Debra Jensen
{{short description|American model (born 1958)}}
{{Infobox Playboy Playmate
| name = Debra Jensen
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| issue = January 1978
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| birth_place = Orange County, California, United States
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1958|3|12}}
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| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}
| preceded = Ashley Cox
| succeeded = Janis Schmitt
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Debra Jensen (born Debra Svensk{{Cite web|url=https://obits.ocregister.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?n=paul-g-svensk&pid=148687328|title=Paul Svensk obituary|last=Svensk|first=Paul|publisher=Orange County Register|date=2011-02-17|access-date=2018-08-29}} on March 12, 1958, in Orange County, California) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Phillip Dixon.{{cite book|last=Hugh Hefner|author2=Dave Hickey|title=Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8118-6091-8}} Jensen was also on the cover of the March, 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. After her time as a Playboy model, she began modeling for Coppertone. More recently, Jensen has appeared on a couple of episodes of the reality TV series The Girls Next Door.{{cite web|title=Debra Jensen|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2336830/bio|website=IMDb|accessdate=12 April 2013}}
Personal
Jensen grew up in Southern California. As a teenager she worked at a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream shop. She was Kiss drummer Peter Criss's second wife.{{cite magazine|title=Playboy|magazine=Playboy|date=June 1980}}{{cite book|last=C. K. Lendt|title=Kiss and sell: the making of a supergroup |publisher=Watson-Guptill|year=1997|pages=118|isbn=978-0-8230-7551-5}} Criss started dating Jensen while still married to his first wife, Lydia.{{cite journal|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074717,00.html|last=Martha Smilgis|date=1979-10-01|title='Cat Man' Peter Criss Ends Lydia's Marital Bliss with a Million-Dollar Kiss-Off|journal=People|volume=12|issue=14|access-date=2010-04-24|archive-date=2009-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815184114/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074717,00.html|url-status=dead}} During her marriage to Peter Criss, she again used her birth name Debra Svensk.{{Cite news|url=https://people.com/archive/the-new-peter-criss-is-a-different-drummer-remarried-unmasked-and-kiss-less-vol-14-no-16/|title=The New Peter Criss Is a Different Drummer: Remarried, Unmasked and Kiss-Less|work=PEOPLE.com|access-date=2018-08-08|language=en}} She has a daughter with Criss, Jennilee Criss. {{Asof|2011}} she was married to Robert McMurry.
See also
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External links
- {{playmate|debra-jensen|Debra Jensen}}
{{playmates of 1978}}
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Category:1970s Playboy Playmates
Category:Female models from California
Category:People from Orange County, California
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