Petra Verkaik
Actress

Petra Verkaik Net Worth

Petra Verkaik is an actress, producer, and miscellaneous crew born in Los Angeles, California in 1966. She is best known for her appearances in Playboy, having been featured in over 60 magazines and special editions, and winning the Playboy Reader's Choice Model of the Year Award in 1997. She has also made guest appearances on Married with Children and acted in films such as Pyrates, Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Love Potion No. 9, and The Last Road.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew
Birth Day November 04, 1966
Birth Place  Los Angeles, California, United States
Age 54 YEARS OLD
Died On January 22, 2010(2010-01-22) (aged 40)\nWestlake, Ohio, U.S.
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Measurements Bust: 37 in (94 cm) Waist: 24 in (61 cm) Hips: 35 in (89 cm)
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight 120 lb (54 kg)
Preceded by Kimberley Conrad
Succeeded by Lisa Matthews

💰 Net worth

Petra Verkaik, a multi-talented individual recognized for her various roles in the entertainment industry, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by the year 2024. Hailing from the United States, Verkaik has made a name for herself as an actress, producer, and miscellaneous crew member. Known for her versatility and dedication to her craft, Verkaik has undoubtedly earned her place within the industry, with her net worth poised to grow as she continues her successful career.

Biography/Timeline

1935

She was selected as Playboy's 35th Anniversary Playmate after a nationwide search. She was paid $35,000 for her centerfold. Several years later, she appeared in one of Playboy's Wet & Wild home videos.

1965

Karen Foster (born April 21, 1965, in Lufkin, Texas) is an American model and Actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for October, 1989.

1966

Petra Charlotte Verkaik (pronounced PAYT-rah ver-KIKE; born November 4, 1966, in Los Angeles, California) is a model. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she attended acting classes. She needed a head shot and did a trade with a Photographer to get free headshots in exchange for modeling for him. The modeling photographs were clothed. The Photographer sent her photographs to Playboy who called her to work with them. In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Verkaik expressed that she never wanted to do nude modeling and that she thought "all those girls were whores and sluts." Three months later, she was Playmate of the Month for December 1989 after first appearing in the Great Playmate Hunt Special Edition in February 1989.

1967

Tawnni Cable (born 1 May 1967 in Salem, Oregon) is an American model and Actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for June, 1989 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She played a small role in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and appeared with four other Playmates on an all-star episode of Family Feud.

1968

Reneé Tenison (born December 2, 1968, in Caldwell, Idaho) is an American model and Actress.

1969

Erika Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American Playboy Playmate and Actress, perhaps best known for her role in Baywatch as Shauni McClain. Eleniak had several roles in television before her Playmate selection. Playboy featured her on two covers and later as the centerfold in the July 1989 issue.

1970

Karin and Mirjam van Breeschooten (born 15 November 1970 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) are twin sisters who were Playboy magazine's Playmates of the Month for September 1989.

1986

Jackson graduated from North Olmsted High School in 1986 and went on to study Business and Finance at Kent State University.

1989

Tenison appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the November 1989 issue of Playboy magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year for 1990, the first PMOY of African American descent. In 2001, she was selected as one of the ten sexiest women of the year by the readers of Black Men magazine.

1995

Verkaik started her own production company in 1995, called Pin-Up Girls, making her the first Playboy model to start her own production company instead of producing videos strictly through Playboy. Pin-Up Girls produced videos and calendars. Starting the company left her $60,000 in debt. In 1997, she was named Playboy Model of the Year.

2002

In 2002, Verkaik attended the Foothill High School prom in Tustin, California, with a high school student named Toby Hocking. Hocking wrote a college essay, and Verkaik was given it by a friend who told her that he couldn't get a prom date. Verkaik read the college essay and offered to be Hocking's date, which garnered publicity. The headmaster of Foothill High School had no issue with Verkaik being Hocking's date, provided she did not wear anything "strapless or sheer".

2010

On January 22, 2010, she was found dead by her husband, James Thompson, in her home in Westlake, Ohio, of an apparent drug overdose.

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