Electra Chooses Meister

Carmen Electra arrives at the Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards in New York on Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. Electra wore David Meister’s shimmering gold floral lace strapless cocktail dress. BTW, BeansTalk has actually met/interviewed Electra a few times and found her very, very sweet.

Electra, whose real name is Tara Patrick, is a model, TV personality, actress and singer and she’s from Sharonville, OH. (some info gathered from Wikipedia) After moving to California, she met singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career with a girl rap group.

In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then, in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows. Electra has appeared in several films. Surprisingly, given her early work in Playboy and her reputation as a sex symbol, Electra has been very reluctant to appear nude on screen. She has only done one genuine nude scene in a movie, early in her career in The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human. She was briefly married to Dennis Rodman, dated Tommy Lee and married Dave Navarro in 2003. They documented their relationship in 2004 on MTV in 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave. But they didn't really mean it, because they separated last summer, on 17 July 2006. She filed for divorce less than a month later. (Fashion Wire Daily/Grant Lamos IV)