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Peggy Hopkins Joyce (May 26, 1893 - June 12, 1957) was an American actress and celebrity, famed as much for her several marriages to wealthy men, colorful divorces, scandalous affairs, and generally lavish lifestyle as for her work on stage or screen.

Born Marguerite Upton in Berkley, Virginia, she was known as "Peggy", a traditional nickname for Margaret or Marguerite. "Hopkins" and "Joyce" were the surnames of her second and third husbands, respectively (of six overall).

She debuted on the Broadway stage in 1917 in the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1923 she caused a sensation in the Earl Carroll racy production of Earl Carroll's Vanities.

She owned the Portuguese Diamond, one of the most expensive in the world that she later sold to Harry Winston and which is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Her name was frequently incorporated into song lyrics of the 1920s and 1930s to invoke images of excess and naughtiness. For example, I've Got Five Dollars by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart includes: "Peggy Joyce has a business/All her husbands have gold..."

Peggy Hopkins Joyce died in New York City in 1957.

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