lorraine's personal life earned her more notoriety than either her talent or her beauty, and she was a staple in newspapers of the day with accounts of her latest turbulent romance or feuds with rival stars such as fanny brice and sophie tucker. her personality and private life reportedly was a large influence on anita loos in the creation of the character of lorelei for the novel "gentlemen prefer blondes". although her affair with ziegfeld was over by the end of the 1910s, her box office drawing power kept her in a number of his productions of the period. lorraine's fame waned in the 1920s, and she worked for a period in vaudeville.