German model, actress, and fashion designer, based in the United Kingdom, she was considered by some to be the world’s prettiest woman in the 1990s. She rose to fame in that decade as one of the world’s most successful models, cementing her supermodel status. In her early career, she was compared to Brigitte Bardot.
Schiffer was discovered in 1988 at the age of 17 and got her career start with Elle Magazine. She has appeared on the cover of more than 400 magazines since her debut in 1987, and signed a fabulous contract with Revlon. She became engaged to illusionist David Copperfield in January 1994 and even made a guest appearance on his CBS Special “15 Years of Magic” on 12 May 1994.
Schiffer has invested in hotels along Honduras’ Atlantic coast and in 1997 acquired a $2 million mansion on Honduras’ Roatan Island, a tourist center. When hurricane Mitch ravaged Central America in October 1999, killing more than 9,000 and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, it largely sparing Roatan Island, Schiffer donated $2 million for the construction of 112 homes for the victims of the hurricane.
In 1997, Copperfield filed a $30 million lawsuit against a French magazine that had suggested his union with Schiffer was a fraud. In all their pictures together, no photographer managed to catch one in which he ever looked at her; the appeal was the camera lens. After a six-year engagement, the couple announced their separation in early September 1999.
On 25 May 2002, she married film director Matthew Vaughn in Suffolk, England. They became the parents of a son Caspar Matthew born on 30 January 2003 by C-section in London. The supermodel gave birth to her second child, a girl, Clementine Poppy, at 11 AM on 11 November 2004 in London’s Portland Hospital. Another daughter, Cosima Violet Vaughn Drummond, was “born Friday afternoon”, 14 May 2010, in London.
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