Free for commercial use, no attribution required Both hands behind head, bottomless women, female armpits, hand colored photographs of mata hari, upper arm rings, women with bracelets. A brief history on october 15th, 1917, the famous exotic dancer and courtesan mata hari was executed by firing squad after having been found guilty of espionage Digging deeper in our three previous articles from this series, we have already listed 31 women famous for being naked or who, at one point in their lives, had famously been naked. Performing in the near nude paid off In 1905 margaretha became mata hari at the musée guimet
The audience was driven “out of it mind” by the mysterious, tall and supple woman with a seductive and fabricated backstory of a divine life in the orient Before long mata hari was performing across europe. The name “mata hari” has become virtually synonymous with “espionage” But despite her fame, it is not at all clear that the world war one exotic dancer was ever actually a spy for anyone As an exotic dancer and performer (and a courtesan to much of europe’s wealthy elite), mata hari gave out so many embellished tales of her life that today it is virtually impossible to sort them.
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