Regardless of whether you were a fan or not, Bettie had a big impact on history. She helped start the sexual revolution in the 1960’s. I think the LA Times had a classy story on her and her life:

Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.

BettiePage.com is running a slide show Memoriam.