Dita Von Teese
With her raven hair, retro pinup looks and sexy trademark "woman in a giant martini glass" routine, Dita Von Teese is the most famous burlesque artist to hit the world stage since Gypsy Rose Lee. And she is well compensated for it too apparently as she has been quoted claiming she regularly receives $20,000 for 10 minutes work. Her road to shaking her bonbon for a living began with years of ballet classes, working in a lingerie store, allegedly wearing a corset every day for seven years until she cinched her waist down to 16 inches, and college-level study of
