Biography

In January 1959 a huge scandal exploded. Le Troquer, Pinajeff and some twenty other persons were involved in the so-called 'Ballets Roses scandal'. Pinajeff supposedly had organised erotic ballets with under aged girls for an elite audience. Some of the mothers of the girls had consented to this, hoping for career perspectives for their children. The couple got away with it quite mildly because of Le Troquer's high age and his war record, but both their careers were over. Rumour has it that the whole affair was concocted by the Gaulists to discredit the socialist Le Troquer.

In the 1950's she was involved in a notorious scandal involving erotic ballets with underaged girls, the 'Ballets roses' scandal.

The actress Elisabeth Pinajeff has fallen into oblivion today.

Apparently she also appeared in the film "La tragedie imperiale" in 1937 with her pseudonym Lily Dorell.

Pinajeff was the daughter of architect Serge Pinajeff and countess Anna Popov.