Amanda Lear (born 1939) is a French singer, television celebrity, actress, and model, known for her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and being a muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. The book tells about her relationship with Salvador Dalí and presents detailed insights into the 15 years of their relationship.
According to Wikipedia, Amanda's transgender background was confirmed by Salvador Dalí himself, and other well-known artists that used to know Lear earlier in her life. For example, April Ashley, a transgender icon and model, claimed that in the 1950s and early 1960s, Lear, whose birth name she stated was "Alain Tap", had worked with her in the Parisian transgender revues Madame Arthur and Le Carrousel. In her book April Ashley's Odyssey, Ashley recalls Lear performing drag acts under the stage name "Peki d'Oslo".
Some sources claim that Dalí sponsored Lear's sex reassignment surgery in Casablanca in 1963, carried out by Georges Burou, and also that Dalí invented the stage name for her, a pun of the Catalan language "L'Amant de Dalí" ('Dalí's lover').
In 1978, Lear posed nude for Playboy."
In late 1978 at a fashionable Parisian discothèque Le Palace, she met French aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Villèle, and married him in 1979, while on a trip to the United States. The marriage lasted twenty-one years, until his death in 2000 in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès.
However, in the years to follow, many newspapers and magazines provided facts that she was born Alain Maurice Louis René Tap on 18 June 1939 in Saigon, and those articles included a picture of Lear before her supposed transition."
She is still active as an actress. In 2020, she starred in Si Muore Solo Da Vivi directed by Alberto Rizzi and in Miss directed by Ruben Alves. In 2021, she appeared in the TV drama Camping Paradis in France. She is such an amazing woman.
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