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In 1888, Otero found a sponsor named Ernest Jurgens in Barcelona who moved with her to Marseilles to promote her dancing career in France. She soon left him and created the character of La Belle Otero, portraying herself as an Andalusian Romani woman.<ref name="lockkeeper1">[http://www.lockkeeper.com/short/otero/otero.htm Caroline "La Belle" Otero by Lockkeeper]. Lockkeeper.com. Retrieved on 16 November 2010.</ref> She was pretty, confident, intelligent, with an attractive figure. It was said that her extraordinarily dark black eyes were so captivating that they were "of such intensity that it was impossible not to be detained before them".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brasilcult.pro.br/teatro/painel17.htm|title=Cultura e Conhecimento: Teatro|website=www.brasilcult.pro.br}}</ref> She wound up as the star of [[Folies Bergère|Folies Bèrgere]] productions in Paris.<ref name="lockkeeper1" /> One of her more famous costumes featured her voluptuous bosom partially covered with glued-on precious gems, and the twin [[cupola]]s of the [[Carlton Hotel, Cannes|Carlton Hotel]] built in 1912 in Cannes are popularly said to have been modeled upon her breasts.<ref name="lockkeeper1" /><ref>[http://icqurimage.com/Magazine/courtesan.html Icqurimage Electronic magazine: A brief history of the Courtesan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319091907/http://icqurimage.com/Magazine/courtesan.html |date=19 March 2006 }}. Icqurimage.com. Retrieved on 16 November 2010.</ref><ref>[http://membres.multimania.fr/andresy/otero.htm la belle Otero] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111041446/http://membres.multimania.fr/andresy/otero.htm |date=11 January 2010 }}. Membres.multimania.fr. Retrieved on 16 November 2010.</ref>[[File:Au Bois De Boulogne Vanity Fair 1897-06-03.jpg|thumb|Otero appears with [[Liane de Pougy]] and [[Cléo de Merode]] in a fashionable crowd in the [[Bois de Boulogne]] drawn by [[Jean Baptiste Guth|Guth]], 1897 ]]
Within a short number of years, Otero was said to be the most sought-after woman in Europe. She was serving, by this time, as a courtesan to wealthy and powerful men of the day, and she chose her lovers carefully. She associated herself with [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv/serien/der-kaiser-hatte-wirklich-sex-im-adlon-28011514.bild.html|title=Familien-Saga Adlon: Was ist wahr und was ist Erfindung im großen TV-Epos? – TV – Bild.de|date=10 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110154514/http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv/serien/der-kaiser-hatte-wirklich-sex-im-adlon-28011514.bild.html|archive-date=10 January 2013}}</ref> Prince [[Albert I, Prince of Monaco|Albert I of Monaco]], [[Edward VII|King Edward VII]], [[List of Serbian monarchs|Kings of Serbia]], and King [[
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