Stephanie Johnson went from burlesque nights in Times Square to internet stardom. “I did it my way and it worked,” she said.
Stephanie Johnson has had two moments of fame. The first came when she was a burlesque dancer who went by the stage name Tanqueray in the gritty Times Square of the 1960s and 1970s, a time when “10,000 men in New York City knew my name,” as she once put it. She re-entered the spotlight three years ago as an internet sensation after she shared candid tales of her life with Humans of New York, a digital franchise with millions of followers on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
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