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Didn't Do It for Love

Summary

Eva Norvind was born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaja in 1944, the daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptor in Trondheim, Norway. Monika Treut's DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE traces the many stages of her unbelievable life story: from her early success as a showgirl in Paris to her transformation into Mexico's Marilyn Monroe in the 1960s, her subsequent career as a journalist in the 1970s, and culminating in her establishing herself as New York's most famous and business savvy dominatrix in the 1980s. DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE is an odyssey through the wilderness of sexuality, capturing Eva's search for the wellspring of her obsessive drive to dominate.

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