Marion Roberts

Marion "Kiki" Roberts (née Strasmick) (born 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts to Martha Strasmick) was an American dancer and showgirl. She was better known as the girlfriend and moll of American gangster Legs Diamond.

Early life Roberts dreamed of being a celebrity from a very young age and she placed eighth in a children's beauty pageant. She began working for Texas Guinan at Guinan's nightclub the Moritz. At age 17, she was signed as a Ziegfeld girl.

Legs Diamond Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1935, Roberts made front page news when she was rescued from drowning by comedian Jackie Gleason at Budd Lake, New Jersey. Gleason had been playing at The Oasis nightclub in Budd Lake. When photos of him and Roberts were featured in New York tabloids, Gleason remarked that Roberts "couldn't have drowned with those boobs." By 1937, she was headlining a show titled Crazy Quilt at the Allentown Lyric Theater in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

By the 1940s, she had disappeared from the limelight. Attempts at finding her whereabouts and her death date have been unsuccessful. Marion lived in Menands, New York.

In pop culture "Kiki" Roberts features prominently in writer William Kennedy's novel about Legs Diamond, titled Legs.

She is played by actress Amanda Greer in the 2019 biopic The Last Day of Legs Diamond.