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Cora Pearl

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Prostitute

The Resume

    (circa 1835-July 8, 1886)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Emma Elizabeth Crouch
    Parisian courtesan
    Charged 5,000 francs a night
    Lovers included Prince William of Orange and Napoleon III's half-brother, the Duc de Mornay, and cousin, Prince Napoleon

Why she might be annoying:

    She forged a birth certificate to shave seven years off her age.
    She and another courtesan fought a duel with whips over a handsome Serbian prince.
    While they were in seclusion for a week to let the wounds on their faces heal, the prince left France.
    After her ex-lover Alexandre Duval shot himself in her house, she remarked, 'The dirty pig. He fucked up my beautiful rug.'
    She lost a fortune gambling.
    Late in life, she wrote her memoirs, then sent excerpts to her former clients, offering to delete certain passages for money.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She made a good decision changing her name.
    She had enough musical talent to perform as Cupid in a production of Jacques Offenbach's 'Orpheus in the Underworld.'
    She won a bet that she could serve 'a meat nobody could cut' by being brought out on a silver platter, naked except for a few sprigs of parsley.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 51 Votes: 62.75% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying