Denise Michele (sometimes credited as ''Denise Kellogg'', born June 12, 1953) is a former '' Playboy'' magazine's

Playmate of the Month A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month (PMOTM). The PMOTM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, along with a pictorial biography and the "Playm ...

, for April 1976. She was born in San Francisco, California and moved to Oahu, Hawaii when she was eight years old, her father's home state. Her ''Playboy'' pictorial was shot by

Ken Marcus Ken Marcus (born October 2, 1946) is an American Photographer, best known for his glamour photography with ''Penthouse'' and ''Playboy'' magazines. For over 40 years he has produced hundreds of centerfolds, editorials, album covers, and advert ...

. She appears on the album cover of Robert Palmer's ''

Some People Can Do What They Like ''Some People Can Do What They Like'' is the third solo album by Robert Palmer, released in 1976. It includes "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" which peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and number 46 in the UK in 1977. The album pe ...

'' (1976), playing strip poker with Palmer and has numerous modeling credits outside of ''Playboy'', including Almond Joy, Pan Am and Calavo. She is married to American film director David Kellogg. They have two boys and a girl and reside in Hidden Hills, California, . She had some minor film roles such as in ''

Tai-Pan A tai-pan (,Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", ''American Speech'', Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414-415. literally "top class"汉英词典 — ''A Chinese-English Dictionary' ...

,'' a 1986 film based on the second novel in

James Clavell James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best ...

's Asian Saga, and stunt work in '' Big Trouble in Little China,'' a 1986 action film, directed by John Carpenter. Michele also appeared in television commercials and the film ''

Three on a Date ''Three on a Date'' is a 1978 American made-for-television romantic comedy film directed by Bill Bixby. This movie-of-the-week premiered on ABC on February 17, 1978. Premise Four couples are winners on a dating show. Cast (in alphabetical order) ...

'' in 1978, the '' Hawaii Five-O'' episode "Nine Dragons" (1976) and '' The Jeffersons'' in 1985.

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