Adriane Galisteu is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian model

Model (person)

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, actress and TV host. She was born on April 18, 1973, in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil. She has appeared in the Brazilian edition of Playboy

Playboy magazine (Brazilian issue)

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 magazine on a number of occasions and was a VJ for MTV Brasil

MTV Brasil

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. She was the girlfriend of the famous Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 driver Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver. A three-time Formula One world champion, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time...

 when he died in a racing accident in 1994.

Adriane became a celebrity following the death of Ayrton Senna and has kept that status ever since, working as a TV show host. Currently, she has a TV show on Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes

Rede Bandeirantes , officially nicknamed Band or Band Network, is a television network from Brazil, based in São Paulo. Part of the Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação , it aired for the first time in 1967...

.

She wrote a book "O Caminho das Borboletas" (Nirlando Beirão as ghost writer) about her relationship with Brazilian Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna. She is also ex-girlfriend of Brazilian and Benfica soccer player, Roger.

Family

Her mother's name is Ema Galisteu. Her father died when she was 15. She also had an older brother who died at the age of 28. He had AIDS. She has a son, Vittorio Lódice, who was born on August 4, 2010 in São Paulo.

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