Claudia Jennings Net Worth is
$18 Million

Mini Biography

Given birth to Mary Eileen “Mimi” Chesterton (nicknamed Mimi by her relatives and buddies) in St. Paul, Minnesota, titian beauty Claudia Jennings grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1966, she shifted to Evanston, Illinois, the initial suburb north of Chicago simply south from the Wisconsin condition range, where she graduated senior high school in 1968. After joining the Hull Home theater company in Chicago, she took employment being a receptionist on the offices of Playboy magazine in Sept 1968. Professional photographer Pompeo Posar asked her to check, and using a potential $5,000 check on the line — enough to get a solution to Hollywood — she decided. She eventually made an appearance being a Playmate in November 1969, and afterwards simply because 1970 Playmate of the entire year. Re-naming herself Claudia Jennings in order to avoid family members embarrassment because of posing in the nude, she became probably the most perennially well-known Playmate from the 1970s, aswell as the main female celebrity of “Drive-In” films like the Unholy Rollers (1972) and ‘Gator Bait (1974). Her 1st film part was using the film Jud (1971), a low-budget, socially mindful, independent film in regards to a Vietnam soldier’s come back home. As the film arrived and proceeded to go without much see, it motivated Claudia to go in to the acting business regular. From 1970 to 1975, she lived with songwriter/maker Bobby Hart but, after their break up, her personal life started to spiral. She started using medicines and shortly got a popularity to be unreliable. As her cocaine make use of begun to escalate, her profession from this stage begun to flounder. Among her last theatrical film jobs was a co-starring component in the little-seen Canadian racetrack dilemma Fast Business (1979). After narrowly lacking the function of Kate Jackson’s substitute on Charlie’s Angels (1976) to Shelley Hack in-may 1979, she started a tumultuous romantic relationship with Beverly Hillsides real estate agent Stan Herman. Pursuing their split afterwards that summertime, Jennings changed her existence around and attempted to quit medicines and consuming, but sadly passed away before she could continue carrying out in better movies. On the morning hours of Oct 3, 1979, she in some way fell asleep in the steering wheel of her VW convertible while on her behalf way to get a few of her personal points from Herman’s house in Malibu and collided head-on having a vehicle on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. She passed away a few momemts later from substantial external and inner accidental injuries before ambulance paramedics could get there and obtain her to a close by medical center. She was 29.

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