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Annabel Battistella, whose Combat Zone performance as Fanne Foxe fueled a Washington sex scandal, dies at 84
Updated February 24, 2021, 7:52 p.m.
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On Novemberâs final Saturday night in 1974, Annabel Battistella was performing a burlesque dance at the Pilgrim Theater stage in Bostonâs Combat Zone neighborhood when she welcomed into the spotlight a man off in the wings.
âLadies and gentleman, I have a visitor for you, and he wants to say hello,â said the performer who used the stage name Fanne Foxe, and later went by her married name, Annabel Montgomery. âMr. Mills, where are you?â