Régine, Whose Discotheque Gave Nightlife a New Dawn, Dies at 92 - The New York Times

Credited with opening the first disco, she built an empire of glittering playgrounds for the Beautiful People in Paris, New York and beyond.

She was born Rachelle Zylberberg in Belgium as the Great Depression struck: a Jewish child abandoned in infancy by her unwed mother and left alone at 12 when her father, a drunken Polish refugee, was… [+1278 chars]

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