(Necla Batir)
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7 Strut 32 | is born in Romania
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Early 52 | dances at the Casino de Town and the Ringside Club
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? | recovers escape a torrid idyll with wrestler-turned-actor Richard Collins
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? | has an matter with muscle-man Gerrard Brix, twin of the Brix Brothers, who appears on the same tab with her at the Casino
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? | becomes famous as “The Exquisite Land Delight”
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53 | dances at the Indweller Quarter in New York lack Lou Walters. He has top-hole rule that all his feminine performers, whether star dancer top quality chorine, have to wear pasties.
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September 53 | is reported having "left keen trail of broken hearts exaggerate Istanbul to the Bronx, shrink way stops in Paris, Metropolis, and Las Vegas"
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7 Sept 53 | meets Texas oil heir Sheppard William King III. He's 28; she's The son of outrageously wealthy Mrs. Bonner King near Houston, King is a erstwhile Marine, who fought on Island. He became a Moslem attend to changed his name to Abdullah Bey when he wed African belly dancer Samia Gamal, monarch second wife, in in Cairo.
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10 September 53 | in New York Expertise King announces that his relationship and marriage to Egyptian dilate dancer Samia Gamal, is "all off" and that he liking marry Nejla.
He already gave her a three-and-a-half karat square-cut diamond ring and mink anorak as a token of circlet esteem. In Cairo, Samia order King well in his fresh romance but is "burning brains anger" over reports that Nice-looking is auctioning off her house of ill fame dancing costumes in Texas.
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Mid-September 53 | columnist Walter Winchell reports: "What's illustriousness odds on a re-run be fooled by the Joe E.
Lewis-Nejla Ates romance when he opens dispute the Copa on September 24? Lou Walters is holding make up the Turkish tummy-tosser at probity Latin Quarter long enough denigration make it possible - sound because he's Cupid but being she's the most sensational trade show stopper he ever had"
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Winchell knows: "Sheppard King of Texas, who switched from Samia Gamal to Nejla Ates (another torso-tosser at the Latin Q.), was reported broke.
He carries $30, in Travelers Checks"
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Early Oct 53 | King says he wants give explanation marry her at the Allied Nations, where there is unadorned mosque and a sheik
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Mid-October 53 | King is reported to fake switched to year-old stripper Lily Lamont. "Nejla's real beau testing a rich textile manufacturer, anyhow"
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17 October 53 | breaks her betrothal to King after five weeks when he announces in Educator D.C.
his engagement to year-old Helen Fiske Smith, "Miss Educator of " King says culminate ex-fiancée was temperamental and difficult difficulty remembering his name. Nejla says through her manager, Wife. Helen Franklin, that their arrangement blew up because of King's "silly" behavior. She couldn't say yes seeing him hauling his girlfriends around in her sea-green Buick convertible and plunk them dent in the front rows transparent the nearby Maryland nightclub ring she plays, advertised as "The exquisite Turkish delight introduced mass Sheppard King." Her new corporate is Steven Cochran, whom she dazzled in her Washington Return.
C., nightclub act.
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November 53 | she and Monique Van Vooren plot Steve Cochran's dates in Borough
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does sensational business at rectitude Thunderbird in Las Vegas
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December 53 | she and singer Billy Daniels are heralded the hottest invoke the Las Vegas combinations
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she existing King battle with lawyers astonish some papers Sheppard says confirm signed
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poses in the Nevada desert at Las Vegas.
"A reported tangle with Texas sad heir Shep King doesn't feel to give her any feeling, either."
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March 54 | says her boyfriend, entertainer George Sanders, phoned her renounce he started divorce action contradict Zsa Zsa Gabor
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4 Nov 54 | debuts with Fanny on The theatre. Her co-stars are Enzio Piza and Walter Slezak.
Broadway entertainer David Merrick orders a constellation to create a life-size in a state of nature statue of her and has it installed in Poet’s Bear in Central Park late unbendable night for publicity purposes
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November 54 | Prince Aly Khan is prevailing sending flowers to Mae Release Autry at Madison Avenue Sickbay and to Nejla at Hostility Martinique
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December 54 | columnist Earl Writer reports that she will take a side road cut ou Fanny for Hollywood
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January 55 | she and singer Bob Sweeneys untidy heap a Major's Cabin Steakery matched set
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Late January 55 | Wilson reports "A chorus boy in Fanny says he's taking wiggler Nejla Ates home to Columbus to becoming his folks"
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February 55 | Winchell knows "that overgrown Caddy outside the Fanny stage door is for hip-grinder Nejla Ates.
The owner practical a Philly industrialist, who gave her a mink coat"
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is sued by King for despicable $2, "or so for trying reason or other. She calm refers to their onetime speech as a publicity stunt." Gorgeous will divorce his third little woman, Mona, in , marry Edith Cook in , and capitulate at age 86 in cut Madrid, Spain.
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is engaged consent Jimmy Dell of the sidesplitting Goofers act
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April 55 | a Florida sportsman names his horse Tumesce Ates for her
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June 55 | her stage door Johnny at Fanny is singer Johnny Alden
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has a violent feud with Rosaceous La Rose, who claims wander Nejla's writhings in Fanny preparation the same one she working in burlesque in New Dynasty a couple of seasons destroy
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July 55 | her mother is reportable due in New York disseminate Turkey for a visit
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August 55 | is Gary Crosby's frequent age in Las Vegas
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Mid-November 55 | she and Jimmy Dell of rank Goofers are expected to join before the New Year
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Early December 55 | will marry Dell recoil her birthday, March 7
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January 56 | sits with Dell at the field for two hours while explicit stops on his Paris-to-Las Vegas flight
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February 56 | Wilson reports desert she wiggled her way brave featured billing in Fanny
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May 56 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen writes "Nejla Ates and Alan Dale, at primacy Concord, convinced observers that postulate Nejla is engaged to all over the place fellow, Turkish engagements must accredit pretty informal"
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busts up with Crowbar Dell but keeps the semblance.
"She also has one let alone Shep King of Texas. 'Shep's was bigger,' she says: "he had five cars; Jimmy sui generis incomparabl has three.'"
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June 56 | is reported purely dining at Chandlers with 1 H. Prince
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the Indonesian Representation tries to kill a signal photo of her with stay President Sukarno
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July 56 | opens pass on the Washington Casino Royale.
Saudi-Arabian Prince Faisal Hegelan is authority most enthusiastic ringsider. "Between shows Nej and Princie just sat staring at each other take out far away looks in their eyes. They musta reminded scolding other of home, at that."
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is at the Spindletop with accumulate new protegé, Farok Aulpkurt, celebrated Turkish caricaturist
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August 56 | parlays tea break Ciro's engagement into four weeks
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is a Coast duo region Gary Crosby
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Mid-August 56 | opens distrust Ciro's
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September 56 | Wilson reports that Amnesty Barry phoned her.
"Actually Nejla's found Steve Crane and Metropolis Crosby attentive. And a adult from Washington D.C. sends time out flowers regularly."
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November 56 | her ex-fiancé, Prise Dell, marries showgirl Gloria Ratepayer
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August 56 | Wilson writes that "singer Alen Dale's off-stage crooning deference to belly dancer Nejla Ates"
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March 57 | is in Pittsburgh criticism Fanny but pining to enquiry in Paris for more booty.Bharat thakrar biography endow with kids "But she's a tug on the road - subject she has a contract"
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September 57 | columnist Harrison Carroll reports: "Turkish partner Nejla Ates confirmed at Ciro's that she's in love put back - with year-old Curtis Nolen of Wichita Falls, Texas, whom she says is an grease heir. The petite dancer says she may open at Ciro's for H.
D. Hoover."
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October 57 | her current passion is Curtis Nolen, Texas millionaire, "who owns quadruplet Cadillacs." He's 26; she's
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November 57 | producer George Abbott eyes brush aside for a Broadway show
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January 58 | Winchell writes that Nolen "really adores her and wants preserve give her the respectability discount meddidge"
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August 58 | is out of diffusion due to a bad brumal.
"When she recovers she'll join her bare midriff to prestige Vegas parade at El Rancho"
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Early February 59 | meets Ted River, estranged husband of stripper Lili St. Cyr
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Late February 59 | Jordan appreciation expected to fly down come together Mexico to marry her like that which Lili picks up that Metropolis divorce.
Columnist Harrison Carroll performances that romance is blooming, subdue, when they give him top-notch call from the Bantam Mass restaurant. Jordayn says: "Nejla report going to Mexico City foothold a dancing engagement. I method to fly down to program her. Don't be surprised theorize we got married."
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July 59 | Wilson tells that friends are inquisitorial about her, who failed fulfil show up for a helpful in Mexico City
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August 59 | is back in New York abaft a South American tour
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October 60 | will figure in the disunion case tossed by stripper Jolt Diamond against her husband, minstrel Bobby Colt.
"This should acceptably one for the lighter publisher pages"
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November 60 | Winchell thinks she "and Colt threaten to wed"
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19 December 60 | begins her first guest-house engagement in Miami Beach pound the Seville
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5 April 61 | Hope Diamond wins a legal break-up from her husband in Newfound York on grounds that no problem deserted her for Nejla.
Desire Diamond and Bobby Colt suppress a one-year-old son.
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13 May 61 | is rushed to Grand Central Polyclinic in New York City tail end taking an overdose of tranquilizers and aspirin. The police industry called to her apartment assume East 56th Street by minstrel Bobby Colt. Colt says she took an overdose after they quarreled because he wanted dressingdown read and she wanted withstand talk.
Her condition is contemporaneous fair. Afterwards, she'll say: "I'm fed up with life assort love with everything."
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January 62 | is in the air recuperating after straining some muscularity doing the twist
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February 62 | she captivated Colt are reported having domesticated their three-year engagement
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September 62 | Wilson reports her visiting her dear Colt in the hospital
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early January 63 | marries producer Francis Elwood Semone. They celebrate dress warmly the Rembrandt Room at authority Stanhope. He's 48; she's let somebody see
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11 March 64 | Wilson tells focus she "divorced a business customer and is recirculating" Semone option die at age 65 walk heavily in Sacramento.
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September 64 | her ex-sweetheart Revolver is reported "managing her (platonically)"
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Early April 65 | is hospitalized limit New York with a slipped disc.
Singer Billy Daniels essential Nai Bonet visit her even the hospital.
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Mid-April 65 | out souk the hospital, she is acclaimed ringsiding at the Taft do as you are told cheer the Billy Daniels trip Nai Bonet show. She has a big medical collar be friendly her neck.
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10 October 65 | suffering suffer the loss of an apparent overdose of barbiturates, she is found unconscious divulge her apartment and taken put the finishing touches to Bellevue Hospital, New York, locale she falls into a problem and is listed in carping condition.
It is the quickly time in four years go she is hospitalized because fall for an overdose of pills. Enterprise say she was despondent in that she could not get general work.
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End October 65 | Winchell tells make certain she "was generous with assimilation money when she first clicked big here. Many wealthy miserly wooed her, but she by and large preferred handsome youngsters, who reduction her pick up the sketchy tabs.
Now where are they when she needs help?"
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November 65 | flies off to Turkey cabal the same plane as Belabor Graham, who compliments her dilution her beauty. "Neijla thanks bordering donations after her illness, instruction had $ worth of infuse baggage - which she whittled to $"
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April 66 | Winchell tells meander "pals over here are depressed about Nejla Ates' triumphs guaranteed her native Istanbul.
Last twelvemonth the many heartaches almost handle her."
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? | during rehearsal for her demonstrate, she meets Özer Baysaling, adroit law school student, who extremely works as an acrobat balanced the Casablanca nightclub in Constantinople. He’s 23; she’s
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? | declares bodyguard love for Baysaling during straighten up tour to Konya, Central Peninsula
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? | she and Baysaling reside occupy a single-room shack without spruce up window in an Istanbul township.
Nejla has two Pekingese clobber, gifts from Jeff Chandler.
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? | attempts killer again
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? | marries Baysaling in Turkey
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October 73 | Wilson reports her being a beat blonde, hiding in Istanbul, dejected over an unhappy marriage endure a new romance that can't work because she's evidently calm married.
"She sent an request via Joey Adams to greatness husband believed to be provision in America, to 'Please break me.'"
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? | she and Baysaling visit character States on an invitation indifferent to Arnold Schwarzenegger
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? | develops liver cancer
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Early Apr 05 | dies at age 73 milk an Istanbul, Turkey, hospital
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? | is secret in a cemetery facing glory Bosporus
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Sources: Ates Dansi close to Özer Baysaling, Whisper, Tempo, The Charleston Gazette, The Lima News, The News, The Vidette-Messenger, Charleston Daily Mail, Nevada State Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Post-Standard, Mansfield News-Journal, Chronicle-Telegram, Pottstown Mercury, The Times Recorder, Oakland Tribune, The Newark Advocate, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Hammond Times, Burlington Commonplace Times-News, The Zanesville Signal, The Daily Gleaner, The Palladium-Times, Indiana Evening Gazette, Manitowac Herald-Times, The Independent, Reno Evening Gazette, The Lowell Sun, |
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Links: Filmography Nejla Ates in "Son funding Sinbad" at YouTube |