Bettie Page, the bombshell pin-up queen who both titillated and outraged Americans during her legendary career as a model and actress, has died. She was 85.
"With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening (1.41pm AEDT Friday) in a Los Angeles hospital," her agent Mark Roesler said in a statement.
"She died peacefully but had never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack nine days ago."
Page hit fame in the 1950s with her fetish modelling and trademark look of jet black hair and bangs. Her pin-up photos included an appearance on the cover or Playboy.
Page converted to Christianity in the 1960s — even serving as a Baptist missionary in Angola — and consequently faded into obscurity.
But her popularity resurged in the 1980s, however, and she gained a cult following.
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