The death of an actress in San Francisco. What happened in room 1219? - SFGate

"I'm dying ... he hurt me," Virginia Rappe allegedly called out from Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's San Francisco hotel room floor as she writhed in pain. In four days, she would be dead. Eighteen months later, Arbuckle would be acquitted of any wrongdoing.

On Labor Day 99 years ago, in Room 1219 of the St. Francis Hotel, which still looks over Union Square today, a fateful party hosted by the highest-paid actor in America would lead to Hollywood's first global scandal.

Amid the unprecedented media furor and exaggerations, the only indisputable facts of the tragic evening are as follows. On Sept. 5, 1921, there was a party at the hotel where, despite Prohibition, alcohol was in abundance. Both Arbuckle, 33, and actress Virginia Rappe, 26, were in attendance. At some point during the evening, Arbuckle and Rappe were in his locked hotel room together. When Arbuckle left the room, Rappe was lying on the bed crying in pain. Rappe died four days later at the Wakefield Sanitarium on Sutter Street from a ruptured bladder.

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