- Following her untimely death, movie theatres across the country presented her films, advertising them as starring the victim of a sensational Hollywood murder.
- By September 17, 1921, the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America Association had prohibited all of her films in order to prevent exploiting her death.
- The Labor Day party that she attended where she died, took place in the suite of rooms 1219, 1220 and 1221 of the St. Francis Hotel, overlooking San Francisco's Union Square.
- Recently discovered documents prove Virginia Rappe's birth date as July 7, 1891.
- Engaged to director/producer Henry Lehrman at the time of her untimely death.
- Henry Lehrman paid $1000 to cover her casket in flowers at her funeral. He was later interred beside her at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
- A few years before she died, she said she had a premonition she would die a very violent death.
- During her teenage years she traveled the world as a fashion model and earned more than $4,000 a year.
- Virginia went to New York City in 1913 to star in a play by Lew Fields. After several weeks of rehearsal she quit so she could go on a trip to Europe.
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