Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Satana primarily worked with film director Ted V. Mikels in such films as The Astro-Zombies (1968), and The Doll Squad (1973). After making Mikels' The Doll Squad in 1973, Satana was shot by a former lover. She later found employment in a hospital, a position she kept for four years. She had studied nursing at Firmin Desloge Hospital. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car accident. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately fifteen others. In 2002, she returned to acting, reprising the role of Malvina Satana in Mark of the Astro Zombies (2002), the sequel to The Astro Zombies. Personal life Satana claims to have dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal, although she kept the ring. Death Satana died on February 4, 2011, in Reno, Nevada, and was survived by her daughters, Kalani and Jade, and her sisters, Pamela and Kim. Her long-time manager, Siouxzan Perry, gave the cause of death as heart failure. Selected filmography Irma la Douce (1963) – Suzette Wong Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) – Stripper (uncredited) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) – Varla Our Man Flint (1966) – Stripper (uncredited) The Astro-Zombies (1968) – Satana The Doll Squad (1973) – Lavelle Sumara Mark of the Astro-Zombies (2002) – Malvira Satana The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008) – Herself Sugar Boxx (2009) – Judge #1 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) – Varla (voice) Astro Zombies: M3 – Cloned (2010) – Malvina (final film role) Tributes The alternative metal band Tura Satana is named after her. The Argentine rock band Babasónicos created a song honoring her, titled Viva Satana!, from their 1996 album Dopádromo. "Song For Tura Satana" is the sixteenth track on Zopilote Machine by The Mountain Goats. Australian punk-pop band Ratcat had a B-side called Tura Satana in 1989. Seattle industrial band Kill Switch...Klick released a four-song EP in 2008 featuring Super Amanda on vocals performing four different mixes of the Tura Satana Tribute song, Hemi Charger. Las Vegas burlesque performer Elaina Satana adopted her stage surname as a tribute to Tura Satana. She appears in the painting titled, A Doorway to Whitney by Joe Coleman. In 2010, British band Dustaphonics released their first LP on