Julia Alexandratou
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Julia Alexandratou is a Greek
socialite
, media personality
, glamour model, singer, actress, and pornographic actress
. In 2002, at age 16, she won the beauty pageant title "Miss Young" in Greece
. Four years later, Alexandratou won the title "Miss Greece International 2006" (also called the "Runner-up Star Hellas 2006") at the Miss Star Hellas beauty pageant. In 2010, a controversial celebrity sex tape
featuring Alexandratou was released. She later admitted that she was paid for her participation in the film. In 2011, Alexandratou attracted controversy again, after the release of a second pornographic video.
, named Zissimos Alexandratos and a mother who hails from London
, England
, named Allison Hunt-Alexandratou. Her father is a mechanical engineer, while her mother is a former fashion model. She also has a sister three years her senior, Artemis Alexandratou.
From a very young age, along with her mother, she modeled in numerous magazines and children's fashion advertisements. She has modeled since the age of 4 and has also participated and won in a lot of beauty pageants. At age 7, she enrolled in ballet lessons, and later on in vocal and acting training, where she is said to have exhibited great potential. In 2002 at the age of only 16, Alexandratou entered the "Miss Young" beauty pageant where she won first place.
Following family problems, Alexandratou lived in London
with her mother for a couple of years. After these times, she pulled back from her artistic training. As a result of living in London as well as her mother's origin, Alexandratou is fluent in the English language
.
She made her first appearance after the competition on a live show of the Greek reality show Fame Story 4
, and was a guest singer on the Greek song, "Mono Ya Sena" (Only For You) with Fame Story 3
contestant Andreas Constantinidis. The duet was featured as the first single on his debut album, while they also filmed a music video together for the song.
A few months later, Alexandratou became a co-host to the hit Greek TV show Megalicious Chart Live!, alongside MAD TV presenter Themis Georgandas. During that period, she made many television appearances, and in the course of one year, appeared on over 10 magazine covers, including magazines such as Vogue, Nitro, Diva and Celebrity.
Her subsequent fame led to her hosting a TV show called Music Bee, along with her friend Stathis Etiatoglou. The show debuted to high expectations, with a format focusing on music news in Greece
and abroad. However, ratings of the show soon dropped.
In 2007, she released two singles with Sony Music Entertainment Greece
titled I Vassilissa tis Pistas (The Queen of the Dance Floor) and Stohos Ine ta Lefta (The Target Is Money), respectively. That same year, Alexandratou made her film debut in a Greek comedy directed by Nikos Perakis
, playing the role of a singer named Areti. Stohos Ine ta Lefta served as the theme song to the film.
In April 2008, Alexandratou posed on the cover of Nitro magazine, assuming the role of Marilyn Monroe
. She was voted by readers of the magazine as the best choice to perform the special edition spread. In the autumn of the same year, she started performing in her first concert appearances at an Athenian nightclub alongside Greek singer Panos Kalidis. In late 2008, she released her single Honolulu, which is a cover of a song written by Nikos Karvelas
. Karvelas later expressed outrage that the song was covered without his consent.
. When first asked by reporters about this video, Alexandratou and her manager, Menios Fourthiotis, stated that this was the first time they heard about it and that they thought that it was a joke or a blackmail attempt.
Nevertheless, the owner of Sirina Entertainment (the company which distributed the DVD), Dimitris Sirinakis, stated: "I can't reveal how or from whom I got the sex tape, but I can assure you that it was obtained legally." A day after its release, over 200,000 copies of the DVD were said to have been sold. Shortly after the DVD's release, Alexandratou appeared on one of Star Channel
's newscasts, on which she claimed that the pornographic video was filmed exclusively for personal use and she also stated, without revealing the unidentified man's real identity, that his first name was Giorgos and that it was him who leaked the video, in order to harm her public image.
On March 17, 2010, Alexandratou appeared on Greek host Tatiana Stefanidou
's TV show Axizi na to Dis, on which she admitted that she was paid in advance for her participation in the video, thus confirming that it is a professional pornographic video and not an amateur one. The DVD sold over 100,000 copies at news stands.
The rumor that the unidentified man is Scott was confirmed by Scott himself, who appeared on the episode of Greek host Themos Anastassiadis's TV show Ola 10 aired on May 3, 2010, on which he admitted that he was Alexandratou's sex partner in the video.
On May 15, 2010, Alexandratou, Scott and Fourthiotis appeared together at the "Athens Erotica" adult entertainment show, held in Athens, where Alexandratou and Scott publicly kissed each other.
On 29 November 2010, Alexandratou began hosting a once weekly show on local Athenian television station Extra 3.
On February 4, 2011, a second DVD produced by Sirina Entertainment was released in Greece with Alexandratou starring along with two male black pornographic actors. The DVD is considered a sequel of the first video, since it is titled Julia 2 Mavri (Julia 2 Blacks). In the adult film, Julia appears to walk naked in the streets of Voula
seeking for love, which she eventually finds. The scenes feature explicit sexual acts, in the form of hardcore pornography.
. The two were introduced in the spring of 2006 after the pageant. Psinakis was one of the judges on the Greek reality show Dream Show, where her sister Artemis was a contestant. In January 2007, Psinakis posed on the cover of an issue of the Greek magazine Tripaki. Julia conducted an interview for this issue, in which they both announced their relationship. In late 2009, she bought a house in Ekali
, a suburb of Athens.
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....
socialite
Socialite
A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....
, media personality
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
, glamour model, singer, actress, and pornographic actress
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
. In 2002, at age 16, she won the beauty pageant title "Miss Young" in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. Four years later, Alexandratou won the title "Miss Greece International 2006" (also called the "Runner-up Star Hellas 2006") at the Miss Star Hellas beauty pageant. In 2010, a controversial celebrity sex tape
Celebrity sex tape
A celebrity sex tape is typically an amateur pornographic video recording involving one or more celebrity famous person which has been, intentionally or unintentionally, made available publicly....
featuring Alexandratou was released. She later admitted that she was paid for her participation in the film. In 2011, Alexandratou attracted controversy again, after the release of a second pornographic video.
Childhood
Alexandratou was born on November 24, 1986, to a father who hails from KefaloniaKefalonia
The island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit...
, named Zissimos Alexandratos and a mother who hails from London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, named Allison Hunt-Alexandratou. Her father is a mechanical engineer, while her mother is a former fashion model. She also has a sister three years her senior, Artemis Alexandratou.
From a very young age, along with her mother, she modeled in numerous magazines and children's fashion advertisements. She has modeled since the age of 4 and has also participated and won in a lot of beauty pageants. At age 7, she enrolled in ballet lessons, and later on in vocal and acting training, where she is said to have exhibited great potential. In 2002 at the age of only 16, Alexandratou entered the "Miss Young" beauty pageant where she won first place.
Following family problems, Alexandratou lived in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
with her mother for a couple of years. After these times, she pulled back from her artistic training. As a result of living in London as well as her mother's origin, Alexandratou is fluent in the English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.
2006–2009: Modeling, hosting, and music
In 2006, Alexandratou participated in the 17th edition of the annual Miss Star Hellas beauty pageant which took place on April 9, 2006 (semi-final) and April 11, 2006 (final). Alexandratou failed to take first place in the pageant, while her negative facial reaction to the results on screen, were ridiculed by the media.She made her first appearance after the competition on a live show of the Greek reality show Fame Story 4
Fame Story
Fame Story was a Greek reality TV show that was a licensed version of Endemol's Star Academy on the ANT1 network. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last years. The contestants gave a weekly performance in a 2½–3 hour episode in which the contestants were judged...
, and was a guest singer on the Greek song, "Mono Ya Sena" (Only For You) with Fame Story 3
Fame Story
Fame Story was a Greek reality TV show that was a licensed version of Endemol's Star Academy on the ANT1 network. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last years. The contestants gave a weekly performance in a 2½–3 hour episode in which the contestants were judged...
contestant Andreas Constantinidis. The duet was featured as the first single on his debut album, while they also filmed a music video together for the song.
A few months later, Alexandratou became a co-host to the hit Greek TV show Megalicious Chart Live!, alongside MAD TV presenter Themis Georgandas. During that period, she made many television appearances, and in the course of one year, appeared on over 10 magazine covers, including magazines such as Vogue, Nitro, Diva and Celebrity.
Her subsequent fame led to her hosting a TV show called Music Bee, along with her friend Stathis Etiatoglou. The show debuted to high expectations, with a format focusing on music news in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
and abroad. However, ratings of the show soon dropped.
In 2007, she released two singles with Sony Music Entertainment Greece
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
titled I Vassilissa tis Pistas (The Queen of the Dance Floor) and Stohos Ine ta Lefta (The Target Is Money), respectively. That same year, Alexandratou made her film debut in a Greek comedy directed by Nikos Perakis
Nikos Perakis
Nikos Perakis is a Greek writer and film director. He has studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Munich. At that time he worked as a set and costume designer...
, playing the role of a singer named Areti. Stohos Ine ta Lefta served as the theme song to the film.
In April 2008, Alexandratou posed on the cover of Nitro magazine, assuming the role of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
. She was voted by readers of the magazine as the best choice to perform the special edition spread. In the autumn of the same year, she started performing in her first concert appearances at an Athenian nightclub alongside Greek singer Panos Kalidis. In late 2008, she released her single Honolulu, which is a cover of a song written by Nikos Karvelas
Nikos Karvelas
Nikos Karvelas is a Greek songwriter, producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple...
. Karvelas later expressed outrage that the song was covered without his consent.
2010–present: Pornographic videos
On March 3, 2010, a DVD depicting Alexandratou having sex with a then-unidentified male began being sold in many spots around Greece. The man's face can't be seen throughout the entire video and for a period after the DVD's release there was an unconfirmed rumor that the man is pornographic actor Ian ScottIan Scott (actor)
Ian Scott is a French pornographic actor and director from 1996-2010. He's also known by aliases Yann Scott, Yann Nickeur, Yannick and G Gam...
. When first asked by reporters about this video, Alexandratou and her manager, Menios Fourthiotis, stated that this was the first time they heard about it and that they thought that it was a joke or a blackmail attempt.
Nevertheless, the owner of Sirina Entertainment (the company which distributed the DVD), Dimitris Sirinakis, stated: "I can't reveal how or from whom I got the sex tape, but I can assure you that it was obtained legally." A day after its release, over 200,000 copies of the DVD were said to have been sold. Shortly after the DVD's release, Alexandratou appeared on one of Star Channel
Star Channel
Star Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.. The main news bulletin is called Star Eidiseis, which is currently hosted by Aimilios Liatsos...
's newscasts, on which she claimed that the pornographic video was filmed exclusively for personal use and she also stated, without revealing the unidentified man's real identity, that his first name was Giorgos and that it was him who leaked the video, in order to harm her public image.
On March 17, 2010, Alexandratou appeared on Greek host Tatiana Stefanidou
Tatiana Stefanidou
Tatiana Stefanidou is a Greek television host and former journalist on Greek television.-Personal life:In 1995, Stefanidou got married to businessman Panayiotis Stavropoulos, but the marriage ended in a divorce seven years later, in 2002. While married to Stavropoulos, she met a rising TV...
's TV show Axizi na to Dis, on which she admitted that she was paid in advance for her participation in the video, thus confirming that it is a professional pornographic video and not an amateur one. The DVD sold over 100,000 copies at news stands.
The rumor that the unidentified man is Scott was confirmed by Scott himself, who appeared on the episode of Greek host Themos Anastassiadis's TV show Ola 10 aired on May 3, 2010, on which he admitted that he was Alexandratou's sex partner in the video.
On May 15, 2010, Alexandratou, Scott and Fourthiotis appeared together at the "Athens Erotica" adult entertainment show, held in Athens, where Alexandratou and Scott publicly kissed each other.
On 29 November 2010, Alexandratou began hosting a once weekly show on local Athenian television station Extra 3.
On February 4, 2011, a second DVD produced by Sirina Entertainment was released in Greece with Alexandratou starring along with two male black pornographic actors. The DVD is considered a sequel of the first video, since it is titled Julia 2 Mavri (Julia 2 Blacks). In the adult film, Julia appears to walk naked in the streets of Voula
Voula
Voula is a town and former municipality in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.Voula is a southern suburb of Athens...
seeking for love, which she eventually finds. The scenes feature explicit sexual acts, in the form of hardcore pornography.
Personal life
Alexandratou claimed to be in a relationship with famous Greek star-manager and celebrity Elias Psinakis, the ex-manager of Greek singer Sakis RouvasSakis Rouvas
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas II , often referred to mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek musician, television and film artist, businessman, and former pole vaulter who is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time in Greece and Cyprus...
. The two were introduced in the spring of 2006 after the pageant. Psinakis was one of the judges on the Greek reality show Dream Show, where her sister Artemis was a contestant. In January 2007, Psinakis posed on the cover of an issue of the Greek magazine Tripaki. Julia conducted an interview for this issue, in which they both announced their relationship. In late 2009, she bought a house in Ekali
Ekali
Ekali is an exclusive suburban community of Athens -- just about 20 km to the north of the city. Ekali sits between the Athenian plain and the Penteli mountains. The plain is to the west; the forests at the foot of the Penteli mountain range lie to the east...
, a suburb of Athens.
Singles
- Mono Gia Sena (duet with Andreas Konstantinidis) (2006)
- I Vassilissa tis Pistas (2007)
- Stohos Ine ta Lefta (2007)
- Honolulu (2008)
Music videos
- Mono Gia Sena (2006)
- I Vassilissa tis Pistas (2007)
- Psichremia: Main Theme (2007)
- Stohos Ine ta Lefta (2007)
- Honolulu (2008)
Adult films
- Julia Alexandratou: To Apagorevmeno (2010)
- Julia 2 Mavri (2011)
- Elliniko Andriko Casting (2011)
Photoshoots for magazines
- Nitro
- Miss Diva
- Miss Lux
- Esquire
- Playboy
- Hello!
- Vogue