Who is it part 1

I was given a brief to analyse a photograph of a person i do not know. I then had to write a biography on that person in 500 words.

Vivienne La Rouche’

A continuous sound of camera snaps is all that can be heard from room 316 of the Riviera hotel, Las Vegas. Vivienne La Rouche’ was found dead Friday 23rd August 2008 at 9am Aged 64. Overdose.

Vivienne was the most famous show girl in Las Vegas in the history of entertainment. Every magazine published during the peak of her career contained photographs and editorials. Everybody loved her. In contrast to her adulthood, her childhood was cut short. From a young age Vivienne was forced to look after her sick mother when her father suddenly left. She never played as a child instead she washed the dishes and did all the other house chores her mother gave to her. At the age of 21 her mother died of an unknown disease. This tragic part of Vivienne’s life opened the doors for her dancing career. She moved from her home and travelled to Las Vegas where she made small amounts of money waitressing in a run down café and auditioning for small parts in the theatre. After living in very basic conditions, Vivienne’s beauty was noticed in her theatre show by a rich gentleman known as Richard Gocamoli. Her long Blonde hair, brown eyes and slim figure was just what Richard was looking for in his Plaza Casino on the strip of Las Vegas.

She was stripped of her old fashioned dance dresses which were replaced with brand new expensive sequin dresses with feathers and expensive footwear to go with them. Her talent was raw and finally noticed by someone that could give her a different life. By the time she had been working in the casino for 3 years she was famous and raking in the dollars. The paparazzi were her biggest fan snapping shots of her every chance they got, publishing them in every magazine broadcasting her beauty and sheer elegance she naturally had. She was loved by thousands, people travelled long distance to her shows.

At the age of 45 Vivienne earned millions of dollars, she invested in a hotel room in the Riviera Hotel where she spent most of her days, inviting friends round for drinks and small gambling games. She became hooked on cocaine and unable to get off it. Just like her drinking and gambling drugs had also become the beginning of her down fall.

Friday 23rd August 2008 Vivienne was found dead in her apartment, suspected death by overdose. The forensics snapped photographs of her cold corpse but this time they wouldn’t be shown in magazines instead they would be stored away in a box with her name on the outside. Her name wont be in bright lights any longer but in black marker. Her fame will live on.