Born Heather Sweet on September 28, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan, Dita Von Teese was a performer right from the start. She loved the old MGM Technicolor musicals and would emulate the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age as a child. It didn't take much prodding from her parents to take part in dancing lessons and other forms of performance art.

Dita Von Teese is a Playboy legend, with dozens of appearances in Hugh Hefner's magazine. Her unique taste and affinity for old-style lingerie are hard to ignore and, consequently, she has cultivated a huge following on the Internet and is in demand for several high-class gentleman's functions. To an underground world of fetishists and pinup lovers, she can teese all she likes...