ex-wife, she is--almost putting that I am a spy, and God knows what in it, and that he is not responsible for my debts, for my accounts.
It was 1957, and since 1941 I was the one that made all the money in the family. I was the one making all these things, bringing up my child. So that was horrible. That is not all. He sent letters, and he signed "FBI"--make believe they are from the FBI. He sent to all my people in New York, firms that I work with, that also I am a spy or something, this and that, horrible.
And I was in Europe that summer. And a friend of mine came over and said "What is the matter with you?" She said, "What happened to you? The FBI are looking for you."
I said, "Are you kidding me?"
She said, "No ;" one of the manufacturers showed her the letter.
I said, "For God sakes, this is ridiculous, I never heard of such a thing.
So when I come back to New York I right away went to see all of them.
They said, some were laughing about it. But some I know they had a little something behind their heads.

Mr. Jenner.

They were worried?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; even a thing like that, a prank like that, already set people thinking. And do you know that I could not get a job in New York, just because of that? And, fortunately, being in Texas, I switched to designing dresses and sportswear, and I had two jobs in no time in that market.
And I was able to get--I lost my job in Texas while I was in Europe because of that.
He sent that to my employer.
I never told that--I don't know if my present husband knows it--because that would really kill him, a thing like that.
But it was eventually straightened out. But I was actually out, I couldn't get a job, my daughter had to go to the university, I had to send her money. I had nothing.

Mr. Jenner.

Where was she attending a university?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. UCLA.

Mr. Jenner.

When was this?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. In 1957. Fall of 1957.

Mr. Jenner.

Did your daughter come to live with you right after she was----
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. She came over for summer.

Mr. Jenner.

In 1957?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; I will tell you. It is really a very tragic thing. I knew I should have dropped this when she was 6 years old, because he was a very, very wonderful person, her father. But we just had different views on life, and liked to do entirely different things. And he just could not adapt himself to the country.
I know a few people that when they lose everything they are lost. Whatever we had, it is never the same. It never was good enough. Our daughter would never have what we had in childhood.
He was from a very wealthy family, and, fortunately, I was, too.
I said, "For goodness sakes, who cares? We are alive. How many people are dead already? We are here. It is a new country. We will make what we want to make out of it."
I started from $25 a week. And in New York I was making $1,100 a week. That is what you can do in this country, if you put your mind to it, and you work. And if you don't have a negative attitude.

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