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The actress who played late-night horror hostess Elvira has claimed she was sexually assaulted by late NBA player Wilt Chamberlain. Cassandra Peterson, 70, who began portraying the famous horror figure in the 1980s, made the allegations in her tell-all memoir Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, released on Tuesday. She claims the former Harlem Globetrotter had forced her to perform oral sex on him. 'When a 7-foot-1, 300-pound man has his hand wrapped around your neck, there’s really not a lot you can do,' Peterson wrote. She also references Chamberlain's memoir where he detailed his history...

The mistress of the dark is kissing the stage goodbye. Elvira is retiring as a live performer after nearly fifty years in the entertainment industry, according to The Gazette. She's set to appear in her final show at Knott's Berry Farm, where she's been headlining Halloween performances for 21 years, on Tuesday. "I just decided that, you know, doing live shows is really difficult and it takes up a big chunk of time every year," Elvira, born Cassandra Peterson, told The Gazette. Although she's through with on-stage performances, the queen of Halloween isn't hanging up her sexy black gown for...

(Unofficial Babelfish-based Free Republic Translation/Spanish-to-English) Text: "WE ARE ALL ELVIRA" Campaign Created Soon After Arrest of The Mexican" Original Title: ("Crean campaña "Todos somos Elvira", luego del arresto de la mexicana.") Radio Formula, Monday, 20 of August of 2007 After this Sunday's arrest of the immigrant of Michoacan-origin, Elvira Arellano, who had taken refuge for more than a year in a Methodist church of the city of Chicago, a campaign in anger against the deportation of the Mexican, called "We Are All Elvira" has been started. While Elvira traveled in a car to L.A. and was arrested by the...