Maria Checa

Maria Checa
Playboy centerfold appearance
August 1994
Preceded by	Traci Adell
Succeeded by	Kelly Gallagher
Personal details
Born	July 29, 1970 (1970-07-29) (age 41) Bogotá, Colombia
Measurements	Bust: 32C" Waist: 23" Hips: 33"
Height	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Weight	95 lb (43 kg)

Maria Checa (born July 29, 1970 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian-American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1994 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.^{[citation needed]}

Checa, who moved with her family to Florida when she was a child, is also an accomplished artist who attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. She also attended and graduated from The New World School of the Arts in Miami.

On December 18, 2008, Checa was named in a legal complaint over insider trading after former boyfriend Jamil A. Bouchareb provided her, and others, with information ahead of public announcements of mergers and acquisitions that allowed them to trade stocks and amass over $4.2 million in illegal profits.^[1]

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1990-1999

References

1. ^ "Maria Checa: Playmate Insider Trading", Digital Alchemy, 2008-12-19, http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2008/12/maria-checa-playmate-insider-trading.html 

External links

• Maria Checa at Playboy.com
• Maria Checa at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Checa, Maria
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Date of birth	July 29, 1970
Place of birth	Bogotá, Colombia
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