Anna Karina

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Bayer, 22 September 194014 December 2019) was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including "The Little Soldier", "A Woman Is a Woman", "My Life to Live", ' ("Band of Outsiders"), ' ("Crazy Pete") and "Alphaville". For her performance in "A Woman Is a Woman", Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 1972, Karina set up a production company for her directorial debut, "Vivre ensemble" (1973), which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She also directed the French-Canadian film "Victoria" (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer, and wrote several novels.
Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred to as the "effervescent free spirit of the French New Wave, with all of the scars that the position entails". "The New York Times" described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave."
Early life.
Hanne Karin Bayer (later known as Anna Karina) was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. Her mother was a dress shop owner and her father left the family a year after she was born.
She lived with her maternal grandparents for three years, then spent the next four years in foster care before returning to live with her mother. She has described her childhood as "terribly wanting to be loved", and as a child she made numerous attempts to run away from home. Her mother remarried, but her step-father was abusive.
She began her career in Denmark, where she sang in cabarets and worked as a model playing in commercials. At age 14, she appeared in a Danish short film by Ib Schmedes, which won a prize at Cannes. In 1958, after a row with her mother, she hitchhiked to Paris.
Career.
Modeling.
Bayer was 17 when she arrived in Paris, with only 10,000 francs and unable to speak French. One day while sitting at the café Les Deux Magots she was approached by a woman from an advertisement agency who asked her to do some photos. She began to work as a model and eventually became successful, posing for several magazines, including "Elle", and meeting Pierre Cardin and Coco Chanel. Karina said that Chanel helped her devise her professional name, Anna Karina, which was deliberately coined to evoke the Leo Tolstoy novel, "Anna Karenina". She appeared on the front cover of the "Elle" fashion magazine and in commercials for products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsodent, and Palmolive soap.
Film.
Jean-Luc Godard, then a film critic for "Cahiers du cinéma", first saw Karina in the Palmolive adverts in which she posed in bathtubs, during movie previews in a Monsavon pub. He was casting his debut feature film, "Breathless" ("À bout de souffle", 1960), and offered her a small part in it, but she refused when he mentioned that there would be a nude scene. When Godard questioned her refusal, mentioning her apparent nudity in the Palmolive ads, she is said to have replied, "Are you mad? I was wearing a bathing suit in those ads—the soapsuds went up to my neck. It was in your mind that I was undressed." In the end, the character Godard reserved for Karina did not appear in the film. Godard offered her a role in "The Little Soldier" ("", not released until 1963) which concerns contentious French actions during the Algerian War. She played a pro-Algerian activist. Karina, then still under 21, had to persuade her estranged mother to sign the contract for her. The film was immediately controversial, outlawed from French theaters for its content referencing the Algerian War.
As Angela in "A Woman Is a Woman" ("Une femme est une femme", 1961). Karina's role was as an unattached striptease dancer who nevertheless wishes to have a child and daydreams about appearing in MGM musicals. Her school-girl costume emulated Leslie Caron in "Gigi" (1958), worn even while performing her act. Karina won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance. In all, Karina appeared in eight films directed by Godard, including "My Life to Live" (', 1962), "Band of Outsiders" (', 1964) ' and "Alphaville" (both 1965). In ', Karina's character is on the run with her ex-boyfriend, while in "Alphaville", a science-fiction film often equated to "Bladerunner", Karina's role requires her to have difficulty saying the phrase "I love you." The last film in the sequence was "Made in USA" (1966). Anne Billson, in an article querying the concept of the female muse, wrote that Godard in his films with Karina "seems to have trouble conceiving that the female experience revolves around anything other than prostitution, duplicity, or wanting babies." Karina herself did not object to being described as Godard's muse: "Maybe it’s too much, it sounds so pompous. But of course I’m always very touched to hear people say that. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to play all of those parts."
Her career flourished, with Karina appearing in dozens of films through the 1960s, including "The Nun" ("La Religieuse", 1966), directed by Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti's "The Stranger" ("Lo straniero", 1967), the George Cukor/Joseph Strick collaboration "Justine" (1969), and Tony Richardson's "Laughter in the Dark" (1969). She continued to work steadily into the 1970s, with roles in Christian de Chalonge's "The Wedding Ring" ("L'Alliance", 1971), Andre Delvaux's "Rendezvous at Bray" ("Rendez-vous à Bray", also 1971), "The Salzburg Connection" (1972), and Franco Brusati's "Bread and Chocolate" ("Pane e cioccolata", 1973).
In 1972, she set up a production company, Raska, for her directorial debut, "Living Together" ("Vivre ensemble", 1973), in which she also acted. The film screened in the Critics’ Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival.
She starred in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Chinese Roulette" ("Chinesisches Roulette", 1976); Fassbinder allegedly wrote the film for her and her partner at the time, Ulli Lommel. She later wrote and acted in "Last Song" (1987) and appeared in "Up, Down, Fragile" ("Haut bas fragile", 1995), directed by Jacques Rivette, and sang in "The Truth About Charlie" (2002), a remake of the film "Charade" (1963).
Karina wrote, directed and starred in "Victoria" (2008), a musical road movie filmed in Montreal and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. The lead character, played by Karina, has amnesia. Richard Kuipers praised it in "Variety" as "a pleasant gambol through the backwoods of Quebec."
Music and writing.
Karina maintained a singing career. At the end of the 1960s, she scored a major hit with "Sous le soleil exactement" and "Roller Girl" by Serge Gainsbourg. Both songs are from the TV musical comedy "Anna" (1967), by the film director Pierre Koralnik, in which she sings seven songs alongside Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Brialy. Karina subsequently recorded an album, "", with Philippe Katerine, which was followed by a concert tour. In 2005, she released "Chansons de films", a collection of songs sung in movies.
Karina wrote four novels: ' (1973), "Golden City" (1983), ' (1988), and "Jusqu'au bout du hasard" (1998).
Personal life.
While working together on ', Karina and Godard began a relationship and married in 1961. Eventually, Karina served as a cinematic muse to Godard, appearing in eight of his films, including ', and "", during their five year marriage and after. Karina liked being the muse. "How could I not be honoured?" she told Xan Brooks of "The Guardian" in 2016. "Maybe it’s too much, it sounds so pompous. But of course I’m always very touched to hear people say that. Because Jean-Luc gave me a gift to play all of those parts. It was like "Pygmalion", you know? I was Eliza Doolittle and he was the teacher." At this, she briefly channels Henry Higgins. "By Jove," she says. "I think she’s got it."
The couple became, according to "The Independent", "one of the most celebrated pairings of the 1960s." A writer for "Filmmaker" magazine called their work "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema."
Despite the critical success, their relationship behind the scenes was described as tumultuous; they fought on film sets, Karina fell ill several times, and Godard was often absent without explanation. One Godard film from this period which does not feature Karina, "Contempt" (1963), is said to be based on their difficult relationship. The couple divorced in 1965.
Karina said in spring 2016 that she and Godard no longer spoke to each other. She described the relationship in an interview with "W" magazine:It was all very exciting from the beginning. Of course we have a great love story and all that, but we were so different. He was 10 years older than me. He was very strange. He would go away and come back three weeks later ... It was difficult, and I was a young girl, not even 21—at the time Godard was 30. I know he didn't mean to hurt me, but he did. He was never there, he was never coming back, and I never knew where he was. He drove me a bit crazy.After divorcing Godard, Karina remarried three times; she was married to French actors Pierre Fabre from 1968 to 1974 and Daniel Duval from 1978 to 1981, and to American film director Dennis Berry from 1982 until her death.
Karina died at the age of 79 on Saturday, December 14, 2019, at a hospital in Paris. According to her agent, Laurent Balandras, the cause of death was cancer. However, her husband, Dennis Berry, said that the cause was not cancer, but a complication following a muscular rupture.
Legacy.
Karina is regularly considered an icon of 1960s cinema, a staple in French New Wave cinema, as well as a style icon. "The Guardian" described her as an "effervescent free spirit of the French new wave." "The New York Times" described her style as looking like a schoolgirl in her acting roles, regardless whether she was playing a streetwalker or a terrorist. Her signature look was her dark hair, wispy bangs, heavy eyeliner and school uniform of primary-coloured sailor-uniform tops, knee socks, plaid headwear such as berets and boaters. Refinery29 wrote that "her 60s French girl style – think sailor dresses, tartan, long socks, and hats – and mesmerizing doe-eyed beauty mean she continues to be referenced today by the super-stylish."


Audrey Munson

Audrey Marie Munson (June 8, 1891 – February 20, 1996) was an American artist's model and film actress, today considered "America's First Supermodel." In her time, she was variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition Girl" and "American Venus." She was the model or inspiration for more than twelve statues in New York City, and many others elsewhere. Munson also appeared in four silent films, including "Inspiration" (1915) in which she appeared nude, one of the first American actresses to do so in a non-pornographic film.
Career.
Model.
Audrey Marie Munson was born in Rochester, New York, on June 8, 1891, to Edgar Munson and Katherine "Kittie" Mahaney. Her father was from Mexico, New York, and she later lived there. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and Audrey and her mother moved to Providence, Rhode Island.
In 1909 the pair moved to New York City, where the 17-year-old Audrey sought a career as an actress and chorus girl. Her first role on Broadway was as a "footman" in "The Boy and The Girl" at the Aerial Gardens of the New Amsterdam Theatre, which ran from May 31 – June 19, 1909. She also appeared in "The Girl and the Wizard", "Girlies" and "La Belle Paree".
While window-shopping on Fifth Avenue with her mother she was spotted by photographer Felix Benedict Herzog, who asked her to pose for him at his studio in the Lincoln Arcade Building on Broadway and 65th Street. Herzog introduced her to his friends in the art world. She posed for muralist William de Leftwich Dodge, who gave her a letter of introduction to Isidore Konti. Konti was her first sculptor, and her first nude modeling. From this point Munson would pose for a few well-known visual artists, including painter Francis Coates Jones, illustrators Harrison Fisher, Archie Gunn, and Charles Dana Gibson, and photographers Herzog and Arnold Genthe, but she was predominantly a sculptors' model.
Munson's first acknowledged credit is Konti's marble statuary called "Three Graces" unveiled in the new Grand Ballroom at the Hotel Astor in Times Square in September 1909. She posed for all three graces. Soon after, and for the next decade, Munson became the model of choice for the first tier of American sculptors, posing for a long list of freestanding statuary, monuments, and allegorical architectural sculpture on state capitols and other major public buildings. According to "The Sun" in 1913, "Over a hundred artists agree that if the name of Miss Manhattan belongs to anyone in particular it is to this young woman." By 1915, she was so well established that she became Alexander Stirling Calder's model of choice, when he became Director of Sculpture for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco that year. Her figure was "ninety times repeated against the sky" on one building alone, atop the colonnades of the Court of the Universe, roughly modeled on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. In fact, Munson posed for three-fifths of the sculpture created for the event and earned fame as the "Panama–Pacific Girl".
Film actress.
Munson's newfound celebrity helped launch her career in the nascent film industry and she starred in four silent films. In the first, "Inspiration" (1915), made by the Thanhouser Film Corporation in New Rochelle, New York and directed by George Foster Platt, she appeared fully nude in a story of a sculptor's model. The censors were reluctant to ban the film, fearing they would also have to ban Renaissance art. Munson's films were a box office success, although the critics were divided. Thanhouser hired a lookalike named Jane Thomas to do Munson's acting scenes, while Munson did the scenes where she posed nude. Although Munson's appearance in "Inspiration" is sometimes said to be the first occasion of an American actress appearing nude in a non-pornographic film, according to film historian Karen Ward Mahr, it was actually Margaret Edwards who did so in "Hypocrites", which was released earlier in 1915.
Munson's second film, "Purity" (1916), made by the American Film Company in Santa Barbara, California and directed by Rae Berger, is the only one of her films to survive, being rediscovered in 1993 in a "pornography" collection in France and acquired by the French national cinema archive. Her third film, "The Girl o' Dreams", also made by American in Santa Barbara and probably directed by Tom Ricketts from a story by William Pigott (the American Film Institute catalog lists Pigott as director, but all his other credits list him as a writer), was completed by the fall of 1916, but although the film is mentioned on the credit lists of several of its actors in the October 21, 1916 "Motion Picture Studio Directory" it was not released at that time and was not even copyrighted until December 31, 1918; there is no subsequent mention of the film and it may never have been released.
Munson returned to the East Coast by train via Syracuse in December 1916, having been involved with high society in New York and Newport, Rhode Island. There are accounts where her mother insists she married the son of a "Comstock Lode" silver heir, Hermann Oelrichs Jr., then the richest bachelor in America. There is no record of this. On January 27, 1919, she wrote a rambling letter to the US State Department denouncing Oelrichs as part of a pro-German network that had driven her out of the movie business. She said she planned to abandon the United States to restart her movie career in England.
Notoriety.
In 1919 Audrey Munson was living with her mother in a boarding house at 164 West 65th Street, Manhattan, owned by Dr. Walter Wilkins. Wilkins fell in love with Munson, and on February 27 murdered his wife, Julia, so he could be available for marriage. Munson and her mother left New York, and the police sought them for questioning. After a nationwide hunt, they were located. They refused to return to New York, but were questioned by agents from the Burns Detective Agency in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The contents of the affidavits they supplied have never been revealed, but Audrey Munson strongly denied she had any romantic relationship with Dr. Wilkins. Wilkins was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the electric chair. He hanged himself in his prison cell before the sentence could be carried out.
As a direct consequence or not, the Wilkins killing marked the end of Munson's ten-year modeling career. She continued to seek regular newspaper coverage. By 1920 Munson, unable to find work anywhere, was reported as living in Syracuse, New York, supported by her mother, who sold kitchen utensils door to door. In November 1920 she was said to be working as a ticket-taker in a dime museum.
From January through May 1921 a series of twenty serialized articles ran in "Hearst's Sunday Magazine" in dozens of Sunday newspaper supplements, under Munson's name, the whole series entitled "By the 'Queen of the Artists' Studios'. " The twenty articles relate anecdotes from her career, with warnings about the fates of other models. In one she asked the reader to imagine her future:
In February that year, agent-producer Allen Rock took out advertisements showing a $27,500 check he said he had paid Munson to star in a fourth film titled "Heedless Moths", directed by Robert Z. Leonard from his own screenplay based on these writings. She later said the $27,500 check was just a "publicity stunt," and she filed suit against Allen Rock. Those proceedings revealed that the twenty articles had been ghostwritten by journalist Henry Leyford Gates.
In the summer of 1921 Munson conducted a nationwide search, carried by the United Press, for the perfect man to marry. She ended the search in August claiming she didn't want to get married anyway. On October 3, 1921 she was arrested at the Royal Theater (later the Towne Theater) in St. Louis on a morals charge related to her personal appearance with the film "Innocence" (the reissue title of "Purity"), in which she had a leading role. She and her manager, independent film producer Ben Judell, were both acquitted. Weeks later she was still appearing in St. Louis, along with screenings of "Innocence", enacting "a series of new poses from famous paintings".
On May 27, 1922, Munson attempted suicide by swallowing a solution of bichloride of mercury.
Final years.
On June 8, 1931, her mother petitioned a judge to commit her to a lunatic asylum. The Oswego County judge ordered Munson be admitted into a psychiatric facility for treatment. She remained in the St. Lawrence State Hospital for the Insane in Ogdensburg, where she was treated for depression and schizophrenia, for 65 years, until her death at the age of 104.
In the mid-1950s Munson was sufficiently famous to serve as the subject of an anecdote in a memoir that P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton wrote of their years on Broadway, "Bring on the Girls!" (1953), though that memoir is considered more fiction than fact by Wodehouse's biographer.
For decades she had no visitors at the asylum, but she was rediscovered there by a half-niece, Darlene Bradley, in 1984, when Munson was 93. Several years after suffering a stroke, Munson died on February 20, 1996, at the age of 104. She was cremated and her ashes were buried without a gravestone of her own in the Munson family plot in New Haven Cemetery, New Haven, New York. In 2016, 20 years after her death, her family decided to add a simple tombstone for what would have been her 125th birthday.
Sculptures of Munson.
This table is organized by sculptor (and date), and its entries are confirmed by at least one credible source. She posed for most of the sculptors who created architectural and fountain sculptures for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and for other sculptors who exhibited there.
Coverage of Munson's career contained inaccuracies during her lifetime, and errors about the works for which she modeled have been perpetuated more recently. Munson herself was inconsistent about her age and other matters. For instance, a June 1915 article listed the 24-year-old Munson's age as 18, and an August 1915 press release claimed that she'd started posing at age 14. The latter would have been four years prior to her first admitted modeling credit, Konti's "Three Graces" group at the Hotel Astor, unveiled to the public in September 1909 (when she was actually 18).
Filmography.
All four films in which Munson appeared were thought to have been lost, until a copy of "Purity" (1916) was recovered in France in 2009.
In 2010, film director Roberto Serrini made a documentary about Munson which was featured in several news outlets including the "New York Post".


Elibeidy Dani

Elibeidy Dani Martinez (also spelled Elibeidy Danis Martinez, born May 6, 1997) is a Dominican fashion model. She notably starred in Gucci’s all-black model “Soul Scene” campaign.
Career.
Dani debuted as a Burberry exclusive, closing their F/W 2016 show. She has walked for Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Acne Studios, Missoni, Paco Rabanne, Saint Laurent, Brandon Maxwell, Gucci, Sonia Rykiel, Valentino, Missoni, Jil Sander, and Prada.
She has appeared in American "Vogue", "Vogue Italia", "Vogue Japan", and "". Dani has appeared in advertisements for stores including Mango and Zara.
In 2017, Dani was chosen as a “Top Newcomer” by models.com.


Julian Rochfort Belfrage

Julian Rochfort Belfrage (19 February 1934 – 28 December 1994) was an actor's agent whose clients included Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Hurt, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Warner, Sir Ian Holm and Colin Blakely. For ten years he was in partnership with Michael Whitehall under the brand "Leading Artists".
Belfrage's obituary in "The Independent" stated that he ‘often fired clients he did not like and yet the lowest he would sink in condemnation was that such and such didn't know how to live’. Belfrage, however, was ‘an expert at living’. He had a particular love of the turf which he playfully enjoyed with John Hurt and Christopher Reeve. Despite his success, he was described as caring not one jot for money, unless it afforded a day at the races.
Life.
Julian Rochfort Belfrage was born in London on 19 February 1934, the son of Bruce Belfrage, who read the nine o'clock news during World War II, and the actress Joan Henley. He started his career as the understudy to Peter Barkworth in a London play, "Roar Like a Dove". Despite the theatrical background of his family it was not entirely a success, and Belfrage was later persuaded to use his talents to become a theatrical agent with Kenneth Carten. In the 1960s he joined another London agency, Terence Plunkett-Green, before going into partnership with Michael Whitehall trading as "Leading Artists". When his partnership with Whitehall ended, he set up Julian Belfrage Associates.
Belfrage persuaded Daniel Day-Lewis to play Christy Brown in "My Left Foot", a part for which Day-Lewis won an Oscar. Belfrage described the moment as the happiest day of his life. During the course of his career, his clients included Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Hurt, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Warner, Sir Ian Holm and Colin Blakely.
An ardent racegoer, Belfrage owned several racehorses. He died in London on 28 December 1994 and a number of races were subsequently named in his honour; the "Julian Belfrage Memorial Chase" was held at Towcester Racecourse on 19 March 1997. Belfrage married firstly, Gilly Pratt, by whom he had two sons, one of whom, Crispian Belfrage, became a Hollywood actor. He married secondly, Victoria Van Moyland, who inherited Belfrage's agency. On Belfrage's death, Daniel Day-Lewis is said to have suffered a nervous breakdown as Belfrage had become a father figure in his life.


Gail Colson

Gail Colson is a retired music manager, whose company Gailforce Management Ltd. represented clients including Morrissey, Peter Gabriel, The Pretenders and Peter Hammill.
Colson initially worked as personal assistant to the record producer, Shel Talmy, then joined Tony Stratton-Smith at Charisma Records, as label manager and joint managing director. She left to form her own company in the late 1970s.
She sat on the advisory board of MMF, the "Music Managers Forum".
Her other clients included Random Hold, whose first album was produced by Hammill at her instigation, and the record producer, Stephen Street.
Hammill has stated that:


Ikki Twins

Erica "Rikki" Mongeon and Victoria "Vikki" Mongeon (born February 18, 1981) better known by the stage name the Ikki Twins are identical twin models, and television personalities. They are best known as the stars of the MTV reality dating show "A Double Shot at Love".
Career.
Modeling.
The twins started their career working as waitresses at a Hooters restaurant and were featured in Hooters calendars. They gained recognition when they were asked to model on a motorcycle website. The twins have appeared in several magazines, including "Import Tuner", "Performance Auto and Sound", "Fast and Sexy", and "Playboy". They have also modeled for calendars including Umbrella Girls USA, Sexy Corvettes, and Playboy's Leather Catalog. They have worked as a runway models for Playboy, as well as Playboy Cyber Girls, and have won the title of "Super Cyber Girl". "Import Tuner" voted the twins two of the top 25 Hottest Girls of All Time.
Television.
The twins starred in the reality television spin-off of "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila", called "A Double Shot at Love". The show featured 12 men and 12 women seeking the affections of the twins. The twins have served as co-hosts for Steve Harvey's "Big Time Television Show" and Criss Angel's television show.
Bartending.
As of February 2017, the twins work as the resident bartenders at local University of Southern California bar Banditos Tacos and Tequila.
Personal life.
The twins were born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and lived in nine different states before residing in San Diego, California. They have both stated that they are bisexual; Rikki discovered it first and did not mention it until Vikki later discovered she was.
On March 2, 2010, Rikki Mongeon was put in a medically induced coma after emergency surgery when doctors found blood on her brain following a car accident when they were clipped by a semitruck in Bakersfield, California. On March 6, she was brought out of her coma.


Lorissa McComas

Lorissa McComas (November 26, 1970 – November 3, 2009) was an American actress and glamour model.
Early life.
McComas graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio in 1988. She was an education major at Miami University before she started stripping and modeling.
Early career and acting.
In 1990, McComas was arrested, along with another stripper, on charges of prostitution by Hamilton County, Ohio police. She had allowed a guest at a bachelor party to tuck a dollar bill into a garter just above her knee; this was treated as a form of prostitution under the very strict Cincinnati ordinances of that time.
By 1994, she was the owner of Extasy Entertainment, a company that provided strippers to clients in the Cincinnati area. Cincinnati had no strip bars during this time period.
The majority of her work consisted of nude modeling and acting in a variety of softcore pornography productions with simulated or obscured sexual contact, in addition to bit parts in B movies and TV programs. In 1997, she appeared in a small number of amateur productions, which included small screen and large screen appearances.
Death.
McComas died in Waverly, Virginia on November 3, 2009. The cause of death was suicide, possibly due to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSD).


Andrew Stetson

Andrew Stetson (born August 24, 1979) is a Canadian model.
Career.
Andrew Stetson worked as a carpenter before becoming a fashion model at the age of 23. He was discovered by Norwayne Anderson of the NAM agency.
After a year of modeling in New York and Europe, he returned to renovating homes and started a home renovation business, although his friends and family would later encourage him to return to modeling. He has since walked for many designers and has appeared in numerous ad campaigns for Armani, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Zara, Calvin Klein, Levi's, Bloomingdales, and H&M. He also made the cover of gay French magazine Têtu in November 2005 and again in May 2010, the latter issue devoting six full pages to him. In August 2006, Stetson had signed a three-year contract for Calvin Klein's fragrance, Euphoria. He was succeeded by Carson Parker as the face of Euphoria and Garrett Neff as the spokesmodel for the company.


Chandra North

Chandra North (born July 31, 1970, in Dallas, Texas, United States) is an American model.
Early years.
Growing up, North had aspirations of becoming a professional ballerina. In her teen years, North was a bit rebellious. While her classmates would be attending school dance, she would be hitting up underground night clubs. While attending Southern Methodist University, she was scouted by a male model during her spring break. Shortly thereafter, she signed with The Kim Dawson Agency in Dallas and she secured modeling jobs for local news papers and department store catalogs.
In 1991, North left Texas to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. Shortly after moving to New York City, her modeling career moved her to Paris. After struggling to make it in Europe, North came back to New York where she met her future husband, then a bicycle messenger. With his support, she eventually landed more work.
Career.
In 1995, North featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition in which she wore a grass bikini. Since then, she has been featured in advertisements for Alberta Ferretti, Versace, Saks Fifth Avenue, Givenchy, J.Crew, Valentino, Chanel, and Banana Republic. North has walked the runways for Christian Dior, DKNY, and Chanel. North has also graced the covers of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Harper's Bazaar.
In 1999, North was featured in the Pirelli Calendar. North is currently represented by DNA Model Management, FM Model Agency and Kim Dawson Agency.
In 2012, North was the print model to celebrate Shiseido's 140th anniversary.


Jackie Cruz

Jackie Cruz (born August 8, 1986) is a Dominican–American actress, singer and former model. She is known for her role as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on the Netflix original series "Orange Is the New Black", and currently stars in a recurring role on NBC's "Good Girls".
Early life.
Born Jacqueline Chavez in Queens, New York on August 8, 1986, Cruz grew up between Los Angeles, California, and Santiago, Dominican Republic. She was raised by a single mother, and she speaks fluent English and Spanish. Cruz was inspired to become an entertainer at the age of seven after watching Whitney Houston in "The Bodyguard". She attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, where she was a member of the school's music academy.
At age 16, Cruz moved out of her mother's apartment and became homeless. When she was 17, she was the victim of a car accident where she suffered a collapsed lung, fell into a coma and required brain surgery. Her song "Sweet Sixteen" is based on the incident.
Music career.
When Cruz was in high school, she worked with will.i.am's producers in a girl group called Krush Velvet, although the group never signed to a record label. Her debut extended play, "Hollywood Gypsy", was released independently in 2010.
Cruz is a part of a band called "The Family Portrait".
Acting career.
In 2009, Cruz began making appearances on the E! television series "Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami". She and Kourtney Kardashian became friends after meeting in an art class, which led to further appearances on the series. In one episode, Cruz and Kardashian were filmed kissing, an incident that Kardashian later stated she was "so embarrassed" by. Although Cruz initially stated that she and Kardashian remained friends following the incident, Kardashian later stated that she "can never talk to [Cruz] again".
Cruz cites Rita Moreno as an acting influence.
"Orange Is the New Black".
Cruz was working as a model and a waitress at New York City restaurant Lavo before she was cast as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black". Originally a recurring character for the first three seasons, it was announced in April 2015 that she would be promoted to series regular for the fourth season.
Personal life.
In 2016, Cruz told AfterEllen: "I like the person whether it's a woman—we don't like to be labeled. I'm in a relationship with a man right now, but I've liked women in the past. So I guess we don't want to be labeled. We don't really talk about it, but the actions speak louder than words, am I right? So you're seeing it. You're living it."
In August 2020, Cruz married artist Fernando Garcia.
Filmography.
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Theodora Richards

Theodora Dupree Richards (born March 18, 1985) is an American model and the daughter of Patti Hansen and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and the elder sister of Alexandra Richards.
Career.
At 16, Richards, her sister Alexandra, and Elizabeth Jagger (daughter of rock star Mick Jagger) were asked to model for a Tommy Hilfiger campaign. She has guest-edited one issue of "L'Officiel". In 2006, Richards modeled for the New Zealand-based Karen Walker label. In mid-2006, she appeared on the cover of "Lucire", shot by Barry Hollywood. She also broadcasts a monthly show on Sirius/XM called Off The Cuff.


Jay Lovett

Jay Lovett (born 2 January 1978) is an English football manager for Burgess Hill Town.
He spent his career playing in league football as a defender and midfielder with Brentford and also non-League football in both county level, with Saltdean United, and in national level where he has played for the majority of his career with Crawley Town and Eastbourne Borough.
Playing career.
Early career.
Lovett started his career in East Sussex for Lewes, making his debut for them 11 February 1995 as they lost 4–0 away at Leighton Town in Isthmian League Division Three. Later that year he moved to the west country and Plymouth Argyle in Devon but was unable to start a first team game, after which he moved back to Sussex and played for Saltdean United in Division One of the Sussex County League. He also spent time youth coaching at the University of Central Florida. A season later he moved to Crawley Town in 1998 and played for two seasons. Second Division team Brentford took interest in Lovett, after watching him in a pre-season friendly and paid Crawley their record sum of £60,000 for the midfielder in July 2000, with a further £15,000 to be paid after 15 appearances.
Brentford.
In his first year at Brentford he was back on loan to Crawley Town for nine games before making 28 appearances for the first team. In 2003, Lovett made two more loan signings, firstly at Hereford United where he played for two months, and a month at Gravesend & Northfleet, before his contract expired at the end of the 2002–03 season.
Non-League football.
Farnborough Town manager, Tommy Taylor signed Lovett in June, although he played nine games, he transferred to Lewes later in the year. In 2004, Aldershot Town signed Lovett on a month loan.
Lovett joined Sussex rivals Eastbourne Borough in June 2006. He spent the end of their 2006–07 campaign with a broken collarbone, but helped the team win promotion into the Conference National league at the end of the 2007–08 season via the Conference South play-off final against Hampton & Richmond Borough, the game ending 2–0.
He played in Eastbourne's first ever season in the Conference National, scoring two goals and helping to win the Sussex Senior Cup in a 1–0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion reserves, before being released in May 2009 failing to agree to a new deal with the club, scoring seven goals in 149 appearances.
At the start of the 2009–10 season, Lovett signed for Whitehawk despite having offers from clubs in higher divisions, such as Grays Athletic in the Conference National, Havant & Waterlooville in the Conference South and Worthing in Isthmian League Division One South.
In June 2010, Lovett signed for Isthmian League Premier Division club Horsham.
Failing to hold down a regular starting berth at Horsham, Lovett joined fellow Isthmian League club Tooting & Mitcham United in October 2010. During his spell at Imperial Fields, Lovett was made the club captain and was instrumental in ensuring that Tooting & Mitcham avoided relegation. In March 2011, Lovett left Tooting & Mitcham in order to take up a position as assistant manager with Vietnamese V-League side Đồng Tâm Long An, working as assistant to Simon McMenemy.
After a full season with Lewes in 2013–14, he re-signed as a player for Eastbourne Borough ahead of the 2014–15 season, already being a full-time academy manager there. A dual registration deal between The Sports and Metropolitan Police materialised on 14 October 2014.
On 23 May 2015, Lovett returned to Lewes to become the club's new assistant manager and academy director, and in June he also registered as player.
On 19 October 2015 he signed for a third spell with Metropolitan Police, as an assistant manager/player.
He started the 2016–17 as an unused substitute in the two opening league games for Burgess Hill Town, before signing for Loxwood in September.
While being the manager of South Park, he made comeback as a player in the final game of the Isthmian League South Central Division 2018–19 season. He was named the manager of Burgess Hill Town of the South East Division in November 2019.
Personal life.
Lovett attended Dorothy Stringer High School and Varndean College. While a player with Saltdean United, he worked as an IT recruiter and at the time he joined Brentford in July 2000, was working for TSB. He is a Chelsea supporter.


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Eesti tippmodell (season 3)

Eesti tippmodell, season 3 is the third installment of the Estonian adaptation of America's Next Top Model founded by Tyra Banks. The judges for this season are Urmas Väljaots, Thomas Volkmann, and Liisi Eesmaa, who also serves as the show's host. This was the first season of the show to feature males within the final cast. The season began to air on December 4, 2014.
The winner of the competition was 16-year-old Aule Õun from Karksi-Nuia. As her prizes she received an all expenses paid trip to France to meet with Major model management in Paris. She was also signed with a model school managed by Paolo Moglia. Furthermore, she won the chance of being featured in the April issue of "Redbook Magazine" as well as making an appearance on the cover of "Cosmopolitan".
Episode summaries.
Episode 1.
"Original Air Date: 4 December 2014"
Casting episode.
Episode 2.
"Original Air Date: 11 December 2014"
Episode 3.
"Original Air Date: 18 December 2014"
Episode 4.
"Original Air Date: 8 January 2015"
Episode 5.
"Original Air Date: 15 January 2015"
Episode 6.
"Original Air Date: 22 January 2015"
Episode 7.
"Original Air Date: 29 January 2015"
Episode 8.
"Original Air Date: 5 February 2015"
Episode 9.
"Original Air Date: 12 February 2015"
Episode 10.
"Original Air Date: 19 February 2015"
Episode 11.
"Original Air Date: 26 February 2015"
Episode 12.
"Original Air Date: 5 March 2015"
Episode 13.
"Original Air Date: 5 March 2015"
Recap episode.
Episode 14.
"Original Air Date: 12 March 2015"
Contestants.
"(ages are stated at start of contest)"


Tyran Smith

Tyran Carl Smith (born 15 March 1974) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.
He along with Darrien Doherty and Blake Green are the only three players in the game's history to date to have the distinction of playing first grade for seven different NRL clubs. He now works as a player agent.
Playing career.
During his long career he played in the NSWRL Premiership, Australian Rugby League, Super League (Australia) and finally the National Rugby League. During this time he competed for a record seven clubs and represented both New Zealand and the Aotearoa Māori, competing for the later at the 2000 World Cup. He retired in 2005 with a long term neck injury.
Smith made his first grade debut for South Sydney in Round 17 1993 against Manly-Warringah at the Sydney Football Stadium with the match finishing in a 38-10 loss. Smith spent 4 years at Souths although his time there was not very successful with the club spending most of the time towards the bottom of the ladder.
In 1997, Smith joined North Queensland who had joined the rival Super League competition during the Super League war. Smith then left North Queensland mid season and joined the Hunter Mariners. Smith only featured in 2 games for the club and played in their final ever game which was against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Round 18 1997.
After the Hunter Mariners were liquidated, Smith joined the Auckland Warriors and featured in 10 games for them before signing with Balmain for the 1999 season. Smith played for Balmain in their final season as a stand-alone entity before they merged with fellow foundation club Western Suburbs to form the Wests Tigers as part of the NRL's rationalisation strategy.
A member of the inaugural Wests Tigers side at the start of the 2000 season, Smith was named the club's player of the year.
In 2002, Smith joined the Canberra Raiders and spent 4 years at the club. Smith played for the club in their 2003 and 2004 finals campaigns.
Later years.
Smith is the brother-in-law of fellow NRL footballer Anthony Mundine, having married his sister, Kellie.
He is now a Director of Sportsplayer Management alongside John Hopoate.
His son Reimis Smith is currently on the roster of the Melbourne Storm.


Chantelle Houghton

Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born 21 August 1983) is an English television personality, glamour model, columnist, and novelist. In 2006, she competed in the fourth series of the Channel 4 reality series "Celebrity Big Brother". Houghton was sent in as a non-celebrity with the task of persuading her celebrity housemates that she was famous. She emerged as the winner of the series, winning a prize of . Following a much-publicised on-screen relationship, Houghton married former fellow "Big Brother" contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys in August 2006.
Early life.
Houghton was born in Wickford, Essex, England, to her parents Allan and Vivien, and has an older brother, Gregg. She attended Bromfords School in Wickford, the same school that "Big Brother 8" winner Brian Belo attended several years later. She left school at age 15 with seven GCSEs, then worked in a bank and as an insurance telesales representative.
Career.
Modelling.
After various friends suggested she would make a good model, Houghton entered a 2001 competition run by "Motor Cycle News" magazine, and after winning it became a promotions girl. Wanting to be like her heroine Jordan, she undertook some glamour modelling starting out by having her mother take some topless shots in a local park. In 2003, she entered a "Daily Star" competition as a Page 3 girl, which she did not win, but appeared once in the tabloid newspaper.
Houghton appeared as a Soccerette model on the "Soccer AM" show for Sky Sports and also worked for a lookalike agency, portraying Paris Hilton. In 2005, she competed in a Miss Greater London beauty pageant, where she lost to Jenny Velasquez.
Celebrity Big Brother 2006 / Ultimate Big Brother 2010.
Houghton had originally applied to be in "Big Brother 6" and was a stand-by for that series but was never called up, however producers decided to use her for the upcoming celebrity version as a "Fake Celebrity".
Houghton entered the house on day one and became the first non-celebrity to enter "Celebrity Big Brother". She was told by Big Brother that her cover story was that she was a member of a fictional band called Kandy Floss. According to Big Brother, Houghton was the lead singer. Their singles were "I Want It Right Now", "Come Back", and "More More More". "I Want It Right Now" was their biggest hit. Had she failed to convince them, she would have been evicted from the house. She successfully fooled her housemates and survived to the end of the show. In her "Big Brother" profile page Houghton described herself as a "bright, blonde bimbo" (despite not being a natural blonde). She said, "I look like Paris Hilton, not on purpose but it's just the way it turned out".
On 8 January (day four), Big Brother set a task to the group to rate themselves by how famous they thought they were. The celebrity they thought was the most famous stood on the No. 1 podium and the person they considered the least famous stood on the No. 11 podium. Houghton had to avoid being put in the No. 11 podium to prove she had fooled the real celebrities that she was famous and to stay in the house. Houghton survived the task, being chosen to stand on the No. 9 podium, ahead of Samuel Preston and Maggot. She was then called to the diary room to discuss her identity with Big Brother. This was simultaneously shown on a television screen in the lounge, in front of the other housemates.
Houghton was nominated for eviction on Day 21, but was saved from eviction by the public as the other two nominees (George Galloway and Dennis Rodman) left the house in a double eviction. While in the house, Houghton established close bonds with Jodie Marsh and Preston.
Houghton won the show on 27 January with 56.4% of the public vote, ahead of Michael Barrymore on 22.7%, earning her GB£25,000 (the celebrities were reportedly paid fees of up to GB£150,000 each).
Houghton re-entered the "Big Brother" house for "Ultimate Big Brother", following the conclusion of "Big Brother 2010", and to signal the end of "Big Brother" on Channel 4. She entered the house with her ex-husband Preston. During the show, Houghton reformed the fake band Kandy Floss with fellow "Ultimate Big Brother" housemates Victor Ebuwa and Nadia Almada for a task. Houghton survived eviction on Day 11 and subsequently landed third place on the finale with 20.51% of the final three-way vote on Day 18, finishing behind Nikki Grahame and winner Brian Dowling.
Media career.
Houghton also had her own post-"Big Brother" show called "Chantelle: Living the Dream".
In May 2006, she signed a £300,000 deal with Random House to publish her autobiography. It was released in October 2006 called "Living the Dream" which sold 50,000 copies. Extracts from the book were read out by Simon Amstell on the 14 February 2007 edition of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" which caused Preston, who was a guest on the show, to walk off the set.
Houghton was nominated in the Most Popular TV Contender category at the 2006 National Television Awards, but was beaten by Nikki Grahame, herself a former "Big Brother" contestant.
Houghton has "written" several columns in magazines, most notably as "OK!"s "Big Brother 7" columnist and "New!"s "Big Brother 8" columnist. Before becoming "New!"s BB8 columnist she had another column in the magazine entitled "I Want It Right Now" in which she shared makeup and fashion tips.
In June 2010, Houghton fronted a campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, called 'Fight Impotence. Go Vegetarian'.
In September that year, Houghton was named as the new face of the "La Senza" underwear range.
Houghton has appeared as a guest on several TV shows since winning "Celebrity Big Brother". These include:
Personal life.
Houghton announced her engagement to Preston on 11 April 2006. In an exclusive £300,000 deal each with "OK!" magazine, they were married on 25 August 2006 at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London.
After their honeymoon, the couple moved to Preston's flat in Brighton. In a later 2008 interview with Piers Morgan, Houghton admitted that Preston had told her one month after the wedding that he had not wanted to marry her. The couple continued to give interviews to various magazines, with Houghton losing weight and colouring her hair brunette to look more like Preston's former fiancée Camille.
Ten months later, on 27 June 2007, they announced in a joint statement that they were ending their marriage. "After much soul-searching and tearful discussions we have sadly decided to end our marriage," they said in the statement. "We hope we can always remain friends and still love each other but we both think we put so much pressure on one another to make our marriage work that it has ended up destroying our relationship. No one else is involved in our decision." The couple divorced in November 2007.
Houghton was in a relationship with British television presenter Rav Wilding. The couple separated in 2011.
Houghton confirmed that she was pregnant by competitive fighter Alex Reid in November 2011. On 17 June 2012, Houghton gave birth to a daughter. The couple separated in October 2012.


HaDugmaniot

HaDugmaniot (; ) is an Israeli reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model" and is aired on Channel 10. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modelling contract and other prizes in hopes of a promising career start in the modeling industry.
History.
The show is hosted by Galit Gutmann, one of Israel's leading models. The biggest difference between "HaDugmaniyot" and "ANTM" is the live finale aired as the end of each season where two already eliminated contestants get voted back into the top 5. Season 1 the contestants that were voted back were Viktoriya Katzman and Ines Chalif. Season 2 was Alisia Estrin and Natali Sabag. Season 3 was Tslil Sela and Rita Avas. Another difference is the audience choosing the winner of the show unlike in former eliminations, which are all based solely on the panel of judges' decision.
Arab-Israeli Niral Karantinji won the second installment of the show. During the show, Karantinji argued with a fellow competitor, Ethiopian-Israeli Mimi Tedessa, who called her "a terrorist." In the end, the audience choose Karantinji as the winner of the series, while Tedessa achieved the second runner-up position.


Lorenza Bernot

Lorenza Bernot Krauze (born August 16, 1988) is a Mexican beauty pageant contestant who competed in the Miss International 2008 pageant.
Born in Mexico City and raised in Cuernavaca, Morelos from the age of five, Lorenza Bernot competed against thirty-three other contestants for the national beauty title of Mexico, Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in Manzanillo, Colima on October 5, 2007. Despite not winning, the nineteen-year-old was chosen to represent Mexico in the 2008 Miss International pageant, held in the Chinese region of Macau on November 8, 2008.


Joost Ebergen

Joost Ebergen (born 2 June 1990) is a Dutch retired footballer who currently works as a player agent.
Club career.
Ebergen played in the TOP Oss youth system and signed professional terms with N.E.C. in 2009. He was immediately loaned to Eerste Divisie side FC Oss and joined them permanently the next season.
He quit professional football in 2012 to focus on a social career and after playing a few seasons in amateur football, he quit altogether in 2017 due to persisting injuries and to continue his job as a player agent.


Fitz Hall

Fitz Benjamin Hall (born 20 December 1980) is an English former professional footballer and current football agent. He played as a defender in his professional career, and as a striker in amateur football.
Club career.
Early career.
Hall began his career as a West Ham United youth player on the same day as Paul Konchesky, Bobby Zamora and Jlloyd Samuel but was released at the age of 15. He played for Senrab in Wanstead Flats. Hall was also once told that he wasn't good enough to become a professional footballer but found his lucky break through a friend that got him a trial at Barnet. Hall then joined Barnet as part of a Youth Training Scheme, before moving to non-league Chesham United under the management of Bob Dowie. It was there when he signed his first professional contract at 21 years old. It was at Chesham United when Dowie converted him from playing a striker to a central defence, a position he played throughout his professional career. Hall quickly became a first team regular for the club throughout his time there, making twenty–one appearances and scoring two times in all competitions.
Oldham Athletic.
Hall's performances at Chesham came to the attention of Dowie's brother Iain, manager of Oldham Athletic, who bought him for £30,000 during the 2001–02 season and signed a two–year contract with the club. He made his debut for the club, starting the whole game, in a 2–1 loss against Wycombe Wanderers on 13 April 2002, This turns out to be his only appearance of the season.
The 2002–03 season saw Hall saw him shine as he was part of a defence as a first team regular. Hall helped the club kept four clean sheets in four matches between 13 August 2002 and 26 August 2002 despite being sent–off in a 0–0 draw against Brentford on 17 August 2002. His performance led manager Dowie to praise his performance on being "comfortable on the ball and quick in the tackle." After serving a one match suspension, he returned to the starting line–up against Notts County on 7 September 2002, winning 3–1. Hall, once again, helped Oldham Athletic three clean sheets in the next four matches between 17 September 2002 and 5 October 2002, in which he missed a match against Swindon Town. Hall then scored his first goal for the club against Stockport County on 2 November 2002. Two weeks later on 16 November 2002, he scored his second goal for Oldham Athletic, in 2–2 draw against Burton Albion in the first round of the FA Cup. His performance saw him being awarded November’s Player of the Month in the second division. A month later on 21 December 2002, Hall scored his second goal, in a 1–0 win against Chesterfield. His next goal for Oldham Athletic came on 14 January 2003 against Brentford, in a 2–1 win, Five days later on 19 January 2003, he signed a new deal, which would have kept him at the club until 2005, Six days later on 26 January 2003, however, Hall received a straight red card in the 28th minute for a foul on Steve Jones, in a 3–1 loss. After serving a two–match suspension, Hall returned to the starting line–up against Notts County and helped the club drew 1–1 on 22 February 2003. This was followed by scoring his fifth goal for Oldham Athletic, in a 1–0 win against Mansfield Town. Despite being further sidelined with a toe injury that saw him missed two matches, he continued to remain as a first team regular for the rest of the 2002–03 season, as the club reached the play–offs and proved to be only the second best to league champions Wigan Athletic. Hall played in both legs against Queens Park Rangers, as Oldham Athletic lost 2–1 on aggregate. At the end of the 2003–04 season, he went on to make fifty appearances and scoring five times in all competitions. For his performance, Hall was named in the PFA Team of the Year.
However, there was a financial meltdown at the club, leading his future in doubt and reports suggested that Hall could be a free agent by exercising his rights if he didn’t receive his salaries by then. On 3 July 2003, Hall and teammates, Will Haining and Les Pogliacomi informed Oldham Athletic that they threatened to leave the club after they weren’t paid the previous month. This led to British clubs expressed their interests in signing Hall, such as, Everton, Cardiff City, Bolton Wanderers.After his departure, manager Dowie accused Oldham Athletic’s owner Chris Moore of "ripping the heart out of the club" for his role on selling key players, including Hall.
Southampton.
Hall was sold to Premiership side Southampton for a transfer fee between £250,000 and £350,000.
He made his debut for the club, starting the whole game, in a 4–0 loss against Jönköpings Södra in a friendly match on 24 July 2003. Hall was involved in a number of friendly matches throughout the club’s pre–season tour. However, he did not manage to break into Southampton's first team on a regular basis, due to competitions and his own injury concern. As a result, Hall had to wait on 16 December 2003 to make his debut for the club, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 loss against Bolton Wanderers in the quarter–finals of the League Cup. He made his Premiership debut, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 loss against Arsenal on 29 December 2003. In his second league Premier League appearance against Birmingham City on 10 January 2004, however, Hall scored an own goal, as Southampton lost 2–1. By April, he received a handful of first team appearances for the rest of the 2003–04 season. By the end of the 2003–04 season, Hall had made 12 first-team appearances in all competitions.
Crystal Palace.
Due to his lack of first team opportunities, Hall was linked with a move to newly promoted side Crystal Palace, where his former manager Iain Dowie was the manager at the club and made a bid for him in late–July. He re-joined Crystal Palace at the beginning of the 2004–05 season for a reportedly transfer fee of £1.5 million.
Hall made his debut for Crystal Palace, starting a match in a midfield position and played 78 minutes before being substituted, in a 1–1 draw against Norwich City in the opening game of the season. Since then, he went straight into the first team for the club's first season back in the Premiership, playing in the midfield position. At times, Hall rotated into playing in the centre–back position, forming a partnership with . He then scored his first goal for Crystal Palace, scoring from a header, in a 3–0 win against West Brom Albion on 23 October 2004. However, Hall suffered a knee injury that saw him missed two matches. It wasn’t until on 20 November 2004 when he made his return to the starting line–up in a centre–back position, as Crystal Palace lost 2–0 against Newcastle United. Since returning from injury, Hall continued to regain his first team place, forming a centre–back partnership with Gonzalo Sorondo. He then scored his second goal for the club, "strucking an unstoppable 20-yard shot", in a 2–2 draw against his former club, Southampton, in hopes of Crystal Palace avoid relegation. On the last game of the season against local rivals, Charlton Athletic, Hall started the whole game, in a 2–2 draw and made impressive displays, but the results wasn’t enough, as the win was needed, resulting the club’s relegation. Despite being sidelined with injuries during the 2004–05 season, he went on to make thirty–seven appearances and scoring two times in all competitions. Local newspaper, Your Local Guardian reviewed the 2004–05 season and called Hall the best signing for Crystal Palace this season.
At the start of the 2005–06 season, Hall was appointed team captain of Crystal Palace, replacing Michael Hughes following the club's relegation back to the Championship. He helped the club kept three consecutive clean sheets between 20 August 2005 and 10 September 2005. Despite serving a suspension for picking up five yellow cards this season so far, Hall continued to start eleven matches in the centre–back position, forming a partnership with Darren Ward. This last until he missed one match, due to suffering from a knock during a 1–1 draw against rivals, Millwall on 3 December 2005 and was substituted in the 59th minutes. Halfway through the season, many Crystal Palace fans felt that Hall's performance was being hindered by the burden of captaincy, and after several poor performances, and several yellow cards, Hughes was re-appointed team captain in January 2006. Despite losing the captaincy, Hall remained in the first team until the end of the season, where at one point, he played in a full–back position. During a 1–0 win against Cardiff City on 4 February 2006, Hall received a straight red card following an off-the-ball incident involving Joe Ledley and served a three match suspension. After serving a three match suspension, he returned to the starting line–up, in a 1–1 draw against rivals, Millwall on 18 February 2006. This was followed up by scoring his second goal of the season, in a 4–1 win against Norwich City. After missing two matches due to another injury, his return saw him contributed the club’s place in the Championship play–offs. Hall played in both legs of the Championship play–offs against Watford, as Crystal Palace lost 3–0. At the end of the 2005–06 season, he went on to make forty–four appearances and scoring once in all competitions.
Wigan Athletic.
Hall moved from Crystal Palace to Premiership side Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee on 26 June 2006. New Palace boss Peter Taylor cited a £3 million get-out clause in Hall's contract as the reason for the transfer. He later cited Dowie’s departure was factor for him to move on.
Hall made his debut for the club, starting the whole game, in a 2–1 loss against Newcastle United in the opening game of the season. He then started in the next five matches, playing in the centre–back position, forming a partnership with Arjan de Zeeuw. This last until Hall suffered a virus that saw him missed one match. After missing one game out, he returned to the starting line–up against Manchester United on 14 October 2006. However during a match against Manchester City on 21 October 2006, his return was short–lived Hall suffered an ankle ligament damage, following a challenge from Dietmar Hamann and was substituted at half time, as Wigan Athletic won 4–0. Initially out for three weeks, Hall was eventually sidelined for five weeks. It wasn’t until on 26 November 2006 when he returned to the first team from injury, coming on as a 67th minute substitute, in a 3–1 loss against Tottenham Hotspur. Following this, Hall regained his first team place, playing in the centre–back position with de Zeeuw for the next eleven matches. In a match against Arsenal on 11 February 2007, with the club leading 1–0, he scored an own goal in the 81st minutes to make the score 1–1; which unfortunately, four minutes later, Tomáš Rosický scored a winner. In a follow–up match against Watford on 21 February 2007, things took for the worst for Hall when he received a straight red card after a challenge on Johan Cavalli in a 1–1 draw. After the match, Wigan Athletic unsuccessfully appealed against Hall's sending off and he served a three-match ban. After serving a three match suspension, Hall returned to the starting line–up against Charlton Athletic on 31 March 2007 and was at fault when he conceded a penalty against following a foul on Marcus Bent, allowing Darren Bent to convert it and score, resulting in the opposition team scoring the only goal of the match. Hall started in the next two matches before suffering a knee injury during a match against Aston Villa on 9 April 2007 and was substituted in the 52th minutes, as the club drew 1–1. After undergoing surgery, it was announced that the player would be out for the rest of the 2006–07 season. At the end of the 2006–07 season, he went on to make twenty–six appearances in all competitions. Reflecting on his season, local newspaper Manchester Evening News said: "Very poor and never looked like living up to his price tag. He never really got to grips with the job and missed far too many games."
The 2007–08 season saw Hall’s first team opportunities limited after falling out with Chris Hutchings and then manager Steve Bruce. As a result, he made two appearances for the club. Clubs in the Championship were reported as tracking him, and Hall finally signed for Queens Park Rangers.
Queens Park Rangers.
Hall was one of a number of players brought in by Championship side Queens Park Rangers during the early part of the January 2008 transfer window, signing a four and a half-year contract, after the club paid an undisclosed fee.
He made his debut for Queens Park Rangers, starting the whole game, in a 1–0 loss against Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup. However during a 3–1 loss against Cardiff City on 30 January 2008, Hall suffered a groin injury and was substituted in the 38th minutes. After being sidelined for weeks, he made his return to the starting line–up against Sheffield United on 23 February 2008 and played the whole game, as the club drew 1–1. Hall followed up in the next three matches by helping Queens Park Rangers kept three clean sheets in three matches between 26 February 2008 and 5 March 2008. After missing one match, due to another groin injury that he sustained, Hall returned to the starting line–up against Blackpool on 11 March 2008 and played the whole game to help the club win 3–2. He started in the next six matches until suffering an injury and was substituted in the 34th minutes during a 1–0 win against Charlton Athletic on 19 April 2008. At the end of the 2007–08 season, Hall went on to make fifteen appearances in all competitions.
Hall scored his first Queens Park Rangers goal in the first game of the 2008–09 season against Barnsley, and went on to score his second just two minutes later, before having a penalty saved to deny him a hat-trick, winning 2–1. However, he suffered a groin injury that saw him out for a month. Hall didn’t make his return to the first team until a match against Derby County on 27 September 2008, starting the whole game, in a 2–0 loss. He then helped the club kept three clean sheets in three matches between 21 October 2008 and 28 October 2008. Since returning from injury, Hall continued to be involved in the first team despite facing centre–back competitions from Kaspars Gorkšs and Damion Stewart and at a result, he was placed on the substitute bench at times. In a match against Watford on 22 November 2008, Hall received a straight red card in the 81st minutes for a foul on Will Hoskins, in a 3–0 loss. After serving a three match suspension, he returned to the starting line–up against Sheffield Wednesday on 9 December 2008, coming on as a late substitute, in a 1–0 loss. At the end of the 2008–09 season, Hall went on to make twenty–seven appearances and scoring two times in all competitions.
At the start of the 2009–10 season, Hall started in the first five league matches of the season, forming a centre–back partnership with Peter Ramage and Damion Stewart. However, he suffered an injury that saw him out for a month. Hall didn’t make his return to the first team until on 30 October 2009 against Leicester City when he came on as a 54th minutes substitute, in a 2–1 loss. Following his return from the first team, Hall found himself in and out of the starting line–up for the rest of the first half of the season and once faced with a back injury along the way. By the time he departed from the club, he went on to make fourteen appearances in all competitions.
After his loan spell at Newcastle United came to an end, Hall stayed at Queens Park Rangers for the 2010–11 season following talks over his future at the club. Shortly after, he was appointed as Queens Park Rangers’ new captain. Hall made his first appearance for Queens Park Rangers since returning from a loan spell at Newcastle United came in the opening game of the season against Barnsley and scored his first goal of the season, in a 4–0 win. However, he suffered a hamstring injury during a 3–0 win against Sheffield United on 14 August 2010 and was substituted in the 50th minutes. After the match, it was announced that Hall would be sidelined for a month, but returned in mid–October, only to be sidelined with another injury by the end of the month. Hall didn’t make his first team return on 20 November 2010 against Preston North End, starting a match and played 81 minutes before being substituted, in a 3–1 win. Following his return from injury, he continued to find himself in and out of the first team. Hall also faced with injury problems for the rest of the 2010–11 season. In a match against Watford on 30 April 2011, he started and played 23 minutes before being substituted due to injury, as the club won 2–0 to seal a promotion to the Premier League. At the end of the 2010–11 season, Hall went on to make twenty appearances and scoring once in all competitions.
Ahead of the 2011–12 season, Hall was told by the club’s management that he’s no longer wanted in the first team. Despite this, Hall stayed at Queens Park Rangers and became a first team regular, rotating in a centre–back partnership with Danny Gabbidon, Anton Ferdinand and Bruno Perone. In a match against rivals, Fulham on 5 October 2011, he suffered a hamstring injury and started the whole game, as the club lost 6–0. After the match, Hall apologised for both the club’s and his own performance through his Twitter account. However, he suffered a hamstring injury and was substituted in the 9th minutes, as Queens Park Rangers lost 3–1 against Tottenham Hotspur on 30 October 2011. After being sidelined for a month, Hall made his return to the first team, coming on as a 80th minute substitute, in a 3–2 loss against Sunderland on 21 December 2011. His return was short–lived when he suffered a groin injury that saw him out for a week. Hall returned to the starting line–up against Milton Keynes Dons in a third round of the FA Cup and played the whole game, in a 1–1 draw on 7 January 2012. However, after Warnock was replaced as manager by Mark Hughes, the arrival of Nedum Onuoha saw the player fall down the Rangers pecking order for the rest of the 2011–12 season. At the end of the 2011–12 season, he was one of eight players to be released.
Newcastle United (loan).
On 29 January 2010, Hall was signed on loan by Newcastle United for the rest of the season. The club tried to sign him earlier in the 2009–10 season, but the move never happened.
He made his debut for Newcastle United in the 5–1 win over Cardiff City at St James' Park and put in a solid performance, before being replaced by Tamás Kádár in the closing stages of the game. Since making debut for the club, he found himself in and out of the first team, due to competitions in the defence. During Newcastle United's 2–2 draw with Bristol City at Ashton Gate Stadium on 20 March 2010, Hall injured his hamstring in a chase with Nicky Maynard and was substituted as a result. After the game, the club’s manager Chris Hughton said the player’s injury did not look too good. Despite this assessment, Hall recovered in time to play in the match that confirmed Newcastle United as Football League Championship champions on 19 April 2010. His contributions led manager Hughton praising him, saying: "I am delighted with Fitz. When you go somewhere on loan the one thing you want and need to do is to play. He has been able to do that with us, but it has also been very frustrating for him to miss out. I felt for him when he was injured, but he has done very well for us when he has played." His return was short–lived when Hall didn’t play for the rest of the 2009–10 season. At the end of the 2009–10 season, he went on to make seven appearances in all competitions.
Following Newcastle's promotion to the Premier League, Hall was keen to make a permanent deal but it didn't happen, and he returned to his parent club.
Watford.
Hall signed a one-year contract with Watford in July 2012, along with seven new signings. Upon joining the club, he was given a number six shirt.
However, Hall suffered a setback when he was not featured in any of Watford's games in pre-season due to a lack of fitness and was sidelined for a month. Hall finally made his debut for the club, coming on as a 69th minute substitute, in a 2–2 draw against Bristol City on 22 September 2012. This was followed up by scoring his first goal for Watford, goal in a 3–2 win over Huddersfield Town. He then started in the next six matches for the club, forming a centre–back partnership with Neuton and Tommie Hoban. This last until Hall suffered a hamstring injury that kept him out for weeks. He made his return from injury, starting the whole game, in a 2–2 draw against Blackpool on 24 November 2012. Following this, Hall started in the next six matches for the club until he suffered a hamstring injury and was substituted in the 42nd minutes, during a 3–1 win against Brighton & Hove Albion on 29 December 2012. After being sidelined for weeks, Hall made his return from injury against Nottingham Forest on 26 January 2013, coming on as a 70th minutes substitute, in a 1–0 win. He then started in the next three matches for Watford until suffering another hamstring injury that kept him out for a month. It wasn’t until on 29 March 2013 when Hall made his return to the starting line–up, in a 3–3 draw against Burnley. However in a follow–up match against Hull City, his return was short–lived when Hall suffered a hamstring injury and missed the rest of the season, as the club finished third place in the league. Throughout the Championship play–offs, he played once, coming against Leicester City in the semi–finals first leg, as Watford lost the play–off final against Crystal Palace. At the end of the 2012–13 season, Hall went on to make twenty–two appearances and scoring once in all competitions. Following this, his future at the club was uncertain after yet being offered a new contract by Watford. By July, he was a free agent when his contract expired on 1 July 2013.
On 22 November 2013, Hall re-joined Watford on a one-month deal having trained with the club previously for a number of months. He made one start and one substitute appearance before his contract expired but was allowed to continue training with Watford under new head coach Giuseppe Sannino.
On 6 January 2014, Hall joined Watford for a third time after agreeing a new short-term deal. He made four more appearances for the club since leaving Watford earlier this month. This was later extended until the end of the season. However, Hall suffered Achilles injury and was sidelined for a month. Despite his recovery and maintaining his fitness in early–April, he remained on the sidelined for the rest of the 2013–14 season. At the end of the 2013–14 season, Hall went on to make six appearances in all competitions.
Along with Lucas Neill and Albert Riera, who were also on short-term contracts, it was confirmed on 4 June that Hall would be departing Vicarage Road at the end of his contract.
Amateur football.
After leaving Watford, Hall signed for Sunday League side Percival, based in Waltham Abbey. Playing as a striker, Hall scored a hat-trick on his debut as Percival demolished Enfield Rangers 8–0 in their Premier Division fixture and scored 9 times in 14 league matches during the season.
Outside football.
After retiring from professional football, Hall became a football consultant for Base Soccer Agency.
International career.
In April 2004, during his Southampton career, Hall received an unexpected call-up to be eligible to play for Scotland national football team through his grandmother. However, Hall denied having talk over a possible call-up to the Scotland national team, stating he had heard nothing from manager Berti Vogts. Hall later said: "Every kid growing up wants to play for their country, but I'm not going to set myself any targets because I don't want to be left disappointed if that doesn't happen. But at the moment I am concentrating on getting myself established in a Premiership team. I have spoken to him Vogts when I was at Southampton, but I was born in England and I see myself as English. That's not snubbing Scotland, but I just want to concentrate on playing in the Premiership."
Hall is also eligible to play for Barbados and was called for the Caribbean national team in 2011. In 2015, he stated that he would like to play for Barbados and would return to professional football if called up.
Personal life.
In October 2004, Hall became a first time father. Throughout his career, Hall earned a nickname: "One Size". As a result, he launched a clothes that was named after his nickname.
Hall briefly appeared in the opening of the movie "The Fifth Element," playing the role of Aziz; the boy who runs to turn on the lights for John Bennett's Priest. Growing up, he grew supporting Arsenal.
Honours.
Newcastle United
Queens Park Rangers


Swe Zin Htet

Swe Zin Htet (; born 16 November 1999) is a Burmese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Myanmar 2019.
In November 2019, Swe Zin Htet came out as a lesbian, and later that year she became the first openly lesbian woman to compete in a Miss Universe competition. Julia Lemigova of the Soviet Union competed in Miss Universe 1991 and Patricia Yurena Rodríguez of Spain competed in the Miss Universe 2013 competition, but did not come out until after the competition.
Pageantry.
Swe Zin Htet had previously began her pageantry career after winning Miss Supranational Myanmar 2016; she placed in the top ten and won Miss Personality title at Miss Supranational 2016.
Miss Universe Myanmar.
On May 31, 2019, Swe Zin Htet was crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2019 by previous titleholder Hnin Thway Yu Aung. She will be Myanmar's next representative to Miss Universe.
Miss Universe 2019.
As Miss Universe Myanmar, she represented Myanmar in the Miss Universe 2019 competition. At the end of event, she was unplaced.
Personal life.
She has been in a relationship with singer Gae Gae.


Murdo Mackay

Murdo Mackay (born 1956) is a Scottish businessman and sports agent. He worked as director of football at Derby County F.C. between October 2003 and March 2006. In July 2009 Mackay was convicted of fraudulently claiming money from the club as commission for brokering a loan, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Personal life.
Mackay's family came from an island in the Outer Hebrides, although by the time he was six years old they had moved to the Partick area of Glasgow. He grew up with a keen interest in football, particularly Rangers F.C. whom he supported.
Career.
As well as serving in the Royal Navy for a time, Mackay became directly involved in football, playing in the Highland Football League, gaining coaching qualifications and then working as a players' agent. In this capacity, Mackay represented the majority of the Rangers first team squad during the 1990s.
Despite being a FIFA–registered agent for what he himself described as "11 unblemished years", Mackay's business ventures met with mixed fortunes. He has been a director of five companies that have been struck off the Companies House register, mostly for failure to file accounts or an annual return. From 1993 to 1996, Mackay was made personally bankrupt after the failure of his recruitment agency, MMK Associates, when 19 creditors, ranging from Inland Revenue to a furniture loan company, were left owed £157,659. In 2001, he launched Inside Soccer Recruitment, an innovative player recruitment agency, only for it to be liquidated 16 months later, owing a large tax bill and leaving creditors, including former footballer Terry Butcher, unpaid. Mackay commented, "Inside Soccer was a great idea which didn't work. These things happen and I lost more money than anyone".
Mackay also worked for a time in 2007 as a consultant to Stirling-based sports management company 110Sport.
Derby County.
In October 2003 Mackay became involved in a takeover over of financially troubled Football League First Division club Derby County. A group of investors who wished to remain anonymous had purchased the club following it being placed into temporary receivership by the Co-operative Bank, and had installed barrister John Sleightholme as chairman. Sleightholme was a friend of Mackay's, the two being the only directors of a company called Finance for Football, which had been launched in 2002. Mackay's role at Derby was initially unspecified, although it was thought that he helped with attracting investment. He was subsequently appointed to the director of football role, and with his contacts in international football was instrumental in recruiting players such as Grzegorz Rasiak and Iñigo Idiakez for the club.
Mackay, however, reportedly had a poor relationship with George Burley, the manager who led Derby to a play-off place in 2004–05, with rumours of disagreements and meddling in team affairs by Mackay. Burley subsequently resigned from his post in June 2005 stating his position had become "untenable". Mackay offered his resignation from the board in the wake of Burley's departure but was persuaded to stay after talks. The following season, Mackay had a public dispute with Derby County's chief executive, Jeremy Keith, over the sale of Rasiak to Tottenham Hotspur, for which he was reprimanded by Sleightholme.
Following further disagreements with Keith and other board members, Mackay tendered his verbal resignation in December 2005. In a subsequent vote, the Derby directors voted four to one in favour of Mackay leaving, with his only supporter being friend and club chairman Sleightholme. However, Mackay made a U-turn and clung on to his post by claiming no written resignation was ever given to the board. Mackay eventually left his post at Derby County on 22 March 2006, claiming he could leave with his head held high.
Fraud conviction.
Mackay was charged on 12 November 2007 with conspiracy to defraud and conceal criminal property after police investigations at Derby County. Former chief executive Jeremy Keith and finance director Andrew Mackenzie were charged with similar offences. Murdo appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court in Derby on 27 November 2007. Charges were read out, no pleas were entered and the case was adjourned. The trial started at Northampton Crown Court on 2 March 2009.
Prior to the court case, Mackay left Scotland to live in Alicante, Spain.
Quote from BBC News
"Two former directors of Derby County football club have been found guilty of fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds in "commission".
Andrew Mackenzie and Murdo Mackay claimed cash totalling £440,625 after brokering a loan for the club.
Former finance director Mackenzie, 55, and ex-director of football Mackay, 53, used a £15m loan as a "carrot"."
On 20 July 2009, Mackay and Mackenzie were both sentenced to 3 years in prison by Judge Alexander at Northampton Crown Court.


Tony Mamodaly

Tony Mamodaly (born 2 August 1990) is a sports agent and former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Germany, he represented Madagascar at international level.
Early and personal life.
Mamodaly was born in Mannheim, Germany. His father was from Madagascar.
Football career.
Club career.
Mamodaly joined TSG 1899 Hoffenheim at the age of 16. After playing with Karlsruher SC II, he trialled with Scottish club Dundee United along with eight teammates, including Lukas Rupp and Matthias Zimmermann. His proposed transfer to Dundee fell through and he instead moved to Dynamo Dresden II, signing for them in October 2009. Mamodaly viewed his time with Dynamo Dresden as a "catastrophe" and that he was bullied by the manager. After two years he trialled with French club Lorient, but that transfer also fell through. He left Dyanmo Dresden, and trained with a VDV camp for contactless players. He then trialled with 1. FC Nürnberg. He then moved to the United States to play college soccer with the St. Thomas University Bobcats. He spent four seasons with the team, and became their captain. He ended his career in 2016 due to knee problems.
International career.
He earned two caps for Madagascar in 2010.
Handball career.
Mamodaly initially combined his football career with handball, playing for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the German national youth team, before giving it up to concentrate on football.
Later career.
Mamodaly began studying for an MBA at Columbia University before returning to Miami to undertake a master's degree. He also set up a sports agency for young players from Germany, Italy and Brazil to study and play in the United States.


Marie van Goethem

Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; born 7 June 1865) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" ("La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans").
Early life.
Marie was the daughter of a laundress and a tailor, who came to Paris in the early 1860s from Belgium. She was born in 1865 in the diverse 9th arrondissement of Paris. Marie's oldest sister, Antoinette, was born in Brussels in 1861. A second older sister, also named Marie, died eighteen days after her birth in 1864. Marie's younger sister, Louise Joséphine, born in Paris in 1870, adopted the name of Charlotte and died there in 1945. Her father died at some point between 1870 and 1880, leaving Madame van Goethem to fend for her three daughters on a laundress's income.
In 1865, the year Marie was born, the family moved to a stone apartment building on 'Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette' called 'Place Bréda' near Degas's studio on 'Rue Saint-Georges'. The Bréda district was one of the city's poorest and most squalid areas for prostitution. In 1880, after frequently changing their place of residence (an indicator of an inability to pay the rent on time) the family settled on 'Rue de Douai' on the lower slopes of Montmartre, a few blocks from Degas's studio, then located on 'Rue Fontaine'.
In 1878, Marie and Charlotte were accepted into the dance school of the Paris Opéra, where Antoinette was employed as an extra. In 1880 Marie passed the examination admitting her to the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera Ballet and made her debut on the stage in "La Korrigane".
As a young ballet dancer of the time, Marie was expected to give sexual favors to the male patrons who would go backstage and watch the girls practice. This probably led to prostitution further in her life.
Marie and Degas.
Between 1878 and 1881, Degas drew, painted and sculpted Marie in artworks including "Dancer with Fan", "Dancing Lesson", "Dancer Resting", numerous preparatory sketches, and most famously in "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years". He frequently attended ballet performances at the Paris Opera and often observed classes at the dance school. By posing for Degas, Marie likely earned five to six francs per four-hour sitting.
Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881.
When "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans" was shown in Paris at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881, it received mixed reviews. Though critics lauded the work as “the only truly modern attempt" at sculpture, the majority were shocked by the piece. They compared the dancer to a monkey and an Aztec, and referred to her as a "flower of precocious depravity" with a face "marked by the hateful promise of every vice" and "bearing the signs of a profoundly heinous character." She looked like a medical specimen, they reported, in part because Degas exhibited the sculpture inside a glass case.
Subsequent life.
In the year following the exhibition of the sculpture, Marie's dance career ended as a result of missing many dance classes. An article in "L'Evénement", which preceded the dismissal by two months, reported "Miss van Goeuthen—fifteen years old, has an older sister who is an extra at the Opera and a younger sister in the Opera dance school—consequently she frequents the Martyrs Tavern and the Rat Mort." Neither tavern was a desirable place for a young girl. Though no trace of her subsequent life or death has been found, the historical record indicates her older sister, Antoinette, was jailed just prior to Marie's dismissal for stealing 700 francs from a patron at a tavern and her younger sister, Charlotte, became a dancer of some distinction and teacher at the dance school during her fifty-three-year career with the Paris Opera Ballet.
In fiction, documentary and the arts.
Cathy Marie Buchanan's 2013 novel, "The Painted Girls", presents a fictionalised account of the life of Marie van Goethem, as does Carolyn Meyer's young adult novel "Marie, Dancing" and Laurence Anholt's children's picture book "Degas and the Little Dancer". A non-fiction work by Camille Laurens, "La petite danseuse de quatorze ans" (2017), discusses the dancer, the artist, the work, and its reception.
The BBC documentary "The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen", produced in 2004, closely examined "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans", the circumstances of Marie's life, and the critical reaction to the sculpture.
With Boyd Gaines as Degas, and Rebecca Luker and New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck as adult and young Marie, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts premiered the Susan Stroman, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty stage musical, "Little Dancer", from October 25 to November 30 2014.
The 5th Ave Theater in Seattle, Washington, is hosting the premier run of "Marie, Dancing Still". It tells the story of Marie from the perspective of an older Marie looking back on her time with Degas.


Julien Kang

Julien Kang (; born 11 April 1982) is a South Korean television actor and model.
In May 2012, Kang starred opposite Ryu Si-won as Kang Gu-ra, a rival fighter to Ryu's Seung-hyuk in Channel A's "Goodbye Dear Wife".
Early life.
Kang was born in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas French territory off the coast of Canada, to a Korean father and a French mother. He is the younger brother of mixed martial artist Denis Kang.
Other activities.
On 18 August 2012, Kang was paired with South Korean actress Yoon Se-ah, beginning the transition between season 3 and season 4 of "We Got Married". The virtual couple dubbed KangYoon couple and Juliah couple by fans, moved into House #1 in the new We Got Married Village. Kang was elected as Chief of the WGM Village by the current couples.
In August 2015, Kang signed with Jellyfish Entertainment.


Garrett Neff

Garrett Neff is an American model. He is known for his early work with Calvin Klein as the face of jeans, underwear and the MAN fragrance. In 2015, Neff launched his popular swimwear line, KATAMA.
Neff is currently one of the top "Money Guys" on models.com as well as part of the "Next Generation" of "Industry Icons." In 2009, he was ranked No.5 by Forbes publications on their list of the most successful male models of 2009.
Early life.
Neff was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He attended Wilmington Friends School where he was captain of both the varsity tennis and soccer teams. He also played club soccer for the Kirkwood Talons, making First Team All State as a senior in High School.
Neff attended Bucknell University, where he played Division I tennis. He graduated in 2007 with a degree in Business Management.
Career.
In 2005, while returning from a trip to Barbados, Neff was discovered by a scouting agent at Miami International Airport. Shortly after, Neff signed to Click Model Management and began booking a steady stream of work for brands such Abercrombie & Fitch, Benetton, and Lagerfeld. In the years to follow, he appeared in GQ, V Man, French Vogue and L'Officiel Hommes and walked numerous runways. By 2008, he was the face of Calvin Klein's MAN fragrance.
In 2010, Neff appeared in the October 14th episode of "30 Rock" as "Young Jack."[6]
As of 2014, Neff is signed with IMG Models in New York, Success Models in Paris, and Sight Model Management in Barcelona.
Neff has recently appeared in campaigns for Swarovski, Carolina Herrera, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss. He regularly works with photographers such as Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, Mert and Marcus, Peter Lindbergh and Milan Vukmirovic.
In July 2015, Neff launched KATAMA, a brand of men's luxury swim and resort wear. The brand is heavily influenced by Neff's outdoor adventures with family in the Northeast combined with his intimate knowledge of the global fashion market after many years experience in the industry.


Danielle House

Danielle House (born 1976 in Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland) was crowned Miss Newfoundland in 1995 and Miss Canada International in 1996. House was stripped of her Miss Canada International title when she was convicted of assaulting her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend in a bar.
She was the guest Chicken Cannon shooter on the November 22, 1996 episode of "Air Farce". Later, she achieved greater exposure in a nude pictorial for "Playboy" magazine's December 1997 issue. The issue referred to her with the mistaken title "Miss Canada". However, the last "Miss Canada" was named for 1992. In 2000 she co-starred in the film "Solid Cover 2".
House was born in Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. She studied nursing at Memorial University, Newfoundland.


Ksenia Kuprina

Ksenia Alexandrovna Kuprina (, 21 April 1908, Gatchina, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, - 8 December 1981, Moscow, USSR) was a French model and actress of Russian and Hungarian origins. A daughter of the Russian writer Alexander Kuprin, she was known in France by her stage name Kissa Kouprine.
Biography.
Ksenia Kuprina was born in 1908, to Alexander Kuprin and his second wife Elizaveta Geinrich (1882–1942), a daughter of the Hungarian revolutionary . At age ten she left Soviet Russia with her parents to settle in Paris. In the mid-1920s she worked for a Paul Poiret agency, then embarked upon the career in films. Kissa Kouprine, as by then she has been known, appeared in eleven films, starting with "Le Diable au cœur" (1927, with Betty Balfour) by Marcel L'Herbier. It was followed by Herbier's adaptations of Gaston Leroux's ' (1930) and ' (1931), as well as "L'Aventurier" (1934) and "La Route impériale" (1935). She appeared in three films by and, finally, Jacques Deval's comedy "Women's Club" (1936), with Danielle Darrieux, which proved to be her final appearance on screen in France. By this time Kouprine was rich enough to settle at Champs-Élysées. In the 1930s she was romantically involved with Jean Marais, and became friends with the yet unknown singer, Edith Piaf, on whom she would later write a book in Russian.
In 1958 Kuprina returned to the USSR where she worked as stage actress, scriptwriter, translator and later memoirist, who had massive success with her book "Kuprin Is My Father" (Куприн - мой отец, 1971). Two films about Ksenia Kuprina came out in the USSR: "There Is No Life for Me Without Russia" (Мне нельзя без России, directed by Alexander Proshkin) and "Ksenia Kuprina Speaks" (Ксения Куприна рассказывает, Y.Reshetnikova and O. Dosik). For all that, Ksenia Kuprina's life in Russia was marred by disappointments and humiliations. She hasn't received a dime from all the re-issues of her famous father's books, had been refused an audience by the Khrushchev government's Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, never got a decent part at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre ("Here I am anonymous actress," she once remarked) and for many years had to rely on her 100-ruble pension, according to the biographer Vladimir Obolensky.
Ksenia Kuprina's main concern in her later years was the Alexander Kuprin Museum in Narovchat that she had been instrumental in creating. She died in 1981 of brain tumor and was interred in Volkovskoye Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.


Binx Walton

Leona Anastasia "Binx" Walton (born April 24, 1996) is an American fashion model based in New York City.
Early life.
Walton was born in California, United States. When she was an infant her family moved to Hawaii, and then to Knoxville, Tennessee at age six. She is multiracial, her mother Teri Walton is white. She has African American, Irish, Dutch, German, Indian, and Eastern Asian heritage. The nickname "Binx" was given to her as a child by her brothers, after the Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks. She made her catwalk debut at age 16 in the Marc Jacobs Autumn/Winter 2013 show.
Career.
Walton's breakthrough moment into the fashion industry came when she was cast in the Céline Spring/Summer 2014 show. She went on to star in major campaigns for Chanel, Balmain, and Coach and has walked in 37 fashion shows for Spring/Summer 2016. She is currently collaborating with Superga to help design some of the shoes for their campaign. She is good friends with models Catherine McNeil and Lexi Boling.
She has appeared in editorials for French, British, Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese "Vogue", "LOVE", "W", "Dazed", "Garage", "i-D", and "WSJ. Magazine". She has appeared on the covers of British, Italian, Spanish, Thai and Japanese "Vogue", French "Elle", "Garage", "i-D", and "Dazed".
She has walked the runways for Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Valentino, Fendi, Diane Von Furstenberg, Moschino, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, DKNY, Miu Miu, Derek Lam, Philipp Plein, Alexander Wang, Emilio Pucci, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Sacai, Christian Dior, Balmain, Lanvin, Céline, Proenza Schouler, Stella McCartney, Kenzo, Michael Kors, Coach, Anthony Vaccarello, Tom Ford, Salvatore Ferragamo, Vera Wang, Gucci, Dries Van Noten, Roberto Cavalli, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Prabal Gurung, Versace, Balmain, Tommy Hilfiger, Jason Wu, Tory Burch, Viktor & Rolf, Giles Deacon, and Hugo Boss.
Walton has appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Dior, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Chanel, Tom Ford, Coach, Fendi, DKNY, Hugo Boss, rag+bone, Balmain, Céline, Theory, Adidas, and Public School.
In November 2019, Walton joined models.com's "Industry Icons" list.


Nadege Herrera

Nadege Elena Herrera Vásquez, (born 17 November 1986), is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant. Her career started in 2004 when at age 17, she joined Panama's leg of the Ford Supermodel of the World contest, called "Chica and Chico Modelo". After this competition, Nadege won the "World Casting Tour" held that same year, winning a $10,000 contract with modeling agency Wilhelmina in New York.
Her modelling experience helped her land some of Panama's major advertising campaigns and editorials, making her one of the most popular models in the country, both in runway and photography. In 2005, she travelled to Hong Kong to compete in the Miss Model of the World contest. She has also won a small pageant held in Ecuador.
In 2007, Herrera was selected as a finalist in the reality show Supermodel Centroamérica, hosted by Costa Rican top model, former Miss Asia Pacific International and Miss World Costa Rica, Leonora Jiménez. Upon her return to Panama, she continued working as a runway and print model.
Realmente Bella Señorita Panamá 2009.
In March 2009 she joined the Realmente Bella Señorita Panamá pageant, where she won the title of Miss Panama World, which gave her the opportunity to compete in Miss World.
Miss World 2009.
Herrera represented Panama at the Miss World 2009 pageant held on December 12, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she placed among the Top 7 finalists, finishing as the fifth runner-up to Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar.
Television.
She also was TV Host in Panama rangefinder where the TV show presented La Rueda de La Fortuna with Rasiel Rodriguez and later with Jorge Herrera.
Now she is the TV Host of Kosmetika by TVN also by the ex-Miss Panama Anyoli Abrego.