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Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972Carmen Electra is an American model, television personality, actress and singer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as to a family of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, born Linda Hopkins Shapiro. She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. She is married to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers fame.

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Career highlights

Before moving to Los Angeles (1991) she lived in Minneapolis, MN and worked for Target Corporation. After moving to California she met singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived but not very successful singing career.

In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then in May of 1996 she appeared in magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on (2004). She also regularly performed with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls. Her most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy's trophy wife in . Her acting work is regularly derided by critics; in the Roger Ebert review of the film Dirty Love, he states: "The Carmen Electra character, meanwhile, struts around like a ho in a bad music video, speaking black street talk as if she learned it phonetically, and pulling out a gun and holding it to a man's head because she thinks, obviously, that pulling guns on guys is expected of any authentic black woman. A scene like that would be insulting in any other movie; here it possibly distracts her from doing something even more debasing." 1

Electra achieved considerable notoriety during her on-again, off-again marriage to basketball star Dennis Rodman from 1998 to 1999. The wedding to Rodman took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Later, she allegedly had an affair with Tommy Lee, the ex-husband of Pamela Anderson. Electra's current husband, musician Dave Navarro, was formerly the lead guitarist of the rock bands Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The couple documented their courtship and marriage on an MTV reality show in 2004 entitled

Personal Life

Carmen came out as Bisexual in March 2005 edition of Loaded Magazine stating: "I get a lot of women trying to pick me up. Women can be more attractive than men. I like that. I love girls."

"Carmen Electra getting a little "southern exposure" on an Esquire cover parodying the famous Coppertone girl." "Carmen Electra (left), Pamela Anderson (center) and Yasmine Bleeth (right) on the cover of FHM magazine." Carmen Electra (left), Pamela Anderson (center) and Yasmine Bleeth (right) on the cover of FHM magazine., on which she was hosting a game show (and had posed as an old woman who Homer had allegedly killed earlier in the episode).