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In New York, she reinvented herself as Tanqueray, becoming a magnetic burlesque star in the 1960s and ’70s. She designed her own rhinestone-covered costumes and built a devoted following across burlesque clubs, drag scenes, fetish spaces, and mob-run nightclubs. “Back in the seventies, I was the only Black girl making white girl money,” she once said, recalling how deeply she was immersed in the city’s underground.
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