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Topless was no problem for me.”Īfter Rome, Peterson moved to New York. “It was easy for me to do nude scenes all the time because I had been a showgirl for a while, and all you wear is G-string.
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Oddly enough, while in Italy, Peterson became the lead of an Italian rock band named Latins Ochanats and The Snails.Īlso while in Rome, Peterson landed a small part in a movie about Salome, where she basically just crouched nude among gargoyles. There, they met a crew member for Fellini’s film Roma (1972) and got a small part in the film. So, in 1972, Peterson and a fellow Vegas showgirl traveled to Italy (she’d been when she was 16, and wanted to go back ever since). Peterson said in a 2014 interview that it was advice from Elvis that motivated her to leave Vegas and travel overseas.
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So her bare pictorials in these magazines never really garnered much attention.Ĭassandra Peterson in Modern Man and Debonair magazines Vegas showgirls were not allowed to be centerfolds, only features in the magazines. such an aggressive lover, she had to get stitches!Īround this time, she appeared nude in several adult magazines: High Society, Debonair, Man’s Delight, Modern Man, Playboy and Oui, but never as a centerfold. According to Peterson, she lost her virginity to Tom Jones – and he was, she alleges. According to her it was because she was 17 and all the other girls there were in their thirties.Īccording to Cassandra, Elvis was “just so down to earth and nice, and a real gentleman.” She feels he wasn’t the druggie everyone paints him to be rather a kind human being misled to use prescription medication, which created an addiction that was impossible to overcome.Īlso, during the Vegas years, Cassandra met up with another performer who wasn’t quite so gentlemanly. How did this meeting come about? Peterson’s friend was dating Elvis’ money manager, and so got invited to a private party, where Elvis instantly gravitated to Peterson. She was barely in the film – just two quick scenes, one in Vegas where she was still performing as a showgirl, and a brief scene in London where she got to hang with Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Tony Curtis.Īs a Vegas showgirl, Peterson often performed with Elvis Presley – and even had a romantic encounter with The King. Just days after graduating, Peterson got a job as a Vegas showgirl, then got a minor role in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971).