More Cassandra Peterson: Elvira comes out as lesbian, reveals Wilt Chamberlain assault

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The woman behind the Elvira brand, Cassandra Peterson, now 70, spent four decades building her iconic macabre persona into an international cult icon. Now, in “Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark” (Hachette, out September 21), she details her trick-or-treat life in a candid memoir revealing her 19-year romantic relationship with a woman — a female whom she only identifies as “T” — as well as encounters with some of the celebrity world’s biggest names — among them late basketball star Wilt Chamberlain, whom she claims forced oral sex on her.

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“When a 7-foot-1, 300-pound man has his hand wrapped around your neck, there’s really not a lot you can do,” she writes of the athlete, who boasted in his 1991 memoir “A View From Above” that he had slept with 20,000 women in his lifetime. “I had to wonder how many of those women actually consented to having sex with him,”

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While in Las Vegas, she had numerous celebrity run-ins, to wit: Crooner Andy Williams who asked her to call him Daddy and forced “an open-mouthed, tongue down your throat” kiss. She bit his lip and he cried, “You little bitch!” On meeting Frank Sinatra, he said, “Nice tits.” A consensual romp in bed with Tom Jones sent her to the emergency room for an internal injury. (The singer was, alas, a bit too well endowed.) Several years later, she was in Las Vegas, saw his show and went backstage again. “Remember me?” she asked Jones. “You’re the one with the scars on your back [from the childhood burn],” he said, still annoyed.

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Somehow the Midwest farm girl who had transformed herself into an iconic figure of the macabre became a lesbian, and that was the deep, dark secret she has kept from her fans – until now.

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