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Revealed to Glamour magazine, that her mother and older sister, Debbie, died within two weeks of each other. Debbie passed away from a heart attack in her sleep in 1998 at age 40, while her mother passed away from several brain tumors.

Was discovered by Prince at age 18, and worked with him on her self-titled debut album that was released in 1993.

Member of the infamous dancing show The Pussycat Dolls.

American scientist, Neal Evenhuis, named an extinct genus of fly after her. The species is called Carmenelectra.

Classmates with Nick Lachey at Princeton High School and the School of Creative and Performing Arts.

Met her ex-husband Dave Navarro on a blind date.

She has English, German, Irish, and distant Dutch, ancestry.

Originally signed by Prince's Paisley Park record label as a hot young talent. She had moderate success with a single named "Go-Go Dancer".

Was a dancer at Kings Island Amusement Park in Ohio.

She married Dennis Rodman in the "Chapel of the Flowers" in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Has appeared in underwear along with Yasmine Bleeth, Alyssa Milano, Melissa Joan Hart, Garcelle Beauvais, Jamie Luner, Peta Wilson and Jeri Ryan on the cover of, and inside the October 1997 issue of "Details" magazine.

Has appeared on the cover of the April 2003 issue of Playboy magazine, with a nude pictorial inside. Howard Stern gave the layout a thumbs up, and commented that she looked better today than she did 10 years ago.

Performed in "Glam Slam Ulysses." Glam Slam Ulysses was a 1993 musical production by Prince, loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, featuring a combination of live performances and video, with thirteen previously unreleased songs. The musical received a limited performance at Prince's Glam Slam nightclub in Los Angeles. (1993)

Has appeared in five movies with the word "movie" in the title: Scary Movie (2000), Date Movie (2006), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Epic Movie (2007) and Disaster Movie (2008).

Voted the Sexiest Woman of the Year by FHM Magazine. In second place was Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue. (September 2004)

Godmother of Lyric London, son of Jeremy London and his wife, Melissa Cunningham.

Attended and graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio in 1990.

Attended the School of Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Older half-brother Rod Mark committed suicide in 2005, after suffering from depression. He shot himself through the heart at his home in Florida. Carmen and Rod did not have the same father. Carmen has admitted that she did not know Mark that well.

One of her favorite movies is the drama film Showgirls (1995).

Was ranked 10th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan (2001).

Named #18 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.

Engaged to musician Dave Navarro. (August 2001)

(July 13, 2013) Inducted into the Bikinis, Texas Bust of Fame during the official grand opening of Bikinis, Texas (formerly Bankersmith, Texas located south of Fredericksburg, Texas owned by ATX Brands, which owns the Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill trademark).

(April 24, 2008) Engaged to her rocker boyfriend, guitarist Rob Patterson.

Hosted VH1's 100 Greatests Artists of Hard Rock

Ranked #28 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

Is the youngest of five children of Patricia (died 1998) and Harry Patrick.

In her November 2003 wedding to Dave Navarro, she wore a strapless beaded Badgley Mischka gown.

(March 7, 2015) Headlining the Diamonds Cabaret 20th Anniversary show, in Dayton, Ohio.

Ranked #59 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).

On The New Tom Green Show (2003), she announced that she was planning to make a strip aerobics video.

Named #9 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.

Among the guests at her wedding to Dave Navarro were Traci Bingham, Kelly Osbourne and Jack Osbourne.

She appeared as a diva on VH1 Divas 2004 (2004). (April 2004)

Her celebrity stylist is Davy Newkirk.