Heather Renee Sweet was born on September 28,1972, and known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman.
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54 Facts About Von Teese
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Von Teese is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque".
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Von Teese has been seen in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Masked Dancer, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, among other television productions.
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Von Teese is known for her short marriage to singer Marilyn Manson as well as performing in his music videos.
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Von Teese has released two books on burlesque history, fetishism and beauty.
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Von Teese has recorded songs with French musician Sebastien Tellier.
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Von Teese has been a special guest at the Parisian venue Crazy Horse several times.
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Von Teese has created four perfumes under the brand Dita Von Teese Perfumes.
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Von Teese was born in West Branch, Michigan, the second of three daughters.
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Von Teese is of English, Scottish, Armenian, and German heritage.
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Von Teese has stated that one of her grandmothers was half-Armenian and adopted into an Anglo-Saxon American family.
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Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic vintage style.
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Von Teese's mother was a fan of old, Golden Age-era Hollywood films, and from her, Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable.
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Von Teese was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age 13 for a local ballet company.
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When Von Teese was a teenager, her mother took her to buy her first bra, made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored pantyhose.
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Von Teese says she was disappointed, as she had been hoping to receive beautiful lacy garments and stockings, of the type she had glimpsed in her father's Playboy magazines.
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Von Teese worked in a lingerie store as a salesgirl when she was 15, eventually as a buyer.
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Von Teese has been fond of wearing elaborate lingerie such as corsets and basques with fully fashioned stockings ever since.
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In college, Von Teese studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for films.
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Von Teese is a trained costume designer, often designing her photo shoots herself.
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At 18, Von Teese had her famous beauty mark tattooed on her left cheek.
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Von Teese was stunned by the other strippers' lack of originality and wanted to incorporate vintage and fetish style to her performance.
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Von Teese chose her stage name by adopting the name Dita as a tribute to silent film actress Dita Parlo.
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Von Teese is known for her signature painted eyes, heavily penciled brows, swipe of crimson lipstick, and blue-black locks.
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Von Teese achieved some level of recognition in the fetish world as a tightlacer.
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Von Teese appeared on numerous fetish magazine covers, including Bizarre and Marquis.
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Von Teese was featured in Playboy in 1999,2001, and 2002, with a cover-featured pictorial in 2002.
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Von Teese is best known for her burlesque routines and is frequently dubbed the "Queen of Burlesque" in the press.
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Von Teese began performing burlesque in 1992, and, as a proponent of Neo-Burlesque, has helped to popularize its revival.
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Additionally, Von Teese became the first guest star at the Crazy Horse cabaret club in Paris with her appearance in October 2006.
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In 2006, Von Teese appeared on an episode of America's Next Top Model doing a workshop to teach the contestants about sensuality by means of burlesque dancing and posing.
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In 2007, Von Teese performed at the adult entertainment event Erotica 07 in London alongside Italian rock band Belladonna.
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Von Teese participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, as part of the stage performance for the German entry "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang".
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Von Teese has appeared in more mainstream features such as the 2005 short film, The Death of Salvador Dali, written by Delaney Bishop, which won best screenplay and best cinematography at SXSW, Raindance Film Festival, and Mill Valley Film Festival, and won Best Actress at Beverly Hills Film Festival.
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Von Teese appeared in the music video "Up in the Air" by Thirty Seconds to Mars in 2013.
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In January 2011, Von Teese guest starred in the CBS police procedural drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, in which her friend Eric Szmanda starred, in the episode "A Kiss Before Frying".
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Von Teese played Rita von Squeeze, a femme fatale version of herself, who seduces Szmanda's character, Greg Sanders, in a plot inspired by film noir.
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In 2021, Von Teese appeared on the British version of the Fox TV series The Masked Dancer, masked as Beetroot.
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In September 2021, Von Teese was a contestant in the eleventh season of Danse avec les stars, the French version of Dancing with the Stars.
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Von Teese has appeared on a number of best-dressed lists and frequents the front row of fashion shows, particularly Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Marc Jacobs, labels she is often seen wearing.
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Von Teese has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, and international issues of nearly every fashion magazine.
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In May 2012, Von Teese launched her makeup collection "Classics" in partnership with the German cosmetic brand Art Deco.
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In 2012, Von Teese launched her own clothing line and underwear line called Von Follies.
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Von Teese's first was named Dita Von Teese and is described by her as 'mood setting for glamour'.
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Von Teese's second was named Rouge and is described as 'mood setting for seduction'.
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The third FleurVon Teese is for romance and Erotique is mood setting to be erotic.
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In 2014, Von Teese began working with Myer, an Australian department store, on a lingerie line fronted by Australian model Stefania Ferrario.
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Von Teese's home is a Tudor revival residence in the Hollywood Hills, dedicated to early 20th-century decor, including antique taxidermy, a pub house and a glass box with Bettie Page's vintage fetish shoes.
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Von Teese is a collector of vintage china, particularly egg cups and tea sets, and drives vintage cars.
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Von Teese has been in a relationship with graphic designer Adam Rajcevich since 2014.
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On December 29,2006, Von Teese filed for divorce from Manson citing "irreconcilable differences".
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Von Teese left their house empty-handed on Christmas Eve, and was not able to get in touch with Manson to inform him of her intention to divorce him.
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