She gained notoriety for being the first woman to successfully sue her psychiatrist for coercing her into sex for allegedly therapeutic reasons.
Her brother had served in the United States Navy after graduating from high school, and ultimately killed himself as an adult.
While in Chicago, she met her future husband, who lived in New York City and convinced her to move in with him; however, the marriage would ultimately not last.
[1] After initially failing to appear in court, Hartogs maintained his innocence, claiming that a hydrocele in his groin had made sexual intercourse painful for him.
[8] Journalist Lucy Freeman partnered with Roy to write Betrayal, an account of her experience seeing Hartogs and the ensuing lawsuit.
Prior to the final decision in the Hartogs case, Roy was living in San Francisco, where she worked as a clerk in a bookstore.