Paulo Coelho dedicated his novel to her, composer Giacomo Puccini sent flowers to her home after each of her performances, her image on the cinema screen was embodied by such stars as Greta Garbo, Merle Oberon, Francoise Fabian, Jeanne Moreau and Sylvia Kristel. Journalist Sam Waagenaar was the first author to write a truly documentary book about the famous dancer and courtesan accused of espionage and shot by the French in 1917. He managed to gain access to the archives of the French War Ministry, to official Dutch documents, to the materials of Mata Hari's interrogations at Scotland Yard, as well as to her personal diaries, and, in addition, to collect a lot of testimonies from people who personally knew this extraordinary woman, who became a victim of the intrigues of the secret services and the espionage mania that reigned in France.