Elisa Bridges

Tiny (5'0") but slim, sexy, and adorable brunette knockout Elisa Rebeca Bridges was born on May 24, 1973, in Miami, Florida, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her father worked as an architect for oil companies and her mother was a travel agent. She had an older brother and a younger sister. Elisa graduated from Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas. She was the Playmate of the Month in the December, 1994 issue of "Playboy." Bridges appeared in several "Playboy" videos and numerous "Playboy" special edition publications. Elisa was "Playboy"'s Video Playmate of the Month for September 1996. She had a small part as a bikini-clad beauty in both the blockbuster hit comedy The Birdcage (1996) and the family comedy Skippy (2001). Bridges was still modeling for "Playboy" when she died suddenly of a drug overdose at age 28 at the Beverly Hills mansion of longtime Hugh Hefner acquaintance Edward Nahem on February 7, 2002.