Reported that she was kidnapped and beaten by Argentine actor Federico de la Vega after she refused his offer to drive her home from a Hollywood nightclub (May 11, 1933).
Nancy was held up by two gunmen, along with writer Walter Merrill and bit player Paulina Torres, outside her apartment in Hollywood. Nancy was able to hide two rings in her mouth. March 9, 1933.
Her husband Frank Chester was a fashion designer based in Hollywood. They made the news after eloping to Tijuana.
In 1933, she was named as one of two "other women" in Sylvia Dunlap's divorce from tire company president William C. Dunlap. Helene Chadwick was the second woman.