Stephanie Johnson, Burlesque Dancer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 81 NYT | Top Stories By: Steven Kurutz 22 October 2025 at 05:16 Her memories of her days as Tanqueray in the gritty New York of the 1960s and ’70s found a new audience in recent years and made her a social media star. © Josefina Santos for The New York TimesStephanie Johnson in 2022. When she was a stripper known as Tanqueray, she said in 2019, “I was the only Black girl making white girl money.”
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