YASMINE BLEETH

Born June 14, 1968 in New York, Yasmine Bleeth has distinguished herself from the rest of the 'typecast' Baywatch cast by proving she can act, and not just fill out a bathing suit. Her acting career though began when she was only six months old, with an endorsement with Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo. She also landed her first cosmetics job at the age of six, with an appearance in a Max Factor campaign. Bleeth attended the United Nations International School in New York while she was doing modeling and acting jobs, though she also drew cold feelings from her classmates, who used to call her "Spazzy Yazzy" because of her unusual name. One time when a movie role sent her away a few months she received strange looks before one of her friends had told her they all had thought she had left to have a child, which she said devastated her at the age of 14. Yasmine began her soap opera career at only the age of 16, when she got the role of Ryan Fenelli in the ABC Soap Ryan's Hope. Her stint their lasted four years and she continued in that vein in 1991 with a role in another ABC soap One Life To Live. Perhaps her most recognized role to this date though landed shortly after her One Life... role ended, when she got the part of Caroline Holden in the syndicated hit Baywatch in 1994. Her three years there helped land her the distinction of People's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1995. Yasmine's success continued after her Baywatch run was up with several appearances in made for TV and big screen roles. She has starred in The Lake, Ultimate Betrayal, Road Rage, and A Face To Die For on the TV movie circuit, while landing roles in BASEketball and Undercover Angels on the big screen. Her most recent TV series role has been playing as Caitlin Cross alongside Don Johnson in the CBS hit Nash Bridges.

Yasmine's off screen life has been much less publicized than some of her wild Baywatch female co-stars. Many are surpassed that unlike her castmates, she has never appeared nude nor has had relationships with members of Motley Crue. She also has confirmed in fact her breasts are real, and not silicon enhanced! She has been described as a 'homebody' by many and rarely makes much of an appearance in tabloid trash. Yasmine's life was touched by tragedy in 1992 when her mother Carina died from breast cancer and she recently opened her own website which will help her share her passion for breast cancer research and early detection to her many fans, which can be found at yasmineonline.com. 

Yasmine had a relationship with Matthew Perry and in face was even in the video for the Rembrandts follow-up hit to "I'll Be There For You" with "This House Is Not A Home". Her most recent and most serious relationship though has been with Richard Grieco, who is best known for his role in 21 Jump Street. There relationship has had its ups and downs and is greatly strained by the fact that Grieco had an affair while dating Bleeth in 1998 with his ex-girlfriend Kimber Sissons, where she reports during that one month period she was living with the actor she became pregnant with his child. What's troubling though are reports that Grieco is a deadbeat dad, which are being leveled at him by Kimber, who claims Grieco has only paid her $1,000 in child support and has never visited his boy, despite the fact he owns a $1.46 million home in LA with $92 thousand in furnishings and another $34 thousand in art, in addition to an exotic car collection. Friends say Richard fears that establishing a relationship with his son may jeopardize his relationship with Bleeth.
September 17, 2002 - Extra has a video clip and photos from the set of the Baywatch reunion, where they spoke with Pamela Anderson and showed Carmen Electra dancing on the set plus a short shot of Yasmine Bleeth. Check it out here.

August 29, 2002 - Former "Baywatch" star Yasmine Bleeth reportedly married a man she met in rehab last year. Watch a video clip from KTLA here.

August 27, 2002 - Former "Baywatch" star Yasmine Bleeth has married Paul Cerrito, a source tells Entertainment Tonight. The very private nuptials are believed to have taken place at the exclusive Bacara resort in Santa Barbara with about 50 guests in attendance.

June 27, 2002 - Star magazine quotes Yasmine Bleeth saying, "Guys take one look at me and it doesn't take them long to figure out that I'm high maintenance."

June 11, 2002 - Billy Masters of Filth2go.com reports that despite claims by Yasmine Bleeth that her engagement to Paul Cerrito has helped her put her life back on track, Masters "saw Bleeth a couple of weeks ago, and she looked quite the worse for wear."

May 25, 2002 - Yasmine is getting married to Paul Cerrito later this summer after his release from jail for drug offenses, which stemmed from his cocaine possession arrest with Yasmine last year. Future mother-in-law Vicki Cerrito says, "She's so happy - this time she's high on love, not drugs. Her arrest was a blessing in disguise because she was able to get the treatment that helped her to finally kick her drug use."

April 18, 2002 - Well ET's website has a story on their interview with Pamela Anderson and Yasmine Bleeth... but no mention of Yasmine's struggle with drug abuse and her recent arrest (they did later mention it on the TV show, but didn't question Yasmine about it - nor did they ask Pamela about her hepatitis C). Check it out here.

April 17, 2002 - Yasmine Bleeth is scheduled to be on VIP with the show's star Pamela Anderson... so Yas will make her first TV appearance since her drug rehab and later arrest. Entertainment Tonight will speak to the former Baywatch pair on Wednesday. Looks like Yas lost quite a bit of weight, hopefully she's cleaned up.

January 21, 2002 - In an abstracts.net poll asking 'Do you believe the drug allegations against Yasmine Bleeth?' 55.7% said yes while 44.3% said no, with 829 total votes... Of course this percentage swung wildly after her arrest in Michigan and subsequent guilty plea.

January 11, 2002 - The guys on the Howard Stern show were discussing how horrible Yasmine Bleeth looked at her court appearance yesterday and wondered how her face blew up like that. They didn't seem too convinced that she's really cleaned up, and Robin thought it was sad what cocaine had done to such a beatiful woman.

January 10, 2002 - Yasmine Bleeth was sentenced Wednesday to two years probation on a cocaine-possession charge where the actress will also undergo regular drug tests, serve 100 hours of community service and pay court costs. Read more.

January 10, 2002 - Entertainment Tonight led with the video footage of Yasmine Bleeth in court today. She looked a little better than before but we found out she's engaged with the habitual criminal scumbag she was arrested with. Read more.

December 1, 2001 - "I was driving under the influence of narcotics. Cocaine, your honor." Those were the words of Yasmine Bleeth in court today to Wayne County Judge Karen Fort Hood. When asked if there was cocaine in her car on September 12,  she said, "Yes." Read more. Check out photos of Yasmine from the court appearance, where she looks much better than the 9/12 mugshot, although heavier than her TV past here.

December 1, 2001 - The New York Post reports Yasmine Bleeth's attorney Jerry Sabbota says Yasmine has been calling Promises in Malibu twice a week to speak about her cocaine abuse but insists now "She's clean." Read more.

November 17, 2001 - Yasmine Bleeth was charged Friday with possession of cocaine in 34th District Court in Romulus, Michigan. She pleaded innocent and was released on a $10,000 personal bond, police said in a statement. A hearing is set for November 30. Read more.

October 19, 2001 - The Enquirer reports Yasmine Bleeth's ex-Baywatch co-stars Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, David Hasselhoff, and Traci Bingham are going to create a 2002 Baywatch calendar with proceeds going to help Yaz get drug counseling.

October 18, 2001 - TV Guide reports problems on the prospects for Baywatch Blast, the much hyped reunion episode. The shooting for the special has been pushed back from the original start of next week to next spring, if at all. David Hasselhoff says of the FOX backed special, "We [had] 25 castmembers on our wish list, but then the budget was way too big. So, now I'm trying to get the big girls like Pamela and Yasmine to come back and go to work where we gave them their start." Read more.

October 14, 2001 - Entertainment Tonight this weekend talked to Baywatch star Donna D'Errico who said she was shocked to learn of Yasmine's drug arrest and that she sympathizes with her situation as her husband Nikki Sixx just finished rehab and is battling his own addictions.

October 5, 2001 - For those wanting to check it out, here's a link to Yasmine's mugshot.