Victoria Valentino was a serious acting student in New York’s American Theatre Wing. Born in Hollywood during WWII, she was raised in Connecticut in an artistic and musical family during the repressive 1950s. When she became Playboy’s Miss September 1963, it radically redirected her life and career. 

Victoria was a multi-rape, child and domestic abuse and sex trafficking survivor by the age of 21. As a struggling single mother to a racially mixed son before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, she became a Screen Actor’s Guild actress, a Go Go dancer, folksinger-songwriter and opened the first Playboy Club on the Sunset Strip on New Year’s Eve 1964. In 1969, on the very day she celebrated her hard-won success in achieving a recording contract with Capitol Records, her six-year-old son drowned in her music attorney’s swimming pool in the Hollywood Hills. Several weeks later, she was drugged, kidnapped and raped by Bill Cosby.