Billy, we hardly knew ya


Courtesy of the always-ahead-of-the-curve Michele Miller of WonderBranding fame comes this shocking email/newsflash: This guy was not...



As a purely public service, we direct you to rotten.com 's hoaxfile for your sordid detail fix. A snip--

Imagine the coroner's surprise in 1989 when the cadaver he was doing a routine job with, jazz musician and entertainment agent Billy Tipton, turned out to be... a woman. So came down the curtain on a brilliant deception spanning over fifty years, when an aspiring young lady named Dorothy Tipton decided to remake herself over as a man, and lived that way for the rest of her life....

Now! Now I know why the sultry in back has a bemused look on her face. She can see the outline of Billy's Platex Living Girdle.