Debra Jensen

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Debra Jensen
Playboy centerfold appearance
January 1978
Preceded by Ashley Cox
Succeeded by Janis Schmitt
Personal details
Born (1958-03-12) March 12, 1958 (age 65)
Orange County, California, United States
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Debra Jensen (born Debra Svensk [1] on March 12, 1958, in Orange County, California) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Phillip Dixon. [2] Jensen was also on the cover of the March, 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. After her time as a Playboy model, she began modeling for Coppertone. More recently, Jensen has appeared on a couple of episodes of the reality TV series The Girls Next Door. [3]

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Jensen grew up in Southern California. As a teenager she worked at a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream shop. She was Kiss drummer Peter Criss's second wife. [4] [5] Criss started dating Jensen while still married to his first wife, Lydia. [6] During her marriage to Peter Criss, she again used her birth name Debra Svensk. [7] She has a daughter with Criss, Jennilee Criss. [1] As of 2011 she was married to Robert Mcmurry. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Svensk, Paul (2011-02-17). "Paul Svensk obituary". Orange County Register . Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  2. Hugh Hefner; Dave Hickey (2008). Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds. Chronicle Books. ISBN   978-0-8118-6091-8.
  3. "Debra Jensen". IMDb. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  4. "Playboy". Playboy. June 1980.
  5. C. K. Lendt (1997). Kiss and sell: the making of a supergroup. Watson-Guptill. p. 118. ISBN   978-0-8230-7551-5.
  6. Martha Smilgis (1979-10-01). "'Cat Man' Peter Criss Ends Lydia's Marital Bliss with a Million-Dollar Kiss-Off". People . 12 (14). Archived from the original on 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  7. "The New Peter Criss Is a Different Drummer: Remarried, Unmasked and Kiss-Less". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2018-08-08.