Karrine Steffans
Novelist
Author, actress and model who is best known for her bestselling Vixen book series. Her work discusses the music industry's poor treatment of women and the objectification of women, in general.
She grew up in poverty and worked as an exotic dancer when she was in her teens. At the age of twenty-one, she appeared in a Jay-Z music video.
She was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2006.
She had a physically abusive relationship with rapper Nathaniel Wilson (Kool G Rap), the father of her son. In 2009, she married Darius McCrary, but they divorced in 2011.
She appeared in the film A Man Apart, which starred Vin Diesel.