![]() A gay guy died and left me all his money. She rattles them off: “I’m married to a sheikh. Wherever I came from, whatever is core to me, I was born with that.” She was soon inundated with requests – “from regular fans, naughty ones, X-rated authors, TV shows, newspapers, films”. When that first billboard went up in 1984, she says, “it was like BOOM! But to me, being huge is normal. This is probably one of the most difficult planets in the whole universe My astrologer would always say, ‘Angelyne, you have the most beautiful skin.’ She lived to be 104, you know that?” I’m an alien. “But you know what? It’s business for me. “Well, you look pretty darn good, too,” she replies. Then the feathers flutter up and there she is, wearing a black and silver leotard with pink elbow-length gloves. “Are we on?” I hear her murmur, her Zoom window a wall of pink feathers. Now she’s the subject of a new miniseries called Angelyne, with Emmy Rossum playing her alongside Martin Freeman and Hamish Linklater – which is why Angelyne is chatting to me today. Investors, she said, were paying for the billboards, and the returns became obvious when she began appearing on screen. Angelinos might see her driving in one of her many pink Corvettes, sometimes stopping to pout on the hood, or sell photos and merchandise. She came from the midwest, she said, sometimes mentioning Idaho. Over the years, not much more was learned about Angelyne. “I’m famous for being on billboards,” she told one bemused interviewer. Any onlookers curious enough to call got through to her management: would they like to book Angelyne? I don’t know, those callers would probably have answered, who is Angelyne? Within a decade, there were 200 Angelyne billboards around LA – and still it was no clearer who Angelyne was or what she did. There was a phone number and nothing else. That’s my whole thing.I n 1984, a billboard featuring a pouting, pneumatic blond woman appeared on Sunset Boulevard, the most feted thoroughfare in Los Angeles. A person cannot be doing what they don’t love to do. If the Hollywood Reporter profile is correct - and she won’t say - Angelyne will be 71 shortly after Tuesday’s vote.īut as she lounges on the hood of her Corvette on a sunny Los Angeles afternoon, Angelyne insists her personal juggernaut will roll on regardless. Interview requests are met with gift demands, including perfume, champagne and “pink and leopard panties.” AFP declined to offer any presents. In the meantime, there is the glare of media attention, and the chance to direct supporters to her website - or the trunk of her car - where she hawks “Angelyne for Governor” T-shirts at $100 each. “Do I think I’m going to win? I don’t know. Pollsters say none of them are likely to win. But California has form: actor Arnold Schwarzenegger parlayed the 2003 recall into governorship.Īngelyne - who also ran last time around - has mounted a less than arduous effort in 2021. The curious voting structure has generated a raft of non-traditional candidates, including reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, a self-described shaman, and a cannabis consultant. Whoever gets the most votes takes charge of the world’s fifth largest economy. The two-part vote asks firstly if Newsom should be recalled anything more than 50% triggers the question of who replaces him. Her latest attempt to make it big is as one of dozens of candidates vying to unseat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom visits the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s McClellan Reload Base in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, July 9, 2020, to discuss the state’s new efforts to protect emergency personnel and evacuees from COVID-19 during wildfires. Years after their split, he returned to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife transformed.Ĭalifornia Gov. The family moved to Israel and lived in an ultra-Orthodox community until their 1959 emigration to the United States.Īfter an adolescence in an unremarkable Los Angeles suburb, Ronia - Renee, by then - was briefly married to businessman Michael Strauss. “I have a PhD in chemistry, and I wanted to be a chemist, but somehow… I got pushed into show business.” Details about the doctorate - where, what was the thesis - evaporate.Ī 2017 profile in The Hollywood Reporter says she was born Ronia Goldberg in Poland in 1950 to Jewish survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Various iterations of her story cast her as a Los Angeles implant, one of thousands of hopefuls who come to Hollywood from small-town America. ![]() Quite where it all started - in the official narrative - is vague. Paris Hilton, she says “doesn’t do anything. Angelyne insists her status as professional celebrity has foundations - unlike younger pretenders.
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