Word: battistella
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...years, was drinking heavily and carousing in Washington nightspots had been circulating for months. The rumors became public scandal after the Tidal Basin incident of last October, when Mills' car was stopped late at night by Washington police. The car contained five passengers, including Mills and Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a frequent companion of his in the past year, who worked as a striptease dancer at a Washington nightclub under the name of Fanne Fox. Fanne leaped from the car, ran toward a small estuary of the Potomac River known as the Tidal Basin, and jumped or fell into...
Fanne Foxe, Mrs. Annabella Battistella, the other woman in Wilbur Mills' life, was born in a village 175 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, where her Indian-Spanish father, Oswaldo Villagra, was a male nurse and local politician. She was a skinny tomboy who dressed in white overalls cut from her father's old medical uniforms. At 20, Annabella married Eduardo Battistella and eventually followed him around South America, where he played the piano in nightclubs. Finally, their savings depleted, she turned from dancing to striptease. In the early '60s, the couple settled in the U.S. Their parallel...
...Honey, if I was Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year...
Foxe, whose off-stage name is Anibella Battistella, said she was happy to receive the award, even though she is not a Republican and has no political ambitions...
...business in Washington to campaign for re-election back in Arkansas. But that was before his recent misadventure. Last week Mills emerged from nine days of nursing his abrased dignity and flew home. On the plane, a CBS reporter questioned Mills about his Argentine-born friend Annabella Battistella, 38, the onetime stripper who wound up in Washington's Tidal Basin after dashing from Mills' car. "Was there anything between you and the young lady?" asked the reporter. "No," replied the Congressman, "I ought to be flattered at my age of 65 for anybody to ask me such...