Kathleen — Amanda Hart Douglass

The Most Desirable Woman in New York
Kathleen Holliday was the most famous actress in America, but what most people didn't know was that she had been born Katie O'Dowd in New York's most notorious slum district, The Five Points, the daughter of a drunken thief and a dying prostitute. By the ruthless use of her beauty and brains, she surmounted every obstacle in her rise from obscurity.

Rich and powerful men -- princes and millionaires -- flocked around her as moths to a flame, and though she used them without compunction she always remained maddeningly aloof because there was an emptiness inside her that no man could ever hope to fill.