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Winnaretta Singer funded a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, but she also had outraged husbands yell dueling challenges under her windows when she stole their wives.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
Music’s Modern Muse by Sylvia Kahan
Des Américaines à Paris: 1850-1920 by Gérard Bonal
Mrs. Keppel and her Daughter by Diana Souhami