Our good friend Celebrity Sleuth is opening up his personal vault at auction next month, and we've got the inside scoop!He wrote a new piece for us detailing some of the great, one-of-a-kind items you can expect to find at auction, and he'll be bringing us more every Monday and Thursday until the auction goes live in December!
SHOCK AUCTION: Cuban Missile Vices
Thu, Nov 5, 2015byCelebrity Sleuth
The Blaze was extinguished this past June at 83, but she left yours truly with many personal artifacts and no less than 7 separate lots to auction! “Honey, I loved it,” she laughed of life, “but everything has its season. I was very lucky and shared it with those I love. As a matter of fact,” she laughed, “I always didshare itwith those I loved.” http://www.regencystamps.com/BLAZE_STARR_1990s_ALS__SEXUAL_RELATIONSHIP_W__PRES-LOT344072.aspx
Blaze Starr was likely the most famous burlesque queen of the 1950s and ’60s becoming the first ecdysiast entrepreneur by owning her own strip joint, the famous 2 O’Clock Club on Baltimore’s downtown “Block.”
She doesn’t specify the exact timebut leaves out few otherdetailsin describing her lascivious liaison with PresidentJohn F. Kennedyjust outside the Oval Office of the White House in an astounding and historic handwritten letter offered inLot 3of my “Alluring Autograph Artifact Auction” set for December 5-6.
What makes this artifact all the more remarkableis that the tryst hardly theirfirst{Lot 2 reveals an earlier encounter in a cramped closet when J.F.K. was still a Senator} took place at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisiswhen a tense standoff with the Soviet Union put us on the brink of annihilation for 13 harrowing days! In the words of Wikipedia: “It was theclosesttheCold Warcame to escalating into a full-scalenuclear war.” So perhaps thehotnessof Blaze in her prime at the time help Kennedy keep his cool!
“Baby, if Fidel Castro [Cuba’s communist dictator] had something like you,” the buxom BurlyQ queen quotes the president proclaiming after he rose from the occasion, “he would think more about making love and less about making war.” Who can say if her easing of his tensions sharpened J.F.K.’s resolve and diplomacybut she just may have saved the world! As Blaze boasts at the conclusion of this unique missile missive: “I really felt proud of myself, keeping ‘my President’ calm in his hour of great decision making. I did my part for freedom and my country that day.”
These landmark letters came directly from Blaze and can be yours for the winning bid here:
