Famous prostitute’s gravestone deemed too ’slutty’ – The Local

An artist’s design for the gravestone of Germany’s most famous prostitute has been rejected by the cemetery authorities for being too “slutty,” newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost reported Thursday.

The 77-year-old artist Tomi Ungerer’s parting gift to his friend Domenica Niehoff was to be a gravestone featuring two ample pink marble boulders in homage to her famously top-heavy figure. But those responsible for the Garden of Women cemetery, resting place of Hamburg’s most famous women, turned his design down, the paper reported.

Ungerer, who declared his interest in designing her gravestone immediately after her death, reacted bitterly to the decision.

“Domenica would have liked my design. She was not ashamed of herself,” he said.

via Famous prostitute’s gravestone deemed too ’slutty’ – The Local.

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