Carmella Danielle DeCesare (born July 1, 1982) is an American model
who was Playboy magazine's Miss April 2003 and Playmate of the Year
for 2004. She is of Puerto Rican and Italian descent.
DeCesare was born in Avon Lake, Ohio and grew up in Westlake, Ohio.
She graduated from Magnificot High School, an all-girl Catholic school
in 2000. She works at a title company in the Cleveland area. The
brunette responded to Playboy's "Who Wants to Be a Playboy
Centerfold?" search when it came to Cleveland and was selected as a
finalist for the competition. However, she had second thoughts and
withdrew early in the taping of material for the Fox Network special
that aired in the summer of 2002. DeCesare reconsidered once more and
was selected as Playboy 's Miss April 2003.
She competed in the WWE $250,000 RAW Diva Search and came second to
Christy Hemme. Though she came in second, she developed as a heel and
WWE decided to keep her temporarily. She competed in a match against
Christy at Taboo Tuesday and appeared several times on the WWE's RAW
series. She also appeared on the game shows Family Feud on May 10,
2004, the Howard Stern Show, and Street Smarts.
On September 10, 2004, she pled not guilty to assault in a Cleveland,
Ohio court after a scuffle in a bar on August 21, 2004 between
DeCesare and Kristen Hine, the ex-girlfriend of Detroit Lions
quarterback Jeff Garcia, who is dating DeCesare. She was acquitted of
the assault charge on January 12, 2005 but found guilty of violating a
restraining order. She was sentenced to do twenty-four hours of
community service, given one year probation, and fined $150. During
the trial, DeCesare testified that Garcia had been involved in an
affair with Hine.
In 2005, pictures circulated through the internet that appeared to
show that DeCesare had received large breast implants. DeCesare
confirmed this in an episode of the E! reality-TV series The Girls
Next Door in August 2005 where she told fellow Playmate Destiny Davis
her implants looked fake as they were new and had not fully settled.
Her appearances in Playboy Special Editions
* Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 20 August 2004 - cover, pages 1, 3,
28-39.
* Playboy's Playmates in Bed December 2004 - pages 52-55.
* Playboy's Nude Playmates March 2005 - pages 26-31.
* Playboy's Playmates in Bed July 2005 - pages 30-35.