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Famous, Notorious and Luminous Beauties: Page 5

This page is dedicated to famous, notorious and luminous beauties of the past and present. Scandalous beauties and infamous bad girls include: Lily Allen, Ursula Andress, Fiona Apple, Tallulah Bankhead, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Boudicca, Eva Braun Hitler, Naomi Campbell, Gia Carangi, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Cleopatra, Colette, Joan Crawford, Miley Cyrus, Candy Darling, Janice Dickinson, Isadora Duncan, Eve, Megan Fox, Nancy Friday, Lady Gaga, Madame Pierre Gautreau (aka "Madame X"), Lady Godiva, Sasha Grey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mata Hari, Helen of Troy, Joanna Hiffernan, Paris Hilton, Xaviera Hollander (aka "the Happy Hooker"), Whitney Houston, Calamity Jane, Joan Jett, Jezebel, Angelina Jolie, Grace Jones, Janis Joplin, Kim Kardashian, Ke$ha, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lilith, Lindsay Lohan, Courtney Love, Linda Lovelace, Madonna, Alma Mahler, Jayne Mansfield, Queen Mary I of England (aka "Bloody Mary"), Marilyn Monroe, Evelyn Nesbit, Kate Moss, Bettie Page, Pandora, Bonnie Parker, Katy Perry, Charlotte Rampling, Christina Ricci, Rihanna, Amber Rose, Diana Ross, Sarah Silverman, Wallis Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, Sharon Stone, Dorothy Stratton, Poly Styrene, Elizabeth Taylor, Dita Von Teese, Christy Turlington, Lana Turner and Mae West.

Colette by Clint Cearley



Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, better known simply by her pen name, Colette, was a French novelist and performer in the early 20th century. Considered scandalous, Colette had various affairs with both men and women, including Mathilde de Morny, with whom she performed in "Rêve d'Égypte" at the Moulin Rouge. The pantomime was banned, after their onstage kiss almost caused a riot. She later had a notorious affair with her stepson Bertrand de Jouvenel, which began when he was only 16 years old and she was in her late 40s.

Evelyn Nesbit [1884-1967]



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Evelyn Nesbit was an artists' model, chorus girl, and Gibson Girl immortalized in E. L. Doctorow's historical fiction novel, Ragtime. She was considered scandalous because but her story is much darker than her innocent images portray. First, there was her relationship with Stanford White, which began when he was 47 and she was 16. Then she married Harry Thaw, a cocaine addict and physical abuser who killed White out of jealousy. And finally, she was a major player in the two sensationalized murder trials of Thaw's "Crime of the Century." While Harry Thaw denied paternity of the child raised as his son, Evelyn maintained that Russell Thaw was conceived during a conjugal visit with her husband at Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Evelyn Nesbit played Vashti, the gypsy girl, in "The Wild Rose", 1902 and she was also known as "the girl in the red velvet swing."

Candy Darling



Candy Darling certainly qualifies as a notorious, scandalous beauty, since she was a favorite of Andy Warhol. The songs "Lola" by the Kinks and Lou Reed's "Candy Says" and "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" were allegedly written with her in mind. Oh, and "she was a he," born James Lawrence Slattery.

Calamity Jane [1852-1903]

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The famous gunslinger and markswoman known as Calamity Jane allegedly worked as a dance hall girl and prostitute, among other odd jobs. It was said that to offend her was to "court calamity." But she was also known for her courage, compassion and generosity. By the time she teamed up with Wild Bill Hickok in 1876 and became famous as a performer, she had lost her youthful good looks. The picture above is the only one I could find that begins to do her justice. Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Canary, was an American frontierswoman, explorer, wagon train rider, army scout, Indian fighter, sure shot, horsewoman, hunter, ox team driver, cook, waitress, dishwasher, nurse, Wild West show performer, dance hall girl, and courtesan. She also worked as a prostitute at the Fort Laramie Three-Hog Ranch. She was named "Calamity Jane, the heroine of the plains" by a Captain Egan whom she rescued from death at the hands of Indians at Goose Creek, Wyoming in 1872-1873. She claimed to have married and borne a child by Wild Bill Hickok, and was by many accounts a generous and compassionate women, if something of a hellion. She lies buried next to Wild Bill and as one admirer put it, "Her vices were the wide-open sins of a wide-open country: the sort that never carried a hurt."

Madame X

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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the wife of Pierre Gautreau. The model was an American expatriate who married a French banker, and became notorious in Parisian high society for her beauty and rumored infidelities. She wore lavender powder and prided herself on her appearance. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. It is a study in opposition. Sargent shows a woman posing in a black satin dress with jeweled straps, a dress that reveals and hides at the same time. The portrait is characterized by the pale flesh tone of the subject contrasted against a dark colored dress and background. For Sargent, the scandal resulting from the painting's controversial reception at the Paris Salon of 1884 amounted to the failure of a strategy to build a long-term career as a portrait painter in France, although it may have helped him establish a successful career in Britain and America. As for Madame X, originally, the right shoulder strap was hanging off the shoulder, and the combination of this and the "erotic" suggestion of her dress, pale skin and pose caused viewers to be shocked and Gautreau to retreat from the public's eye.

Alma Mahler



Alma Mahler, aka Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel, was an Austrian socialite, muse, and composer who married and had affairs with prominent men in society during the early 20th century. She is considered scandalous because at age 17, she had a fling with famous painter Gustav Klimt, who was 35 at the time. While she had various affairs over the years, her most notable one was with painter and playwright Oskar Kokoschka. After she refused to marry him, he commissioned a life-sized sex doll in her likeness!

Isadora Duncan



Isadora Duncan was an American dancer who brought the world modern dance. She is considered scandalous because she bucked tradition in her tragically short life, being bisexual, possibly Communist, bearing children out of wedlock, and marrying a Russian poet 18 years younger than herself.

Xaviera Hollander



Xaviera Hollander, aka "the Happy Hooker," is a former call girl, madam, and memoirist. She came to be best known for her best-selling memoir The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. She was born Xaviera de Vries in Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), to a Dutch Jewish physician father and a mother of French and German descent. She spent the first three years of her life in a Japanese internment camp. In her early 20s, she left Amsterdam for Johannesburg, where her stepsister lived. There she met and became engaged to John Weber, an American economist. When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York. In 1968, she resigned from her job as secretary of the Dutch consulate in Manhattan to become a call girl, where she made $1,000 a night. A year later she opened her own brothel, the Vertical Whorehouse, and soon became New York City's leading madam. In 1971, she was arrested for prostitution by New York police and forced to leave the United States. In 1971 Hollander published a memoir, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations of the book's contents, came up with the catchy title, while Yvonne Dunleavy transcribed the book. The book was notable for its frankness by the standards of the time, and is considered a landmark of positive writing about sex. In the book, Hollander detailed her life as an open-minded woman. She stated that during the start of her career, she did not ask for cash in exchange for sex, but her partners voluntarily gave her money and other presents. Hollander later wrote a number of other books and produced plays in Amsterdam. Her latest book, Child No More, is the heartfelt story of losing her mother. For 35 years, she wrote an advice column for Penthouse magazine called Call Me Madam.

Drew Barrymore, who has definitely grown up since E. T.

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Drew Barrymore may qualify as a scandalous woman for "flashing" David Letterman on public TV, and for photos like the ones above. But of course she has millions of fans among men who love naughty girls!

Taylor Swift



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While Taylor Swift has a sweet and wholesome image, she had a Marilyn-Monroe-like scandalous moment when her skirt flew up in the middle of a concert and she "flashed" the crowd. But she was wearing "granny panties" so perhaps she really is sweet and wholesome after all!

Alessandra Ambrosio





Penelope Cruz



Rachel McAdams

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Kelly Brook



Kate Upton



Sienna Miller



Dorothy Revier [1904-1993]






Lillian Russell [1860-1922]

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Lillian Russell was one of the first American female celebrities. She was an actress and singer known for her stage presence. She was married four times, but her longest relationship was with Diamond Jim Brady, a man known for his enormous appetites, which included gambling, food and (as his nickname suggests) expensive jewels. Her mother was a noted feminist who became the first woman to run for mayor of New York City. In her later years Russell became an advocate of women's suffrage and was a popular lecturer and newspaper columnist.

Madge Bellamy [1899-1990]



Louise Glaum [1888-1970]



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Betty Blythe [1893-1972]

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Burnu Acquanetta [1921-2004]

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Burnu Acquanetta, whose name means "Burning Fire, Deep Water" in Arapaho, was born on an Indian reservation at Ozone, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1921. Acquanetta, who became famous playing Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan, walked out on her Universal contract in 1951, complaining about the way studio bosses had come on to her, "grabbed and pulled and chased [me] around the executives' offices."

Brigitte Nielsen



Jayne Mansfield [1933-1967]

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Katherine McPhee

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Dido sings like an angel and looks like one too ...

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Fiona Apple

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Fiona Apple explained her choice to parade around in bra and panties in her "Criminal" music video: "I decided that if I was going to be exploited, then I would do the exploiting myself."

Susan Coffey

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Dani Crayne loved water like her namesake ...

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Myriam Fares ... is the Lebanese siren known as the "Queen of the Stage" the most luminous beauty of all time? To be sure, you can check out our pictures of her at the bottom of every page in this series.



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