A pretty Vegas showgirl with some promise in Hollywood, her involvement with racketeer Mickey Cohen in 1957, who financed her career, led to a two-year stint in prison for perjury in her boyfriend's tax evasion trial, and the complete collapse of any legit acting career.
Appeared as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show "You Bet Your Life" (1950), but the episode was never aired due to her involvement with L.A. mobster Mickey Cohen, then under criminal investigation.
Describes her assets as follows "...now are 44DD, 26, 36. I have BIG boobs." (as quoted in Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Died of gastric bleeding in a Las Vegas hospital.
Her talent and obsession for self-promotion continued almost until the end of her life. She first came to notice in 1950 when her antics on a film set in Phoenix earned her a five-page picture spread in Life magazine.
Married a total of seven times, her daughter Brenda Renay killed herself in 1982 on her 39th birthday. Also had a son John.
Measurements: 39 1/2-25-36 (at height of stripping career), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Mother of Brenda Renay.
Raised in Arizona by strict evangelical Christian parents, she ran away from home at age 13 and hitchhiked to Las Vegas. She re-entered a Marilyn Monroe lookalike contest and won.