Crocker would live off and on for the next 27 years in the City of Lights, throwing sensational and neurotic parties and housing young artists and exiled Russian nobles. She briefly lived in an artist colony at Hôtel Biron whose other residents included Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Jean Cocteau and Isadora Duncan. After Gouraud's death, Crocker was romantically linked to many high-profile men including: Eduardo García-Mansilla, the great Argentinean musician, composer and diplomat, with whom she wrote a song Mon Amour; Genia D'Agarioff, opera baritone singer, who is credited with being the first person to sing in the Russian language in London and Paris; composer, performer, designer, director, and arranger Melville Ellis; Jacques Lebaudy, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the Sahara"; and legendary French actor Édouard de Max, “The Most Beautiful Man in Paris.” Another notable suitor during this period was famous ceremonial magician, occultist, Tantra master and hedonist Aleister Crowley. Crowley wrote about their memorable decade long affair in graphic detail in his journals. He proposed marriage to Crocker nearly every time he saw her or wrote to her. Though she kept the name Gouraud for the rest of her life, Crocker went on to marry and divorce two more times, both to Russian princes decades younger than her. Her fourth husband, Alexander Miskinoff, caused a stir on two continents when he was accused of having an extramarital affair with Crocker's then 15-year-old adopted daughter, Yvonne. Aimée would marry her fifth and final husband, Prince Mstislav Galitzine, when she was 61 and he was 26. When asked by a friend who lost count of her marriages whether Mstislav was her fifth or sixth husband, she said, “The prince is my twelfth husband if I include in my matrimonial list seven Oriental husbands, not registered under the laws of the Occident.” Death Crocker died on February 7, 1941. She is interred in the Crocker family plot along with her third husband, Jackson, and two of her daughters in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery. The brass urns holding both her ashes and the ashes of her third husband, Jackson Gouraud, were stolen. References Further reading Taylor, Kevin (2017). Aimée Crocker: Queen of Bohemia, Los Angeles: City of Angels Books. External links www.aimeecrocker.com The Exhausting and Exhilarating Tale of Aimée Crocker by Libby Purves at the-tls.co.uk Meet Aimée Crocker: Sacramento's Bohemian Princess & ArtMix Muse at the Crocker Art Museum 1863 births 1941