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To play coke addict Jules in St. Elmo’s Fire 1985, Demi Moore signed a contract requiring her to stop abusing alcohol and drugs, an agreement that turned her life around.
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She still receives royalty checks for songs she wrote before her acting career.
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She became the first actress to hit the $10 million salary mark.
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In 1995, Demi Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history at the time, earning $12.5 million for Striptease 1996.
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Pregnancy forced her to drop out of A League of Their Own 1992; director Penny Marshall stated that Bruce Willis’s actions cost her the role.
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She was once engaged to Emilio Estevez.
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Her wedding to Ashton Kutcher in 2005 was attended by about 100 guests, including ex-husband Bruce Willis, their three daughters, Wilmer Valderrama, and Lucy Liu.
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When cast as a temptress in Disclosure 1994 one month after having her third daughter Tallulah Willis, she biked 28 miles every morning before dawn to get fit.
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She stripped on Late Show with David Letterman 1992 to disprove rumors that she was too fat for her new movie Striptease 1996.
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According to an article in Buzz magazine, her demanding nature earned her the nickname Gimme Moore among Hollywood studio executives.
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In each of her marriages, she was separated the last two years: with Freddy Moore split in 1983 divorced 1985, with Bruce Willis split in 1998 divorced 2000, and with Ashton Kutcher split in 2011 divorced 2013.
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She was one of three finalists for the lead in Flashdance 1983, but Jennifer Beals won by a landslide after a group of men chose the most desirable audition.
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She was replaced by Sandra Bullock for the lead in While You Were Sleeping 1995.
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The controversial Vanity Fair magazine cover of Moore nude and pregnant was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and sanctioned by editor Tina Brown in May 1991.
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She has three daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis: Rumer born August 16, 1988, Scout July 20, 1991, and Tallulah February 3, 1994.
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She was one of the eight original members of the 1980s Brat Pack, along with Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy, though she despised the label.
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She posed nude while seven months pregnant with middle daughter Scout Willis for a 1991 Vanity Fair cover, and again in August 1992 wearing body paint resembling a man’s suit.
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She quit school at 16 and started working as a pin-up girl.
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She moved out the day after her 16th birthday to live with musician Tom Dunston, whose mother got her a receptionist job at 20th Century Fox; she later left him after meeting Freddy Moore.
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Little Richard presided over her wedding to Bruce Willis, with bridesmaids Ally Sheedy and Lee Garlington; the ceremony was arranged by TriStar where Moore had a three-picture deal.
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Her mother died from cancer at age 54 in 1998.
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Demi’s real father Charles Harmon left before she was born; she met him at age 13 and later cut off ties, always considering Danny Guynes as her father.
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She was 20th Century Fox’s choice for The English Patient 1996, but when Fox withdrew funding over casting demands, the role went to Kristin Scott Thomas.
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In Hailey, Idaho, Demi and Bruce Willis were criticized for buying businesses and not running them properly.
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She negotiated her $3 million asking price down to $2 million for A Few Good Men 1992 because she needed a hit after three box office failures.
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She owns properties in Hailey, Idaho, a canyonside estate above Beverly Hills, and a triplex penthouse at Manhattan’s San Remo; she and Bruce sold their Malibu beachfront mansion after splitting.
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Alec Baldwin says Demi is one of the smartest women he has ever met.
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She is an avid doll collector and keeps a separate residence in Idaho for her 2,000+ vintage dolls, hoping to open a doll museum.
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She married Bruce Willis at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas.
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She credited with actor Daniel Morton for saving a woman’s life through Twitter.
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She lived next door to Nastassja Kinski in Los Angeles and would read scripts for her since Kinski didn’t read English well.
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She auditioned for the role of Luisa Contini in Nine 2009, but Marion Cotillard was cast.
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Her first name Demi is pronounced deh-ME, not DEM-ee, with emphasis on the second syllable.
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Blink-182 thanked her in the liner notes of their album Enema of the State.
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Her first job was as a bill collector.
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She auditioned for and won the role of Jackie Templeton on General Hospital after producers sought a Margot Kidder/Karen Allen type.
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Bruce and Demi announced the end of their eleven-year marriage with no reasons given.
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She owns a production company called Moving Pictures.
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As of 2024, she has appeared on magazine covers every single year since 1980, two years longer than Madonna.
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Operations on her left eye during childhood caused her to wear a patch.
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She turned down the role of Sarah Tobias in The Accused 1988.
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She is the only Brat Packer to become a huge and long-lasting movie star after the Brat Pack era.
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She won back-to-back Razzie Awards for Worst Actress in 1997 and 1998, for The Juror/Striptease and G.I. Jane.
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She visited a camp for internally displaced persons in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with Gerard Butler, Ben Stiller, Susan Sarandon, and Paul Haggis, organized by Sean Penn’s humanitarian organization.
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She is a huge fan of Susan Boyle and helped turn her into a global megastar by tweeting about her, though Boyle didn’t know much about Moore.
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She returned to work four months after giving birth to Scout Willis to begin filming A Few Good Men 1992.
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Her stepfather committed suicide by breathing carbon monoxide.
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She has three younger paternal half-siblings James, Charlotte, and Charles Jr. with whom she has no contact.
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She recorded a five-track demo tape in 1982 under music producer Greg Penny and almost got a deal from RCA records.
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She hired three cameramen to videotape the birth of her first child.
