Stephanie Adams aka Stephanie biography

Stephanie Adams is a Leo, born July 24, 1970. Adams was born in New Jersey and raised in New York City. Adams is an exotic mix of Black, White and American Indian, (specifically West Indian, Cherokee Indian, English, Welsh, Italian and Egyptian). According to her Playboy pictorial, Adams is the direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

John Adams (the second President of the United States of America) and John Quincy Adams (the sixth President of the United States of America) were two outstanding forefathers who gave all of their children (including those who were born out of wedlock) their last name and ownership of land. That (along with the fact that Stephanie Adams is part Cherokee Indian) explains why Adams comes from a family that owns over 4000 acres of land in various parts of the United States of America.

Adams was raised from birth by her aunts, who were former models (Joyce was a runway and cover model for Wella and Pearl was a pin-up model in the 60s). At the age of 16, her aunts convinced her to also start a career in modeling. Adams was signed first to Wilhelmina Models while completing her bachelor's degree at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and then to Elite Model Management by John Casablancas. In spite of a vigorous agenda and successful modeling career, Stephanie managed to obtain a Bachelor of Science (having majored in Business Management and Marketing).

Her love for the arts (writing and painting) as well as her desire to pursue a career in business had to be put on hold due to her demand in the modeling industry. At some point, photos of Adams taken during a photo shoot for a poster were sent to Playboy by the photographer (with her permission) "for fun". Playboy received the photos and took her being a centerfold very seriously.

Being that Adams always admired the beautiful and artistic qualities of Playboy photography and viewed posing in Playboy as "every bad girl's dream and every good girl's fantasy", she accepted the invitation to appear at the Playboy Mansion, but declined to appear in the magazine. Eventually Adams realized what an honor it would be to pose in the magazine and finally accepted the offer to pose for Playboy. (Millions of people are happy that she did.)

Shortly after doing photo shoots for companies such as Seventeen, Venus Swimwear and Clairol, Playboy gave Adams the title of "Miss November 1992". Adams was dating the owner of Elite Model Managament (John Casablancas) around this time and he appeared with her in one of the photos for her pictorial. Adams also appeared in numerous Playboy videos, as well as a cameo appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman, and at some point was voted the "Best Lesbian Sex Symbol" in New York City.

After dating Casablancas, Adams married an Italian investment banker, whom she subsequently divorced. (To this day, he considers her to be the love of his life.) She then dated several prominent New York City men, including Robert De Niro, before becoming the first and only Playboy Playmate to boldly step up to the podium and become a spokesmodel in the gay community.

Soon after ending a long term relationship around that time, Adams was seen around town with notables such as lesbian comedian Marga Gomez and rock star Joan Jett. Adams was later involved in a relationship with a mystery Italian who appeared on the cover of various publications with her including her book entitled "Empress" and still speaks highly of her past love interest, record label founder and CEO Bob Chiappardi. Adams had often said of her romantic life that she is a "Playboy trapped in a Playmate's body." Since then, Adams dated a high-profile attorney named Michael Lamonsoff, as well as a controversial entrepreneur named Terren Peizer, but after breaking it off with both due to her getting more seriously involved with a well-known financier, she prefers to keep the details of her love life private.

In 1999, Adams founded a new-age company named GODDESSY, a portmanteau of "goddess" and "odyssey". Following the death of her aunt from breast cancer on July 24, 2003, the day that should have been a birthday celebration, Adams decided to quit modeling full-time and dedicate most of her time towards writing. Eventually, GODDESSY also became the title of a series of astrology, new age, spiritual and metaphysical books written by Adams. Since then, Adams has written seventeen books in addition to publishing three calendars as well as contributing horoscopes and articles to various publications.

Even though she became a spokesmodel for an LGBT fashion line and is still featured on magazine covers as well as a documentary on her life for Women's Entertainment, Adams prefers to be known simply as "an author". She continues to make celebrity appearances for Playboy and continues to be a supporter, spokesperson and advocate in the LGBT community by giving speeches for several Gay Prides in New York City, and speaking for organizations such as Out Professionals, Heritage Of Pride and Women's Alliance.

Adams has been featured in and on numerous magazine covers as well as various newspapers such as New York Post, Daily News, Newsday, etc. as well as TV channels 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 5 (FOX), 7 (ABC), 9 (WOR) 11 (WPIX), NY 1 News, CNN, etc. and other media such as Entertainment Tonight, The Late Show With David Letterman, Playboy TV, etc.

Aside from her active modeling and writing career, Adams decided to dedicate most of her time investing in Fortune 500 companies, enabling her to become a self-made millionaire before the age of 30. Now Adams has decided to dedicate most of her time towards philanthropy, and developing as much of a private life as she can possibly have.