17 Facts About Melinda Saxe

Melinda Saxe was born on March 6,1965 and is a magician from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Melinda Saxe is best known for her television performances and Las Vegas stage shows in which she was billed as "the First Lady of Magic".

Melinda Saxe often is associated with the Drill of Death illusion, a signature trick developed for her by Andre Kole.

Melinda Saxe was born in a small town in Tennessee.

At the age of three, Melinda Saxe moved to Las Vegas after her mother Bonnie landed a spot as a showgirl in the Folies Bergere show at the Tropicana.

Melinda Saxe has two siblings, Suzanne and Las Vegas stage producer David Melinda Saxe.

Melinda Saxe became interested in magic at the age of 16, and practiced it all day long from that point on.

Melinda Saxe graduated from Bonanza High School in Las Vegas as a junior in 1982.

Melinda Saxe is the first woman magician to perform in Las Vegas.

Melinda Saxe starred in her first show at the Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino, when she was 19.

Melinda Saxe's show at the Landmark closed in late 1989 and reopened at the nearby MGM Marina hotel.

Melinda Saxe had a residency at Trump's Castle in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a four-year run in her own 3,000-seat theatre in Branson, Missouri.

Melinda Saxe featured in the first of Ouellet's The World's Most Dangerous Magic specials in 1998, in which she escaped using levitation after being tied up and placed in a glass tank filled with snakes.

Melinda Saxe stopped performing in 2002, saying she intended to devote herself to starting a family with her new husband.

In 2012, Melinda returned to the stage in the Planet Hollywood resort's V: The Ultimate Variety Show, one of several Las Vegas Strip productions helmed by her brother David Saxe.

Melinda Saxe married fellow magician Lance Burton on August 30,1993; they divorced a year later.

Melinda Saxe sued Little for defamation, invasion of privacy, and inflicting emotional distress.