The sultry star of Batman and The Emperor's New Groove was given away by her mother and never knew her father.

Eartha's life came under the spotlight five years after she passed, as British journalist John Williams published a biography titled America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times.

“Overall, I’ve had a very good life, a life of cotton and caviar,” Eartha Kitt wrote in 1976. “And the cotton years have made the caviar years far more savory than they would have been had ...

Fewer knew of her being conceived by the rape of her mother and being rejected and abused throughout her childhood, nor as someone who has spent much of her adult life as an activist working on ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --Reality TV show and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian has released a video for her cover of Eartha Kitt's sultry Christmas classic, "Santa Baby." The nearly 5-minute video for the song ...

But Eartha Kitt, who was born on 17 January 1927 ... Carolina cotton plantation on 17 January 1927, she had a start in life that could hardly have been more difficult. She never knew her father ...