New Orleans burlesque performer and producer Trixie Minx, on the passing of Blaze Starr on June 15: 'She made a powerful impact in our small part of the world, and it is our responsibility to ...

I desperately wanted to interview Blaze Starr in 2011, ... He met Starr while she was working at a burlesque club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

Burlesque star Blaze Starr, who revived a moribund, post-war Baltimore and rocked New Orleans by having a scandalous affair with the governor, died Monday. She was 83. Born Fannie Belle Fleming in … ...

She's better known for what happened when she landed at the Sho-Bar club in New Orleans. That's where Starr famously had an affair with Louisiana Gov. Earl K. Long, who served in the 1940s and 1950s.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Blaze Starr, the burlesque star and stripper whose affair with Louisiana governor Earl Long in the 1950s gained notoriety for both, died Monday at age 83.