Shera Bechard | |
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 Shera Bechard in 2010 | |
| Born | Shera Lorraine Marie Bechard September 14, 1983 |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Occupation(s) | model actress |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
Shera Lorraine Marie Bechard (born 14 September 1983 in Kapuskasing, Ontario) is a Canadian model who was Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 2010. She also appears sporadically as an actress.
Bechard was born and raised in Kapuskasing, Canada. [1] At the age of 18, Bechard moved to Toronto to pursue a career as a model.
In her years as a model, she worked with people like Marcus Klinko, George Whiteside, Ian Cuttler and rock singer and photographer Bryan Adams. She also worked with director Andrew Thomas Hunt, who chose her in the lead role Karma in his 2009 film Sweet Karma. [2]
While Bechard attended the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival, she had a picture of hers drawn by cartoonist Doug Sneyd, who proceeded to say she could appear on Playboy, where he frequently collaborated. Bechard sent some of her pictures to Sneyd, and two weeks later she doing a test shoot that led her to become the Playmate of the month for November. [3] [4]
In 2011, she was the partner of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. [5]
The Wall Street Journal reported in April 2018 that Bechard was having an affair with Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy. After becoming pregnant by Broidy in late 2017, Bechard had an abortion. Her lawyer, Keith Davidson, negotiated the payment of US$1.6 million as money for silence through Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer at that time. [6] [7] On July 6, 2018, Bechard filed a lawsuit against Broidy, Davidson and Michael Avenatti in California, alleging that Broidy had stopped paying the rest of the money for her silence. [8] [9] [10]
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