Vicky Budinger
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Victoria May "Miss Vicki" Budinger (born in 1952), briefly famous as Tiny Tim's wife, was 18 years old when she married the singer, who was more than twice her age, on The Tonight Show on December 17, 1969. Miss Vicki was a resident of Collingswood, New Jersey.[1]
Miss Vicki, 18, was a slender, wide-eyed, pixie-like young lady introduced to the nation in 1969 when she married singer/entertainer Tiny Tim on the Johnny Carson Show with 50 million incredulous, bemused and smirking TV viewers looking on.[2]
Tiny (Herbert Khaury) had met his Miss Vicki at Wanamaker's Department Store in Philadelphia where Tiny was signing books of his poetry, published after his success with the song "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."[3]
Their union was brief. After the birth of their one child, Tulip, Miss Vicki had an affair with a male model more nearly her own age than the much older Tiny.[4]
Following her 1977 divorce, MIss Vicki worked as a go-go dancer and posed, without any clothing or even tulips, in Oui Magazine. More than a decade later she married Rabbi Fred Neulander, who was charged with murdering his wife.[5][6]
It has also been suggested that Miss Vicki's real name is Victoria Lombardi.[7]
Tiny, the ukulele-plunking, kiss-blowing singer later married two more times to Miss Jan and finally to Miss Sue, to whom he was still married at the time of his death in 1996.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Von Bergen, Jane M. "TULIP TIME TINY TIM TIPTOES TO COURT TO GAIN VISITATION RIGHTS", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1984. Accessed March 10, 2011. "Tulip lives in Collingswood with her homemaker mother, the former Victoria Miss Vicki" Budinger, and stepfather, Steve Chadler."
- ^ http://celebrityblogsburg.blogspot.com/2009/05/victim-victoria-miss-vicki-budinger.html
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Miss_Vicky.html
- ^ Ibid.
- ^ http://celebrityblogsburg.blogspot.com/2009/05/victim-victoria-miss-vicki-budinger.html
