Terri Runnels get deep about Dustin Rhodes and New Jack. Starting out as a make up artist and then working in the WCW and becoming one of the sexiest superstar Divas to grace the square circle in the WWE during the attitude era alongside Gold Dust and many more. Pro Wrestlings own Kim Kardashshin.
(born October 5, 1966) is an American retired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_presenter, and part-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler. Runnels began her professional wrestling career in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Alexandra York, manager of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_York_Foundation. She later joined the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF), later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she worked for two years as Marlena, and then under her real name. In the early years of her career with the WWF, she managed her (then) real-life husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Rhodes (known on-screen as Goldust) and was a member of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Mean_Sisters alliance. She also managed both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Boyz and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_%26_Christian following the Terri Invitational Tournament in 1999. Subsequently, she had an on-screen rivalry with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kat, managed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radicalz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Stable, and worked as a host and interviewer including a number of titillating segments such as bra & panties, wet t-shirt contests, and lingerie matches. During her time with the World Wrestling Federation (or WWE), she briefly held the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hardcore_Championship, her only championship during her career. After leaving the wrestling business, Runnels became involved in philanthropic work.
Professional wrestling career-World Championship Wrestling (1988–1991)
Runnels was originally a make-up artist for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN from 1985 to 1991, where she worked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King's make-up. On the weekends, she did makeup for the wrestlers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (JCP).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Runnels#cite_note-slam-4 When the company was purchased by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner in 1988 and renamed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW), she moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta and continued doing make-up for some of the wrestlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Anderson eventually asked her to become part of the roster as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling). Runnels debuted in 1990 as Alexandra York, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop-carrying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountant who led an alliance known as the York Foundation, a group of wrestlers with finance-themed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Gimmick. The York character was created over a lunch with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schiavone, one of WCW's announcers. She worked at WCW for two years.
World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment (1996-2004)
Marlena gimmick and managing Goldust (1996–1998)- Runnels debuted in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(1996) in 1996 as Marlena, a character modeled after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich. She debuted as a coolly unconcerned and indifferent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_director-like manager, often sitting at ringside in her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_chair. With her cigar-smoking, seductive, nonchalant and mysterious gimmick, she acted as the manager of her (then) real-life husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldust, who was wrestling under the gimmick of Goldust. The risque characters helped bring about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Attitude_Era of the late-1990s and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Diva. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Pillman feuded with Goldust over Marlena. Originally, the plan was to have the rivalry culminate in an on-air wedding where Marlena would leave Goldust for Pillman.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Runnels#cite_note-ringposts-8 After the Marlena-Goldust alliance dissolved, Goldust revealed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Vachon as his new manager.
Pretty Mean Sisters (1998–1999)- Runnels later re-emerged in 1998, under her real name, as the on-screen girlfriend of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Venis. When Runnels claimed to be pregnant with Venis' baby, he dumped her. She later joined forces with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Moore, who had just ended her alliance with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Mero, to form the Pretty Mean Sisters (P.M.S.). (Vince Russo and his lackey Ed Ferrara were always throwing sleaze into any angle they could, remeber they did not create the attitude ERA, the fans did, they just cheapened the product with Howard Stern and Jerry Springer antics)
During her tenure in the WWF, Runnels appeared on the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakest_Link_(U.S._game_show) in 2002 as part of a charity show where all the contestants were WWF personalities.
Personal life- She dated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Pillman in 1990 while they were both in WCW. In 1993, she married https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Rhodes, whom she met while they were both working for WCW, taking his last name as her own. They have a daughter, Dakota, who was born in 1994. Dustin Runnels' strained relationship with his father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes caused problems in their marriage, and Terri alleges that Dusty spread rumors about her that included infidelity and gold-digging. ( At this time Dusty Rhodes was fired from the WCW and the WWE did not need his talents, the ego maniac got many wrestlers like his sun and greats like Bam Bam Bigelow to work his Florida TurnBuckle area for free to get it off the ground, but Dusty has know buisness acuemen and it went bust quickly so he grabbed onto whatever cheap headlines he could) If that meant ruining his oldest sons marriage then Dusty Rhodes spared no expense: it's too bad he did'nt have that kind of budget in Turnbuckle championship. The greatest thing that Dustin Rhodes did was escape the shadow of his father, having his greatest succees and chemistry in the big leagues with his wife Terri at his side as Gold Dust. The couple divorced in 1999 after six years of marriage. Years after the divorce, they were able to have a "better relationship". Terri began dating former professional wrestler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jack in 2009. Jack professed his love for her in an interview with host Fat Man After Dark on the Future Endeavors wrestling radio show and described some of the pitfalls, even today, of a mixed-race relationship. In August 2011, a Florida judge ordered Jack to stop selling nude and bloody photographs of Runnels. Runnels filed suit, accusing Jack of making libelous comments about her and requested that a court ban him from distributing sexually-explicit photographs of her. Jack said that he took the photos, that they belonged to him and that he should be free to pass them on to whoever he pleases. A judge in Sanford, Florida, temporarily banned Jack from distributing photographs of Runnels ahead of a hearing.