# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kitty-genovese
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:40.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kitty-genovese"
name: "Kitty Genovese"
slug: "kitty-genovese"
description: "Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City, United States. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that thirty-seven witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid. However, subsequent investigations revealed that the extent of public apathy was exaggerated. While some neighbors heard her cries, many did not realize the severity of the situation. The incident prompted inquiries into what became known as the bystander effect, or \"Genovese syndrome,\" and the lack of any urgent response by many of Genovese's neighbors became a topic reviewed in U.S. psychology textbooks for the next four decades."
tagline: "American murder victim"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kitty_Genovese_in_her_1961_mugshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1935-07-07"
deathDate: "1964-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.96
  momentum:             2.108397644701975
  historical:           8.884569333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "كيتى جينوفيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99_%D7%92'%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%91%D7%96%D7%94"
    title: "קיטי ג'נובזה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Genovese"
    title: "Kitty Genovese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump