[3] De Saulles had previously been engaged to the heiresses Mary Elsie Moore (later Princess Torlonia) and Eleanor Granville Brown.

They had one child, John Longer "Jack" de Saulles, born on 25 December 1912, and for whom the steel magnate Charles H. Schwab stood as godfather.

Shortly after John, Jr's birth, the couple's marriage began to falter mainly due to de Saulles' well known infidelities.

[1] Shortly before filing for divorce, Errázuri befriended future actor Rudolph Valentino in New York City.

[4][5] John de Saulles was not pleased with this, and once the divorce was granted in December 1916,[6] he used his political connections to have Valentino arrested along with a madam named Mrs. Thyme (the exact charges are unknown).

She was charged with murder in the first degree and imprisoned in the Nassau County Jail at Mineola, New York, leading to a sensational trial.

[13] Blanca Errázuriz became the darling of the press, and the champion of the suffragettes who portrayed her as the victim of the chauvinism prevalent in the society of the time.

On 22 December 1921, she remarried, this time to engineer Fernando Santa Cruz Wilson in Santiago;[18] the couple later divorced.

)[22] The name "de Saulles" was changed to "La Salle" but the film's opening credits admit to being based on the story.