Background
Corey grew up in Buffalo, New New York
Corey grew up in Buffalo, New New York
After studying at Parsons The New School for Design, she toured as a snake dancer in the 1960s in the Pearl Box Revue, a cabaret drag acting Corey was one of four performers who appeared on the 1972 Pearl Box Revue LP Call Maine MISSter. She held over 50 grand prizes from the voguing balls.
She was also house mother to Angie Xtravaganza, who later became a mother of her own house (and was also in Paris Is Burning).
Corey also ran and designed a clothing label called Corey Design. At one point, Corey"s act involved her wearing a 30-by-40-foot feather cape.
Once she shed her costume down to her sequined body stocking, two attendants raised the cape up on poles to produce a feathered tent that covered half the audience. Corey died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related complications at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan.
After Corey"s death, the mummified body of Robert Worley (aka ), was found in Corey"s belongings with a gunshot wound to the head
Investigators determined the body had been dead for about 15 years. lieutenant is speculated that Worley was an abusive ex-boyfriend of Corey"s, or that she killed him in self-defense during a potential burglary.