Birthday: Nov 20, 1943

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: Former fashion model, discovered by Eileen Ford.

Named on 'Us" magazine's "Best Dressed" list for 1983.

Attended Temple University.

Offered the role of an original Angel in the TV-series "Charlie's Angels". She declined and Jaclyn Smith was cast instead.

In 1972, actress Veronica Hamel and her then husband became the new owners of Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood home. They hired a contractor to replace the roof and remodel the house, and the contractor discovered a sophist... ... (read more...) icated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house. The components were not commercially available in 1962, but were in the words of a retired Justice Department official, "standard FBI issue." This discovery lent further support to claims of conspiracy theorists that Marilyn had been under surveillance by the Kennedys and the Mafia. The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the bugging devices from the house.