Cindyana Santangelo, a philanthropist, mannequin and actor who made memorable appearances in music movies for Younger MC and Jane’s Habit and had roles in “ER” and “CSI: Miami,” died Monday at a hospital close to her Malibu residence, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division confirmed to The Occasions.
The Los Angeles County Hearth Division was known as to a house on Westlake Boulevard in Malibu for a medical emergency round 7:15 p.m. Monday, the sheriff’s division mentioned in an alert. She was taken by paramedics to a hospital the place she was pronounced lifeless. The reason for loss of life is unknown; an post-mortem is pending. Sheriff’s murder investigators are helping deputies from the Los Hills Sheriff’s Station with the persevering with investigation, as is routine when the reason for loss of life is unknown.
Born Cindy Lehrer in 1967 in Manhattan, per IMDb, she was raised in Los Angeles. She began out as a dancer, showing in varied music movies within the late Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties, together with Younger MC’s “Bust a Move” video. She additionally delivered the Spanish-language introduction to the “Juana’s Adicción” tune “Stop” in a Jane’s Habit video, main frontman Perry Farrell to later describe her to Spin journal as “the Latin Marilyn Monroe.”
As Cindyana Lair, she appeared on “Married … With Children” as Jiggly Room dancer Sierra Madre.
She married Frank Santangelo in 2001 and was the mom of two boys. Her LinkedIn web page lists her because the director and chief govt of Mermaids Cove Malibu, described as an all-women’s luxurious sober residing facility. In what seem like documentary or reality-show promos based mostly on Mermaids Cove, Santangelo described herself whereas discussing why she selected to assist others.
“I’m Cindyana. I’m a great mommy, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a CEO — and a recovering addict,” she says in a single video, including later, “I had kind of the party rock star life, but I ended up as sort of, everybody knows, a low-bottom junkie.
“When I had the blessing to get clean and sober this time,” she says, “I realized that there was a niche in this market of recovery for people like me. That someone like me could touch only a certain ilk of women, that they would believe it and hear it only from me.”
Santangelo spoke with The Occasions in 2008 when she was providing up what was then her residence in Malibu Cove Colony as an August rental, asking $55,000 monthly. Regis Philbin and his spouse, Pleasure, had been , she mentioned on the time.
Cindyana Santangelo sits within the ocean-view major bed room of her Malibu Cove Colony residence in 2008.
(Los Angeles Occasions)
Santangelo’s mates remembered her on-line Tuesday and Wednesday.
“My heart aches as I write this. I’m still in shock and disbelief. How can you be gone??? … Malibu was your paradise, where your soul danced with the tides and your laughter blended with the sound of the waves,” Cynthia Banuelos wrote on Instagram in a put up mourning Santangelo’s passing. “You had a heart as vast as the ocean, a spirit as free as the wind, and a love that ran deeper than the blue depths you adored. Frank and the Boys (Dante & Lucci), were your reason for living.”
“Swim free, my beautiful mermaid. Until we meet again,” she added.
“Head of the Class” actor Kimberly Russell chimed in on Banuelos’ put up, writing in feedback, “my beautiful Cindyana …. an angel in life …. this is shocking rest in peace …”
“No no no! This is impossible,” German actor Xenia Seeberg wrote in feedback. “We just spoke a few days ago and planned together for Thailand and Istanbul and how we would see each other again much more often…! I am in complete shock. What happened to my beautiful sister??? Much too early to rest in peace.”
Bennington additionally put up her personal Instagram put up the place she thanked Santangelo, saying, “you wrapped your arms around me and accepted me and loved on me as a friend the very first moment you met me I’ll never forget you for welcoming me into your tribe … heartbroken.”
