Jean Struven Harris (April 27, 1923 – December 23, 2012)

headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s as she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
she graduated magna cum laude in May 1945 as an economics major. She subsequently married and had two sons: David (born 1950) and Jim (born 1952). In 1965, Jean Harris divorced her husband, Jim Harris, who died in 1977. while continuing her long-distance relationship with Tarnower, whose relationships with other women she reluctantly tolerated. Tarnower prescribed Harris multiple medications over the course of several years. In the 1970s, Tarnower hired Lynne Tryforos, a woman more than thirty years his junior, to work as a secretary-receptionist at the Scarsdale Medical Center. On March 10, 1980, Harris drove 264 miles from the Madeira School in Virginia to Tarnower's home in Purchase, New York.
When she arrived at the house she noticed Tryforos's lingerie in the bedroom. An argument ensued, and Herman Tarnower allegedly said to her, "Jesus, Jean, you're crazy! Get out of here!" Harris shot Tarnower four times at close range, killing him. She was arrested and booked for second-degree murder. She pleaded not guilty, insisting that the shooting was an accident in that the gun had gone off accidentally while Tarnower tried to wrest it away from her. Governor Mario Cuomo commuted the remainder of her sentence on December 29, 1992, she died of natural causes 12/2012.
Jean Harris, who murdered Herman Tarnower, was obsessed by the song "Put the Blame on Mame", which she first heard in the film Gilda. She would recall this regularly for over 33 years and could hold a conversation while playing it in her mind.