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Edward "Ned" Beale McLean (1889 – July 28, 1941) was the publisher and owner of The Washington Post newspaper, from 1916 until 1933. His wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, was a prominent Washington socialite. McLean was also a thoroughbred racehorse owner and purchaser of the Hope Diamond, which was traditionally believed to carry a curse.
On August 16, 1943, she married Edward Beale McLean Jr., a son of heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean and Edward Beale McLean, heir to The Washington Post. McLean, whose mother had owned the Hope diamond, had previously been married to Ann Carroll Meem, of Washington, D.C., from May 1938 to July 1943.
Dopo le proprie difficoltà finanziarie, il diamante fu venduto all’asta nel 1909. Nel 1910 il gioielliere francese Pierre Cartier acquistò la pietra all'asta e la vendette nel 1911 a Edward Beale McLean, proprietario del Washington Post, che la donò alla moglie.
26 set 2023 · She had married Edward Beale McLean (also rich) in 1908, and three years later the couple purchased the stone, which was cut from Louis XIV’s “French Blue,” for a cool $180,000 (equivalent to...
- Beth Py-Lieberman
Personal life. In 1908, she married Edward "Ned" Beale McLean, the son of John Roll McLean and heir to The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer publishing fortune. They had four children, two of whom predeceased their parents:
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- Heiress
- Evalyn Walsh, August 1, 1886, Leadville, Colorado, U.S.
- Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Three days later, an enterprising Associated Press correspondent tracked down Edward “Ned” Beale McLean, erstwhile owner and former publisher of the Post, at a Montreal hospital, where, as the reporter charitably put it, he was “undergoing treatment.” One year earlier, his name had been stripped from the Post ’s masthead.
He married Ann Carroll Meem on 6 May 1938, in District of Columbia, United States. He lived in Broadmoor, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1940 and Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1946. He died on 17 January 1987, in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States, at the age of 68.
