Angie Vu Ha
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| name = Angie Vu Ha
| image = Angie Vu Ha Dj Singapore Grand Prix 2011.jpg
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| caption = Vu Ha in 2011
| birth_name = Vu Thi Ha
| birth_date = 1987
| birth_place = Quảng Ninh
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| occupation = model, playmate, DJ, actor
| years_active = 2007-present
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| children = 2 (one with first partner, one with Samuel Le Bihan)
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Angie Vu Ha (born 1987) is a Vietnamese fashion model, DJ and influencer.
Early life and education
Vu Ha was born in Quảng Ninh, Vietnam, the youngest child in a family of three children. She studied business administration and hotel administration at the National Economics University. {{cite news|language=Vietnamese |author= |date=December 11, 2015 |title=Kiều nữ gốc Việt Angie Vũ Hà bị bắt tại Mỹ |url= https://vov.vn/van-hoa/nghe-si/kieu-nu-goc-viet-angie-vu-ha-bi-bat-tai-my-449537.vov?jskey=gublNUPY44Os8u6gfVaSY4cEBaLrszcYAg%3D%3D|work=Voice of Vietnam |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}} She dropped out of school in 2006, forging her parents’ signature to go to Singapore to pursue a modelling career. {{cite news |last=Soh |first=Elizabeth |date=March 22, 2013 |title=‘Supermodel deejays’ in S’pore (Pt 1): They’re sexy and they know it |url=https://sg.style.yahoo.com/entertainment/blogs/singapore-showbiz/singapore-supermodel-djs-ear-eye-candy-one-hot-090101385.html |work=Yahoo News Singapore |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}}
Career
Vu Ha has been working as a model since the age of 17. She started an international modelling career in 2007. In 2012, she appeared on a reality TV show “Underwater Action”. She was offered a DJ job in Singapore at a local bar, beginning her career as a musical artist. She became a professional DJ in 2010. She had also appeared on America's Got Talent in 2015 and released musical albums in 2011 and 2012. Vu Ha is also the head of a modelling agency and has launched a lingerie line {{cite news|language=French |author= |date= |title=Angie Vu Ha|url=https://www.voici.fr/bios-people/angie-vu-ha |work=Voici |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}} and has worked as a Playboy model. {{cite news |last=Young |first=Matt |date=April 27, 2016 |title=Playboy model mum Angie Vu gives incredible interview from prison demanding nail polish and a mirror |url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/playboy-model-mum-angie-vu-gives-incredible-interview-from-prison-demanding-nail-polish-and-a-mirror/news-story/aae95d742be7cce5c52b2930a31646ae |work=news.com.au |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}}
As of 2018, Vu Ha was still modelling, appearing at an F1 event in Singapore, where she also continued her musical career. {{cite news |last=Azliah |first=Nurul |date= September 13, 2016|title=Playboy playmate and DJ Angie Vu Ha returns to Singapore for F1 Pitstop Party after prison release |url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/playboy-playmate-and-dj-angie-vu-ha-returns-to-081830260.html?guccounter=1 |work=Yahoo News Singapore |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}}
She brands herself as “Asia's sexiest supermodel DJ”. {{cite news |language=French|author= |date= August 20, 2016|title=Paris : l'ex-playmate mise en examen pour enlèvement parental |url= https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-l-ex-playmate-mise-en-examen-pour-enlevement-parental-20-08-2016-6056705.php|work=Le Parisien |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}}
Personal Life
Vu Has has a daughter with a French male. She has been in a relationship with French actor Samuel Le Bihan since 2016; the couple had a daughter in 2018. {{cite news|language=French |author= |date=September 18, 2019 |title=Alex Hugo : qui est Angie Vu Ha, la compagne de Samuel Le Bihan ? |url= https://www.voici.fr/news-people/alex-hugo-qui-est-angie-vu-ha-la-compagne-de-samuel-le-bihan-665703|work=Voici |location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}}
Legal Issues
Vu Ha was arrested in November 2015 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on parental kidnaping charges as she was about to board a flight to China with her 9-year-old daughter. She was facing extradition to France, where the child’s father lives. {{cite news |last= Marzulli|first=John |date=April 26, 2016 |title= EXCLUSIVE: Model and DJ Angie Vu going crazy inside Brooklyn jail; ‘This place is so horrible’ |url= https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/04/26/exclusive-model-and-dj-angie-vu-going-crazy-inside-brooklyn-jail-this-place-is-so-horrible/|work= New York Daily News|location= |publisher= |access-date=June 1, 2025}} She was eventually extradited to Paris, where she was accused of not having returned her daughter to France after a vacation to the United States in 2015, then bringing the child to Vietnam. Both parents were separated, with the French courts having fixed the child’s primary residence with the father in France. She would spend six months in prison for the crime.