Anne "Fifi" Urquhart Potter Stillman McCormick (1879-1969). Wife of James Alexander Stillman (1873 – 1944), a president of National City Bank.
She was the daughter of James Brown Potter and Cora Urquhart, a stage actress.
Anne married Stillman in 1901 and had four children.
In 1921, he filed for divorce accusing his wife of infidelity and saying that her youngest child was the son of a half-blood Indian guide from Quebec. She denied the charges and accused him of fathering a child with chorus girl Florence H. Leeds. Stillman later acknowledged his son with Leeds in 1926.
After five years, the court refused the divorce saying that he had misbehaved. His wife then filed for divorce but withdrew the contest after receiving a $500,000 necklace. They sailed to Europe to receive counseling from Carl Jung.
Fifi eventually divorced Stillman in 1931 and married Fowler McCormick, a man twenty years younger than her and a friend of her son, Bud. McCormick was the son of Edith Rockefeller, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.
- "Fifi was a stunning, vivacious redhead..." https://books.google.it/books?id=m4FahrcJmIEC&pg=PA142...
- "Fifi was a strikin red-head, with a flirtatious manner..." https://books.google.it/books?id=uCqVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134...
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