Barbie Benton , Barbara Klein , Benton, Barbi , Barbara Benton , Barbara Lynn Klein , Barbi Klein
Awards
TV Land Entertainer Award
Albums
Barbi Doll, Ain't That Just the Way, Barbi Benton, Something New
Nominations
Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Vocalist of the Year
Movies
Deathstalker, Hospital Massacre, The Third Girl from the Left, The Great American Beauty Contest, How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
TV Shows
Hee Haw, Sugar Time!, Playboy After Dark
Star Sign
Aquarius
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I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don't know.
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Fact
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Has became an Interior Decorator [2002]
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Barbi recorded and released four albums for Playboy Records in the 1970's.
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Her husband, George Gradow, is a real estate developer.
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Her father was a military doctor and later physician.
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Her first TV appearances were on the syndicated show, Playboy After Dark (1969), where she functioned as beau Hugh M. Hefner's co-host/sidekick.
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Moved to Los Angeles when she was 16 and found some jobs modeling. Barbi met and started a relationship with Hugh M. Hefner in 1968, when she was only 18 years old. Hef was 42.
Despite her love liaison with Playboy Magazine's Hugh M. Hefner, Benton never was a Playmate of the Month, though she did appear on some covers and in various pictorials
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She recorded country and pop albums.
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Has a son Alexander Benton Gradow (b. August 23, 1986) and a daughter, Ariana Gradow (b. 1988), with husband George Gradow.
$20 Million
