Fanne Foxe has died at 84. She was the stripper involved with powerful U.S. Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, whose Tidal Basin affair was instrumental in his political downfall in the '70s.
Remember when sex scandals ended political careers? My, how times have changed.
After the scandal, she danced at one of the strip clubs in Boston’s Combat Zone. It happened while I was an undergrad here, but I didn’t go to see her.
There’s a blast from the past. Political scandals used to be so much more fun in nature, just drunken old men chasing women.
Yeah - seems almost quaint.
Swapped privately and stripped publicly, raised a family that love her, Phi Beta Kappa with several degrees. A pity that one of her lovers was a lush in the political spotlight, but overall a life well lived.
I understand that he was trying to pull her out of the fountain.
An early example of a politician hiking the appalachian trail.
At first I thought this thread was going to be about Fannie Flagg, who I didn’t remember being known as “The Argentine Fireccracker”.
Yep, can’t remotely imagine such a thing happening now. 