Louise Wightman
Louise Fitzgerald Wightman (
Dance career
Wightman's dancing career began at age 17, when she was known as Lucy Johnson, and peaked when she was a headliner at the now defunct
Using her celebrity from the exotic dancing circuit, Wightman later hosted a sex advice radio
"The thinking man's stripper"
As an articulate woman from a well-to-do family, Wightman did not conform to the popular stereotype of an exotic dancer, and gained a reputation as "the thinking man's stripper."
Psychotherapy career
In 1985, Wightman received a
Legal problems
In October 2005, Wightman was indicted in
Personal life
In 1979, Wightman was engaged to the singer Cat Stevens, but the couple broke up due to her career commitments and his conversion to Islam.[3][17]
After the breakup with Stevens, Wightman married and divorced twice; she had a daughter named Victoria (Torri) with her second husband Donald Wightman, a Boston police detective and head of security for the rock band Aerosmith.[4] On May 16, 2006, 16-year-old Torri died as result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Plympton, Massachusetts.[18]
See also
- List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
- Diploma mill
References
- ^ a b c Berson, Jessica. "Dancing in the Combat Zone: Striptease, Nostalgia, and Urban Renewal". Academia.edu. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
The manager of the club helped her create a character that would become a local legend....Princess Cheyenne became a star.
- ^ "Vancouverism in Boston & Revisiting 'the Zone'". Radio Boston. February 19, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
Also this week, there's a new exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery chronicling Boston's bygone red light district: the Combat Zone. We'll visit the exhibit and swap memories with legendary Combat Zone performer Louise Wightman, AKA Princess Cheyenne!
- ^ a b c "Posing as a Psychologist". Fox 25 Undercover. Archived from the original on November 6, 2005.
She's a local legend with a colorful past....Lucy Wightman is better known as Princess Cheyenne, a legendary stripper who first made her mark in Boston decades ago.
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- ISBN 9781101028780.
- ^ Altman, Howard (May 15, 1997). "Naked City". Philadelphia City Paper. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ^ a b c d O'Brien, Keith (January 22, 2006). "Exposed". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
- ^ a b "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!", Women's Physique World, May 1996, retrieved February 6, 2015
- ^ Saltzman, Jonathan; Ryan, Andrew (May 3, 2007). "Former stripper takes stand in trial". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Richman, Alan (February 12, 1979). "Living Combat Zone's expensive thrills". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Miller, Margo (April 19, 1982). "People & Places". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Bennett, Dr. William I. (1985). "Gustatory Affairs". Harvard Magazine. 88: 131.
- ^ Feeney, Mark (March 7, 2010). "A Vanished World of Sex, Squalor, Captured in Black and White". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 30, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ^ Leibovich, Lori (January 27, 2006). "Massachusetts shrink outed as former stripper". Salon.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
Wightman's defenders rightly question whether she would have been charged so harshly if it wasn't for her colorful past.
- ^ "Ex-stripper convicted of posing as psychologist". South Coast Today. Associated Press. May 4, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2007.
- ^ Tatz, Dennis (May 15, 2007). "Former stripper avoids time in jail; Gets house arrest for not having psych license". The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 15, 2007.
- ^ McMillan, Nancy. "Lucy Was Cat's Meow but When She Bared Her Soul She Got Scratched". People.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ Cramer, Maria (May 17, 2006). "An afternoon planned for shopping turns tragic on Route 16 in Plympton". The Boston Globe.