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Blanca Elena Errzuriz Vergara , also known as Bianca de Saulles, was a Chilean socialite and the former wife of football player and businessman John de Saulles. In August 1917, Errzuriz fatally shot de Saulles multiple times during a disagreement over the custody of their son. After a highly publicized and sensational trial, Errzuriz was acquitted of her exhusbands murder.

Errzuriz was born in Via del Mar, Chile, the eldest daughter of Guillermo Errzuriz Urmeneta and of Blanca Vergara Alvarez, a beauty known as the Star of Santiago, and thus a member of the politically influential Errzuriz family, of Basque descent. Her father, a mining magnate, died when she was two, and she was educated at Sacred Heart Convent in London, England. In 1911, when she wasyears old, she met John de Saulles, an American businessman and society figureyears her senior he had travelled to Chile as representative of the South American Concessions Syndicate to negotiate a new railway line. After some initial difficulties with her family they were soon engaged. OnDecember 1911, they were married at an English Catholic chapel in Paris, France. .

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