She won a Press Club Media Award for the prestigious and very
competitive category "Column/News" in 2004. This award is voted on by
chapters of the highly regarded Society of Professional Journalists.
Is a weekly columnist with the Long Island Press.
She has three children with her ex-husband Louis Bellera: a boy named Brett (b. February 2001), a girl named Ava Rose (b. January 2005), and a boy whose name was not released to the media (b. October 2008).
I got upset if I got a traffic ticket, and now I'm in prison. I can't believe it! (Interview with NBC News, 1992.)
[2010] For 20 years, people have been thinking of me as this crazy, wild 16-year-old who had no control of what was said about her. Now, at least they can say that she looks good and pays her taxes.