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Aída María Yéspica Jaime. She is a Venezuelan beauty queen born on July 15, 1982 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Aida Yespica’s career began in the Venezuelan famous national pageant Miss Venezuel…

Aida Yespica’s career began in the Venezuelan famous national pageant Miss Venezuela in 2002. As Miss Amazonas, she represented the state of Amazonas. The winner was Mariangel Ruiz but Yespica became a big favorite among the press. Her measurements 90-60-90 despite her average height made her capture the attention of the press. "Capture the attention of the press" might be the most political way of saying "she’s freakishly hot" ever.

Aida Yespica Jaime moved to Milan, Italy to start her modeling career back in 2003. She has become a big star in the Italian entertainment business and has graced the covers of multiple magazines including GQ and Maxim. Aida appears regularly in Fashion TV and RAI doing photoshoots, fashion commercials or as a presenter.

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On January 2007 Veronica Lario, the wife of ex İtalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi published a scathing front page letter to the editor in "La Repubblica" in which she asked Silvio Berlusconi to apologize for flirting openly with two women at a public event. In the letter, she said that her dignity had been violated. This letter was published on January 31, 2007 and Silvio Berlusconi’s party issued a public statement saying he would always protect her dignity.

At a recent awards dinner, Berlusconi was quoted as saying : "If I wasn’t already married I would marry you right away" to Mara Carfagna, a representative of Forza Italia, and "With you I’d go anywhere" to Yéspica.

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Zhang Ziyi or 章子怡, pinyin. She was born on February 9, 1979, in Beijing. She is one of the best-known Chinese film actresses, with a string of Chinese and international hits to her name. Zhang has been named one of the Four Young Dan actresses (四小花旦) in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun.

At the age of 19, Zhang was offered her first role in Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home, which won the Silver Bear award in the 2000 Berlin Film Festival. Zhang further rose to fame due to her role as the headstrong Jen in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she won the Independent Spirit’s Best Supporting Actress Award and the Toronto Film Critics’ Best Supporting Actress Award.

Zhang’s first appearance in an American movie was in Rush Hour 2, but because she didn’t speak English at the time, Jackie Chan had to interpret everything the director said to her. In the movie, her character’s name, "Hu Li," is translated from Mandarin Chinese to "Fox". Zhang then appeared in Hero, with her early mentor Yimou, which was a huge success in the English-speaking world and an Oscar and a Golden Globe contender. Her next film was the avant-garde drama Purple Butterfly by Lou Ye, which competed at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Zhang went back to the martial arts genre with House of Flying Daggers (十面埋伏), which earned her a Best Actress nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2046, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring many of the best-known Chinese actors and actresses, Zhang was the female lead and won the Hong Kong Film Critics’ Best Actress Award and the Hong Kong Film Academy’s Best Actress Award. Showing her whimsical musical tap-dancing side, Zhang starred in Princess Raccoon, directed by Japanese legend Seijun Suzuki, who was honored at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2005, Zhang landed the lead role of Sayuri in the film adaptation of the international bestseller Memoirs of a Geisha. For the film, she reunited with her 2046 co-star Gong Li and with her Crouching Tiger co-star Michelle Yeoh. For the role, Zhang received a 2006 Golden Globe Award nomination, a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and a BAFTA nomination. Zhang has also been known to sing, and was featured on the House of Flying Daggers soundtrack with her own musical rendition of the ancient Chinese poem, Jia Rén Qu (佳人曲, The Beauty Song).

The song was also featured in two scenes in the film. On June 27, 2005, it was announced that Zhang had accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), placing her among the ranks of those able to vote on the Academy Awards. In May 2006, Zhang became the youngest member to sit on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. In the fall of 2006, Zhang played Empress Wan in The Banquet (Yè Yàn 夜宴), a film set in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang provided the voice of Karai in the TMNT movie that was released on March 23, 2007. She later starred in Forever Enthralled (2008) (previously titled Mei Lanfang) and will appear in The Horsemen (2009) with Dennis Quaid. Zhang will sing for the first time in a duet with Leon Lai for the movie Forever Enthralled.

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Veronica Varekova was born on June 1977 in Olomouc, Czech Republic as Veronika Vareková. She is a supermodel. She has been featured on the cover of the 2004 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

At age 19, she moved to New York City, USA. Initially, she wanted to attend the Parsons School of Design, though she chose modeling instead and was signed by Next Model Management. She moved to Europe after it became clear that she would be more successful there.

Varekova has appeared in the swimsuit edition a total of six times: 1999-2002, 2004, and 2005. She appeared on the cover in 2004. In addition to SI, she is regularly featured in Victoria’s Secret and became the face of NIVEA. Other contracts include Guess?, Chanel and Pantene.

In May 2006 Vařeková claimed that Maxim magazine unlawfully used a photograph of her scantily clad — in stockings, high heels and naked from the waist up — on the cover of its June issue. The photo was taken for a British GQ magazine feature on Victoria’s Secret last year. Afterward, the photo agency Corbis sold the photos to Maxim. Vařeková says she was never told of the sale, nor was she asked for her permission to do so.

"They put me on the cover without my permission," the model told reporters. "They have no right to do it." Vařeková says the photos were fitting for a feature on Victoria’s Secret, but "for Maxim, it looks — to my eyes — super, super vulgar." Regardless, Maxim placed Varekova at #32 on its 2006 Hot 100

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Vin Diesel was born on July 18, 1967. He is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a "multi-faceted" actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records.

Diesel’s first film role was an uncredited appearance in the 1990 film Awakenings. He then produced, directed and starred in the 1994 short film Multi-Facial, a short semi-autobiographical film which follows a struggling actor stuck in the audition process, because he is regarded as either "too black" or "too white", or not black or white enough. He made his first feature-length film, 1997’s Strays, an urban drama in which he was self-cast as a gang boss whose love for a woman inspires him to try to change his ways. Written, directed and produced by Diesel, the film was selected for competition at the 1997 Sundance Festival, leading to an MTV deal to turn it into a series.

He was then cast in Steven Spielberg’s 1998 Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan on the poignancy of his performance in Multi-Facial. He then earned critical acclaim for voice work as the title character in the animation film The Iron Giant (1999). He followed it up with a major role in Boiler Room (2000) and then got his breakthrough role as the anti-hero Riddick in Pitch Black (2000). He then attained action hero super stardom with the box office hits The Fast and the Furious (2001) and xXx (2002).

In 2004, he reprised his role as Pitch Black’s Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick which did only moderately well at the box office. In 2005 he played a lighthearted role in the comedy film The Pacifier which was a surprise box office success. In 2006 he attempted a dramatic role when he played real-life mobster Jack DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty. Although he was critically acclaimed for his performance, the film bombed at the box office. Later that year he made a cameo appearance in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, reprising his role from The Fast and The Furious. Diesel was originally offered the lead in 2 Fast 2 Furious but turned it down. He was also offered the chance to reprise his role from xXx in xXx: State of the Union but also turned it down. In March 2006, Diesel stated that he was working on a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick which as of 2008 is still in pre-production stages.

In 2007, he was set to produce and star as Agent 47 in the film adaptation of the video game Hitman, but eventually pulled out from the role and served as executive producer on the film instead. In 2008 he stars in the science-fiction action thriller Babylon A.D..

After seven years, he is reprising his role as Dominic Toretto in the fourth film of The Fast and The Furious series, titled Fast and Furious which will be released in June 2009.

Vin Diesel has a daughter, Hania Riley, born April 2, 2008, with his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez. Speaking to An tEolas, an Irish newspaper, Diesel spoke of how he has been seen as a hard man, but is in touch with his soft side as a proud father.

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Taryn Manning was born on November 6, 1978 in Tucson, Arizona. She is an American actress, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter. She is the vocalist for electronic duo Boomkat and co-owner of clothing brand, called Born Uniqorn.

Her first role in a major motion picture was in the Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez romantic-comedy crazy/beautiful in which she played the best friend of Dunst’s character. crazy/beautiful was followed shortly by a prominent role in the 2002 feature film, Crossroads, where she played one of two best friends of pop star Britney Spears. Her subsequent film roles included supporting roles in White Oleander, 8 Mile, A Lot Like Love and the historical epic Cold Mountain. In 2005 she appeared in the drama film Hustle & Flow, opposite Terrence Howard, playing a troubled prostitute in Memphis, Tennessee. The film received critical acclaim and was generally considered a success.

Taryn Manning was nominated in Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards in category Best Breakthrough Performance for: Hustle & Flow. Her next film was Weirdsville, a comedy co-starring Scott Speedman and Wes Bentley. Boomkat’s song "It’s Not My Fault" appeared on the soundtrack of Weirdsville as a duet by Manning and John Rowley. In 2007, she played Ivy Chitty on the short-lived but critically acclaimed Fox television series Drive, which was a drama about various people competing in an illegal cross-country road race. In a comedy film After Sex, Manning played the supporting role of Alanna. Taryn co-starred in romantic-comedyJack and Jill vs. the World opposite Freddie Prinze Jr.

The film was well received by viewers and received generally mixed reviews from critics. She also made guest appearances in Sons of Anarchy as Cherry and as the female lead in Butch Walker’s music video ""The Weight Of Her". After a break from music, Boomkat released their first single in four years, called "Runaway" on April 8, 2008. Despite being the lead single of their second album, "Runaway" failed to reach the heights of their previous singles. In June 2008 Boomkat’s second album A Million Trillion Stars became available in online stores.

The album was released through an independent record label, Little Vanilla. In the summer of 2008 Boomkat filmed the yet to be released music video for "Run Boy". In October 2008 Boomkat played several shows throughout the Los Angeles area, hitting spots like North Hollywood’s NOHO Scene Festival and venues such as, the Viper Room & Hotel Cafe. In 2008 Manning recorded a version of Tom Petty’s "Christmas All Over Again",which premiered on her official Myspace page.

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