She started her professional modeling career in April of 2004 by landing on the cover of Italian Vogue magazine, which in her own words, “… is the equivalent essentially of winning an Academy Award. She enrolled into Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut to pursue a degree in Communications and Technology, but eventually dropped out of her freshman year in 2003, after being discovered by professional fashion photographer Steven Meisel. However, during her junior year, she found it stifling and decided to transfer to Wilton High School, from where she matriculated. She went to The Lawrenceville School in Mercer County, New Jersey, a college preparatory co-education boarding school for grade 9 to 12 students. Her father was a former police officer, who later became her mother’s bodyguard. Posted by Lydia Hearst on Monday, July 30, 2018Īfter the investigation and court hearing, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but it was reduced to seven years and she was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton.