- Tura Satana legally owned her likeness and image. So, whenever Russ Meyer wanted to change the artwork or re-release the project Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), he had to get Satana's permission and sometimes pay her again.
- Her first marriage, to a 17-year-old boy (she was only 13), lasted only nine months. The marriage was arranged by their families.
- Born in Japan and raised in Chicago, where she attended James A. Riis Elementary School, Tura Satana had three sisters and one brother.
- She was shot in the stomach in 1973 by a drug addict ex-boyfriend. She didn't return to acting for another 30 years.
- Her daughter, Jade Kim Satana, was born on March 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
- In 1963 she was working at the Pink Pussycat in West Hollywood, CA, as an interpretive dancer.
- She had abandoned her burlesque career when changes in California licensing laws led many club owners to require dancers to perform topless. Satana gave up acting to work in a hospital for four years, then managed a doctor's office in Hollywood for eight years. She later was a police radio operator for the LAPD. She was in a car accident that broke her back in 1981 and spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately fifteen smaller ones.
- Had a daughter, Kalani Silverman (AKA: Lani Silver), at 19.
- Her younger sister is Kim Satana who had a small part in the film The Human Duplicators (1965).
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