Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill

A former Ford model, for decades she was the spokeswoman for Cover Girl cosmetics.

Accidentally shot herself in the abdomen in 1983.

Became an overnight film star and made an immediate "older woman" impact on young boys everywhere in the coming-of-age film Summer of '42 (1971), despite the fact that she was only in the movie for 12 minutes.

Broke back and neck as youth when a horse she was riding fell on her.

Grandfather: Oscar O'Neill Sr. Banker. President of the Bank of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Father: Oscar O'Neill Jr. Medical supplies exporter. Mother: Irene O'Neill. English; met O'Neill's father when he was stationed in London during WWII; married c. 1945.



has 1 daughter: Aimee; and 2 sons: Reis and Cooper.

Has her own Official Website and is busy still acting, directing, and producing.

Her father was Oscar O'Neill, a WWII bomber pilot who flew the B-17 and once had his plane shot down over Germany where he survived a prison camp. After the war he went back to England to marry Brazilian songstress Carmen Miranda.

Lives on a farm in Nashville, Tennessee

Married 9 times

Married once again to her eighth husband Mervin Louque, it is her ninth marriage.

Measurements: 34-23-36 (as a 17 year-old model), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Spokesperson for a skin care line "Firm & Lift".

Was engaged to Elliott Gould in 1974.


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