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Tamar Nais Hodel

George Hodel (Tamar's Father)

Tamar Nais Hodel, daughter to Dr. George Hodel , was sexually abused and raped for many years by her father who is widely known for his involvement in the Black Dahlia murder case. She would go to trial, juvenile detention, and faced sexul abuse again in her later life. It was not until she moved to the state of Hawaii, that she lived a normal life.

Early Years

Tamar Nais Hodel, daughter of Dr. George Hodel and Dorothy Anthony, was born on October 10th in 1907, in San Francisco, California. Tamar was named after a character in her father’s friend, Robinson Jeffers’s, poem. It should be noted that this poem involved a relationship between a brother and a sister. Her father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, was a respected Los Angeles gynecologist. He was known to run illegal abortion clinics in his basement. By the age of nine, when Tamar began going through the stages of puberty, her father invited her to come to live with him in Los Angeles, away from her birth mother and the elite private schools she had been attending. George Hodel was known for hosting elaborate parties that were centrally focused on ‘sexual freedom’. At age 11, it is documented that Tamar was forced to participate in these hedonistic, drug-filled, sex parties in her father's mansion. Tamar stated that her father was, “treated like God” by women. Therefore, soon after Tamar had started to live with him in his mansion, she was forced to mature at a faster pace than most nine-year-old girls. By age eleven, Tamar had been photographed naked by her father’s friend, Man Ray, and had performed oral sex on her father. She states her father deemed it “training”, and would make her perform oral sex on him until she stopped gagging and throwing up.

The Rape and the Trial

At the age of fourteen, Tamar was raped by her father, George Hodel. He claimed he would wait until she was sixteen to make her “a woman”, but he did not. Her father, also allegedly, discussed how a sexual relationship between a father and daughter is special. After the rape, Tamar was pregnant and told by her father to keep his baby, but she did not. Upon telling a high school friend, Tamar was advised to have an abortion, which she did. Tamar considered herself to be a “prisoner” in her own home, as high school friends were not able to come over after the abortion since her dad would threaten them while holding a gun. It was not until 1949, that Tamar ran away from home after her new stepmom, Dorero warned her of her father’s ill intentions with women. This was after the infamous murder of Elizabeth Short, or the “Black Dahlia”, in 1947, of which George Hodel is suspected of doing. High school friends hid Tamar and relocated her every two hours until her father filed a missing person report to the police who found her in three days' time. Upon returning home, Tamar was forced to report the sexual abuse to the police and the three-week trial was held in December of 1949 in which she also accused her father of the Black Dahlia Murder. However, George Hodel was acquitted of the charges as lawyers argued, according to the Los Angeles Times, "an all-out smear campaign against Tamar, calling her a promiscuous, incorrigible, pathological liar". Even with two witnesses who claimed they saw George force sexual relations on his daughter, he was still free to go while she was sent to a juvenile detention center. While there she was branded, “Tamar the Liar”. After being released at the age of fifteen, Tamar moved into her birth mother’s home in San Francisco, where she was raped and impregnated again by a neighborhood boy. This time she kept the baby and named her newborn daughter, Fauna Hodel after another poem by Robinson Jeffers. However, she would not raise this child. Instead, she gave Fauna up for adoption to an African American maid in Reno, Nevada at her father’s command. The baby’s father had been documented as black on the official birth certificate, despite him actually being white. Tamar claims she did this to "ensure that the child would never return to [her] emotionally reclusive white family."Tamar claims she did this to "ensure that the child would never return to [her] emotionally reclusive white family." At the age of 19, Fauna learned that she was actually the granddaughter of George Hodel, thus realizing she was not black, something that she felt was integral to her identity growing up.

Life After George Hodel

In her teenage years, Tamar married two times. Once was to an artist in Mexico and then to singer Stan Wilson. During her marriage to Wilson, Tamar gave birth to a baby girl named Deborah, who would later be molested by her grandfather, George Hodel, at the age of 13. Once Deborah connected with Tamar’s first daughter, Fauna, Deborah changed her name to FaunaElizabteh. Tamar then moved to Hawaii, and there she had three sons: Peace on Earth, Love (now a pro surfer), and Joy to the World Hodel. There was a falling out between Tamar and her daughter, FaunaElizabeth. FaunaElizabeth stated, “My mother used me as a vehicle to make money. She hated being poor, so she would send me overnight to men’s homes when I was 11," in an article for Next Tribe. However, when Tamar Hodel died in the year 2015, she died with the forgiveness of FaunaElizabeth.