The Club memorialized her on their Facebook page, noting that she had long donated proceeds from her show to diabetes and LGBT causes.
The Lady Chablis, the transgender nightclub star from Savannah, Georgia, who successfully lobbied Clint Eastwood to play herself in his 1997 adaptation of the John Berendt novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, has reportedly passed away at the age of 59.
Berendt, too, issued a statement in which he said that Chablis was the character about whom he was most often still asked.
“Not everyone is into The Lady Chablis,” she told Sickler.