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American dancer, girlfriend of Legs Diamond

Marion "Kiki" Roberts (née Strasmick)^[1] (born 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts to Martha Strasmick) was an American dancer and showgirl.

She was better known as the girlfriend and moll of American gangster Legs Diamond.^[2][3]

Early life

Roberts dreamed of being a celebrity from a very young age and she placed eighth in a children's beauty pageant.^[1] She won a contract to participate at the Ziegfeld Follies as a "Ziegfeld girl", but as she was too young to sign that contract, she could not participate at that time.

At age 16, however, searching for bigger fame, Roberts and her mother Martha moved to New York City.

Marion kiki roberts biography

In 1930 they were living in Manhattan.^[4] She began working for Texas Guinan at Guinan's nightclub the Moritz. At age 17, she was signed^[5] as a Ziegfeld girl.

Legs Diamond

Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobste