Patricia Velasquez

Patricia Velasquez

Patricia Velásquez is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model. According to Wikipedia: Her full name is Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún. She is an Amerindian of Wayuu tribal ancestry, with some Spanish ancestry. She is the fifth of the... [more]

Patricia Velásquez is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model. According to Wikipedia: Her full name is Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún. She is an Amerindian of Wayuu tribal ancestry, with some Spanish ancestry. She is the fifth of the six children of a couple of Latin-American teachers. In her early life, she also lived in Mexico and France. Velásquez identifies as bisexual, and dated comedian Sandra Bernhard in the mid-1990s. She is 5 ft 9½ in tall. In 2002 Velásquez founded the Wayúu Tayá Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting the Wayúu, a Venezuelan indigenous group.

 
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By RAFAEL BERROCAL R. and SANTIAGO FASCETTO for La Prensa - On the morning of 28 October 2008, David Murcia and Alexandre Ventura Nogueira were meeting and talking about business. The discussions centered around the possibility of Ventura Nogueira purchasing the DMG franchise in Panama. During the meeting, Murcia commented to his possible future business partner (Ventura Nogueira) that at any moment he was expecting a visit from the PRD candidate for Mayor of Panama City, Roberto "Bobby" Velásquez. Ventura Nogueira didn't pay much attention to the comment and their discussions turned to other subjects. At around 7:30 pm while Ventura Nogueira was eating ... Read Full Story
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Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún (born January 31, 1971) is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model In 1997 she studied acting in Los Angeles and New York. In 1998, she paced down runways in ready-to-wear fashion shows for designers such as Antonio Berardi, Bella Freud, Corinne Cobson, Claude Montana, and Dolce & Gabbana. As for print advertising, Velásquez appeared in ads for Chanel's Allure, Roberto Verino's Verino fragrance, as well as Victoria's Secret. Early in her modeling career, she appeared in several issues of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This led to a large number of further modeling engagements, which ultimately culminated in her ... Read Full Story
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By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - Yesterday TVN Channel 2 together with the polling company Dichter & Neira released what appears to be their last official polling results, now just nine days before the actual elections on 3 May 2009. The most interesting race has been that for the position of Mayor of Panama City, primarily between the PRD candidate Roberto "Bobby" Velásquez and the "Alliance for Change" candidate Bosco Vallarino. Both have have been dealing with their respective scandals - Bosco over his dual US-Panamanian citizenship and Bobby over an alleged $6 million dollar campaign donation called an "investment" supposedly made by jailed ... Read Full Story
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.autotagframe1 { float:right; padding:5px; width:210px; border: silver solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center; } Fernando Aguilar, Arles Araúz and Rodrigo Ureña - The Three Former SPI Agents Who Guarded David Murcia B y SANTIAGO FASCETTO and RAFAEL BERROCAL R. for La Prensa - Fernando Aguilar, the former agent of Panama's Institutional Protection Service (SPI) who guarded David Murcia, said yesterday he witnessed a meeting between David Murcia and PRD mayoral candidate Roberto Velásquez Abood. Aguilar said that Velásquez - together with his father - met with Murcia in the Presidential Suite of the Sheraton hotel in Panama City between 27 and 28 October 2008, and that ... Read Full Story
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Patricia Velasquez Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún was born January 31, 1971 in Zulia, Venezuela. She is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model. Velásquez appeared in ads for Chanel's Allure, Roberto Verino's Verino fragrance, as well as Victoria's Secret. She also appeared in several issues of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She appeared as Anck-Su-Namun in the 1999 film The Mummy and the 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. Patricia was also in the video Breaking the Girl, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. On TV she has appeared in The L Word, Arrested Development and CSI: Miami. Patricia is fluent in English, French, Italian and ... Read Full Story
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