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R.I.P.

December 11, 2008
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Bettie Page
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’50s pin-up gal Bettie Page died in Los Angeles today at the age of 85. Bettie was put on life support last week after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, said her agent, Mark Roesler. He said he and Page’s family agreed to remove life support. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

Bettie posed for thousands of sexual and/or nude photographs in the ’50s, when such modeling was most definitely not done in the mainstream. She is credited with setting the scene for the sexual revolution of the ’60s. “I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer,” she said later. “I wasn’t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn’t think of myself as liberated, and I don’t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn’t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”

R.I.P., Bettie, and thank you.

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  • NOOOO. I’ve been dreading this ever since I heard she was in the hospital.

    Bettie was a wonderful and fascinating character. R.I.P.

  • Thing of it is, she evolved to the point of disliking the choices she made to pose nude and suchlike. I listened to her say this in a documentary a couple of years ago. She turned to God and absolutely did not approve of all that shiz she did when she was Young-N-Dumb. I feel bad for her……that everyone will now flood the ‘Net with her old pics to remember her in a manner she’d have preferred to forget.

  • thanx for the pix, beet. especially the 2nd one. i’m gonna duplicate pic that for my guy. he’s bananas for my legs in thigh highs. me-owww.

  • I GREW UP AS A TEENAGER AND DID THE SOLO NAUGHTY WITH HER PHOTOS. SHE WAS MY FIRST FEMALE “CRUSH!”