Denice D. Lewis

Denice D. Lewis was a high profile fashion model in the 1980s. Following her acting career she now also works as an artist in Los Angeles.

Modeling

It has been reported that Lewis was the highest-paid catwalk model in Europe during the 1980s.^[1] As a model she was represented by various agencies including Legend, Ford, and Elite Model Management. She appeared on a number of high profile magazine covers, most famously Tatler.

Magazine covers

Acting career

Alongside appearances in music videos such as Kiss and Tell by Brian Ferry, Slow Rivers by Elton John and Cliff Richard, and I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred; Lewis pursued an acting career in the 1990s. She had small roles in episodes of the TV shows Red Shoe Diaries, Burke's Law, Silk Stalkings, and Renegade. She also appeared in films, including H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, Edward D. Wood’s I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, and as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife in End of Days.^[5]

Music Videos

Television

Film

Personal life

Lewis's personal life saw her publicly linked to a number of high-profile men, most notoriously for five years with Dodi Fayed who had a photograph of them together on his desk.^[7] She was also linked to the Texan tycoon, Steve Wyatt at the time he was notoriously photographed with the Duchess of York.^[8] Lewis was also romantically linked with the actors George Hamilton,^[9] Pierce Brosnan,^[10] and singer-actor Jason Donovan.^[11]

In the early 2000s Lewis became an abstract artist in Los Angeles, specialising in memorial paintings in which the ashes of the deceased are mixed with the pigment.^[7]

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