Hallie Rubenhold

So God knows he has an interesting past with women.

Belle ended up having an abortion.

And her abortion doctor...

and abortion was illegal at the time, was actually Dr. Crippen and a colleague of his.

And weirdly, the relationship between them blossomed from there.

Crippen had only recently become a widower.

His wife, Charlotte, died under mysterious circumstances in Salt Lake City.

And they were quickly married.

They were not very well suited to one another.

Belle had a very vivacious personality.

I mean, she was a performer and she was much younger than him.

And he decided he didn't want any children.

And so he had her sterilized.

He had her ovaries removed when she was about 21.

And I mean, that's pretty shocking, because if you're a woman in the Victorian era, the one thing you are told you're supposed to be is a mother and a wife, and she couldn't be a mother.

So as a real testament to who she was, she could have really wilted under that major disappointment in her life.

And instead, she decided to reinvent herself as an opera singer.

and she took opera lessons and she fashioned herself into an opera singer.

And then when they moved to London, she decided to again reinvent herself as a musical performer because that part of her life didn't take off.

She didn't become as successful, famous as she wanted.