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Article: Beate Uhse
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2001
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Beate Uhse
Erotica entrepreneur
Thursday, July 19, 2001
Berlin -- Beate Uhse, the grande dame of Germany's erotica
industry who built a corporate sex empire and became one of the
country's most recognized names, has died. She was 81.
Uhse died of pneumonia at a hospital in Switzerland, her company
said Wednesday, without specifying the date of her death.
She was chairwoman of Beate Uhse AG, having gone from selling
contraceptive pamphlets after World War II to creating a nationwide
chain of sex stores. ...