Tim Yohn News Today

NEW YORK -- Elfrida von Nardroff, who won more money than anyone else on the 1950s television quiz show "Twenty-One" -- but who later pleaded guilty to lying to a grand jury in Manhattan about receiving questions and answers in advance -- died Nov. 11 in a hospice in Westhampton Beach, on Long Island. She was 96.

In 1958, she won more on “Twenty-One” than anyone else. But she became embroiled in a scandal that led to grand jury and congressional investigations.