Angela Melini

**Angela Melini**
Playboy centerfold appearance	June 1992
Birthplace	Saigon, South Vietnam
Birthdate	July 25, 1969
Measurements	36" DD - 26" - 35"
Height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight	115 lb (52 kg)
Preceded by	Anna Nicole Smith
Succeeded by	Amanda Hope

Angela Melini (born July 25, 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. She was chosen Playmate of the Month for the June, 1992 issue of Playboy magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Melini has appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, working steadily for Playboy for more than ten years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, and then as a promotional model and a feature reporter for the Playboy Channel.

Melini's mother is Vietnamese, and her father was an Italo-American soldier who, prior to the birth of Melini and her twin brother, was tragically a casualty of war, killed in action during the Second Indochina War (more commonly known as the Vietnam War). It is this mixed ancestry that gives Melini her exotic, eurasian appearance. In 1975, as part of Operation Frequent Wind, Melini, then age 5 and together with her mother, emigrated to the United States, settling in the suburbs near Olympia, Washington. Her brother was forced to remain in Vietnam, being one of the millions of Vietnamese people who were put to work in that government's collectivization of farms and factories, a policy implemented to restore its economy devastated by war.

Melini owns and operates two commercial websites -- her personal adult-themed website, AngelaMelini.com, and a mult-model adult-themed website, MarquisModels.com (see below). In addition, Melini appears at various fan conventions, most notably Comic-Con International and Glamourcon, where she greets her fans and members of her websites, autographs and sells various Playboy memorabilia, and recruits female nude and pin-up models for MarquisModels.com.

As of January, 2007, Melini resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and two children, a son, age 5, and a daughter, age 2.

[edit] Appearances in Playboy newsstand special editions

Playboy's Playmates Bustin' Out (2000)
Playboy's Playmate Profile Video Collection Featuring Miss June 1998, 1995, 1992, 1989 (1998)
Playboy's 1992 Video Playmate Review (1993)
Playboy's Wet & Wild V (1993)
Playboy's 1993 Video Playmate Calendar (1992)
Playboy's Playmate Private Pleasures (1992)
Playboy's Wet & Wild IV (1992)

Melini is classified by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service as Amerasian.
Melini is the cover model whose photograph appears on the dust jacket of Dropping The Chase: The Enigmas of the Goddess authored by broadcaster and physicist Paul Davies.
Melini is referenced on page 30 of Vanilla Slim: An Improbable Pimp in the Empire of Lust authored by self-described low-end journalist for San Francisco-based Exotic magazine and convicted ex-pimp Bob Armstrong, who suggests that Melini's appearance in Playboy magazine is a more fitting image to signify the end of the Vietnam War than "Hueys" being dumped from aircraft carriers into the South China Sea. A second reference to Melini is made, noting that her "flotation devices were fully deployed" in her centerfold, a thinly veiled reference to Melini's exposed breasts.
Melini is a member in good standing of American Mensa, the High-IQ society, which places her IQ at or above the 98th percentile.
Melini is trilingual, with the ability to speak, read and write in the English, French and Vietnamese languages.
Melini has a Bacon number of 4. Melini appeared with Mark Hamill in Silk Degrees. Hamill appeared with Harrison Ford in Star Wars. Ford appeared with Laurence Fishburne in Apocalypse Now. Fishburne appeared with Kevin Bacon in Mystic River.

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Playboy Playmates of 1992

Suzi Simpson	Tanya Beyer	Tylyn John	Cady Cantrell	Anna Nicole Smith	Angela Melini
Amanda Hope	Ashley Allen	Morena Corwin	Tiffany Sloan	Stephanie Adams	Barbara Moore