Biography: Dirty Martini (born Linda Marraccini) is an American burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher. She is best known for her over-the-top performance acts, which mostly incorporate various classic burlesque styles such as the fan dance, balloon striptease, and shadow stripping. Martini lives and performs in New York City, but tours extensively throughout North America and Europe. She has performed on stages that range from weekly burlesque venues, gay leather bars, the London Palladium and Carnegie Hall. In 2004, Dirty Martini was crowned Miss Exotic World. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dirty Martini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.