Maria Pia Agravante Reyes (born July 3, 1964 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino American

Filipino American

Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipino Americans, often shortened to "Fil-Ams", or "Pinoy",Filipinos in what is now the United States were first documented in the 16th century, with small settlements beginning in the 18th century...

 model

Model (person)

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 and actress. She was the November 1988 Playboy

Playboy

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Playmate of the Month.

Early life

Reyes was born in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

, the fifth of eight children. Her family later relocated to Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

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. Reyes graduated from Haverford High School in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania

Haverford Township, Pennsylvania

Haverford Township is a home rule township in Delaware County, near Philadelphia, in southeastern Pennsylvania, United States. It maintains its legal name as the Township of Haverford, presumably for historic reasons...

 in 1979, where she played high school basketball

Basketball

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, tennis

Tennis

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 and lacrosse

Lacrosse

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.

Reyes earned a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in advertising from Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 in 1984, where she also played on the women's lacrosse

Women's lacrosse

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 team.

Controversies

Reyes was once married to convicted con artist, Christophe Rocancourt, with whom she has a son, Zeus. On April 27, 2001 she and Rocancourt were arrested in Oak Bay, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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, on charges of defrauding an elderly couple. She was soon released after convincing authorities that she was unaware of her husband's criminal activities.

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