Carmella Danielle DeCesare (born July 1, 1982) is an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year for 2004.

DeCesare was born at Avon Lake, Ohio and graduated from Avon Lake High School in 2000. She works at a title company in the Cleveland area. The brunette responded to Playboy 's "Who Wants to Be a Playboy Centerfold?" search when it came to Cleveland and was selected as a finalist for the competition. However, she had second thoughts and withdrew early in the taping of material for the Fox Network special that aired in the summer of 2002. DeCesare reconsidered once more and was selected as Playboy 's Miss April 2003. Her datasheet in that issue gives her measurements as 34B-24-27 with a height of 5'8".

She competed in the WWE $250,000 RAW Diva Search and came second to Christy Hemme. Though she came in second, she developed as a heel and WWE decided to keep her temporarily. She competed in a match against Christy at Taboo Tuesday and appeared several times on the WWE's RAW series. She also appeared on the game shows Family Feud on May 10, 2004, the Howard Stern Show, and Street Smarts .

On September 10, 2004, she pled not guilty to assault in a Cleveland, Ohio court after a scuffle in a bar on August 21, 2004 between DeCesare and Kristen Hine, the ex-girlfriend of Cleveland Browns quarterback Jeff Garcia, who is dating DeCesare. She was acquitted of the assault charge on January 12, 2005 but found guilty of violating a restraining order. She was setenced to do twenty-four hours of community service, given one year probation, and fined $150. During the trial, DeCesare testified that Garcia had been cheating on her with Hine.

External links

• Official site: [1] (Contains nudity)

References

• "Carmella DeCesare". Cleveland Magazine. v. 34, n. 1. January 2005. 71.
• Bill Lubinger. "PTA presidents, grandmas and actresses: Ohio-linked playmates have nothing to hide". The Plain Dealer. December 1, 2003.
• James F. McCarthy. "Nightclub scuffle leads to charge against quarterback's girlfriend". The Plain Dealer. September 11, 2004.
• "'Playboy' Playmate found not guilty of charge she karate-kicked woman". Dayton Daily News. January 13, 2005. B3.