Inside Angelyne’s evolution from mystery billboard queen to political hopeful squaring off with Gavin Newsom
BEFORE there was Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian, there was the “Billboard Queen” Angelyne.
The icon, 71, rose to fame in the 1980s after appearing on mysterious billboards around Los Angeles that only read “Angelyne.” She recently tried to unseat California governor Gavin Newsom.
Angelyne rose to fame in the 1980s after billboards with her image on them started appearing in Los Angeles[/caption] The icon, now 71, was known to cruise around LA in a bright pink Corvette[/caption] Angelyne, real name Renee Goldberg, was a candidate in California’s gubernatorial recall election in 2003 and 2021[/caption]For decades, Angelyne remained an enigma to the public. her background story and how exactly she became famous, remained unknown.
She was known to cruise around LA in a bright pink Corvette, showing off her platinum blonde hair and extensive plastic surgery.
Now, a series starring Emmy Rossum has brought her back into the spotlight.
The series is based on a Hollywood Reporter article from 2017 that uncovered the bombshell’s real identity.
Angelyne, real name Renee Goldberg, was raised in Los Angeles. But she was born in Poland in 1950.
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Her Holocaust survivor parents met in the Chmielnik ghetto during World War II, and survived various concentration camps.
After the war, she and her parents immigrated to Israel, where they lived in an ultra-orthodox community of Hasidic Jews.
The family moved to Los Angeles in 1952, with Angelyne’s father working as a tool-and-die mechanic.
When she was 14, her mother died of cancer, and her father soon married another Holocaust survivor and had another child.
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After attending high school in the San Fernando Valley, Angelyne married the son of a Beverly Hills executive and moved to Hollywood.
The couple divorced in 1969, and the documents are the last trail of Renee Goldberg.
But this isn’t the story told by Angelyne herself, who has constructed a story of an only child and orphan who moved to LA to chase her dreams.
Keeping her real identity a secret became part of Angelyne’s persona after she became known as the bombshell on billboards and posters around LA.
Angelyne reportedly used the billboards to promote her music career and went on to star in various films and magazines, becoming a pop culture icon.
Before the era of influencers, she became known for “being famous for nothing which she once said “is so much fun.”
However, most recently Angelyne has said she is famous for her “essence.”
In 2003, she was a candidate in California’s gubernatorial recall election.
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And in 2021 she ran for governor once again, becoming the candidate without a party preference to receive the most votes in the failed recall election against California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Angelyne now posts about her life on social media, where she has over 27,000 followers.
Angelyne has been called ‘famous for nothing’ and compared to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian[/caption]We pay for your stories!
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