Phillip Gowan
RIP
James-
As best as I've been able to determine Dorothy and her mother were always very close. Pauline had three children and two died in infancy--so apparently she was very protective of Dorothy as her only surviving child. Also, Dorothy wasn't a Gibson at all. Dorothy was born to Pauline by her first marriage to John Brown. Later Pauline married Leonard C. Gibson and they had no children of their own but Dorothy used that surname. When Dorothy was asked to name her father on legal documents, she claimed his name was John Gibson--a morph of the first name of her biological father and her step-father.
When Dorothy and Brulatour divorced she went to Europe accompanied by her mother and the two remained in Europe the rest of their lives though at times the two lived in different countries. Leonard Gibson was left behind in New York and never went to Europe--I'm not even sure that Pauline came back to his funeral though they were never divorced.
Bordering on larcenous??? The story is much worse than that. Larceny would have been child's play compared to what it appears that these two may have done. Regardless of the image Dorothy projected during her starlet years, these were not nice people. Dorothy died in Paris and Pauline, who was 79 at the time, lived in another country and I'm not sure she made it to Dorothy's funeral--it appears she did not. But Dorothy did leave a written will (included in her bio here on ET) and left her mother everything she owned with a contingency clause stating that in the event Pauline predeceased her, her longtime paramour, a Spanish diplomat named Antonio Ramos, would inherited her estate. Ramos remained involved in Pauline's life until she died although things did get uuugly between them. When taken as a whole, the Gibson saga relating to Titanic was a small footnote to what was to come later. I'll eventually make it all public--but am not through with the research--kind of like the Clinton pardons, the new and sordid twists in the story continue to crop up constantly. It will take me a while longer to obtain all the relative details so that I can publish some sort of truly comprehensive biography of these two.
I've said too much, so better stop for now. I really am very anxious to finish my research on these people but it will take some time as I'm having to deal with foreign entities and communicate in languages I don't speak well. But maybe this starts to answer your question about the relationship.
Regards,
Phillip
As best as I've been able to determine Dorothy and her mother were always very close. Pauline had three children and two died in infancy--so apparently she was very protective of Dorothy as her only surviving child. Also, Dorothy wasn't a Gibson at all. Dorothy was born to Pauline by her first marriage to John Brown. Later Pauline married Leonard C. Gibson and they had no children of their own but Dorothy used that surname. When Dorothy was asked to name her father on legal documents, she claimed his name was John Gibson--a morph of the first name of her biological father and her step-father.
When Dorothy and Brulatour divorced she went to Europe accompanied by her mother and the two remained in Europe the rest of their lives though at times the two lived in different countries. Leonard Gibson was left behind in New York and never went to Europe--I'm not even sure that Pauline came back to his funeral though they were never divorced.
Bordering on larcenous??? The story is much worse than that. Larceny would have been child's play compared to what it appears that these two may have done. Regardless of the image Dorothy projected during her starlet years, these were not nice people. Dorothy died in Paris and Pauline, who was 79 at the time, lived in another country and I'm not sure she made it to Dorothy's funeral--it appears she did not. But Dorothy did leave a written will (included in her bio here on ET) and left her mother everything she owned with a contingency clause stating that in the event Pauline predeceased her, her longtime paramour, a Spanish diplomat named Antonio Ramos, would inherited her estate. Ramos remained involved in Pauline's life until she died although things did get uuugly between them. When taken as a whole, the Gibson saga relating to Titanic was a small footnote to what was to come later. I'll eventually make it all public--but am not through with the research--kind of like the Clinton pardons, the new and sordid twists in the story continue to crop up constantly. It will take me a while longer to obtain all the relative details so that I can publish some sort of truly comprehensive biography of these two.
I've said too much, so better stop for now. I really am very anxious to finish my research on these people but it will take some time as I'm having to deal with foreign entities and communicate in languages I don't speak well. But maybe this starts to answer your question about the relationship.
Regards,
Phillip
. Also not very juicy--just an obit. I promise to post it as soon as I can find it. 