A photo of her that was in Playboy magazine was pasted into astronaut Pete Conrad's Apollo 12 lunar-surface checklist by the Apollo backup crew. Conrad wore the checklist on his spacesuit cuff and first found the photo during his walk on the Moon. The caption read "Seen any interesting hills and valleys?".
Born in San Francisco of Italian descent, her father was a restaurateur from Sicily and her mother a Broadway singer from Rome.
During one of the Playboy photo sessions, she was reclining in a hammock for one of the pictures that gave way. She suffered two broken ribs.
Has a son named Bret who was born in 1964.
In a friendly exchange scene near the beginning of Rosemary's Baby (1968), Mia Farrow meets another young woman who lives in her apartment building and mistakes her for actress "Victoria Vetri." The woman says she is not and introduces as Terry Gionoffrio. The inside joke is that the woman in the movie actually WAS Victoria. In the credits, however, Victoria was billed as "Angela Dorian," the name she used when she posed for Playboy.
Loves fast cars and car racing, and in her time has owned a Porsche, a Sprite, and a pink AMX that she won for being "Playmate of the Year" in 1968.
Measurements: 36-21-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Playboy Playmate of the Month September 1967 (as Angela Dorian)
Playboy Playmate of the Year 1968 (as Angela Dorian)
Played a bejeweled "Florence of Arabia" to Victor Buono's "King Tut" in the "Batman" (1966) episode, "Batman: I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle (#3.23)" (1968).
She auditioned unsuccessfully for a role in the film version of West Side Story (1961).
Took her stage name from the ill-fated cruise liner Andrea Doria.
Turned down a role that could have made her star...that of the nubile title role in Lolita (1962), which made a sensation out of Sue Lyon.
Victoria Vetri was charged with attempted murder, after she allegedly shot her husband of 25 years, Bruce Rathgeb, from close range in their Hollywood apartment on Saturday, 16 October 2010. On 7 September 2011, after pleading no contest to charges of attempted voluntary manslaughter, she was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Was a Hollywood Deb Star of 1962.
Was the victim of a brutal attack in her house in Hollywood in 1980, suffering a broken nose and broken ribs. The perpetrators were never caught.