- Born
- Birth nameVictoria Cecilia Vetry
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Born Victoria Vetri (but also known as Angela Dorian) to Italian parents (her mother was from Rome, her father Sicily) and grew up in Los Angeles. She studied art at Los Angeles City College in the 60s before embarking on her movie-television career. Thanks to her beautiful, exotic looks she was cast in parts that required ethnic beauties or scantily clad lovelies. She then posed for Playboy, becoming Miss September, 1967; and was later honored as the 1968 Playmate of the Year, becoming one of the most popular Playmates of the Vietnam War era.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ken Severson
- SpousesBruce Joseph Rathgeb(1987 - March 28, 2016) (divorced)Heinz Gottfried Schwetz(November 13, 1978 - February 25, 1983) (divorced)John Lee Hage(December 29, 1966 - May 1967) (divorced)Hugh Terry Whettam(April 7, 1963 - 196?) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenBret Barkley Whettam
- ParentsCeasarina LiberatoriWilliam Pietro Vetry
- Often plays scantily clad beautiful women
- Voluptuous bombshell figure
- She was charged with attempted murder, after she allegedly shot her husband of 25 years, Bruce Rathgeb, from close range in their Hollywood apartment on October 16, 2010. On September 7, 2011, after pleading no contest to charges of attempted voluntary manslaughter, she was sentenced to nine years in prison. She was incarcerated in the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla and released on parole in April 2018.
- In a friendly exchange scene near the beginning of Rosemary's Baby (1968), Mia Farrow meets another young woman who lives in her apartment building and mistakes her for actress Victoria Vetri. The woman says she is not and introduces herself as Terry Gionoffrio. The inside joke is that the woman in the movie actually was Victoria. However, she was billed in the credits as Angela Dorian, the name she used when she posed for "Playboy".
- As of February 2013 was incarcerated in the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla.
- She was the victim of a brutal attack in her house in Hollywood in 1980, suffering a broken nose and broken ribs. The perpetrators were never caught.
- During one of her "Playboy" photo sessions, she was being photographed while reclining in a hammock that gave way. She suffered two broken ribs.
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