Biography

When glamorizing the gambling tables at Cannes, the luminescent Simona wins at black jack every time and in Hollywood she wins film roles over hundreds of other actresses vying for the same opportunity. For instances, from 8,000 hopefuls, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has designated that Simona is among their eight finalists in their WWE RAW Diva Search. She will travel throughout the US while all the time being filmed for a documentary by the WWE for later national broadcast of the RAW Diva phenomenon on cable's Spike TV.

Right now, Simona is featured in two motion pictures, which have just wrapped. She stars opposite Michael Madsen and Gary Busey in "Chasing Ghosts" and Simona co-stars with David Keith in a film as yet untitled.

Austrian-born Simona has already achieved iconic status globally with her dazzling figure (34-23-34) and electrifying presence. Her website alone, www.simonafusco.com, percolates with thousands of hits monthly. Known far and wide for her perfect looks, Simona's family boasts other women as noticeable, but for other reasons: her mother, one of the most successful real estate executives in Austria and Italy, has a sister who is among Austria's most powerful politicians.

An object of fierce notice from her earliest years, Simona arrived in the United States at 14. "I filled out by 15 or 16," she remembers. That's when Oliver Stone approached her to play the title role in "Lolita," which her mother flatly refused to let her do. Once the family had moved half a world away to California, her mother ambitiously started a restaurant, Contessa, in Venice, California that thrived for a number of years with great success and where Simona waitressed before her mother was diagnosed with cancer (her mother is now a healthy, robust and resilient cancer survivor). While her mother rallied, the restaurant shuttered, and Simona went to work for Ted Lapidus' store (now closed, where the wealthy and film stars shopped in droves) on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. There this young charismatic knockout was the object of constant attention from the film mecca's superstar community.

Exploiting her great looks, Ted Lapidus' store manager constantly requested that Simona go outside and stand in front of the store, on the sidewalk by the curb. "It's good for business!" he urged. Indeed, Heidi Fleiss, the infamous "Hollywood Madam", who sold her own designer brand at the Lapidus store, noticed Simona's lightening-like effect on men and asked the young blonde siren to join her delicious stable. The street-wise bombshell politely declined. But, in short order, Simona was feverously invited to participate in promotions both through print advertising and personal appearances for Bacardi Rum, Coca-Cola, Miller Lite Beer, Guess by Marciano, NASCAR, and Fiorucci. She appeared in a Vogue Magazine (Japan) layout for Fendi. She has also recently graced the hit HBO series Entourage produced by Mark Wahlberg.

After three years of working for Ted Lapidus, where the créme-de-la-créme of show business were introduced to Simona, she met her husband, an entertainment executive (from whom she is now divorced), who would become the father of her little girl, now 7. Soon enough Simona, when not staying at the couples' Malibu beach mansion, was living in town, in the house once occupied by married screen legends Clark Gable and Carol Lombard, offering a gorgeous view from high atop one of LA's most rarefied canyons.

Now single, Simona, a crafty businesswoman, owns her own sprawling home that rises over three stories in the balmy breezes near Pacific Palisades, California.