Emily Edith Ann “Mimi”
Luhan Boomhower
BIRTH3 Jun 1896
Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
DEATH18 Aug 1949 (aged 53)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial Details Unknown
Emily "Mimi" Luhan Boomhower was a well-known socialite, who frequented Hollywood nightclubs and was seen at all the prestigious events throughout town. Mimi had inherited her late husband's fortune and lived in their 10 room, Spanish style mansion in the middle of Bel-Air.
A big game hunter, who took Mimi on safaris with him, Novice Boomhower was a linoleum magnate, who had died six years earlier. Mimi Boomhower disappeared from her Bel-Air home on 8/18/1949.
When police arrived for a welfare check, the lights were on and a salad was left out on the dining table. One of Mimi's dresses was laid out on her bed. Her car was still in the garage and there was no sign of a robbery. Boomhower's white calfskin handbag was found in a telephone booth at a supermarket on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles on August 25, a week after she disappeared. On the side of the purse someone had written a message in ink: "Police Dept. - we found this at beach Thursday night." Thursday was the day of Boomhower's disappearance.
Mimi was eventually declared dead and her body has never been found. May she Rest In Peace.
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Emily Mimi Luhan Boomhower was a well-known socialite, who frequented Hollywood nightclubs and was seen at all the prestigious events throughout town. Mimi had inherited her late husband's fortune and lived in their 10 room, Spanish style mansion in the middle of Bel-Air. A big game hunter, who...
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