Claudia Maria Schiffer is a German model and actress based in the United Kingdom.
26 Facts About Claudia Schiffer
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Claudia Schiffer rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, attaining supermodel status.
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Claudia Schiffer has appeared on more than 1000 magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Claudia Maria Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, a small town 15 kilometres northwest of Duisburg, on 25 August 1970, to mother Gudrun and father Heinz Schiffer, a lawyer.
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Claudia Schiffer originally aspired to become a lawyer and used to work in her father's law firm.
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Early on in her career, Claudia Schiffer was said to resemble Brigitte Bardot.
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Claudia Schiffer was one of 10 models on Vogues 100th anniversary cover in 1992.
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In May 1997, Claudia Schiffer was featured on the cover and in the pictorial of Playboy.
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Claudia Schiffer has appeared on a total of more than 1,000 magazine covers.
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In 1997, Claudia Schiffer signed an exclusive worldwide contract with L'Oreal.
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Claudia Schiffer still holds a contract with L'Oreal and is one of their longest standing ambassadors.
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Claudia Schiffer made her film debut in the children's movie Richie Rich.
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Claudia Schiffer then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in The Blackout.
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Films in which Claudia Schiffer has made cameo appearances include Ben Stiller's Zoolander.
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Claudia Schiffer made a cameo appearance in the music video for Bon Jovi's "Say It Isn't So" in 2000, and appeared in the music video for Comic Relief's 2001 charity single, Westlife's "Uptown Girl".
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Claudia Schiffer was a spokesman for Make Poverty History, and appeared in their "Click" campaign.
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Claudia Schiffer has hosted the French Fashion Awards, and the 1995 World Music Awards in Monaco.
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Claudia Schiffer helped present and carry the trophy with Pele during the opening ceremonies at the 2006 World Cup.
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Claudia Schiffer presented Prince William with a polo trophy in 2002.
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Claudia Schiffer launched her eponymous cashmere collection during Paris Fashion Week in March 2011.
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In 1993, at a Berlin celebrity gala, Claudia Schiffer met the American magician David Copperfield when he brought her on stage to participate in a mind reading act and in his flying illusion, and they became engaged in January 1994.
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Claudia Schiffer appeared alongside Copperfield in David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic, a 1994 documentary in which she played the role of a reporter interviewing him, and at the end of which they reprised their performance of the flying illusion.
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In 1997, Copperfield and Claudia Schiffer both sued Paris Match after the magazine claimed their relationship was a sham, that Claudia Schiffer "[was] paid for pretending to be Copperfield's fiancee and [didn't] even like him".
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In 1999, Claudia Schiffer won an undisclosed sum and a retraction from Paris Match when a French court ruled that the magazine's story was false.
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Copperfield's publicist confirmed that while Claudia Schiffer had a contract to appear in the audience at Copperfield's show in Berlin where they met, she was not under contract to be his "consort".
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In 2004, a Canadian man was accused of harassing Claudia Schiffer, repeatedly leaving letters at her Suffolk residence.