Caron Bernstein (born August 16, 1970 in Johannesburg, South Africa), is a South African model, actress, singer/songwriter.
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Caron moved to New York at 14 after being approached by photographer Patsy Dunn and asked to take test photos for her portfolio. Patsy sent the results to the New York headquarters of Ford Models. This lead to a new career for Caron in America where she represented South Africa for the agency's Supermodel of the World contest.
Whilst there, she was introduced to recording producer Seymour Stein, who tapped into Caron's childhood ambition of becoming a professional singer and signed her up to an album deal with his label Sire. However, this album was not released.
Caron remained in New York taking up acting work in movies such as Who's the man? and Business for Pleasure (where she took a leading role opposite Gary Stretch.) She is still pursuing music, inspired by her punk-rock heroes as a teen (including David Bowie, Iggie Pop, and Annie Lennox), and has appeared in many different bands including Kill-5 and C.
She also works with artists such as Daniel Cartier, for whom she provided backing vocals on his "Avenue A" album.
During her time as a Ford model in the early 1990's, Bernstein dated Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose. [1] Bernstein was previously married to German musician and lead-guitarist for the bands Rammstein and Emigrate, Richard Zven Kruspe. Richard and Caron were married on October 29, 1999 and believed to have divorced in 2005/06, after what Caron claimed "a 6-year marriage of psychological abuse and varying degrees of depression." [2] A painting of her ex-husband with a bullet hole through his head was also featured in a 2007 art exhibit in New York. In Caron's words, this was painted again in response to him being "a very abusive man," further adding "he cheated on me almost from day one. I was finding women's underwear in my bedroom."[3] In May 2005 Caron began dating former New York radio show host Chris Booker. While vactioning in Cape Town, South Africa for the 2006 winter holidays, Chris proposed to Caron, although the week of March 18th, 2007, Booker announced the relationship ended due to "substance problems," although not defined. On the November 30, 2007 show, Booker revealed that it was due to cheating and he caught Bernstein very red handed.
Caron became engaged in April 2009 to her fiance, financier Andrew Schupak of the Schupak Group[1], who represented the USA competing in the Long Course Triathlon World Championship.
  | Article on Caron's art - ART IMITATES (A ROUGH) LIFE- New York Post |
| | "HARD TO LOOK" - HARD TO LOOK- New York Post |
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