“These guys started touching my thighs and face and hair. “Entourage and homies from the ‘hood showed up and started trying to paw and put their hands where they didn’t belong.”įord ducked into an empty room and eight men followed. “They hired over 50 girls … running in and out of hotel rooms,” Ford recalled. She was at the Parker Meridian Hotel in Midtown, where Ghost Face Killah’s “Cherchez La Ghost” video was being shot. Nevertheless, in at least one instance, the trouble came to Ford. If you were looking for trouble you would find it. “It was like the Serengeti, with lions picking off antelopes,” recalled Ford who has acted on shows like “Tough Love: Los Angeles” and “Entourage” and is currently hosting a podcast called “I’m Here for the Food.” “If you wanted sex with the artist or drugs or drink it was available. Nw 44, she acknowledged that women on set had to watch their backs because of predatory men. I had never seen anyone pouring champagne on women before - and it became a signature move in Roc-A-Fella videos.”įord was studying forensic psychology at York University in Toronto when she was discovered by video director Little X. “I told him that if he came near me with that fucking bottle, I would break it over his head. “ Damon Dash, a f–king drunk degenerate at the time, started pouring champagne on girls during that shoot,” she told The Post of the 2000 production. Melyssa Ford turned down the champagne while shooting Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” video on a yacht in Trinidad. Melyssa Ford: The ‘Big Pimpin’ girl Melyssa Ford was featured in Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin'” video. I didn’t know that Prince lived in Minneapolis.” I later heard from Apollonia that Prince told her I wouldn’t even audition for his movie. “I said there are no princes in Minneapolis. “I thought I was told that I had an invitation to go to Minneapolis to meet a prince,” said Keough, now a divorced mom and real-estate broker in Southern California. After her second husband Matt Keough watched one of the videos, she recalled, “He told a mutual friend, ‘I want to meet that girl.’”īut she also missed an opportunity with one of the world’s most esteemed musicians. “Those videos played so often, they would have made me rich.”īut other good things did come from the jobs. “Because it was non- union, I didn’t get residuals,” she said. She was paid $5,000 to $10,000 per day, but broke Screen Actors Guild rules as the videos were non-union jobs. They were all married, if I remember right, and sweet Texas boys.” “I thought their songs all sounded the same,” she said. Keough got recruited in 1983 for “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” her first of four ZZ Top shoots, but wasn’t exactly a fan of the band. “My life was dinner at expensive restaurants and going to the Mansion for movie night” - where Hefner would sometimes play her ZZ Top videos ahead of the feature films. “I lived a few blocks from the Playboy Mansion,” said Keough. Such was life in the 1980s for Keough, now 65 and known for “ Real Housewives of Orange County.” A Franklin, Wis., native, she moved to to Los Angeles, acted in commercials and graced a Playboy centerfold in November 1980. “I was the only one who had a nice car: a $127,000 Mercedes-Benz, given to me by the head of Televisa - a gift for putting Kenny Rogers together with Julio Iglesias for him.” Of the four women featured in “Legs,” only Jeana Keough was trusted to drive ZZ Top’s signature 1933 Ford Eliminator. Jeana Keough, the ‘Legs’ girl Model and actress Jeana Tomasino, who was featured in several ZZ Top music videos. Here’s what five video vixens are up to today. “She was hurt by a lot of s–t on the inside she lived in a bubble. “She was like a woman-child who had naiveté,” Brown told The Post. Chuck would be pitching and she’d distract him.”īobbie Brown, who gained fame as the hot blonde in Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” video, met Kitaen five years ago when they hosted a rock festival together. Jeana Keough, a ZZ Top video siren-turned-“Real Housewife of Orange County,” recalled Kitaen as “a talented actress, beautiful and sexy.
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