Tempest Storm, Who Disrobed to Enduring Acclaim, Dies at 93
Margalit Fox, New York Times
April 21, 2021
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Tempest Storm tries on her feather boa in her apartment in Las Vegas, Friday, June 6, 2008. Jae C. Hong/AP
Tempest Storm, one of the most celebrated strippers of midcentury burlesque, who continued plying her craft until she was in her 80s not because she had to, but because she could died on Tuesday at her home in Las Vegas. She was 93.
Harvey Robbins, her longtime manager, confirmed the death.
Routinely named in the same ardent breath as the great 20th-century ecdysiasts Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr and Gypsy Rose Lee, Storm was every inch as ecdysiastical as they, and for far longer. Almost certainly the last of her ilk, she was, at her height in the 1950s and early ’60s, famous the world over, as celebrated for her flame-red tresses as for her vaunted 40-inch bust.
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