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Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972) is an American model,
television personality, actress and singer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Tara
Leigh Patrick.
In 1991, Electra moved to Los Angeles and within one
week met singer Prince. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with
Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived and
unsuccessful singing career. Her album
Carmen Electra was released in
1992.
In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs.
Then in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing
role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on
Baywatch and MTV's Singled Out.
Electra has appeared in several films,
such as Good Burger (1997),
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), the horror
spoof
Scary Movie (2000), and the remake
of the 1970s TV show
Starsky & Hutch (2004). She also
regularly performs with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls.
In
1998 she married basketball star Dennis Rodman; after much-publicized
squabbles, they divorced the next year. Electra's current husband, musician
Dave Navarro, is the lead member of the rock band Jane's Addiction. The couple
documented their courtship and marriage on an MTV reality show in 2004 entitled
[['Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen + Dave]]. |
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