Since posing on Playboy's centerfold, Victoria has been a Bunny at the Los Angeles Playboy Club, an actress, a singer-songwriter, a straight-A college student, a hippie, a model, an Oregon goat farmer, a Cajun-country pecan picker, a registered nurse and a writer. Three failed relationships, one of them abusive, brought both sadness (the death of her only son by drowning) and joy (two daughters, one in college and the other bound there in fall 1997). 

Besides working in home health care, Victoria writes, edits and publishes a newsletter called "Victoria Valentino's Centerfold Sweethearts," which focuses on Playmates (and the occasional Bunny). She had sharpened long-latent writing skills by contributing an erotic fantasy to the 1995 Playboy Newsstand Special "Playmates in Bed," and is considering writing a memoir of her eventful life. 

Victoria also hopes to return to acting. Some years ago, she studied at the American Theater Wing in New York City and MGM Studios in Los Angeles; her credits include summer stock in Connecticut and a recent role in an interactive CD-ROM designed to teach math to schoolchildren. 


PLAYBOY APPEARANCES: Centerfold, September 1963; "Playmates Revisited," November 1964.

PLAYBOY NEWSSTAND SPECIALS: "Playboy's Playmates: The First 15 Years," January 1983.

PLAYBOY VIDEO CREDITS: "Playboy's Playmates: The Early Years" (1991).

PLAYBOY BOOK APPEARANCES: "The Playmate Book" (1996).

PLAYBOY CALENDARS: 1966.