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🗓️ 7 June 2023
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0:00.0 | Dressed to kill. I'm Rebecca Leeb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town. |
0:21.0 | In June 2011, the tragic death of Anna Cadilla Renzo remains a mystery. |
0:25.6 | However, her story really begins with one of the most controversial movies of all time. |
0:30.4 | Anna Cadilla Renzo, born Marjorie Lee Thorsten, was a nude model and American exploitation |
0:35.2 | movie star who was born on September 6, 1952 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Early on, her life was |
0:41.5 | turbulent. Early hardships, a transfer to Los Angeles, and a successful career in the adult |
0:46.3 | entertainment sector, and finally, a mystery and terrible death were all part of her story. |
0:50.8 | When Thorsten was just 13 years old, her parents split. After they split up, |
0:54.6 | she fled to Los Angeles in search of a new beginning and an opportunity to follow her goals. |
0:59.2 | She worked in a variety of occupations to support herself once she arrived, |
1:02.8 | including working at a front desk, cocktail waitressing, and even topless dancing. |
1:07.3 | She changed her aliases during this time and ran into legal issues. While still in her teen, |
1:12.0 | she was accused of auto theft, having a tear gas gun, and passing fake checks going under |
1:16.8 | the name for silly shutters. Thorsten started looking into a profession in adult entertainment |
1:20.9 | in her late teens and early 20s, using the alias Connie Stodman, and made her first nude appearance |
1:26.5 | in the April 1970 issue of the men's magazine PIX. But 1973, when she started posing for Penthouse |
1:33.0 | magazine, under the name Anna Cadilla Renzo, her career took a big turn. She was named Penthouse |
1:38.8 | Pet of the Month in 1973, and eventually Pet of the Year in 1975. Enter one of the most controversial |
1:45.2 | films of all time, Caligula. Oh, yeah. Caligula as a film, as a cultural landmark. |
1:55.1 | Absolutely. Is a whole story. It's a large movie. It's a very large story. |
2:02.8 | Absolutely. If you're not familiar with it, proceed with caution when watching this movie. |
2:09.0 | Yes. It stars Malcolm McDowell, I believe, from Clockwork Orange, and it is such a chaotic |
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