Bettie Page is Dead

For fans of the immortal 1950′s #1 pin-up Bettie Page, her legend has a lingere wearing fetish inspiring sex kitten will live on, however, her body will not.

The 1950s-era model, whose saucy poses for publications like Beauty Parade, Twitter and an upstart rag called Playboy won her a legion of fans and a cult following long after her pinup days were over, died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital, nine days after suffering a heart attack. She was 85.

According to her agent, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks beforehand with pneumonia.

However, as a consellation prize, we still have women inspired by such a beauty.  Take Dita Von Teese for example.  I doubt she’s going anywhere anytime soon.

Here are some more pictures of Megan Gale doing a shoot in tribute to Bettie Page: