- As a girl in Germany, hid out from the Nazis in a Catholic convent, she was a famous nightclub owner in Paris for many years.
- In June 2011, she appeared as Solange in Follies at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
- She has one son, Lionel, from her first husband Leon Rothcage, whom she married when she was 16.
- She lived with her husband in Saint-Tropez.
- She established Jimmy'z, a famous nightclub in Monaco, in 1974.
- As Zylberberg's celebrity expanded she established other venues under the name Chez Régine's in London, New York City, Monte Carlo and elsewhere. These were ultra-selective venues in prime urban locations, all featuring her signature "disco-style" layout.
- She was a Belgian-born French singer and nightclub impresario.
- Régine had a hit single with the French version of Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive.".
- Born in Belgium to Polish Jewish parents, Joseph Zylberberg and Tauba Rodstein, she started life hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France and later invented the format for "discothèque" (French for Nightclubs).
- After the war, Régine became a torch singer and by 1953 was a nightclub manager in Paris.
- In the 1970s, Zylberberg moved to New York and lived in a suite of the Delmonico Hotel where she opened one of her clubs on the ground floor of the hotel. The club served food under the direction of French chef Michel Guérard.
- Aside of inventing and managing "discothèques", she taught a former king of England to do the twist,.
- On 22 April 1996, Régine Zylberberg and her son were arrested for refusing to comply with crew requests and smoking on an American Airlines flight. It was alleged that, though she was travelling economy, Régine had demanded a first-class upgrade, which the airline declined.
- In the 1970s, she designed a line of "Ready-to-Dance" evening clothes which were proof against wrinkling and so could be packed, which were sold at Bloomingdale's.
- Zylberberg's Paris Whisky à Gogo became the inspiration for the later establishment of the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles.
- In 1988, she was in charge of the Ledoyen Restaurant on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
- She presided over a multi-million dollar international nightclub empire.
- She dubbed herself the "Queen of the Night".
- She is attributed with the invention of the modern-day discothèque, by virtue of creating a new dynamic atmosphere at Paris' Whisky à Gogo, with the ubiquitous jukebox replaced by disc jockeys utilising linked turntables.
- In 1957, she opened Chez Régine in the Latin Quarter, which became the place to be seen for visiting celebrities, socialites and royalty.
- Régine Zylberberg was born in Anderlecht, Belgium, to Polish Jewish parents and spent much of her early life in hiding from the Nazis in occupied wartime France.
- While most famous internationally as a nightclub entrepreneur, in France Regine was known for her contribution to French songwriting. French singer Renaud called her the last historic representative of the French chanson, inspiring an entire generation of singer songwriters, including Serge Gainsbourg and Barbara.
- After performing in the legendary Olympia venue in the French capital in the 1960s, Regine sang in New York's Carnegie Hall.
- The Zylberberg family emigrated to Paris in 1932 after their father Joseph lost the family bakery to poker in Anderlecht, Brussels. Her mother returned to South America. Régine and her brother Maurice were then placed in different pensions, then found protection during the Second World War in various cities such as Lyon3 and Aix-en-Provence: she was then baptized Catholic.
- At her height there were 25 clubs bearing the name across three continents and it was said you could party at a Régine's somewhere in the world 17 hours out of every 24, if you could get in.
- Her parents, who lived in Argentina for eight years, were Polish Ashkenazi Jews.
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