# Lady Chablis has died

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 8, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-chablis-has-died/765366 "2016-09-08T20:36:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-chablis-has-died/765366/1 "2016-09-08T20:36:47Z")

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[Link](http://www.people.com/article/the-lady-chablis-dies-drag-performer-transgender)

I’ve never seen _Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil_, nor am I into the drag scene. But I did see her on an episode of [_Bizarre Foods_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5a2pFjcdM) with Andrew Zimmern. He said, ‘She’s a wonderful, wonderful person to show their side of the city. I wouldn’t think of coming here without spending the day with her.’

She was only 59.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-chablis-has-died/765366/2 "2016-09-08T22:11:21Z")

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I liked the novel but loathed the movie, including they changes they made to her character, but she was one of the few things watchable in it. She was a natural. (True, she was playing a version of herself, but as any number of cameos in any number of TV shows and movies will prove, many people can’t do that believably.)

As The Doll said herself, “Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it.” RIP.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-chablis-has-died/765366/3 "2016-09-09T05:02:27Z")

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She is the only person I can think of who stole a _book_ by upstaging everyone else in it.

RIP Lady Chablis.

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**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-chablis-has-died/765366/4 "2016-09-10T01:08:20Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> She is the only person I can think of who stole a _book_ by upstaging everyone else in it.

+1

I saw her in a drag show many years ago and will have that image in my mind rather than any pictures people dig up showing her in declining health.