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Called Pavlova on ice, Sonja Henie won the Olympic Gold Medal in figure-skating three times and the World Championship ten years in a row from 1927-36. She went on to become America's darling in her ice-shows and subsequently as a movie-star. But this blonde bundle of energy also had a dark side, and referred to Adolf Hitler as my dear friend. Here is her fascinating story as seen by her brother and business partner, as told to Ray Strait.

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Sonja was miserably greedy. She could get down and dirty better than any woman I ever met in my life. She had the balls of a brass monkey.--Marchall Beard, one of Sonja Henie's skating partners

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Raymond Strait is the author or co-author of numerous Hollywood biographies and memoirs including those of Jayne Mansfield, Rosemary Clooney, Mario Lanza, Lou Costello, Alan Alda, and James Garner. Lief Henie was Sonja's brother and business partner.

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