- Passed away from self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooden area near her home.
- Dropped out of school in the ninth grade and went to Europe. When she returned to the US she began performing in live sex shows.
- Known for destroying automobiles and television sets, and chainsawing guitars on stage.
- Was featured in a "Playboy" pictorial (1986), skydiving naked, where she was described as the "leather-clad queen of heavy metal".
- Lead singer for the infamous 1980s punk rock band The Plasmatics.
- Was the first woman in history to appear on national television with a mohawk haircut.
- Performed in the stage production of the Rocky Horror Show.
- Posthumously inducted in 2016 into the Music Hall of Fame in her native Rochester, New York.
- Had a video game character named after her, "Wendy O. Koopa" in the video game, Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988).
- At the age of six she appeared tap-dancing on The Howdy Doody Show (1947) as a member of the "Peanut Gallery".
- Once described herself as a "marginal nymphomaniac and terminal exhibitionist".
- Was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, alongside Lita Ford and Pia Zadora (1982).
- Graduated from Eastman School of Music.
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