Carol Vitale

Infobox Playboy Playmate


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name = Carol Vitale
issue = July 1974
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birthplace = Elizabeth, New Jersey
birthdate = birth date|1948|11|14
deathdate = Death date and age|2008|07|23|1948|11|14
deathplace = Aventura, Florida
bust = 37"
waist = 22"
hips = 35"
height = height|ft=5|in=6
weight = convert|115|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = Sandy Johnson
succeeded = Jean Manson
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Carol Vitale (born November 14, 1948 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, died July 23, 2008 in Aventura, Florida) was an American model and television program hostess/personality. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1974 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by David Chan.

Carol grew up in New Jersey with six brothers and sisters. She had a very wholesome childhood and was close to her maternal grandparents. When she turned 18, she and a friend moved to Florida to pursue modeling careers. Carol found work right away posing for Oldsmobile and was a finalist in the Miss Florida-World contest.

Carol was working at the Playboy Club in Miami Beach at the time of her "Playboy" photo session. Her pictorial was titled "Beach Blonde" because of her love for the beach and water. An opening photo of her pictorial showed her topless on the beach with her back turned, looking over her shoulder smiling while stripping off her bikini bottom.

In all, she appeared in three "Playboy" pictorials, as well as the cover of the August 1972 issue wearing a white bikini and floating on a rabbit head shaped innertube in the ocean, nearly a year before she was a Playmate.

She was with the Playboy Club for five years and was very proud of her work there. By 1979, Carol had decided that she needed a change of pace and moved to Los Angeles. She found a job with the publicity department of Universal Studios.

In the early 1980s, Carol became interested in broadcasting, and learned the ropes at KISS-FM, a Los Angeles radio station. This led to her getting her very own talk show. "The Carol Vitale Show" ran for 11 years on the USA Network. Her interview subjects were mostly film stars, "Playboy" Playmates and authors. In 1998, Hugh Hefner himself was a guest.

Later, Carol had developed a line of sensual lingerie that was sold through Frederick's of Hollywood and "Playboy". She also spent much of her time developing her own website, www.carolvitale.com (no longer live), continued to model, and attended "Playboy" events. In addition, her talk show remains in syndication. Carol owned two homes and divided her time between Los Angeles and Miami.

Carol died on July 23, 2008 at her condo in Aventura, Florida, the cause of death reportedly being a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [cite web|url=http://www.charlottekemp.com/cgi/journal.pl|title= Playmate Charlotte Kemp's online journal, Item 7332740819|accessdate= 2008-09-02|author= Charlotte Kemp] She had been suffering from lupus and scleroderma in recent years. [cite web|url= http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/626749.html|title= Playboy model, talk host took it all off for 3 decades|accessdate= 2008-08-02|author= Elinor J. Brecher|date= 2008-08-02|publisher= Miami Herald]

ee also

* List of people in Playboy 1970-1979

References

External links

* [http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmates/personal/carolvitale/ Carol Vitale's website on Playboy.com]
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