She received a suspended sentence and was required to perform 500 hours of community service. In 1983 she entered a guilty plea to lying to a federal grand jury about having taken the proceeds of more than $18,000 in Social Security checks made out to her mother, who had died years before. Van Vooren’s only real scandal was financial. Her first and only novel, “ Night Sanctuary,” about three women and a male ballet superstar, was published in 1983.Īlthough her reputation was as a sex symbol, Ms. “Why don’t you call yourself Christopher?” she suggested.
Once, when working at the Rainbow Room, she decided one of her three male backup dancers, Ronnie Walken, needed a new name. Later, she was known for her cabaret performances. Wilson’s enthusiastic New York Times review suggested that she had been “hiding her real talent under a bushel of cheesecake.” The cover showed her in nothing but diamonds and off-the-shoulder white mink. Her first album was “ Mink in Hi-Fi” (1958), a mix of French and English songs. “In New York we have a population of, what, 12 million?” she said, rounding up by about 30 percent. she complained that the city’s night life had gone downhill. But, in a cable-television interview in the late 1980s. Survivors include a son, Eric Purcell, from her marriage to Mr. Purcell, a producer and personal manager, and they were together until his death in 2002. Pfenniger in 1950 they separated in 1954 and later divorced. Van Vooren once casually replied, “I’ve been married three or four times.” Biographies sometimes mention a first husband in the 1940s with the surname Jacobsen or Jakobsen. When asked about the men in her life, Ms. According to her official biography, she arrived in New York in 1950, just after appearing in her first movie, to study philosophy at New York University on a Fulbright scholarship. She often spoke about having grown up in a convent - presumably a boarding school. Monique Bronz was born on March 25, 1927, in Brussels, the daughter of George Bronz and Louise (Van Vooren) Bronz. It closed after less than a week of performances. In 1953, she played multiple roles in the musical revue “John Murray Anderson’s Almanac.” In 1975, she played Venus in “Man on the Moon,” a musical written by John Phillips of the rock group the Mamas and the Papas. She appeared on Broadway twice, two decades apart.
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