Sue Mengers wurde am 2 September 1932 in Deutschland geboren. Sie war mit Jean-Claude Tramont verheiratet. Sie starb am 15 Oktober 2011 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Dyan Cannon's character "Christine" in Sheila (1973) was based on Mengers, as was Shelley Winters's character "Eva Brown" in S.O.B. - Hollywoods letzter Heuler (1981), which starred Julie Andrews and was directed by Andrews's husband Blake Edwards. In response to this latter satirical portrayal of her, Mengers responded to the Edwardses with this: "An Alp should fall on their house.".