Hélène Martini

Hélène de Cressac Martini (6 August 1924 – 5 August 2017) was a Polish-born French striptease artist[1] turned businesswoman and nightclub owner associated with the Folies Bergère, and nicknamed "The Countess" and "The Empress of the Night".

[2][3][4][5][6] The Polish-born (present-day Belarus) Martini landed in Paris aged 20 after surviving the Holocaust.

Starting out at the Folies Bergere, she won three million francs on the lottery.

[7] She then went on to employ her managerial and entrepreneurial skills to run half a dozen Paris nightclubs, first with her Syria-born husband, Nachat Martini, a lawyer, professor and secret agent (1910–1961), whom she married in 1955.

She died in 2017, on the day before her 93rd birthday, leaving no known living relatives.