Rasa von Werder

Rasa von Werder, also known as Kellie Everts, was a German-born author, former stripper, female bodybuilder, photographer and spiritual leader, born on July 16, 1945, in Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The article gives her as of Lithuanian, Russian and Mongolian descent, and says her parents, who had fled from Lithuania under Stalin, lived briefly in a displaced persons camp before travelling to the United States aboard the naval ship USS Heintzelman. Her family settled in a Lithuanian community in Newark, New Jersey. At sixteen she moved to Hollywood, California, where she began a career in show business, and she married Stanley Everts in 1963. After ten years in California she returned to Brooklyn, New York, for 17 years. The article says she passed away at home on June 5, 2026.