Allegra Riggio

Allegra Riggio is an on-air personality for both Television and Radio. She was born in New York to a Trinidadian mother; her father is a United States citizen of Italian and Polish heritage. When Allegra was seven years old, her father received an appointment in the U.S. Foreign Service; her family relocated to São Paolo, Brazil, where they lived for two years, eventually returning to the U.S. and settling in South Florida. In 1993 Allegra gave in to the inexorable pull of South Beach, just as the nightlife culture was exploding. She worked and modeled by day, lead the fabulous life at night, and was soon part of national advertising campaigns, touring with Julio Iglesias, and being featured in local fashion shows. Still in her teens, Allegra enjoyed becoming a Miami celebrity, gracing the shot-on-site pages of every local magazine and newspaper, and being featured as one of Ocean Drive's "Hottest Locals," while a modeling cameo in Cocaine Cowboys proclaimed her the face of the renai