{"id":27549,"date":"2021-05-08T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27549"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:35","slug":"rip-tawny-kitaen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27549","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Tawny Kitaen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z050821rip_tawny_kitaen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><br \/>Tawny Kitaen, the model and actress, died yesterday at the age of 59.\u00a0 No cause of death has been released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born Julie Kitaen, she began using the nickname Tawny while still in junior high.\u00a0 Kitaen, who was dating Ratt band member Robbin Crosby while she was still in high school, appeared on Ratt&#8217;s first two album covers.\u00a0 In 1984, she earned a part in the Tom Hanks&#8217; comedy, <em>Bachelor Party<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1987, Kitaen rocketed to fame after appearing in three Whitesnake music videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tawny Kitaen&#8217;s career spanned 36 years with 45 acting credits.\u00a0 She was a regular on <em>The New WKRP in Cincinnati<\/em> which ran for 2 seasons.\u00a0 Other notable roles included characters on<em> Seinfeld, Married with Children<\/em>, and <em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tawny Kitaen&#8217;s private life got as much press as her professional career.\u00a0 In 1989, she married Whitesnake lead singer,\u00a0 David Coverdale.\u00a0 They divorced in 1991.\u00a0 She had an affair with O.J. Simpson while he was married to Nicole Brown Simpson.\u00a0 In 1997, she married professional baseball player, Chuck Finley.\u00a0 They had two daughters during their five year marriage which ended in 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ll always remember Tawny Kitaen from her appearances in the Whitesnake videos.\u00a0 I was teaching junior high at the time and 9 out of 10 boys had pictures of her on their notebooks and in their lockers.\u00a0 According to Marty Callner, who directed the famous Whitesnake videos:\u00a0 &#8220;She (Tawny Kitaen) had so much magic, so much charisma, so sexy, so sweet, I loved her immediately, and I knew, and was right that she would be not only the first, but the ultimate video vixen.&#8221;\u00a0 Who can argue with that?<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Tawny Kitaen&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tawny Kitaen, the model and actress, died yesterday at the age of 59.\u00a0 No cause of death has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27550,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions\/27550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}