User:Taradrew/Llewella Humphreys

Health Problems
“Murray spent over thirty-six thousand dollars on her hospital bills.” Jeanne Humphreys.

In 1958, Llewella was commited to a Kansas City sanitarium.

Personal Experience With Murray Humphreys and His Daughter Llewella
The following personal experience with Murray Humphreys and his daughter Llewella is reported by Professor Lawrence A. Jegen III, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.

"I graduated from South Shore High School, on the South side of Chicago, as did Llewella Humphreys, during May, 1952. Our graduation prom was held just prior to our graduation ceremonies and, as most graduating high school students, we wanted to do something special for our prom night.  With no prodding by us, Murray Humphreys arranged for eight graduating students, which included Llewella and her date and me and my date, to be driven, on a beautiful Saturday night, in a limousine to and from the Chez Peri, which was a very fashionable downtown Chicago restaurant and night club with stage or floor shows and which was known to be owned by or certainly frequented by Chicago gangsters and their guests.  When we arrived, at the Chez Peri that night, there was a line of potential customers which went at least around the corner of the street which the restaurant was located, because Frank Sinatra was the featured attraction on that night.

The limousine stopped in front of the Chez Peri’s front entrance, and after the limousine driver told the restaurant greeters that we were the guests of Murray Humphreys, we were immediately taken into the Chez Peri. When we entered the dining and floor show area, one of the managers had the dancing couples stop dancing and return to their tables, and then, a large table was put on the dance floor for the eight of us in order to have dinner. We were catered to by several waiters for an hour or so, and then, the floor show began and Frank Sinatra came on to the stage, where we were still sitting, and he sang most of the songs of his performance directly to our 'Chicago eight' high school graduating party. Our 'Chicago eight' group was formed long before the more famous 'Chicago eight' group, which made significant headlines during and after the 1968 Democratic National Convention. After Sinatra's performance, we provided the waiters with tips which we, as high school students, believed to be very generous, but the meals were all paid for by Murray Humphreys.

Both before and after that night, Llewella was a close friend to many of us and she was a very fine and talented individual. If she eventually became mentally disturbed, as stated above, it may have been caused by the beatings, which Llewella told me that her father gave to her if he was not satisfied with her school report cards (or if she committed an infraction of some other family rule), and which beatings left clear strap marks on her arms and shoulders, and presumably on her back. However, at least for one very special night, Murray Humphreys made his daughter and seven other high school students very happy."

Destitute Millionairess
After her father's death Luella Brady, as she had come to call herself, made visits to Zurich, Switzerland, and lived off her father's Swiss bank account, bloated with the ill-gotten gains of four decades. However, in the early 1980's, her personal attorney Coy McKenzie talked her into investing the last of her inheritance in what turned out to be a land purchase scam - which, in the words of the Daily Oklahoman: "led to financial ruin and disbarment for him and left a millionairess destitute and without food."