Pre-Jolie
The Angelina Jolie of the 1980s was Kelly LeBrock. Well, in terms of looks if not career. However, they are equally bisexual. In Claudia Christian's 2012 memoir, there was a September 1984 anecdote about something that happened in a West Hollywood nightclub. This was prior to Kelly filming Weird Science (where she replaced Kelly Emberg). The club was called Tramp. They were with Victor Drai, LeBrock’s husband at the time, and Rod Stewart - not Claudia’s boyfriend. Claudia said: “She pushed me back into the bathroom stall as I was exiting, locked the door, pinned me up against the wall, and kissed me on the mouth. It was the first time I'd been kissed by a woman, and it was one of the sexiest moments of my life.”
The twist is that Rod Stewart was someone who Kelly LeBrock had been sleeping with during her marriage to Victor Drai from 1984 to 1986 (the spouses underwent a trial separation by July 1985). The Tramp club was owned by Joan Collins - a friend of Kelly as proven by a 1996 photo of them with Valentino Garavani, Luisa Mattioli and Geoffrey Moore in Gstaad, Switzerland where they were situated inside the Olden Restaurant. On the Imago Images site, Geoffrey was credited as Jeffrey. The surnames of Valentino and Luisa were absent (I guess the logic is that something so good should not have easy access). In the February 17, 1996 issue (#394) of Hello!, there was an article about Geoffrey being Kelly’s boyfriend. This was reiterated in the November 1996 issue of an Italian magazine called Chi. This means “who” but Chi in Chinese means life force.
Weird Science producer Joel Silver missed a beat with Kelly LeBrock. Despite having a reputation for being an action movie producer, he failed to take stock of the fact that she is a tomboy whose love for the country life would have made her ideal for a Western. Kelly would have been perfect for Bad Girls (1994), but Hard Bounty (1995) was a consolation prize seeing as how it began filming a couple of months after the release of the Western that co-starred Andie MacDowell. Kelly and Andie had modelled together in the early eighties. Fate reunited them outside of modelling. They both share the distinction of being bested by Glenn Close. In the September 1989 issue of Orange Coast magazine, it was revealed that Kelly had failed to land the main female role in Fatal Attraction (1987) despite three call-backs. As for Andie, her dialogue was dubbed by Glenn for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).
Back to producer Joel Silver, he made a name for himself by producing action films starring all the heavy hitters but it took him a long time to work with Kelly LeBrock’s husband - Steven Seagal. By the time that both men worked together for Executive Decision in 1995, Steven’s film career had gone down considerably. It had almost been a year since he had separated from Kelly. When Joel began filming Hudson Hawk in July 1990, not only had it been five months since the release of Seagal’s Hard to Kill, but it had been even longer since the film had finished filming. In September 1989, the Seagal film was originally known as Seven Year Storm and it was going to be released later that year. It was only in August 1990 that Andie MacDowell began filming Hudson Hawk. Ironically, Seagal said in April 1994: “The most outstanding thing about Kelly is that she’s very funny. She’s a great comedian with a wonderful sense of humor.”
In the July/August 1993 issue of Spy, Joe Hyams was interviewed to talk about Steven Seagal. Joe had been the vice president of publicity at Warner Brothers since 1970. He was a martial arts buff, so himself and his wife (Elke Sommer) often housed Seagal early on in his career. Joe Hyams was also a friend of Kelly’s former agent, Jerry Pam. Joe had arranged a dinner where Seagal could meet Pam. It’s difficult to believe that Seagal hadn’t already seen the December 1985 issue of U.S. Vogue where Kelly could be seen in a Japan-themed photo shoot, but Joe Hyams said: “During dinner, Seagal asked Pam what was the best way to get publicity. Pam told him the best way was to be seen in the company of somebody famous. Later, Seagal asked if Pam could help him meet Kelly LeBrock. Pam told Seagal that Kelly was currently in Japan.”
The bigamist then flew to Japan to woo the woman who would become his third wife. Within a fortnight, they were lovers. But then we have the Ovitz connection. Michael Ovitz was already established as Hollywood’s number one agent before Steven Seagal had met Kelly LeBrock. Ovitz was already enamored with Japanese culture, which begs the question as to how he met Seagal in the first place. Ovitz wanted Warner Bros. to sign up Seagal, so he used director Richard Donner as a bargaining chip. Because of Seagal being signed, Donner was free to direct Lethal Weapon 2 (which was greenlit in 1987 and began filming in 1988). In actuality, Kelly LeBrock needed Seagal more than he needed her. She was put on a blacklist for wanting to sue Playboy when they used a tastefully obscured nude shot as a two page spread in their June 1986 issue.
I mentioned before that Kelly was in demand for what became Glenn Close’s role in Fatal Attraction. This was filmed from September to December 1986. Being rejected gave Kelly the freedom to get pregnant, so her first child was born in May 1987. The Italian word for May is Maggio, and it just so happens that Maggie Cheung played a character called May in Jackie Chan’s Police Story (1985). In the May 1987 issue of Vogue Italy, journalist Miro Silvera wrote about Kelly’s first film after giving birth. It was going to be a drama called Out. The U.S. release was scheduled for the fall of that year. Miro wrote: “She will play a troubled woman, the wife of a prisoner whose hardships are gradually driving her mad. And in a nursing home, her character will disfigure her beautiful face in a fit of violence.”
This was scrapped. Before the June 1986 issue of Playboy was published, it would appear that Kelly LeBrock may have known that her acting career was more finite when she said that she wouldn’t be returning to the cameras for a while. This was for The Spokane Chronicle in November 1985. While Kelly talked about not wanting to work for the sake of it, the scene in Weird Science where she had French-kissed a 15-year-old boy was a utopia for teenage boys but was an invite for indictment from mature adults. One could only hope that this being ignored was a sign of how many teen films involved teens being played by twentysomething actors. There are some curious double standards in Hollywood. Last year, Demi Moore was vilified when a 1982 video from Entertainment Tonight received new attention for how she kissed an actor during his 15th birthday party.
In 1978, Demi Moore lied about being 18 when she was 16 so that she could do a nude photo shoot. It’s telling that the photos were only published in 1981 but with her credited under an alias: Vivianne Pollentier. Even then, her age was referred to as 23. The Oui and Penthouse magazines didn’t find themselves in a quandary like when Marta Kober had her naughty footage removed from Friday the 13th Part II, which was released in the same year. She was 16 at the time of filming. Coincidentally, Kelly LeBrock had been a model since the age of 16 in 1976. This was the same year when audiences saw Jodie Foster play an underage hooker in Taxi Driver. Brooke Shields was 12 when she played a similar character in Pretty Baby (1978). It remains to be seen how much of a testing experience that modelling was for Kelly.
By the time that we get to the nineties, the salary hierarchy of the above actresses was as follows: Demi Moore, Jodie Foster, Brooke Shields, Kelly LeBrock and Marta Kober. Hollywood is such a perverted place that an underage p*rn star like Traci Lords could only be blacklisted in the p*rn world. She actually went on to have a more high-profile acting career than Marta Kober, who quit acting in 1995. Marta’s final credit was for an episode of Law & Order where she played a character called Chi Chi. Referring you to what I said before, the Italian translation would be Who Who. Despite having more children, Kelly LeBrock continued to act. As of now, she hasn’t done anything for the past four years (this also extends to her Instagram page).
In the left photo, Kelly is with Janice Dickinson. In the right photo, Kelly is with Rachel Hunter. The latter became a model at the age of 16. In 1998, she acted in an erotic thriller called Two Shades of Blue. Her co-star was Marlee Matlin, who later acted in the final three seasons of a lesbian TV series called The L Word. Marlee began acting in this series circa 2006. Later, Rachel Hunter played a lesbian in a Christina Hendricks film featuring an actress from The L Word i.e. Leisha Hailey in La Cucina (2007). Back to Two Shades of Blue, this was also the title of a 1998 Rod Stewart song. Knowing that Rod was a former flame of Kelly LeBrock, this adds more fuel to the fire that his marriage to Rachel lasted from 1990 to 1999.
As for the beige-attired woman in the above photo, Janice Dickinson is definitely bisexual. She has boasted many times about fornicating with many celebrities. Not only has she fornicated with Kelly LeBrock while they were coked out of their minds, but Janice had a threesome with Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren. The latter confirms that he was left incapacitated because being worn out from sex wasn’t good for him when the time came to film fighting footage with Sylvester Stallone for Rocky IV (1985). This makes it all the more curious that it took Janice a long time to have her fling with Sly, but he already had his hands full.
Like many actresses, Grace Jones began her career as a model. In fact, Grace was a model before she became a singer. The sexually fluid nature of the entertainment industry calls into question the specific circumstances of what Claudia Christian mentioned in her 2012 memoir - Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction. In the eyes of an innocent reader, it would be easy to assume that Rod Stewart stole Kelly LeBrock from Victor Drai in a manner befitting the nature of a rock star à la Eric Clapton seducing Pattie Boyd away from George Harrison. For all we know, Rod and Victor may have shared Kelly as a partner if not simultaneously in bed.
About Steven Seagal’s marriage to Kelly ending in 1994, this was the same year when Sylvester Stallone could be seen hooking up with Janice Dickinson. Seagal is actually taller than Sly but is perceived as less manly (which includes the way that he runs). Relationships in Hollywood are notoriously fickle. In 1988, Sly met a model named Jennifer Flavin. They were in a relationship until they called it off in 1994 when Sly thought that he was going to have a child with Janice. A DNA test in February of that year had let him off the hook, so he ended his engagement to Janice. Despite a brief hook-up with model Angie Everhart, he rekindled his relationship with Jennifer to the extent that they got married in 1997, had three children then temporarily split up in 2022 before resuming again. As for Kelly, her next husband’s duration was from 2007 to 2008. No more husbands for her.