Jean Harris — Criminal

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 The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet... (wikipedia)

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
Overnight I became a cottage industry.
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.