Here's an actually insane life. Tura Satana from cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Ulster-Scots background ... a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California ... just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off ... Over the next 15 years, Satana tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." ... Around this time, she formed a gang, "the Angeles," with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. ... Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months. ... using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. ... became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, ... She claimed that after singer Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined ... although she kept the ring. ... Satana then starred as "Varla" in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ... created by Russ Meyer ... Meyer said Satana was "extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you have to fuck her, do it well! She might turn on you!" ...
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