Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan, and is a WPP company. It operates 450 offices in 120 countries with approximately 18,000 employees.

History[link]

Ogilvy & Mather was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy, as "Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather" in Manhattan. The company became a leading worldwide agency by the 1960s.^{[citation needed]} Central to its growth was its strategy of building brands such as American Express, BP, Ford, Barbie, Maxwell House, IBM, Kodak, Nestlé, Cadbury and Unilever brands Pond's and Dove.^[1]

Ogilvy & Mather was built on Ogilvy's principles, in particular, that the function of advertising is to sell and that successful advertising for any product is based on information about its consumer.

His entry into the company of giants started with several iconic campaigns:

"The man in the Hathaway shirt" with his aristocratic eye patch; "The man from Schweppes is here" introduced Commander Whitehead, the elegant, bearded Brit, bringing Schweppes (and "Schweppervesence") to the United States.; "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock"; and "Pablo Casals is coming home – to Puerto Rico", a campaign that Ogilvy said helped change the image of a country and was his proudest achievement. "Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream". This campaign helped Dove become the top selling soap in the U.S.

In 1989, The Ogilvy Group was purchased by WPP Group.

Management[link]

The executive board of Ogilvy & Mather, as of October 2011, is composed of:

• Miles Young, CEO, Ogilvy & Mather
• Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director & Chairman
• Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather
• John Seifert, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather North America
• Tim Isaac, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific
• Marcos Golfari, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Latina
• Daniel Sicouri, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Europe, Africa & Middle East
• Leopoldo "Polo" Garza, President & CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Mexico
• Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman & CEO, OgilvyOne Worldwide
• Chris Graves, Global CEO, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
• Nasreen Madhany, Global CEO, Neo@Ogilvy
• Nunu Ntshingila, Chairman, Ogilvy South Africa
• Matt Giegerich, Chairman & CEO, Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
• Carla Hendra, Global Chairman, OgilvyRED Ogilvy & Mather
• Colin Mitchell, Worldwide Head of Planning, Ogilvy & Mather
• Eugene Cheong, Regional Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific
• Gaston Bigio, Regional Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Latina
• Luis Bassat, Chairman Emeritus of the Bassat Ogilvy Group in Spain
• Paul Heath, CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific
• Paul O'Donnell, Chairman, Ogilvy Group UK
• Piyush Pandey, Executive Chairman and Creative Director, South Asia Ogilvy & Mather India
• Sergio Amado, President, Ogilvy Group Brazil
• Steve Goldstein, CFO, Ogilvy & Mather
• TB Song, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Greater China
• Tony Grigg, Worldwide Managing Director, GBM Ford Group Ogilvy & Mather
• Tro Piliguian, COO, WPP
• Wayne Berman, Chairman, Ogilvy Government Relations

Clients[link]

Ogilvy & Mather board has produced work for a wide range of leading brands, including:

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Notable campaigns[link]

In 1972 Ogilvy & Mather, Sydney first developed the line "Don't Leave Home Without It" as a means of educating Australians how to use the country's first credit card. Created by Ian Latham and David Prentice.^{[citation needed]} Three years later in 1975, the line was adapted by Ogilvy & Mather New York to "Don't Leave Home Without Them' ad campaign for American Express Traveler's Cheques, featuring Oscar Award-winning actor Karl Malden. The "Don't Leave Home Without It" slogan was revived in 2005 for the prepaid American Express Travelers Cheque Card. After Malden's departure, American Express continued to feature celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Wes Anderson, Ken Watanabe, Ellen DeGeneres and Conan O'Brien.

In 2007, Ogilvy Stockholm developed the "Animals in the Womb" campaign for Ford Flexifuel, which was nominated for the Cannes Lion Award and for the Guldägget Award in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

Public relations[link]

Subsidiary, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (OPR) is a global public relations agency with specialties in consumer marketing, corporate, healthcare, technology, social Marketing, public affairs and 360 degree digital influence. OPR operates 69 offices in locations throughout the world. Headquartered in New York, it has a total of nine offices in North America, along with 22 offices in Europe, five in South Asia, ten in East Asia, five in the Middle East and Africa, two in Central Asia, three in Latin America, six in Southeast Asia, and seven in Australia.^[5]

Ogilvy Public Relations has its own wholly owned subsidiaries:

• Mind Resource: Acquired in 2011 Hong Kong-based healthcare communications firm Mind Resource Healthcare Consulting Limited. Founded in 2007, Mind Resource is a leading firm in the highly specialized field of healthcare communications which includes disease awareness, patient education, and medical education. Mind Resource currently represents some of the top multinational pharmaceutical companies, medical associations, medical service providers and professionals.^[6]

• Feinstein Kean Healthcare: Established in 1987, Feinstein Kean Healthcare serves clients spanning healthcare -- from biomedical research and government institutions, to diagnostic, device and pharmaceutical markets, to industry, professional and patient groups, to healthcare services, informatics and care providers. The firm employs a variety of specialists, including business and brand strategists, marketers, policy and advocacy experts, digital and social media influencers, science writers and editors, communication planners and creative professionals. FKH offers clients a range of services including organizational strategy and planning, brand development, advocacy relations, professional and patient engagement, social and digital media strategy, content and execution, integrated product launch support, marketing, public and media relations, website and multimedia development and production, and global communications in a rapidly changing healthcare environment. ^[7]

Government relations[link]

In 2005, Ogilvy PR acquired all-Republican lobbying firm The Federalist Group LLC.^[8][9] The company subsequently became bipartisan,^[10] and its name was changed to Ogilvy Government Relations.^[11] OGR operates from the same building as the office of its parent company in Washington, DC.^[12][13] In 2010 Ogilvy Government Relations became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ogilvy & Mather. OGR had a total lobbying income of over $21 million in 2009.^[14] This makes OGR the 7th largest lobbying firm in the United States.^[15] OGR was named a Top 10 financial services lobbying firm in the 2010 regulatory reform debate.^[16] Its top clients included the Blackstone Group, Highstar Capital, the Poker Players Alliance, Chevron Corporation, and Verizon Communications.^[17] OGR employees and lobbyists donated over $230,000 to Republican and Democratic Party primary candidates, politicians and PACs during the 2008 election cycle.^[14] OGR Chairman, Wayne Berman, was featured on Washingtonian magazine's 2007 list of the top 50 lobbyists in Washington, DC.^[18]

• Management:
  • Wayne L. Berman, Chairman
  • Moses Mercado, Chairman
  • Drew Maloney, CEO
  • Gordon Taylor, President

Controversies[link]

Ogilvy caused some controversy in 2004 when a reportedly discarded video advertisement for the Ford SportKa hatchback began spreading virally via email. The 40-second video, which shows a lifelike computer-generated cat being decapitated by the car's sunroof was apparently rejected by Ford, but still made its way onto the internet, sparking outrage among bloggers and animal rights groups.^[19][20]

Ogilvy also has been involved with the notorious Asia Pulp & Paper, a large logging company that has been convicted of illegal logging in three countries, and recently has built roads illegally into the last remaining habitats of the critically endangered Sumatran Tiger, but spent large sums on global advertising campaigns claiming 'sustainability beyond compliance'.^[21]

In 2005, Shona Seifert and Thomas Early, two former directors of Ogilvy & Mather, were convicted of one count of conspiring to defraud the government and nine counts of filing false claims for Ogilvy over-billing advertising work done for the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy account. In an e-mail, Seifert stated "I'll wring the money out of [the ONDCP], I promise". Seifert and Early were sentenced to 18 and 14 months in prison, respectively. Seifert also was ordered to pay a $125,000 fine, in addition to writing a "code of ethics" for the ad industry as part of 400 hours of community service. Ogilvy & Mather repaid $1.8 million to the government to settle a civil suit based on the same billing issues and continues to produce anti-drug spots for the government.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Ogilvy Government Relations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, is credited with playing an instrumental role in killing the controversial 2005 bid by Chinese oil company CNOOC to buy Unocal Corporation, which would then go on to merge with Chevron Corporation, an OGR client.^[18]

The company was involved with a controversy in May 2009 when a Clio Award was given to a campaign for the A & E History Channel. One of the associated images compared the American deaths at Pearl Harbor with the Japanese deaths after the bombing of Hiroshima.^[26]

References[link]

1. ^ Hays, Constance L. (1999-07-22). "David Ogilvy, 88, Father of Soft Sell In Advertising, Dies". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E5DF143EF931A15754C0A96F958260. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
2. ^ THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; American Express Demotes Ogilvy
3. ^ Ogilvy’s New business Streak in Malaysia Now Lands Amway!
4. ^ Coke consolidates with Ogilvy.
5. ^ "Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide Company Preview". http://www.wpp.com/wpp/companies/companypreview.htm?id=113. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
6. ^ "WPP Company Profile". http://www.wpp.com/wpp/press/press/default.htm?guid={2d6b4ea4-21fd-4ca1-8e25-c9dcbd8d01aa}. Retrieved 2011-12-13. 
7. ^ "Feinstein Kean Healthcare (FKH) Company Profile". http://www.wpp.com/wpp/companies/companydetail.htm?id=184. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
8. ^ "Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide acquires the Federalist Group, LLC". 13 September 2005. http://www.wpp.com/wpp/investor/financialnews/default.htm?guid={420cecbd-af13-45ef-a991-4f21eede88a0}. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
9. ^ Brush, Silla; Snyder, Jim (20 January 2010), "Republican lobbyists prep for GOP gains", The Hill, http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/77015-gop-lobbyists-prep-to-take-charge, retrieved 2010-09-12 
10. ^ O'Connor, Patrick (31 January 2007), "Democratic Congressman Tries to Force Firing of GOP Lobbyists", Politico, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7A401B95-3048-5C12-005C08EBD7944711, retrieved 2010-09-12 
11. ^ "Company History - Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide". http://www.ogilvypr.com/en/about/company_history. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
12. ^ "Contact Us - Ogilvy Government Relations". http://www.ogilvygr.com/Contact_Us.aspx. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
13. ^ "Office Locations - Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide". http://www.ogilvypr.com/locations/28#Washington__DC. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
14. ^ ^{a b} "Lobbying Spending Database - Ogilvy Government Relations, 2009". Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?year=2009&lname=Ogilvy+Government+Relations&id=. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
15. ^ "Lobbying Spending Database". Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2009&indexType=l. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
16. ^ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38231.html
17. ^ "Lobbying Spending Database - Ogilvy Government Relations, 2009". Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?year=2009&1name=Ogilvy+Government+Relations&id=. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 
18. ^ ^{a b} Eisler, Kim (1 June 2007), "Hired Guns: The City's 50 Top Lobbyists", The Washingtonian, http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/4264.html, retrieved 2010-09-12 
19. ^ Morford, Mark (2010-09-02). "Very Funny Cat Decapitations / Is it OK to laugh when small European cars maim cute fuzzy animals? A perspective check". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/05/05/notes050504.DTL&nl=fix. 
20. ^ The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16073-2004Apr15?language=printer. Retrieved 2010-05-20. 
21. ^ FT.com / Home UK / UK - The usefulness of scholarships and tigers
22. ^ McMains, Andrew (January 21, 2009). "Ogilvy Names John Seifert N.A. Chairman The appointment means new roles for execs Bill Gray and Carla Hendra". AdWeek. http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/e3ie135f8f41b7a1814728d8b57a0af7fec. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
23. ^ Masters, Brooke A. (January 7, 2004). "Prosecutors Say Bills Were Inflated For Anti-Drug Ads". Washington Post. http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42592. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
24. ^ Zammit, Deanna (September 1, 2005). "Seifert Submits 'Code of Ethics'". Allbusiness.com. http://www.nationaljewelernetwork.com/aw/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054237. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
25. ^ "Former Ogilvy executive Early sentenced to 14 months for role in overbilling scandal". Brand Republic. 14 July 2005. http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/485084/former-ogilvy-executive-early-sentenced-14-months-role-overbilling-scandal/. Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
26. ^ http://www.redstate.com/absentee/files/2009/05/historyjapan-1.jpg

External links[link]

• Ogilvy & Mather
• Neo@Ogilvy
• OgilvyOne Worldwide
• Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
• Ogilvy and Mather UK
• OgilvyAction
• OgilvyHealthworld
• Ogilvy Middle East
• Ogilvy Costa Rica
• Feinstein Kean Healthcare
• Era Ogilvy Public Relations (Joint-Venture PR in Hong Kong and Taiwan)
• Selling Is Back: The New Future of Advertising by Mat Zucker, Executive Creative Director, OgilvyOne nthWORD Magazine, April 2010

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Dita Von Teese
Von Teese at 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Heather Renée Sweet (1972-09-28) September 28, 1972 (age 39) Rochester, Michigan, United States
Ethnicity	Armenian American
Occupation	Burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author, actress
Spouse	Marilyn Manson (m. 2005–2007) «start: (2005)–end+1: (2008)»"Marriage: Marilyn Manson to Dita Von Teese" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Dita_Von_Teese) (divorced)
Website
dita.net

Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet on September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.^[1]

Early life[link]

Dita Von Teese was born Heather Renée Sweet^[2] on September 28, 1972, in West Branch, MI, the middle child of three daughters.^[3] Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist^[4].^[3] She is of partly Armenian heritage.^[5]

Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style. This began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for her daughter to dress up in. Her mother was a fan of old, Golden-era Hollywood films, and it was from her that Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable.

She was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company. Though she originally wanted to be a ballerina, Von Teese states that "By 15, I was as good as I’d ever be."^[4] She was later to incorporate this element into her burlesque shows, where she frequently goes en pointe.

The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California, when her father's job moved.^[3] Von Teese attended University High School in Irvine.^[6]

As a teenager, Von Teese's mother took her to buy her first bra, made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored tights.^[6] Von Teese says she was disappointed as she had been hoping to receive beautiful lacy garments and stockings, of the type she had glimpsed in her father's Playboy magazines. This fueled her passion for lingerie. She worked in a lingerie store as a salesgirl when she was fifteen, eventually as a buyer. Von Teese has been fond of wearing elaborate lingerie such as corsets and basques with fully fashioned stockings ever since.

In college Von Teese studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) the photoshoots herself.^[7]

Career[link]

Fetish and glamour modeling[link]

Von Teese achieved some level of recognition in the fetish world as a tightlacer. Through the wearing of a corset for many years, she had reduced her waistline to 22 inches (56 cm), and can be laced down as far as 16.5 inches (42 cm).^[8] Von Teese stands at 5 ft 5" (165 cm.)^[9] and weighs 114 pounds (52 kg).^[10][11]

Von Teese appeared on a number of fetish magazine covers, including Bizarre^[12] and Marquis.^[13] It was around this time when she appeared on the cover of Midori's book, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage.^[14]

Von Teese was featured in Playboy in 1999, 2001 and 2002, with a cover-featured pictorial in 2002.

The German metal band Atrocity chose her as the cover model for their 2008 album, Werk 80 II.^[15]

Burlesque[link]

Von Teese is a prominent neo-burlesque performer

Von Teese is best known for her burlesque routines and is frequently dubbed "the Queen of Burlesque"^[16][17] in the press. Von Teese began performing burlesque in 1992^[18] and, as a proponent of New Burlesque, has helped to popularize its revival. In her own words, she "puts the tease back into striptease" with long, elaborate dance shows with props and characters, often inspired by 1930s and 1940s musicals and films. Some of her more famous dances have involved a carousel horse, a giant powder compact, a filigree heart and a clawfoot bathtub with a working shower head. Her feather fan dance, inspired by burlesque dancer Sally Rand, featured the world's largest feather fans, now on display in Hollywood's Museum Of Sex.^[19] Her signature show features a giant martini glass.

Her burlesque career has included some memorable performances. She once appeared at a benefit for the New York Academy of Art wearing nothing but $5 million worth of diamonds.^[20] Additionally, Von Teese became the first guest star to perform at the Parisian Crazy Horse cabaret club with her appearance in October 2006.^[21] Also in 2006, Von Teese appeared on an episode of America's Next Top Model cycle 7 doing a workshop to teach the contestants about sexiness by means of burlesque dancing and posing. In 2007 Von Teese performed at the adult entertainment event Erotica 07 in London alongside Italian Rock noir band Belladonna.

Von Teese's first book, which consisted of her opinions on the history of burlesque and fetish, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, was published in 2006 by HarperCollins. Vanity Fair called her "a Burlesque Superheroine."

Von Teese participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia as part of the stage performance for the German entry "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang." The act placed 20th out of 25 participants in the final round of the contest.^[22] Later, she said her cleavage was censored during the show because of her voluptuous figure.^[23]

Acting[link]

Von Teese is also an occasional actress. In her early years she appeared in fetish-related, soft-core pornographic movies, such as Romancing Sara, Matter of Trust, in which she is billed as Heather Sweet, and also in two hard-core fetish films by Andrew Blake: Pin Ups 2^[24] and Decadence.

In recent years she has appeared in more mainstream features, such as the 2005 short film, The Death of Salvador Dali, written by Delaney Bishop, which won best screenplay and best cinematography at recent festivals, including SXSW, Raindance Film Festival and Mill Valley Film Festival, and Best Actress for Von Teese at Beverly Hills Film Festival. She appeared in the feature films Saint Francis and The Boom Boom Room, both in 2007.

In addition, she has appeared in a number of music videos, including the video for the Green Day song "Redundant,"^[25] the video for "Zip Gun Bop" by swing band Royal Crown Revue, Agent Provocateur's video for their cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control," and (performing her martini-glass burlesque routine) the video for "Mobscene" by Marilyn Manson.^[26] She has been featured in a striptease/burlesque act in George Michael's live tour 2008, for the song "Feelin' Good."^[27]

Von Teese has said that acting is not at the top of her agenda and she would only take roles that she feels are right for her, stating, "I don't understand why women feel the need to go into acting as soon as they become famous...But I suppose if the part were aesthetically correct, then maybe I could consider it."^[28]

In January 2011, Von Teese guest-starred in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in season 11: episode 12 called "A Kiss Before Frying" where she played a femme fatale version of herself under the stage name Rita von Squeeze who seduces Greg Sanders (played by Eric Szmanda) in a plot inspired by film noir.^[29]

Fashion and modeling[link]

Von Teese has appeared on a number of best-dressed lists^[30] and frequents the front row of fashion shows, particularly Christian Dior and Marc Jacobs, labels she is often seen wearing.

She has also done catwalk work. During Los Angeles Fashion Week, Spring 2004, she modeled for former club kid Richie Rich's fashion label, Heatherette. In 2005 she appeared in the Autumn/Winter Ready-to-Wear show for Giambattista Valli, a former designer for Ungaro, in Paris. In the 2006 Milan Fashion Week, Von Teese was on the runway, opening for the Moschino diffusion label, Moschino Cheap & Chic, autumn/winter 2006/7 show. In 2007, she appeared twice in the Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture show during the Paris Fashion Week. She has starred in several ad campaigns. She appeared in Vivienne Westwood's spring/summer 2005 collection adverts and became the face of Australian clothing range Wheels and Dollbaby for their 2006/7 Spring/Summer advertising campaign. She was an ambassador/spokesmodel for HIV/AIDS awareness when she was selected (along with Eve, Deborah Harry, and Lisa Marie Presley) for MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam VI campaign (a collection of lipsticks and lipgloss where 100% of the proceeds are for worldwide AIDS charities and to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS). Von Teese has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle,^[31] and international issues of nearly every fashion magazine. She has campaigned on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and appeared in their ads. Most recently she has designed a new lingerie range with Wonderbra.^[32]

In spite of this, Von Teese states that she never uses a stylist. "The one time I hired a stylist, they picked up a pair of my 1940s shoes and said, 'These would look really cute with jeans.' I immediately said, 'You’re out of here.'" She does her own make-up, and dyes her naturally blonde hair black at home.^[4] Von Teese's unique style is "inspired by eccentric women like Luisa Casati, Anna Piaggi, and Isabella Blow."^[33]

In early May 2012, Dita Von Teese launched her makeup collection "Classics" in partnership with the German cosmetic brand Art Deco. compact powder, blushers, eye styler, eye shadows, mascara and lipstick were produced to recreate the burlesque performer's retro look. ^[33]

Personal life[link]

Von Teese splits her time between her homes in Hollywood^[34] and Paris.^[35]

She is a collector of vintage china, particularly eggcups and tea sets,^[36] and drives a 1938 Packard One Twenty Eight, a 1946 Ford Super De Luxe^[37], a BMW Z4 and a 1965 Jaguar S-type.^[38] She also owned a 1939 Chrysler New Yorker from 1997 to December 2010.^[39][40]

Prior to her marriage, Von Teese had been romantically linked to vocalist/guitarist Mike Ness of Social Distortion^[41] and to actor Peter Sarsgaard.^[42] She has also spoken of several lesbian experiences, including a serious relationship with a woman when she was 20.^[43] She is dating French aristocrat Louis-Marie de Castelbajac.^[44]

She has been open about the plastic surgery she has undergone, having had breast implants and her beauty mark being artificial.^[3]

She participated at the PETA's campaign "Animal Birth Control (ABC)."^[45]

Relationship and marriage to Marilyn Manson[link]

Marilyn Manson had been a long time fan, and was a member of her website. They first met when he asked her to dance in one of his music videos. Though she was unable to, the two remained in contact. On Manson's 32nd birthday, in 2001,^[46] she arrived with a bottle of absinthe, and they became a couple. Manson proposed on March 22, 2004 and gave her a 1930s, 7-carat (1.4 g), European round-cut diamond engagement ring. On November 28, 2005, they were married in a private, non-denominational ceremony at home.

A larger ceremony was held on December 3 at Gurteen Castle in Kilsheelan (County Tipperary), Ireland, the home of their friend, Gottfried Helnwein. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky.

On December 29, 2006, Von Teese filed for divorce from Manson citing "irreconcilable differences."^[47] Von Teese left their house empty-handed on Christmas Eve, and was not able to get in touch with Manson to inform him of her intention to divorce him. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Von Teese says "I wasn't supportive of his partying or his relationship with another girl. As much as I loved him I wasn't going to be part of that." Von Teese also stated that she gave Manson an ultimatum, and said "It didn't work. Instead, it made me the enemy."^[34] Von Teese did not seek spousal support and seemed to have no interest in his assets.^[47] The news broke for the public and for Manson on his birthday on January 5, 2007, when he was served the divorce papers.

Filmography[link]

Von Teese was a featured guest on the sixth episode (original air date: October 25, 2006) of Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model.^[48] and as a coach in the Burlesque special Faking It.^[49] She appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race. Dita Von Teese also appeared on stage at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest during the German entry.

Further reading[link]

• Von Teese, Dita (2006). Burlesque and the Art of the Teese. Regan Books. ISBN. 

References[link]

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