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Lisa Medford may seem like just another retiree living out her golden years in the suburbs of Las Vegas.

But the 74-year-old brunette is the embodiment of Sin City history with a thousand stories to tell, reports the Los Angeles Times. Medford claims to be the first nude showgirl, when she bared her breasts while performing in singer Harry Belafonte's show at the Riviera casino. She was also a family friend of legendary gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal, letting him braid her hair when he came over to play poker.

The beauty also captivated actor Cary Grant, who she says asked her to bear his child, an offer which she still regrets not making. "I spent nights crying, thinking, 'What if I had Cary Grant's baby?"' she told the Times. "Would my parents really disown me? But I didn't want kids. He was basically gay, and I wasn't in love with him."

In her 2010 autobiography, "I Can Hear the Applause: Adult Language... Some Nudity," she also recounts her time getting shot while photographing the Russian occupation of Prague in 1968, selling marijuana, working as a chauffeur for call girls and racking stock cars.

Even into old age, Medford retains her toughness. In 2005, while working as a limousine chauffeur, two young thugs tried to leave without paying. But she dug her nails into the neck of one "right where his tattoo was" and pulled him out of the car. "Remember, I grew up with the mob," she bragged to the Las Vegas Sun.

 Lisa Medford looks playfully vampy in black stretch pants and a pink top showing just a hint of cleavage. Once a dancer, she moves gracefully about her tiny house like an actress in search of an audience.  Now 74, she's an aging siren, still on her game, happily living alone in a suburban retirement community. Sure, she's getting on in years, but her spirit still soars with all those memories - the sheer naughtiness of her past.   She keeps a life-size cutout of herself as a 19-year-old, when she says she became the first standing semi-nude showgirl in town, a gig that launched her career as a "Folies Bergere" show dancer and actress.   Medford has always traipsed along the wilder side of Vegas life - once considering a request from screen legend Cary Grant to bear his child, she says. 

Later, she admits, she sold cocaine and worked as an assistant to a Las Vegas madam, chauffeuring call girls on shopping trips. Her image was even featured on a 50th anniversary casino chips at the Riviera.   She's a rebel, an adventuress who proclaims, "I've always thought of myself as Errol Flynn with breast."   Last year she chronicled her life in her self-published autobiography, "I Can Hear the Applause: Adult Language... Some Nudity," co-written with a neighbor, author Jeanne Gulbranson. The book is a bittersweet tale of a tough-broad survivor. Standing in her living room, the retired stage diva glances at the black-and-white cutout of her former self.   "She was so naive," she said. "She didn't know anything."   

She was born Loretta Malouf, a girl with Middle Eastern blood. Her father made women's clothing in Los Angeles and had some tough guys as friends. One night, infamous Vegas mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel came to the house to play poker.  He offered to braid her hair because her father was busy. At age 7, she called him Uncle Benjamin - nobody called him Bugsy to his face. But Bugsy botched the braiding job and she cried, saying that he'd ruined her life.  

Now she looks back the mobster with fondness. "He was handsome; I knew it even then," she said. "I've always had a thing for guys with big blue eyes."  Years later, in 1957, she got her chance. She was working in a Los Angeles talent office when two Vegas characters offer her a gig: Portray a "nude" statue in a Harry Belafonte show at the Riviera.  All her important real estate, she says, was covered with glitter and sparkle. Suddenly, she shifted her arms to reveal her breasts. The crowd went wild.  Medford married a television director, but it didn't last. These days she prefers dating men 30 years her junior. "I've always get the younger ones so they don't die or just get boring," she said.

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa magtatampo  nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCANO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 67,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata. Kinutlo kining paambit gikan sa basahan HUFF  POST  ENTERTAINMENT, Hunyo 30, 2012 ug CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Hunyo 8, 2012.)