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freshest streaming service. Long before the sex symbols of today and at the dawn of the 20th century, in the days when newspapers and magazines carried all the news and impressions, there was one and only one

Mottahari.

Before her, countless others, some whose names have been forgotten.

Others well remembered, like Cleopatra, and Salome, Helen of Troy left legends that

will exist as long as stories are told.

And of these women who inspired visions among men simply by being in the same room.

There is another type of woman, the one the French gave a name to, the FEMFatal, meaning loosely

Lady Death or Lady of Death. This woman's charms led others,

sometimes whole armies or sometimes just themselves, to destruction.

Her name was known and whispered worldwide

when the subject of provocative women came up.

Little girls were sent to their room

for getting caught by mom wrapped in veils and dancing like

Madahari. Marriages were wrecked by husbands who were known to have been seen in

her company. The Paris and European theaters in which he performed her exotic dances were packed, with standing room only.

Her scanty outfit caused public outrageous. Pictures and newspaper accounts of Madahari were everywhere. She was seen on the

arms of some of the most famous men in her time. Her life, her movements, her men, were

chronicled in detail for the public to read for 10 years,

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