Biography

Yvonne d'Angers (also known as Yvonne Boreta or Yvonne Mahriz Boreta) was an Iranian-born stripper and actress based out of San Francisco, California. Known as "the Persian Lamb" while dancing in San Francisco clubs, her most important contribution may be from a landmark obscenity case which made San Francisco the first city in the United States to legally allow topless dancing. A portrait of her seated in her dressing room is featured in the Diane Arbus collection "An Aperture Monograph" and she made headlines in 1966 after staging a protest against her deportation by chaining herself to the Golden Gate Bridge. After landing roles in the films Sappho Darling, The Seven Minutes, and Ground Zero, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Voss Boreta where she lived until she died on June 3, 2009, at the age of 64.