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Sylvia Kristel DIES

Dutch actress starred in artsy erotic film "Emmanuelle"

Dutch actor Sylvia Kristel, the subject (dare we say, target?) of every French teenager's amour fou, has passed on. In 1974, the film "Emmanuelle," directed by Just Jaeckin made a killing at the box office (according to Wikipedia this was France's biggest box-office hit ever, in fact), Kristel immediately becoming a symbol of eroticism from Japan to the U.S. after that. Her agent, Features ... more >