Trivia

The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California when her father's job moved. She attended University High School in Irvine. In college, she studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for period films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) the photoshoots herself.

Sherilyn Fenn's December 1990 Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.

Was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company.

Posed nude for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine. She was photographed by her then-future husband, Marilyn Manson.

Initially, her stage name was simply Dita, as a tribute to silent film actress Dita Parlo. However, Playboy required a surname for her December 2002 cover. She chose the name "Von Treese", which she found in a phonebook. But Playboy misspelled the name as "Von Teese", and she kept it ever since.

Named herself Dita after Dita Parlo.

Filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson, citing irreconcilable differences. (December 2006)

At her wedding with Marilyn Manson, she wore a royal purple silk taffeta Vivienne Westwood gown complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset. Her outfit was accessorized with a tri-corn hat by Stephen Jones and shoes by Christian Louboutin.

Thanked at the end of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) because she helped train them for their dance routine.

In an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), she played a woman who performed as a burlesque dancer with the stage name of "Rita von Squeeze".

Often compared to Burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, not only for their work in burlesque, but also for their shared love of haute couture fashions.

She collects classic cars and and drives a BMW Z4 and a 1965 Jaguar S-type. And she sold her 1939 Chrysler New Yorker with an autographed photo of herself for $23,403 on eBay in 2010.

Her engagement ring from Marilyn Manson was a 7-carat, antique, European round-cut diamond.

Is of Armenian heritage through her grandmother.

Born at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan.

Middle of three daughters. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist at a company that made graphite.

Releasing her book "Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese" on Valentine's Day. (February 2006)

Is a popular dancer and pin-up model.

Ranked #82 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

Ranked #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.