The Story of the Queen of Anatahan (near Saipan!)
Kazuko Higa wound up solita with 32 guys on a tiny island. Only about half the men were left alive by the end--they killed each other off, primarily over Kazuko, the only woman.
Similar story on Pitcairn Island and the Bounty mutineers, as I understand it.
In the latter case, the one or few surviving men re-instituted Christianity, i.e., marriage, to stop the carnage of men killing each other over women.
On Anatahan Island, the surviving men decided they just had to kill off Kazuko in order to put an end to the ongoing violence, but she got wind of it and hid out and eventually escaped and made it back to Japan. She had apparently played something of an active role in playing the men against each other, with fatal consequences.
Kazuko was apparently not especially beautiful but nonetheless inspired lust in the men on the island. She became a stripper and prostitute back in Japan, and also lived off the celebrity generated by her story.
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