Her oriental dance made her an icon at the turn of the 20th century, as a half-naked medium, she would cast a spell over her audience to become a star. Emancipated, up her black garter she could wrap ...

AMSTERDAM – A fire has gutted a building in the Netherlands where Mata Hari, the exotic dancer and World War I spy, was born. Dutch television broadcast images of the building, now occupied by the ...

An undated photo of dancer "Mata Hari". Born Margaretha Zelle who was executed during World War I for being a spy. A century ago, on Oct. 15, 1917, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a ...

Extremely rare letters from infamous World War I spy Mata Hari to her lover have been sold for $15,000 at a Los Angeles auction. Born Margaretha Zelle in the Netherlands in 1876, the courtesan and ...

MATA HARI is a byword for intrigue and glamour. Now a new book reveals what really lay behind her death. As 19th-century letters to fiancés go, Mata Hari’s to her army officer written in 1895 was ...

LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) – A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the ...