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Louise Fitzgerald Wightman (née Johnson), also known as Lucy Wightman (born June 18, 1959) is an American former exotic dancer who performed in Boston and Providence during the 1970s and 1980s, using the stage name Princess Cheyenne. The juxtaposition of her education and class background with her career attracted media attention. In the spring of 2007, she again attracted public interest, this time for being convicted of being a practicing psychologist without a license in two South Shore Massachusetts communities. Since then she has worked as a writer, photographer, and blogger.

Dance career

Wightman's dancing career began at age 17, when she was known as Lucy Johnson, and peaked when she was a headliner at the now defunct Naked i Cabaret in Boston's Combat Zone. "Princess Cheyenne" was a local legend in Boston.^[1]^[2]^[3] The Boston Herald would later call her "perhaps the most famous exotic dancer ever in this town."^[4] Sports columnist Bill Reynolds called her a "cult figure."^[5] Journalist Howard Altman, reminiscing about her in the Philadelphia City Paper, called her "Boston's favorite stripper."^[6] Although she is not named, Wightman is described in Lauri Lewin's Combat Zone memoir, Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life as a Stripper.^[1]

Using her celebrity from the exotic dancing circuit, Wightman later hosted a sex advice radio talk show called "Ask Princess Cheyenne" on Boston rock station WBCN, and posed for Playboy magazine (as Lucy Johnson) in March 1986.^[7] She competed in women's bodybuilding contests, winning the 1993 National Physique Committee Massachusetts championship and later being featured in the May–June 1996 issue of Women's Physique World.^[8]^[7]

"The thinking man's stripper"

As an articulate woman from a well-to-do family, Wightman did not conform to the popular stereotype of an exotic dancer, and gained a reputation as "the thinking man's stripper."^[1]^[7]^[9] A Boston Globe reporter, writing in 1979, called her "the valedictorian of strippers."^[10] The president of the Harvard Lampoon invited her to perform at a banquet in 1982, calling her "a nice and educated girl";^[11] a few years later, a writer in Harvard Magazine noted with interest that Wightman, "one of the premier strippers" in the Combat Zone, was working her way through college.^[12] (The Naked i Cabaret, where Wightman performed, proudly advertised its "Totally Nude College Girls Revue.")^[13] In Women's Physique World she was described as "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!"^[8]

Psychotherapy career

In 1985, Wightman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College, and subsequently earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from Lesley University. She then enrolled at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology for five years, from 1996 to 2001. Wightman then withdrew from MSPP and submitted her credits and hours to an online degree program to which she paid $1,299 to receive a doctorate in psychology from Concordia College and University, an online institution based in Dominica that is not recognized for licensure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During this same period, Wightman founded South Shore Psychology Associates, and began treating patients with psychotherapy in her Norwell office.^[7]

Legal problems

In October 2005, Wightman was indicted in Boston, Massachusetts for practicing psychology without a license, filing false health care claims,^[14] and engaging in insurance fraud after local FOX affiliate WFXT did an undercover investigation into her therapy practice. Under unusual provisions of Massachusetts law, Wightman had been allowed to practice as a psychotherapist, not as a psychologist.^[3] In the indictment, the Commonwealth charged that she never applied for or received a license to practice as a psychologist in Massachusetts, which requires a doctoral degree in psychology from a state-approved program. Wightman was found guilty of 19 of 26 counts and sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation.^[15] The six-month sentence was suspended, sparing her prison time. Under the terms of her probation, she was sentenced to one year of home confinement, and was barred from practicing as a psychotherapist for her entire probationary period.^[16]

Personal life

In 1979, Wightman was engaged to the singer Cat Stevens, but the couple broke up due to her career commitments and his conversion to Islam.^[3]^[17]

After the breakup with Stevens, Wightman married and divorced twice; she had a daughter named Victoria (Torri) with her second husband Donald Wightman, a Boston police detective and head of security for the rock band Aerosmith.^[4] On May 16, 2006, 16-year-old Torri died as result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Plympton, Massachusetts.^[18]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Berson, Jessica. "Dancing in the Combat Zone: Striptease, Nostalgia, and Urban Renewal". Academia.edu. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 18, 2014. The manager of the club helped her create a character that would become a local legend....Princess Cheyenne became a star.
^ "Vancouverism in Boston & Revisiting 'the Zone'". Radio Boston. February 19, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2015. Also this week, there's a new exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery chronicling Boston's bygone red light district: the Combat Zone. We'll visit the exhibit and swap memories with legendary Combat Zone performer Louise Wightman, AKA Princess Cheyenne!
^ ^a ^b ^c "Posing as a Psychologist". Fox 25 Undercover. Archived from the original on November 6, 2005. She's a local legend with a colorful past....Lucy Wightman is better known as Princess Cheyenne, a legendary stripper who first made her mark in Boston decades ago.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b Eagan, Margery (May 18, 2006). "The unbearable loss of all that possibility". The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015.
^ Reynolds, Bill (2009). '78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City. Penguin. p. 140. ISBN 9781101028780.
^ Altman, Howard (May 15, 1997). "Naked City". Philadelphia City Paper. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d O'Brien, Keith (January 22, 2006). "Exposed". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!", Women's Physique World, May 1996, retrieved February 6, 2015
^ Saltzman, Jonathan; Ryan, Andrew (May 3, 2007). "Former stripper takes stand in trial". The Boston Globe.
^ Richman, Alan (February 12, 1979). "Living Combat Zone's expensive thrills". The Boston Globe.
^ Miller, Margo (April 19, 1982). "People & Places". The Boston Globe.
^ Bennett, Dr. William I. (1985). "Gustatory Affairs". Harvard Magazine. 88: 131.
^ Feeney, Mark (March 7, 2010). "A Vanished World of Sex, Squalor, Captured in Black and White". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 30, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
^ Leibovich, Lori (January 27, 2006). "Massachusetts shrink outed as former stripper". Salon.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015. Wightman's defenders rightly question whether she would have been charged so harshly if it wasn't for her colorful past.
^ "Ex-stripper convicted of posing as psychologist". South Coast Today. Associated Press. May 4, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2007.
^ Tatz, Dennis (May 15, 2007). "Former stripper avoids time in jail; Gets house arrest for not having psych license". The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 15, 2007.
^ McMillan, Nancy. "Lucy Was Cat's Meow but When She Bared Her Soul She Got Scratched". People.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
^ Cramer, Maria (May 17, 2006). "An afternoon planned for shopping turns tragic on Route 16 in Plympton". The Boston Globe.

External links

[berson-1] Berson, Jessica. "Dancing in the Combat Zone: Striptease, Nostalgia, and Urban Renewal". Academia.edu. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 18, 2014. The manager of the club helped her create a character that would become a local legend....Princess Cheyenne became a star.

[2] "Vancouverism in Boston & Revisiting 'the Zone'". Radio Boston. February 19, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2015. Also this week, there's a new exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery chronicling Boston's bygone red light district: the Combat Zone. We'll visit the exhibit and swap memories with legendary Combat Zone performer Louise Wightman, AKA Princess Cheyenne!

[fox25-3] "Posing as a Psychologist". Fox 25 Undercover. Archived from the original on November 6, 2005. She's a local legend with a colorful past....Lucy Wightman is better known as Princess Cheyenne, a legendary stripper who first made her mark in Boston decades ago.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[Herald-4] Eagan, Margery (May 18, 2006). "The unbearable loss of all that possibility". The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015.

[5] Reynolds, Bill (2009). '78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City. Penguin. p. 140. ISBN 9781101028780.

[6] Altman, Howard (May 15, 1997). "Naked City". Philadelphia City Paper. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2015.

[obrien-7] O'Brien, Keith (January 22, 2006). "Exposed". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 6, 2015.

[WPW-8] "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!", Women's Physique World, May 1996, retrieved February 6, 2015

[saltzman-9] Saltzman, Jonathan; Ryan, Andrew (May 3, 2007). "Former stripper takes stand in trial". The Boston Globe.

[richman-10] Richman, Alan (February 12, 1979). "Living Combat Zone's expensive thrills". The Boston Globe.

[miller-11] Miller, Margo (April 19, 1982). "People & Places". The Boston Globe.

[12] Bennett, Dr. William I. (1985). "Gustatory Affairs". Harvard Magazine. 88: 131.

[feeney-13] Feeney, Mark (March 7, 2010). "A Vanished World of Sex, Squalor, Captured in Black and White". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 30, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

[leibovich-14] Leibovich, Lori (January 27, 2006). "Massachusetts shrink outed as former stripper". Salon.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015. Wightman's defenders rightly question whether she would have been charged so harshly if it wasn't for her colorful past.

[Herald20070504-15] "Ex-stripper convicted of posing as psychologist". South Coast Today. Associated Press. May 4, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2007.

[16] Tatz, Dennis (May 15, 2007). "Former stripper avoids time in jail; Gets house arrest for not having psych license". The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 15, 2007.

[People-17] McMillan, Nancy. "Lucy Was Cat's Meow but When She Bared Her Soul She Got Scratched". People.com. Retrieved February 7, 2015.

[Globe0517-18] Cramer, Maria (May 17, 2006). "An afternoon planned for shopping turns tragic on Route 16 in Plympton". The Boston Globe.

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-'''Louise Fitzgerald Wightman''' (''[[née]]'' '''Johnson'''), also known as '''Lucy Wightman''' (born June 18, 1959 in [[Lake Forest, Illinois]]), is a former [[striptease|exotic dancer]] who performed in [[Boston]] and [[Providence, RI|Providence]] the 1970s and 1980s using the [[stage name]] '''Princess Cheyenne'''. The juxtaposition of her education and class background with her career attracted media attention. In the spring of 2007, she again attracted public interest, this time for being convicted of being a practicing [[psychologist]] without a license in two [[South Shore (Massachusetts)|South Shore]] [[Massachusetts]] communities. Currently she works as a writer, photographer, and blogger.
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+'''Louise Fitzgerald Wightman''' (''[[née]]'' '''Johnson'''), also known as '''Lucy Wightman''' (born June 18, 1959) is an American former [[striptease|exotic dancer]] who performed in [[Boston]] and [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] during the 1970s and 1980s, using the [[stage name]] '''Princess Cheyenne'''. The juxtaposition of her education and class background with her career attracted media attention. In the spring of 2007, she again attracted public interest, this time for being convicted of being a practicing [[psychologist]] without a license in two [[South Shore (Massachusetts)|South Shore]] [[Massachusetts]] communities. Since then she has worked as a writer, photographer, and blogger.
 ==Dance career==
-Wightman's dancing career began at age 17, when she was known as '''Lucy Johnson''', and peaked when she was a headliner at the now defunct [[Naked i Cabaret]] in Boston's [[Combat Zone (Boston)|Combat Zone]]. "Princess Cheyenne" was a local legend in Boston.<ref name=berson>{{cite web|last1=Berson|first1=Jessica|title=Dancing in the Combat Zone: Striptease, Nostalgia, and Urban Renewal|url=http://www.academia.edu/5375507/Dancing_in_the_Combat_Zone |website=[[Academia.edu]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=18 December 2014|quote=The manager of the club helped her create a character that would become a local legend....Princess Cheyenne became a star.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Vancouverism in Boston & Revisiting 'the Zone'|url=http://radioboston.wbur.org/2010/02/19/vancouverism-in-boston-revisiting-the-zone|website=[[Radio Boston]]|accessdate=20 February 2015|date=February 19, 2010|quote=Also this week, there's a new exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery chronicling Boston's bygone red light district: the Combat Zone. We'll visit the exhibit and swap memories with legendary Combat Zone performer Louise Wightman, AKA Princess Cheyenne!}}</ref><ref name="fox25">{{cite web|title=Posing as a Psychologist |url=http://www.fox25.com/dynamic/images/stories/undercover/psychologist.html |website=Fox 25 Undercover |quote=She's a local legend with a colorful past....Lucy Wightman is better known as Princess Cheyenne, a legendary stripper who first made her mark in Boston decades ago. |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106042014/http://www.fox25.com/dynamic/images/stories/undercover/psychologist.html |archivedate=November 6, 2005 }}</ref> <!--She also danced at the Foxy Lady in [[Rhode Island]].<ref name=obrien>{{cite web|last1=O'Brien|first1=Keith|title=Exposed|date=January 22, 2006|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/01/22/exposed/?page=full|website=The Boston Globe|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref>--> The ''[[Boston Herald]]'' would later call her "perhaps the most famous exotic dancer ever in this town."<ref name="Herald">{{cite news|last1=Eagan|first1=Margery|authorlink1=Margery Eagan|title=The unbearable loss of all that possibility|url=http://business.highbeam.com/3972/article-1G1-145942489/unbearable-loss-all-possibility|newspaper=The Boston Herald|date=May 18, 2006}}</ref> Sports columnist Bill Reynolds called her a "cult figure."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Bill|title='78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City|date=2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101028780|page=140|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLv8OfsqR3YC&pg=PT140}}</ref> Journalist [[Howard Altman]], reminiscing about her in the ''[[Philadelphia City Paper]]'', called her "Boston's favorite stripper."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Altman|first1=Howard|author-link=Howard Altman|title=Naked City|url=http://citypaper.net/articles/051597/article018.shtml|website=Philadelphia City Paper|accessdate=20 February 2015|date=May 15, 1997|archivedate=May 15, 1997}}</ref> Although she is not named, Wightman is described in Lauri Lewin's Combat Zone memoir, ''Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life as a Stripper''.<ref name="berson" />
+Wightman's dancing career began at age 17, when she was known as '''Lucy Johnson''', and peaked when she was a headliner at the now defunct [[Naked i Cabaret]] in Boston's [[Combat Zone (Boston)|Combat Zone]]. "Princess Cheyenne" was a local legend in Boston.<ref name=berson>{{cite web|last1=Berson|first1=Jessica|title=Dancing in the Combat Zone: Striptease, Nostalgia, and Urban Renewal|url=https://www.academia.edu/5375507 |website=[[Academia.edu]]|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=December 18, 2014|quote=The manager of the club helped her create a character that would become a local legend....Princess Cheyenne became a star.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Vancouverism in Boston & Revisiting 'the Zone'|url=http://radioboston.wbur.org/2010/02/19/vancouverism-in-boston-revisiting-the-zone|website=[[Radio Boston]]|accessdate=February 20, 2015|date=February 19, 2010|quote=Also this week, there's a new exhibit at the Howard Yezerski Gallery chronicling Boston's bygone red light district: the Combat Zone. We'll visit the exhibit and swap memories with legendary Combat Zone performer Louise Wightman, AKA Princess Cheyenne!}}</ref><ref name="fox25">{{cite web|title=Posing as a Psychologist |url=http://www.fox25.com/dynamic/images/stories/undercover/psychologist.html |website=Fox 25 Undercover |quote=She's a local legend with a colorful past....Lucy Wightman is better known as Princess Cheyenne, a legendary stripper who first made her mark in Boston decades ago. |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106042014/http://www.fox25.com/dynamic/images/stories/undercover/psychologist.html |archivedate=November 6, 2005 }}</ref> <!--She also danced at the Foxy Lady in [[Rhode Island]].<ref name=obrien>{{cite web|last1=O'Brien|first1=Keith|title=Exposed|date=January 22, 2006|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/01/22/exposed/?page=full|website=The Boston Globe|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref>--> The ''[[Boston Herald]]'' would later call her "perhaps the most famous exotic dancer ever in this town."<ref name="Herald">{{cite news|last1=Eagan|first1=Margery|authorlink1=Margery Eagan|title=The unbearable loss of all that possibility|url=http://business.highbeam.com/3972/article-1G1-145942489/unbearable-loss-all-possibility|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206230525/http://business.highbeam.com/3972/article-1G1-145942489/unbearable-loss-all-possibility|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2015|newspaper=The Boston Herald|date=May 18, 2006}}</ref> Sports columnist Bill Reynolds called her a "cult figure."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Bill|title='78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City|date=2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101028780|page=140|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLv8OfsqR3YC&pg=PT140}}</ref> Journalist [[Howard Altman]], reminiscing about her in the ''[[Philadelphia City Paper]]'', called her "Boston's favorite stripper."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Altman|first1=Howard|author-link=Howard Altman|title=Naked City|url=http://citypaper.net/articles/051597/article018.shtml|website=Philadelphia City Paper|accessdate=February 20, 2015|date=May 15, 1997|archivedate=October 1, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001152003/http://citypaper.net/articles/051597/article018.shtml}}</ref> Although she is not named, Wightman is described in Lauri Lewin's Combat Zone memoir, ''Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life as a Stripper''.<ref name="berson" />
-Using her celebrity from the exotic dancing circuit, Wightman later hosted a sex advice radio [[talk show]] called "Ask Princess Cheyenne" on Boston [[rock music|rock]] station [[WBCN (FM)|WBCN]], and posed for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine (as Lucy Johnson) in March 1986.<ref name=obrien>{{cite web|last1=O'Brien|first1=Keith|title=Exposed|date=January 22, 2006|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/01/22/exposed/?page=full|website=[[The Boston Globe]]|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> She competed in women's [[Female bodybuilding|bodybuilding]] contests, winning the 1993 [[National Physique Committee]] Massachusetts championship and later being featured in the May–June 1996 issue of ''[[Women's Physique World]]''.<ref name=WPW>{{Citation|title=Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!|magazine=Women's Physique World|date=May 1996|url=http://www.getbig.com/magazine/wpw/wpw-0696.htm|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="obrien" />
+Using her celebrity from the exotic dancing circuit, Wightman later hosted a sex advice radio [[talk show]] called "Ask Princess Cheyenne" on Boston [[rock music|rock]] station [[WBCN (FM)|WBCN]], and posed for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine (as Lucy Johnson) in March 1986.<ref name=obrien>{{cite web|last1=O'Brien|first1=Keith|title=Exposed|date=January 22, 2006|url=http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/01/22/exposed/?page=full|website=[[The Boston Globe]]|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref> She competed in women's [[Female bodybuilding|bodybuilding]] contests, winning the 1993 [[National Physique Committee]] Massachusetts championship and later being featured in the May–June 1996 issue of ''[[Women's Physique World]]''.<ref name=WPW>{{Citation|title=Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!|magazine=Women's Physique World|date=May 1996|url=http://www.getbig.com/magazine/wpw/wpw-0696.htm|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="obrien" />
 ==="The thinking man's stripper"===
-As an articulate woman from a well-to-do family, Wightman did not conform to the popular stereotype of an exotic dancer, and gained a reputation as "the thinking man's stripper."<ref name="berson" /><ref name="obrien" /><ref name=saltzman>{{cite news|last1=Saltzman|first1=Jonathan|last2=Ryan|first2=Andrew|title=Former stripper takes stand in trial|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/03/former_stripper_takes_stand_in_trial/|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 3, 2007}}</ref> A ''[[Boston Globe]]'' reporter, writing in 1979, called her "the valedictorian of strippers."<ref name=richman>{{cite news|last1=Richman|first1=Alan|title=Living Combat Zone's expensive thrills|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/747198016.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+12%2C+1979&author=Richman%2C+Alan&pub=Boston+Globe+%281960-1983%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Living+Combat+Zone%27s+expensive+thrills|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=February 12, 1979}}</ref> The president of the ''[[Harvard Lampoon]]'' invited her to perform at a banquet in 1982, calling her "a nice and educated girl";<ref name=miller>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Margo|title=People & Places|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294105269.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+19%2C+1982&author=Miller%2C+Margo&pub=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=PEOPLE+%26+PLACES+%2F+BY+MARGO+MILLER|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=April 19, 1982}}</ref> a few years later, a writer in ''[[Harvard Magazine]]'' noted with interest that Wightman, "one of the premier strippers" in the Combat Zone, was working her way through college.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bennett|first1=Dr. William I.|title=Gustatory Affairs|journal=Harvard Magazine|date=1985|volume=88|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=O-_UVN22Mq-ZsQSioYGQBQ&id=0_Y7AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Princess+Cheyenne%22+Boston&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Princess+Cheyenne%22}}</ref> (The Naked i Cabaret, where Wightman performed, proudly advertised its "Totally Nude College Girls Revue.")<ref name="feeney">{{cite news|last1=Feeney|first1=Mark|authorlink=Mark Feeney|title=A Vanished World of Sex, Squalor, Captured in Black and White|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/404727935.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+7%2C+2010&author=Feeney%2C+Mark&pub=Boston+Globe&edition=&startpage=&desc=A+VANISHED+WORLD+OF+SEX%2C+SQUALOR%2C+CAPTURED+IN+BLACK+AND+WHITE+PLUS%3A+%60ON+THE+STROLL%27+DOWN+LAGRANGE+STREET+WITH+SAM+ALLIS+PAGE+N7+From+the+Teddy+Bare+Lounge+to+the+Two+O%27Clock+Club%2C+a+vanished+world|accessdate=15 December 2014|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=March 7, 2010}}</ref> In ''Women's Physique World'' she was described as "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!"<ref name="WPW" />
+As an articulate woman from a well-to-do family, Wightman did not conform to the popular stereotype of an exotic dancer, and gained a reputation as "the thinking man's stripper."<ref name="berson" /><ref name="obrien" /><ref name=saltzman>{{cite news|last1=Saltzman|first1=Jonathan|last2=Ryan|first2=Andrew|title=Former stripper takes stand in trial|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/03/former_stripper_takes_stand_in_trial/|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 3, 2007}}</ref> A ''[[Boston Globe]]'' reporter, writing in 1979, called her "the valedictorian of strippers."<ref name=richman>{{cite news|last1=Richman|first1=Alan|title=Living Combat Zone's expensive thrills|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/747198016|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=February 12, 1979}}</ref> The president of the ''[[Harvard Lampoon]]'' invited her to perform at a banquet in 1982, calling her "a nice and educated girl";<ref name=miller>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Margo|title=People & Places|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/294105269|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=April 19, 1982}}</ref> a few years later, a writer in ''[[Harvard Magazine]]'' noted with interest that Wightman, "one of the premier strippers" in the Combat Zone, was working her way through college.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bennett|first1=Dr. William I.|title=Gustatory Affairs|journal=Harvard Magazine|date=1985|volume=88|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_Y7AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Princess+Cheyenne%22}}</ref> (The Naked i Cabaret, where Wightman performed, proudly advertised its "Totally Nude College Girls Revue.")<ref name="feeney">{{cite news|last1=Feeney|first1=Mark|authorlink=Mark Feeney|title=A Vanished World of Sex, Squalor, Captured in Black and White|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/404727935|access-date=December 15, 2014|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=March 7, 2010|archive-date=November 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130035018/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/404727935.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+7%2C+2010&author=Feeney%2C+Mark&pub=Boston+Globe&edition=&startpage=&desc=A+VANISHED+WORLD+OF+SEX%2C+SQUALOR%2C+CAPTURED+IN+BLACK+AND+WHITE+PLUS%3A+%60ON+THE+STROLL%27+DOWN+LAGRANGE+STREET+WITH+SAM+ALLIS+PAGE+N7+From+the+Teddy+Bare+Lounge+to+the+Two+O%27Clock+Club%2C+a+vanished+world|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''Women's Physique World'' she was described as "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!"<ref name="WPW" />
 ==Psychotherapy career==
-In 1985, Wightman received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] [[Academic degree|degree]] from [[Emerson College]], and subsequently earned a [[masters degree]] in [[counseling psychology]] from [[Lesley University]]. She then enrolled at the [[Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology]] for five years, from 1996 to 2001. Wightman then withdrew from MSPP, submitted her credits and hours to an online degree program to which she paid $1,299 to receive a [[doctorate]] in psychology from [[Concordia College and University]], an online institution based in [[Dominica]] that is not recognized for licensure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During this same period, Wightman founded South Shore Psychology Associates, and began treating patients with psychotherapy in her [[Norwell, Massachusetts|Norwell]] office.<ref name="obrien" />
+In 1985, Wightman received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] [[Academic degree|degree]] from [[Emerson College]], and subsequently earned a [[master's degree]] in [[counseling psychology]] from [[Lesley University]]. She then enrolled at the [[Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology]] for five years, from 1996 to 2001. Wightman then withdrew from MSPP and submitted her credits and hours to an online degree program to which she paid $1,299 to receive a [[doctorate]] in psychology from [[Concordia College and University]], an online institution based in [[Dominica]] that is not recognized for licensure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During this same period, Wightman founded South Shore Psychology Associates, and began treating patients with psychotherapy in her [[Norwell, Massachusetts|Norwell]] office.<ref name="obrien" />
 ==Legal problems==
-In October 2005, Wightman was indicted in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] for practicing psychology without a license, filing false health care claims,<!--<ref>[http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=986&id=1501 "Hull Woman Indicted on Charges She Practiced as an Unlicensed Psychologist"], [[Massachusetts Attorney General]] press release, October 6, 2005</ref>--><ref name=leibovich>{{cite web|last1=Leibovich|first1=Lori|title=Massachusetts shrink outed as former stripper|url=http://www.salon.com/2006/01/27/stripper_4/|website=Salon.com|accessdate=7 February 2015|date=January 27, 2006|quote=Wightman’s defenders rightly question whether she would have been charged so harshly if it wasn’t for her colorful past.}}</ref> and engaging in insurance fraud after local FOX affiliate [[WFXT]] did an undercover investigation into her therapy practice. Under unusual provisions of [[Massachusetts law]], Wightman had been allowed to practice as a [[psychotherapist]], not as a psychologist.<ref name="fox25" /> In the indictment, the Commonwealth charged that she never applied for or received a license to practice as a [[psychologist]] in Massachusetts, which requires a [[doctoral degree]] in psychology from a state-approved program. Wightman was found guilty of 19 of 26 counts and sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation.<ref name=Herald20070504>{{cite news|title=Ex-stripper convicted of posing as psychologist|url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20070505/News/705050363|accessdate=2007-05-14|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=South Coast Today|date=2007-05-04}}</ref> The six-month sentence was suspended, sparing her prison time. Under the terms of her probation, she was sentenced to one year of home confinement, and was barred from practicing as a psychotherapist for her entire probationary period.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tatz|first1=Dennis|title=Former stripper avoids time in jail; Gets house arrest for not having psych license|url=http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/05/15/news/news04.txt|accessdate=2007-05-15|newspaper=The Patriot Ledger|date=2007-05-15}}</ref>
+In October 2005, Wightman was indicted in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] for practicing psychology without a license, filing false health care claims,<!--<ref>[http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=986&id=1501 "Hull Woman Indicted on Charges She Practiced as an Unlicensed Psychologist"], [[Massachusetts Attorney General]] press release, October 6, 2005</ref>--><ref name=leibovich>{{cite web|last1=Leibovich|first1=Lori|title=Massachusetts shrink outed as former stripper|url=http://www.salon.com/2006/01/27/stripper_4/|website=Salon.com|accessdate=February 7, 2015|date=January 27, 2006|quote=Wightman’s defenders rightly question whether she would have been charged so harshly if it wasn’t for her colorful past.}}</ref> and engaging in insurance fraud after local FOX affiliate [[WFXT]] did an undercover investigation into her therapy practice. Under unusual provisions of [[Massachusetts law]], Wightman had been allowed to practice as a [[psychotherapist]], not as a psychologist.<ref name="fox25" /> In the indictment, the Commonwealth charged that she never applied for or received a license to practice as a [[psychologist]] in Massachusetts, which requires a [[doctoral degree]] in psychology from a state-approved program. Wightman was found guilty of 19 of 26 counts and sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation.<ref name=Herald20070504>{{cite news|title=Ex-stripper convicted of posing as psychologist|url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20070505/News/705050363|accessdate=May 14, 2007|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=South Coast Today|date=May 4, 2007}}</ref> The six-month sentence was suspended, sparing her prison time. Under the terms of her probation, she was sentenced to one year of home confinement, and was barred from practicing as a psychotherapist for her entire probationary period.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Tatz|first1=Dennis|title=Former stripper avoids time in jail; Gets house arrest for not having psych license|url=http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/05/15/news/news04.txt|accessdate=May 15, 2007|newspaper=The Patriot Ledger|date=May 15, 2007}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-In 1979, Wightman was engaged to the singer [[Cat Stevens]], but the couple broke up due to her career commitments and his conversion to [[Islam]].<ref name="fox25" /><ref name=People>{{cite web|last1=McMillan|first1=Nancy|title=Lucy Was Cat's Meow but When She Bared Her Soul She Got Scratched|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074374,00.html|website=People.com|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref>
+In 1979, Wightman was engaged to the singer [[Cat Stevens]], but the couple broke up due to her career commitments and his conversion to [[Islam]].<ref name="fox25" /><ref name=People>{{cite web|last1=McMillan|first1=Nancy|title=Lucy Was Cat's Meow but When She Bared Her Soul She Got Scratched|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074374,00.html|website=People.com|accessdate=February 7, 2015}}</ref>
 After the breakup with Stevens, Wightman married and divorced twice; she had a daughter named Victoria (Torri) with her second husband Donald Wightman, a Boston police detective and head of security for the [[rock music|rock]] band [[Aerosmith]].<ref name=Herald/> On May 16, 2006, 16-year-old Torri died as result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in [[Plympton, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Globe0517>{{cite news|last1=Cramer|first1=Maria|title=An afternoon planned for shopping turns tragic on Route 16 in Plympton|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/05/17/an_afternoon_planned_for_shopping_turns_tragic_on_route_16_in_plympton/|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 17, 2006}}</ref>
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