Darcy LaPier (born July 9, 1965) is an American former actress and model.

Early life

LaPier graduated from

Portland State University Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the next ...

. She also studied drama at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...

and Huntington Film Institute in Florida.

Personal life

She was first married, at the age of 19, to Larry Ray Robertson (from 1984 to 1993), but, while participating in a

Hawaiian Tropic Hawaiian Tropic is an American brand of suntan lotion that was founded by Ron Rice in 1969. Hawaiian Tropic became the largest private manufacturer of sun care products in the United States. The company was acquired by Playtex Products, Inc. in ...

Beauty Pageant in 1985, she caught the eye of Ron Rice, Hawaiian Tropic's founder. After one date, they quickly became inseparable and were married in 1991. This union produced a daughter, Sterling. While still married to Ron Rice, she met and fell in love with actor

Jean-Claude Van Damme Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (, ; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (, ), is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate schoo ...

, who was married to bodybuilder Gladys Portugues at the time. After learning of Darcy's affair with Van Damme, Rice began divorce proceedings, but upon learning that at the time of their marriage she was not yet divorced from her first husband, he had the marriage annulled. (As a consequence, LaPier was entitled to child support, but not alimony, from Ron Rice.) She then married a now-divorced Van Damme in

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in February 1994; their marriage lasted until November 1997. This marriage produced a son, Nicholas van Varenberg (born October 10, 1995). Van Damme later went on to remarry Gladys Portugues. On Valentine's Day 1999, LaPier married

Mark R. Hughes Mark R. Hughes (January 1, 1956 – May 21, 2000) was an American Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur who was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company. Early life Hughes was born in La Mirada, California on Ja ...

, founder of

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, at Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. The wedding was attended by many of Herbalife's top distributors, and was broadcast on HBN (Herbalife Broadcast Network) to distributors worldwide. Hughes died in his sleep on May 21 the following year. In the days following his death, LaPier had the grounds of their Malibu estate covered in 14,000 red roses. After Hughes' death, LaPier moved back to Oregon. She married Brian Snodgrass (of the Seven Dees nursery family) in 2002, and had a daughter, Madison Snodgrass. On her ranch in Oregon with her family, LaPier transformed herself into a rodeo barrel racer. In 2013, she produced and starred in A&E's reality series ''Rodeo Girls''.

Filmography

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* Actresses from Oregon Living people American film actresses Female models from Oregon Portland State University alumni University of Oregon alumni 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-actor-1960s-stub