Born Mary Eileen Mimi Chesterton, titian beauty Claudia Jennings was raised in Milwaukee. In 1966, she moved to Evanston, Illinois, the first suburb north of Chicago, where she graduated high school in 1968. After joining the Hull House theatre company in Chicago, she took a job as a receptionist at the offices of Playboy magazine in September 1968. Photographer Pompeo Posar asked her to test, and with a potential $5,000 check at stake -- enough for a ticket to Hollywood -- she agreed. She e ...[Read Story]