Disgraced Minor Female Celebs

[St_Francis]

Houston Chronicle scribe Sarah Tressler was moonlighting as a stripper to make ends meet. The Chronicle gave her the sack when it learnt of this and Ms. Tressler went on to publish "Diary of an Angry Stripper." She made her Vegas debut as an exotic dancer with two performances at Crazy Horse III, 7/20-1/12.

[VintageKell]

Originally Posted by St_Francis

Houston Chronicle scribe Sarah Tressler was moonlighting as a stripper to make ends meet. The Chronicle gave her the sack when it learnt of this and Ms. Tressler went on to publish "Diary of an Angry Stripper." She made her Vegas debut as an exotic dancer with two performances at Crazy Horse III, 7/20-1/12.

Very good find .... and all for ‘$20 a song, even if I’m not dancing’; apparently she found a way to display all her talents, by posting about her adventures on her own blog, “Diary of an Angry Stripper.” She also has Facebook and Twitter pages for her pseudonym in a bares all posting ... According to the Houston Press, this is a blog entry called “The 10-hour Day Yields an Icky Fetish”, in which Tressler talks about a guy who had some very special requirements .....

I worked from 1:30 to 11:30 last Thursday, which is long enough to hang out with some friends, make some new contacts, eat lunch and pull down about $750. I also had a run-in with one of my least favorite of the weird fetishes: guys who like to have their nipples, um … bothered.

Foot suckers aside, the nipple guys freak me out the most. I personally hate it when guys try to reach out and rub or tweak mine; getting a dude who likes to have his … ew … stroked or pulled or WHATever, gawd, it’s so gross. Sorry. And just kind of bumping up against the general area outside the shirt is never enough. They aren’t ashamed to lift their shirts up and bare their man-nips, which, incidentally, are usually longer than what may be considered normal, the result of which I can only imagine must be from sexual apparatuses sold at stores like Nasty Pig on W. 19th in Chelsea.

As I said good find .... and more illustrative pics






NB: the post layout could do with a small edit by putting a 'enter space' after '12. ' as above.

[VintageKell]

Donyale Luna (b. Peggy Ann Freeman) in Detroit, Michigan .. things started badly when her mother killed her father, who was reportedly abusive, when Donyale was 18 ..... well that kinda thing can turn a girls head. So instead of taking up nursing studies as her mother had wanted, she looked for other work. In the early 1960's, she was 'discovered' by British fashion photographer David McCabe. He had moved to the US in 1960, and by 1964 had been hired by Andy Warhol to document a year in his life - she was already part of the Warhol court by then. This was an era in which top photographers such as David Bailey were uncovering models such as "Twiggy".

She had moved from Detroit to New York City under the name of 'Donyale Luna' and started modelling, under exclusive contract to the photographer Richard Avedon for a year at the beginning of her career. In January 1965, a sketch of 'Luna' appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. She became the first African American model to appear on the cover of the March 1966 British issue of Vogue magazine - shot by British photographer David Bailey. By 1966 'Time magazine' published an article hailing her as the "unquestionably the hottest model in Europe at the moment. She is only 20, a Negro, hailing from Detroit" ...

She was tracking her modelling career with appearances in several films, many produced by Andy Warhol, in whose circle she moved. The highlights of this film career were appearances in the Otto Preminger comedy 'Skidoo' in 1968, Federico Fellini's 'Fellini Satyricon' in 1970, and title character in the 1972 Italian film Salomé, by director Carmelo Bene.

Her love life was very 1960's. She was briefly married to an unknown actor for 10 months. She followed this up with affairs and engagements to actor Maximilian Schell, to an unnamed Danish photographer, and to Georg Willing, a German actor who appeared in European horror films (such as 1970's "Necropolis"). Around 1969 Luna was also romantically involved with German actor Klaus Kinski with whom she posed for photo shoots on several photographs.

Luna married the Italian photographer Luigi Cazzaniga and in 1977 they had a child .....

But by the late 1970's her fame had mostly faded .... she had been hooked on various hard drugs. Her relationship with Klaus Kinski ended when he asked her entourage to leave his house in Rome as he was concerned that their constant drug use could damage his career. By coincidence it was in fact in Rome, Italy 1979, that she took an accidental drug overdose and died in a clinic.

Weirdness And Other Issues:

Maybe its not too strange that after her father was murdered, she started to claim a strange lineage, that her biological father was a not a grandson of a freed slave. But that in fact her real father was a man with the surname 'Luna', and that her mother was really an indigenous Mexican, with an Afro-Egyptian lineage .... she then built on this and said that one of her grandmothers was an Irish former actress, who married a black interior decorator. When asked by journalist Judy Stone about whether her appearances in Hollywood films would benefit the cause of black actresses, Luna answered, "If it brings about more jobs for Mexicans, Asians, Native Americans, Africans, groovy. It could be good, it could be bad. I couldn't care less."

Of course all careers start to fade and by 1975, she was not the same quixotic beauty as she had been a decade earlier, and she did the same old knicker dropping trick that so many girls have followed. She appeared in a nude photo layout in the April 1975 issue of Pl*yboy - the photographer was one Luigi Cazzaniga.

She was a habitual drug user from the 1960's onwards - On LSD in 1969: "I think it's great. I learned that I like to live, I like to make love, I really do love somebody, I love flowers, I love the sky, I like bright colors, I like animals. [LSD] also showed me unhappy things - that I was stubborn, selfish, unreasonable, mean, that I hurt other people" ... of course as discussed earlier, it was a habit that cost her relationships, such as that with Kinski, as well as ultimately her life, when she accidentally OD'd.

Trivia:

• In the mid 1960s, a relative described Luna as being "a very weird child, even from birth, living in a wonderland, a dream."
• In 1967, the mannequin manufacturer Adel Rootstein created a mannequin in Luna's image, a follow-up to the company's Twiggy mannequin of 1966.
• In Federico Fellini's 'Fellini Satyricon' in 1970, she portrayed the witch Oenothea, "who, in a trade-off with a wizard long ago ended up with fire between her legs. And it's real fire too, because Fellini shows us a scene in which a long line of foolish-looking peasants wait with unlit torches at Oenothea's bed. When their time comes, each devoutly places his torch between her legs to her sex, and, Poof."

Pictures:

She has no thread of her own (unless I missed it somehow), so these are the best pics available that I could find ... there's plenty of fashion pics out there, so please start a new thread if you want to post more.

[VintageKell]

Pascale Ogier was the daughter of a musician father, and the well known french actress Bulle Ogier. So not unnaturally she chose to follow in their shoes, and take up acting as a career, first with appearances on stage. In fact her early cinema roles were uncredited in 1969, but by 1981 she was working both in TV and films - but in 1982, she and her mother co-wrote the screenplay and starred in, director Jacques Rivette's film, 'Le pont du Nord'. Her career then was up and running .... with a regular output of work

Then in 1984 she suddenly died .... ostensibly of a heart attack, on the day before she was to celebrate her 26th birthday. Tragic.

Now whilst it has been generally agreed that suicides (while a disgrace in many many cultures even now), would not be included in this thread, when this was the only reason that they qualified for entry (mainly on the grounds of good taste), this does not exclude those ladies who have other reasons, nor those who choose to play with fire, and indulge in the bad and illegal habit of taking drugs .... with all the risks to reputation and life that this entails. i.e this includes deaths caused by accidental mismanagement of recreational drugs.

I say this because it later emerged that this 'tragic death' was in fact caused by her having a drug habit, and that she had incurred a heart attack while taking an unspecified drug for recreational purposes. There is no information on English language sites as to the exact nature of her drugs usage.

Trivia:

• The film Down by Law and the song P'tite Conne of Renaud are dedicated to her.

Pictures:

No thread that I can see .... just a few though as she is rather less well known outside of France, than might have been the case if she had been working now.

[VintageKell]

Carole Landis (b. Frances Lillian Mary Ridste) was from Wisconsin, with her father variously reported as being a "drifting railroad mechanic" while her mother was actually married to a Norwegian, Alfred Ridste, who had abandoned the family before Landis was born, possibly after finding out about the "drifting railroad mechanic". ..... Charles Fenner, her mother's second husband, is also listed as possibly being Ms Landis's biological father

Well, as we have seen before, from such inauspicious starts, mighty things can spring, but you wouldn't have bet on it after her early years were spent in the grinding poverty that so often characterised a rural upbringing in the early part of the 20th century. Things were not made any less miserable as she was allegedly subject to sexual abuse during this time. In 1931 she won a pair of stockings as fourth prize in a bathing beauty contest. She places second in another contest and wins an electric heater but her mother stops her entering more because of her age. So it perhaps should come as no surprise to anyone that in January 1934, at the tender age of 15, she married her 19-year-old neighbor, Irving Wheeler, but the marriage was annulled in February 1934. They later remarried again in August of the same year.

Driven by a desire to get away from Wisconsin and make something of herself, after saving $100 she and her husband moved to San Francisco and she starts out as a hula dancer with Kay Ellis in the Royal Hawaiian Club in San Francisco. She later dyed her hair blonde and changed her name to "Carole Landis" and sang with a dance band. She then saved $150 and moved to Hollywood where her mother and estranged husband joined her .... a pretty girl with big breasts wasn't going to starve in Hollywood, and by 1937 she had made her film debut as an extra in 'A Star Is Born'.

She starts a $50-per-week Warner Brothers contract, and then got a lot of work in B movie cowboy features, and she continued appearing in bit parts until 1940, when Hal Roach cast her as a cave girl in 'One Million B.C' .... this was a breakthrough. The movie was a hit and turned Carole into a star. A string of successful films followed in the early 1940's, usually with her as the second female lead. She even did some musicals because her own voice was considered good enough. She then signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox.

She posed for hundreds of cheesecake photographs, especially during the war and became a popular pin-up with servicemen during World War II. In 1942, she toured with a USO troupe in England and North Africa. Two years later, she entertained soldiers in the South Pacific with Jack Benny. In all she traveled more than 100,000 miles during the war and spent more time visiting troops than any other actress. She nearly died from amoebic dysentery and malaria she contracted overseas while entertaining these American troops.

In 1940, these 'leg' photos lead to Stanley Campbell, a 30-year-old chauffeur who was previously in prison on a 'morals charge', being sentenced to a three-year prison term for misusing the mails. He is in fact a stalker,and sent her a letter that upset her enough to call the police. In court he claims that seeing magazine pictures of her "does something" to him.

In 1945, she accuses an attorney Charles L. Gramlich, 31, of attempted rape, he denies the charge, which originated when he forced himself into her dressing room. Also in 1945, she finally made her debut in theatre, when she starred on Broadway in the musical 'A Lady Says Yes' with Jacqueline Susann.

Marriages:

After Wheeler, in 1940, she married yacht broker Willis Hunt Jr a man she later called "sarcastic" and left after two months. In London, she met an Army Air Corps captain named Thomas Wallace, and married him in a church ceremony; they divorced a couple of years later. In 1945, marriage number 4 was to Broadway producer W. Horace Schmidlapp.

End of career:

By 1948, her career was in decline and her marriage with Schmidlapp was collapsing ... She was struggling to get any sort of decent roles, partly due to her ardent feminism and rumors about her sexual peccadilloes, and her final two films 'Noose' and 'Brass Monkey' were both made in Great Britain.

She died in 1948, 'officially', after taking a drug overdose. She was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Many celebrities attended her funeral and this included Rex Harrison, who attended with his wife Lilli Palmer.

Oops:

She had something of a history of making weak 'suicide' attempts with aspirins etc, when her love life wasn't going well, but always calling the object of her upset, who would then come round and save her .... maybe not the last time.

There were rumours that while in San Franciso she worked as a call girl for a brief period .... these were never proved. However like a lot of girls searching for real affection, Landis maybe chose unwisely in affairs of the heart, and her first husband Wheeler, later sued and named 'Busby Berkeley' for $250,000, as respondent in an alienation of affections lawsuit in 1938 ..... this case is dismissed after she tells the court that she hasn't had sex with Wheeler since 1934. They later divorced in 1939 on the grounds of 'mental cruelty'. Berkeley then apparently proposed to her in June 1939, but later broke it off (allegedly his mother had heard the 'call girl' rumors and persuaded her son against the marriage).

When she signed for Twentieth Century-Fox she began a sexual relationship with Darryl F. Zanuck. When Carole ended her relationship with Zanuck, her career suffered and she was assigned roles in B-movies ... this blighted her career.

She is alleged to have entered into a lesbian relationship with Jacqueline Susann, who later purportedly based the character 'Jennifer North' in her book 'Valley of the Dolls' on Landis.

In 1948, she entered into an affair with the married actor Rex Harrison, but he refused to leave his wife and unable to cope any longer, she apparently committed suicide in her home at Capri Drive by taking an overdose of 'Seconal' after spending the previous night with Harrison.

Murder Mystery?:

The next afternoon, Harrison and her maid discovered her on the bathroom floor. For reasons that were never made clear Harrison seemingly waited several hours, before he eventually called a doctor and the police. Whether she was still alive at this time, or could have been resuscitated had help been called earlier has never been been divulged.

The official photos of her after death (which will not be posted here), show her as fully clothed and in front of the wash stand ... almost as though she had died instantly. 'Seconal' is generally a mild sleep sedative, which makes users drowsy, rather than instant an knockout drug.

Speculation in many sources suggest that she left two suicide notes, one for her mother, and the second for Harrison who later instructed his lawyers to destroy it without its contents being passed on to the authorities. During a coroner's inquest, Harrison denied knowing any motive for her suicide and told the coroner he denied the existence of a second suicide note.

It should be pointed out that other sources suggest that she left one note to the maid, saying that the cat needed to go to the vets, and the other to her mother, in whats interpreted as a suicide note. However her family still run a blog website (carolelandisofficial), that insists that she was murdered by Harrison, if not by action but by inaction .... so possibly a mystery remains that never will be solved.

Trivia:

• She dyed her hair blonde and changed her name to "Carole Landis" after her favourite actress, Carole Lombard.
• A press agent nicknamed her "The Ping Girl", because "she makes you purr". Her other nickname was 'The Chest'.
• Landis wrote several newspaper and magazine articles about her experiences during the war, including the 1944 book 'Four Jills in a Jeep', which was later made into a movie, co-starring Kay Francis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair.
• She also wrote the foreword to Victor Herman's cartoon book 'Winnie the WAC'.
• She is voted as the best-dressed stage star of 1945 by the Fashion Academy.

Pictures:

She has a big thread here already, so just a few illustrative pictures, and any follow ups to her thread please. No pictures of her death please gentlemen. Apologies if any direct dupes.

[VintageKell]

Ophélie-Marie has few claims to fame, one is that she shared her body with the rest of France (and then the world), with a spread in Pl*yboy France's July 2006 issue. This proved the springboard for her attempt at the long sticky pole of celebdom. A 'documentary', if that's the word, produced by Pl*boy in 2006, called 'Girls of World Football' was released to little acclaim.

Her second effort, was in the French TV 'Reality' show, 'Secret Story 2007' which unsurprisingly aired in 2007 .... anyhow, it was the third edition of the French version of the well known reality show 'Big Brother' ... she was described as aged 23, her secret is 'she a playmate'. She is also described as a 'young woman full of energy' in the programme notes - her secret was revealed in week 4, and she was evicted on day 41.

Her third effort was to promote a poker website with stories that she had released a sex tape ..... this turned out to be a 'fake sextape'. She then launched her own 'official website', and a fan site on MySpace, again to little interest.

Oops:

Finally success (sort of) .... she achieved 'fame',in a 15 min Internet kinda way, when she and her then boyfriend, recorded themselves having sex - possibly to gain notoriety to try and get more TV etc, or maybe for sale on the web, of course it went viral, and she made little or no money, and gained no fame. This video was tagged "The Real Sextape", because of the fake sextape she had promoted to publicise the poker website.

Such is 'fame' ..... fleeting at best.

Pictures:

I saw no thread, so I will post a few here, but please start a thread in the appropriate section if you want to post more .... thanks






Sextape:

I don't post them anymore, after some people (usually people who posted no thanks) started demanding that I provide them new versions when links died ..... all I can say is, that it took me about 3 mins to find versions viewable on-line on many 'video sites'.

[VintageKell]

Sometimes great wealth is accompanied by great fame, but in many more cases the lives of those with great wealth are hidden from our 'plebian' eyes .... the movers and shakers of our world are happier, silently pulling the strings that affect the lives of millions around the world. However every now and then, there is an incident that shines a light into the gloom, and illuminates the hidden world of the super wealthy.

Leona Helmsley (b. Lena Mindy Rosenthal) is from Marbletown, New York, with Polish Jewish immigrants, her father was a hat maker, and they moved seven times in her childhood .... the classic American poor family. She dropped out of school and went through a number of name changes (Lee Roberts, Mindy Roberts and Leni Roberts) before settling on legally changing her name to Leona Mindy Roberts.

She proved to be hard headed business woman. After a brief stint at a sewing factory, she joined a New York real estate firm, where she eventually became vice-president. At that time, she was already a millionaire in her own right. In 1968 she met and began her involvement with the then-married multi-millionaire real estate entrepreneur Harry Helmsley. In 1970, she joined one of Harry Helmsley's brokerage firms—Brown, Harris, Stevens—as a senior vice-president. Late in 1971, several of Leona's tenants sued her for forcing the tenants of one of the apartments she managed, to buy condominiums. They won, and Leona was forced not only to compensate the tenants, but to give them three-year leases. Her real estate license was also suspended.

Her involvement with Harry Helmsley, meant she survived this business disaster and she focused on running Harry's growing hotel empire. Together the Helmsleys built a real estate empire in New York City .... and by 1989, twenty-three hotels in the chain were directly controlled by Leona Helmsley.

Marriages:

Her first husband was attorney Leo Panzirer, whom she divorced in 1952. She twice married and divorced her second husband, garment industry executive Joseph Lubin. Her last husband was her employer Harry Helmsley, who suddenly divorced his wife of 33 years, and married Leona on April 8, 1972 ....

Harry died in 1997, leaving Leona his entire fortune (including the Helmsley hotels, the Helmsley Palace and the Empire State Building), estimated to be worth well in excess of $5 billion. Although Helmsley's reputation as the "Queen of Mean" is famous, she later became quite generous in her charitable contributions, and donated $5 million to help families of New York firefighters. Other contributions included $25 million to New York–Presbyterian Hospital for medical research.

Leona Helmsley died from congestive heart failure in 2007, at the age of 87. She was entombed next to Harry Helmsley in a mausoleum constructed for $1.4 million.

Very Bad Girl:

Leona Helmsley was featured in a TV and media advertising campaign, which portrayed her as a demanding standards "queen", who wanted nothing but the best for her guests. In reality she ran the empire with a rod of iron. The slightest mistake was usually grounds for firing, and Helmsley was known to shout insults and obscenities at targeted employees, just before they were fired. Helmsley's former employees later testified at a trial "about how they feared her, with one recalling how she casually fired him while she was being fitted for a dress."

On March 31, 1982, her only child, Jay Panzirer, died of a heart attack resulting from arrhythmia. Now most of us would have sent his grieving widow Mimi, flowers and condolences. But immediately following the funeral, the Helmsleys sent an eviction notice to the widow her daughter in law, as she was living in a property Leona owned. To add insult to injury, Leona successfully sued her son's estate for money and property that she claimed he had borrowed, and was ultimately awarded $146,092. Her sons widow Mimi later said the legal expenses wiped her out, and stated, "To this day I don't know why they did it."

In 2002, Helmsley was sued by Charles Bell, a former employee who alleged that he was discharged solely for being homosexual. A jury agreed and ordered Mrs. Helmsley to pay Bell $11,200,000 in damages. A judge subsequently reduced this amount to $554,000.

In her will, she left all the money to a trust for dogs (estimated at more than $4 billion), and her dog 'Trouble', a $12 million trust fund. All this was eventually overturned (makes you wonder what wills are for!) ... all the relatives she had disinherited eventually got some money, but not the billions they had hoped for. Helmsley also left $100,000 to her chauffeur, Nicholas Celea .... 'Trouble' was left with only $2 million

Money, Money, Money .... Its a rich girls world:

The Helmsley's bought a summer house in Connecticut, and Jeremiah McCarthy, a Helmsley executive engineer was put in charge of the remodelling project. Soon however things started to go awry, McCarthy claimed that Leona repeatedly demanded that he sign illegal invoices designed to illegally bill personal expenses to the estate. According to Ransdell Peirson's book "The Queen of Mean", when McCarthy declined to do so, she exploded with tyrannical outbursts claiming, "You're not my fucking partner! You'll sign what I tell you to sign." .... The final remodeling bill came to $8 million, and a group of contractors had to go to court to get most of their money ... but not all. This was the cause of Leona's downfall.

The contractors were royally pissed off, and during the 1985 proceedings to get their money back, they revealed that most of their work was being illegally billed to the Helmsleys' hotels as business expenses. They also sent the invoices to the 'New York Post' to prove their claims. The resulting Post story led to a federal criminal investigation and in 1988, the United States Attorney (and later mayor) Rudy Giuliani indicted the Helmsleys and two of their associates on several tax-related charges, as well as extortion. Harry was ruled mentally and physically unfit to stand trial, and Leona had to face the charges alone ...

Helmsley was convicted and sentenced of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, three counts of tax evasion, three counts of filing false personal tax returns, sixteen counts of assisting in the filing of false corporate and partnership tax returns, and ten counts of mail fraud .... She was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but eventually got that reduced on appeal and only served 18 months in federal prison ... when money talks justice walks!

She dodged the extortion when she was acquitted of that charge (conviction on that charge that could have sent her to prison for the rest of her life). Nonetheless, when it was clear she was going to jail, she collapsed outside the courthouse. She was forced to give up control of her hotel empire, as New York does not allow convicted felons to hold alcohol licenses.

Quote:

I said: "You must pay a lot of taxes". She said:"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." .... Elizabeth Baum, former housekeeper to Helmsley (October 1983).

Trivia:

• She was a chain smoker, consuming several packs a day.
• She claimed to have appeared as a model in billboard ads for Chesterfield cigarettes - these claims are unsubstantiated.
• She was known as the "Queen of Mean".
• Amongst the items she claimed against the business while remodelling her summer home were a million-dollar dance floor, a silver clock and a mahogany card table .... almost makes the British MP's look honest.
• Lawyer Alan Dershowitz said he once had breakfast with Leona at one of the Helmsley hotels and the waiter brought him a cup of tea with a tiny bit of water spilled on the saucer. Alan says Leona grabbed the cup from him and smashed it on the floor, then demanded that the waiter get down on his hands and knees and beg for his job.
• Helmsley had a barbecue pit constructed for her home. The work was performed by Eugene Brennan, a personal friend of Jeremiah McCarthy, the chief engineer of Helmsley-Spear. When the final bill came to $13,000, she refused to pay, citing shoddy workmanship. When McCarthy pleaded with her to honor the bill, citing the favor done on his behalf and informing her that Brennan had six children to support, Helmsley replied, "Why didn't he keep his pants on? Then he wouldn't need the money."

Pictures:

Not our usual minor celebrity, just an illuminating story ..... but her 15 mins of fame was burning brightly for a while .... and even after her troubles she continued to wield great power and influence, but once again in the shadows. I see no need for any more pics .... she may have been a looker once, but no pics survive

[VintageKell]

Catalina White, was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and after leaving school she entered the world of modelling. By the time she was 21 she was a Maxim model being billed as a "Hometown Hottie", where she is described as working as a 'Janitor'. The following year was her near break through year ... she appeared in 'Complex magazine' as a "roller girl" and signed a record deal. She described her aim as "I'm planning to knock Britney off her crazy chair and take her place (while wearing underwear, though)." ... she also had shoots with 'COED, Strobe' and 'Mixed' magazines.

She signed to World Wrestling Entertainment In October 2008, and debuted in the Florida Championship Wrestling during a Limbo Contest under the name 'Veronica Blaze' ... she later changed her ring name to 'Saylor James' between October 2008 to March 2009. She was released from her WWE contract in January, 2009 and she later married a fellow wrestler and had her first child. She now manages wrestlers.

Oops:

In November 2009, a sex tape featuring Ms White and porn star Justice Young was released by Adult film distributor 'Shane's World' ..... The video 'Model Amateur Tour' was apparently not a deliberate 'career' move .... at least if her protestations were real. She made the following statement on her official website, 'CatalinaWhiteLive.com', concerning the release of the tape:

"To My Friends & Fans

I would like to address to my friends and fans about the video Shane’s World is releasing of me. I am in NO way endorsing, promoting, and/or happy about the release of a sex tape they have bought of me! I have been betrayed by someone who has sold the tape without my knowledge! Shane’s World has stolen my identity by creating websites such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, ect without my consent! They waited till I gained notoriety with the WWE to release the tape and are now tarnishing my name! I am sorry to my friends and family that this has upset."

The problem with this complaint is that the video was at least semi professionally made, and she was possibly paid to do it. It certainly 'starred' a real male porn star and director Justice Young .... me thinks she doth protest too much

Trivia:

Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 111 lbs
Bust: 34"
Waist: 23"
Hips: 35"
Cup: D

Pictures:

Couldn't spot a picture post or thread .... so a full selection here, but please start a new thread if you feel the need to post more, as there are lots out there

[VintageKell]

Veronica Lake (b. Constance Frances Marie Ockelman) in Brooklyn, New York and the death of her father when she was aged ten, seems to be the first bad event in her life. She adopted her mothers second husbands surname and was called Constance Keane or Connie Keane in high school. According to her mother, she was a troubled child and was allegedly diagnosed as exhibiting schizophrenic behaviour (the death of your father and the arrival of a step father probably explain some of this). However when she was 16, the family moved to Beverly Hills, where she enrolled in the Bliss-Hayden School of Acting.

Success was immediate, and at 17 she landed a role in the 1939 RKO film, 'Sorority House', and a number of similar roles followed. A change of name to 'Veronica Lake' didn't prevent RKO dropping her contract, but a small role in the 1940 comedy, 'Forty Little Mothers', brought her a contract with Paramount Pictures. Her breakthrough film was the hit 'I Wanted Wings' in 1941, and further successful films followed including 'Sullivan's Travels', 'This Gun for Hire', and 'I Married a Witch' ... perhaps her most well known role was in 'The Blue Dahlia' in 1946' which was filmed when her career had started to slide.

Her decline can perhaps be linked to the scathing reviews of the 1943 film, 'The Hour Before Dawn' which included criticism of her unconvincing German accent. After that she was mostly cast in a string of instantly forgettable films and Paramount decided not to renew her contract in 1948. After a single film for 20th Century Fox, 'Slattery's Hurricane' in 1949, her career essentially ended. One last film in 1951, 'Stronghold', which even she later described as "a dog" .... she was finished in Hollywood.

She then turned to television and stage work but after breaking her ankle in 1959, Lake was unable to continue working as an actress, but the mid 1960's saw a brief revival with some television and stage appearances. This included an off-Broadway revival of the musical 'Best Foot Forward' where her contract overlapped with the departing Liza Minnelli and the two briefly co-starred together. In 1966, she had a brief stint as a TV hostess in Baltimore, Maryland, along with a largely ignored film role in 'Footsteps in the Snow'.

Funds from her autobiography 'Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake' allowed her to finance, co-produce and star in her last film, 'Flesh Feast' in 1970, which brought to an end a film and TV career.

By now she was afflicted by bouts of paranoia, undoubtedly related to her heavy drinking, but moved to the UK, where she briefly found stage work ... and she later returned to the UK again for a year or so, before returning to the US for the last time in 1973.

Marriages and Death:

In 1940, she married art director John S. Detlie, 14 years her senior. She then married film director Andre De Toth in 1944 and in 1955 married songwriter Joseph A. McCarthy. Her last marriage was a short-lived one with an "English sea captain", Robert Carleton-Munro in 1972. She returned to the US after this last divorce ...

She died in hospital 1973, and her son Michael claimed her body. Her ashes were supposedly scattered off the coast of the Virgin Islands (or Florida, reports differ). A memorial service was held in Manhattan, but only her son and a handful of strangers attended. In 2004 some of Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store .....

Troubles and Woes:

Unpopular Girl

She was privately disliked by many actors, as she had acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with ... a bit of 'a diva'.

• Eddie Bracken, her co-star in Star Spangled Rhythm, was quoted as saying, "She was known as 'The Bitch' and she deserved the title."
• Joel McCrea, her co-star in Sullivan's Travels, reputedly turned down the co-starring role in I Married a Witch, saying, "Life's too short for two films with Veronica Lake."
• During filming of 'The Blue Dahlia', screenplay writer Raymond Chandler referred to her as "Moronica Lake".
• She apparently was estranged from her three surviving children, particularly her daughters .. but reconciled with son Michael who was the only child to attend her funeral.

Drinkies and other issues

By the 1960's she was drifting between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A New York Post reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all-women's 'Martha Washington Hotel' in Manhattan. At first, she claimed that she was actually a guest at the hotel and just 'covering for a friend' at the bar, but later admitted that she was employed at the bar. She continued to drink and suffered bouts of paranoia right up to her death of hepatitis and acute renal failure (complications of her alcoholism) in 1973.

Lake was sued by her own mother for support payments for her own children in 1948, after she had ended up looking after them when Lakes life started to swing out of control.

In 1951 she filed for bankruptcy, and the IRS seized the remainder of her assets for unpaid taxes.

Quote:

"I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.". .... that didn't quite work out, as this posting shows.

Trivia:

• The Paramount producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr. changed her name to 'Veronica Lake' because the surname suited her blue eyes.
• She was teamed four times with diminutive star 'Alan Ladd', who was just 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall and she was the only actress then on the Paramount lot short enough to pair with him as she stood just 4 feet 111⁄2 inches (1.51 m).
• Lake earned her pilot's license in 1946 and was able to fly solo between Los Angeles and New York.
• At her peak she was earning $4,500 per week under her contract with Paramount.
• A stray lock of her shoulder-length, blonde hair during a publicity photo shoot led to her iconic "peekaboo" hairstyle, which was widely imitated. During World War II, Lake changed her trademark image to encourage women working in war industry factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles.
• When former lover Marlon Brando read in a newspaper that a reporter had found Veronica Lake working as a cocktail waitress in a Manhattan bar, he instructed his accountant to send her a check for a thousand dollars. Out of pride, she never cashed it, but kept it framed in her Miami living room to show her friends.
• Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to the motion picture industry.

Pictures:

She has a big post here already. illustrative pics only and as usual any follow ups to her thread.

[VintageKell]

Teri Weigel (b. Teresa Susan Weigel), grew up in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She began modeling while in her teens, appearing in the 'Saks Fifth Avenue catalog' amongst other assignments. She was also 'Miss Deerfield' of 1979. But it appears she wasn't getting enough work to claim to be a full time model because at age 23 she appeared on the cover of the November 1985 issue of Playboy, and then was the Pl*yboy Playmate for April 1986.

This along with a few Pl*yboy video appearances appeared to do the trick, and she had several very minor roles in mainstream films, including 'Return of the Killer Tomatoes!', 'Predator 2', 'Savage Beach' and 'Marked for Death', and then made several TV appearances both as "Shauna" in '1st & Ten', and as "Jade" on 'Married... with Children' ..... things looked kinda rosy.

Don't Mess With The Man:

But in 1990 she fell out big style with Pl*yboy over business matters ..... and she went broke. She was forced was to sell her home and move into a smaller apartment. These events coincided with a severe car accident in the same year, where she suffered neck and back injuries, which required five rounds of operations before she was completely cured. The mainstream work dried up .....

A Girls Gotta Eat:

Well as we have remarked before, when your careers over and you got bills to pay, what do you do, get a job at Walmart? No way Jose! So even though she was 29 in 1991, the former Playboy Playmate quickly moved into the porn business (ably assisted by her neighbours in the apartment block, who coincidentally produced adult films). She went on to become one of the most famous hardcore stars in porn history ... apparently.

She has also admitted that in 1998 she worked for a time at the 'Bunny Ranch Nevada' brothel ending in September - "It was fun! All the fans came in from different areas all over the world. One guy came in from London, and a lot of people came in from Dallas. I got people from Boston and the Massachusetts area, a lot of fans! It was kinda cool! They would be so infatuated just with looking at my face sometimes it was hard to just get down to the sex because they couldn't believe they could actually do it! And it was so much fun because of the respect they would show. It was cool! The best feeling the world! I just love it!" ..... "Yeah, it's a lot of money too."

Trivia:

• For her role in 'Predator 2' in 1990, as Ramon Vega's lover, she spends almost her entire screen time completely naked.
• As a result of her move into porn, Weigel was blacklisted from Pl*yboy. In 2000, they sued Weigel over her use of the Pl*yboy logo on her website.
• She was also the second Playmate to go on to appear in Penthouse magazine, after Ursula Buchfellner.
• She was the first playmate to go hardcore ... or maybe not.

Pictures:

As you might expect, she has a rather large thread here already, so purely illustrative pics and as usual, any follow ups to her thread please.