Discover the story of the song > The Crime of the Century – original broadway cast of ragtime: the musical

The song is about a woman named Evelyn Nesbit who was put on a velvet swing by an architect named Stanford White when she was only fifteen. Later, she married an eccentric millionaire named Harry Thaw who killed White out of jealousy. In the end, Thaw was found not guilty because he was declared insane, and Nesbit became famous.