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Ashton may refer to:

People[link]

Surname[link]

• Alan Ashton (executive), co-founder of WordPerfect Corporation
• Alan Ashton (Australian politician)
• Brian Ashton (rugby player), English rugby player
• Brian Ashton (politician), Canadian politician
• Chris Ashton, English rugby player
• Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland (born 1956), High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (EU)
• Claude Ashton (1901–1942). English cricketer and footballer
• Dean Ashton, English footballer
• Edward Ashton (disambiguation)
• Ellis Ashton, English comedian and theatre historian
• Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer
• Ferris Ashton, Australian rugby league footballer
• Sir Frederick Ashton, English dancer and choreographer
• Gilbert Ashton (1896–1981), English cricketer
• Hubert Ashton (1898–1979), English cricketer
• John Ashton (disambiguation)
• Niki Ashton, Canadian politician
• Norman Ashton, British housing developer, notable for work in the North of England in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Percy Ashton (1895–1934), English cricketer
• Roger Ashton, English soldier
• Steve Ashton, Canadian politician, father of Niki
• Susan Ashton, American musician
• T. S. Ashton, English economic historian
• Tony Ashton, English rock musician

Forename[link]

• Ashton (given name)
• Ashton Kutcher, American actor
• Ashton Moore, American porn star
• Ashton Ryan, American gay porn actor
• Ashton Sims, Australian rugby league footballer

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Ashton, South Australia

Canada[link]

• Ashton, Ontario

New Zealand[link]

• Ashton, New Zealand

South Africa[link]

• Ashton, Western Cape

United Kingdom[link]

England

• Ashton, Cambridgeshire
• Ashton, Cheshire
• Ashton, Cornwall
• Ashton, Devon
• Ashton, Hampshire
• Ashton, Northamptonshire
  • Ashton, East Northamptonshire
  • Ashton, South Northamptonshire
• Ashton, Somerset, a hamlet in the parish of Chapel Allerton, Sedgemoor district
• Ashton, the historic name of Long Ashton, North Somerset
  • Ashton Court
  • Ashton Gate, Bristol
  • Ashton Vale, now in Bristol
  • Bower Ashton, now in Bristol
• Ashton Common, Wiltshire
• Ashton Green, East Sussex
• Ashton Hayes, Cheshire
• Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire
• Ashton under Hill, Worcestershire
• Ashton upon Mersey, Greater Manchester
• Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
• Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire
• Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
  • Ashton Canal

Scotland

• Ashton, Inverclyde
• Ashton Lane, Glasgow

United States[link]

• Ashton, California
• Ashton, Georgia
• Ashton, Idaho
• Ashton, Illinois
• Ashton, Iowa
• Ashton, Maryland
• Ashton, Michigan
• Ashton, Minnesota
• Ashton, Nebraska
• Ashton, South Dakota
• Ashton, West Virginia
• Ashton, Wisconsin
• Ashton Corners, Wisconsin

Other[link]

• Ashton (cigar), a brand of cigar established in 1985, manufactured by Arturo Fuente (cigar).
• Ashton College, a private post-secondary college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Ashton-Tate, software company
• Ashton Cricket Club, Ashton-under-Lyne
• Ashton (VA) Middle School, formerly Dunstable Grammar School, Dunstable.
• Ashton Sixth Form College, Ashton-under-Lyne
• Ashton United F.C., Ashton-under-Lyne
• Avro Ashton, a 1950s British experimental jet airliner
• Ashton Anchors, a fictional character from the Star Ocean video game series
• Ashton Builders, a former UK home builder, particularly notable for its developments in the North of England in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Ashton Observatory, located within Ashton-Wildwood Park in Jasper County, Iowa
• Chez Ashton, a popular fast food restaurant chain in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
• Ashton Music, a world-wide brand of mainly entry-level musical instruments and related equipment

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Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher, September 2008
Born	Christopher Ashton Kutcher (1978-02-07) February 7, 1978 (age 34) Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Occupation	Actor, producer, former fashion model, comedian, television host
Years active	1998–present
Spouse	Demi Moore (m. 2005–present; divorce filed)

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (/ˈkʊtʃər/; born February 7, 1978),^[1] best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model, and comedian, known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. He also created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played lead roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas. He is also the producer and co-creator of the supernatural TV show Room 401 and the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek. Kutcher currently co-stars in the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men as the character Walden Schmidt.

Early life[link]

Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the son of Diane (née Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher, a factory worker.^[2][3] His father is of Bohemian (Czech) descent and his mother is of Irish, German, and Bohemian ancestry.^[4][5] Kutcher was raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family,^[6] with an older sister, Tausha, and a fraternal twin, Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Kutcher's twin brother also has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars.^[7]

Kutcher's brother's cardiomyopathy caused his home life to become increasingly stressful. He has stated that "I didn't want to come home and find more bad news about my brother" and "kept myself so busy that I didn't allow myself to feel".^[8] Kutcher stated that during adolescence, he contemplated committing suicide. At thirteen, he attempted to jump from a Cedar Rapids hospital balcony, with his father intervening in the incident.^[9] Kutcher attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids for his freshman year, before his family moved to Homestead, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek Amana High School. During high school, he developed a passion for acting and appeared in school plays.^[10] However, Kutcher's home life worsened as his parents divorced when he was sixteen. During his senior year, he broke into his high school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to steal money; he was arrested leaving the scene. Kutcher was convicted of third-degree burglary and sentenced to three years' probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher stated that although the experience "straightened him out", he lost his girlfriend and anticipated college scholarships, and he was ostracized at school and in his community.^[10]

Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to find a cure for his brother's heart ailment.^[3] At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his apartment for being too "noisy" and "wild".^[11] Kutcher stated, "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am amazed I am not dead."^[12] To earn money for his tuition, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the cereal department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids, and sometimes donated blood for money.^[13] During his time at UI he was approached by a scout at a bar called "The Airliner" in Iowa City and was recruited to enter the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. After placing first, he dropped out of college and won a trip to New York City to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Following his stay in New York City, Kutcher returned to Cedar Rapids before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.^[11]

Career[link]

Modeling career[link]

After participating as a modeling contestant in an IMTA competition (losing to Josh Duhamel) in 1998, Kutcher signed with the Next modeling agency in New York, appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, and modeled in Paris and Milan.^{[citation needed]}

Television and film career[link]

Kutcher with Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer in September 2011

After some success in modeling, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles and, after his first audition,^{[citation needed]} was cast as Michael Kelso in the television series That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and ended in 2006. Kutcher was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001) (the role went to Josh Hartnett), he starred in several comedy films, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003), and Guess Who (2005). He appeared in the 2003 family film, Cheaper By The Dozen, playing a self-obsessed actor. His 2004 film The Butterfly Effect was a dramatic role for Kutcher, playing a conflicted young man who time travels; the film received mixed to negative reviews, but was a box office success.^[10]

In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own series, MTV's Punk'd, as the host. The series involved hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities. Kutcher is also an executive producer of the reality television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood (based around the rap group Three 6 Mafia), The Real Wedding Crashers, and the game show Opportunity Knocks. Many of his production credits, including Punk'd, come through Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with partner Jason Goldberg.^[14] In 2006, People magazine ranked him third in its annual list of "The Sexiest Men Alive".^[15]

Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of The Guardian, Kutcher was forced not to renew his contract for the eighth and final season of That 70s Show, although he did appear in the first four episodes of it (credited as a special guest star) and returned for the series finale.^[10]

Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy, Killers, in which he played a hitman.^[16]

In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen's replacement on the series Two and a Half Men.^[17] Kutcher's contract was for one year and was believed to be worth nearly $20 million.^[18] His debut as the character Walden Schmidt, entitled "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt", was seen by 28.7 million people on September 19, 2011. The Nielsen ratings company reported that figure was more than any episode in the show's first eight seasons, when Sheen starred in it.^[19][20]

Other work[link]

Kutcher was part of the management team for Ooma, a tech start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Kutcher's role was as Creative Director. He spearheaded a marketing campaign and produced viral videos to promote this service. Kutcher also created an interactive arm of Katalyst called Katalyst Media, with his partner from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Their first site was the animated cartoon Blah Girls. Ooma revamped its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Kutcher as their creative director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma's Chief Marketing Officer.

Kutcher appears in advertisements for Nikon cameras.

On March 23, 2011, Kutcher launched his own Twitter client with UberMedia, called A.plus. While the app was initially available exclusively for desktop computers with Adobe Air installed, it eventually became available on mobile platforms, for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. In order to download on one of the 3 mobile platforms, users must first have the UberSocial client installed on their device, and then proceed to the device's browser to download A.plus.^[21][22]

In July 2011, Brazilian fashion label Colcci hired Kutcher and Alessandra Ambrosio to feature in a denim advertisement.^[23]

Personal life[link]

Kutcher and Moore, September 2008

In 2003, Kutcher began dating actress Demi Moore. Moore and Kutcher married on September 24, 2005,^[24] in a private ceremony conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center; the wedding was attended by about 150 close friends and family of the couple, including Bruce Willis, Moore's ex-husband.^[25] In October 2010, Kutcher and Moore met with co-director of the Kabbalah Center Rabbi Yehuda Berg in Israel.^[26] On November 17, 2011, Moore released a statement announcing her intention to divorce Kutcher.^[27] The announcement followed weeks of media speculation about the state of the couple's marriage.^[28]

Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant, Dolce^[10] (other owners include Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant named Geisha House located in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.

Kutcher is a self-described fiscal conservative and social liberal.^[29] He is a student of Kabbalah; his No Strings Attached co-star, Natalie Portman, stated in 2011 that Kutcher "has taught me more about Judaism than I think I have ever learned from anyone else".^[30]

On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was named the assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. However, he was unable to return in 2009 because he was filming Spread.^[31][32]

In February 2011, Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, which he originally bought in 2004.^[33]

In April 2012, Ashton Kutcher became the 500th paying customer to sign up to ride Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.^[34]

Twitter presence[link]

On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first user of Twitter to have more than 1,000,000 followers,^[35] beating CNN in the "Million followers contest".^[36][37][38] Kutcher announced via Twitter that he would be donating $100,000 to a charity to fight malaria. However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by preventing users from "unfollowing" Kutcher or CNN.^[39]

Controversy[link]

In April 2011, Kutcher and wife Demi Moore began a public service announcement campaign claiming that "Real Men" do not engage the services of child prostitutes who are the victims of human trafficking.^[40] Kutcher's claims that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery were criticized by newspaper the Village Voice, which gave evidence refuting the claims. Kutcher represented a study referring to minors 'at risk' for sexual exploitation as referring to children actually being prostituted. Experts estimate the true numbers to be in the hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands.^[41] Kutcher reacted to the criticism by accusing the Village Voice of promoting child prostitution and using Twitter to request that Village Voice advertisers including American Airlines, Disney, the City of Seattle, and Domino's Pizza withdraw their advertising from publications owned by the parent company of the Village Voice.^[42][43]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

As a producer[link]

Awards[link]

• Young Artist Award
  • 1999 – Best Performance in a TV Series – Young Ensemble for That '70 Show (shared with Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson)- Nominated
• Kid's Choice Awards
  • 2004 – Favorite Movie Actor for Just Married, My Boss's Daughter and Cheaper by the Dozen – Nominated
  • 2004 – Favorite Television Actor for That '70s Show and Punk'd – Winner
  • 2005 – Favorite TV Actor for That '70s Show and Punk'd – Nominated
  • 2006 – Favorite TV Actor for That '70s Show – Nominated
  • 2007 – Favorite Voice in a Cartoon for Open Season – Nominated
• People's Choice Awards
  • 2010 – Favorite Web Celeb – Winner
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award
  • 2000 – Sierra Award Best Male Newcomer for Dude, Where's My Car? – Nominated
• MTV Movie Awards
  • 2001 – Breakthrough Male Performance for Dude, Where's My Car? – Nominated
  • 2011 – Best Comedic Performance for No Strings Attached – Nominated
• Teen Choice Awards
  • 2003 – Choice Reality Hunk for Punk'd – Winner
  • 2003 – Choice TV Reality/Variety Host for Punk'd- Winner
  • 2003 – Choice TV Actor – Comedy for That '70s Show – Winner
  • 2004 – Choice TV Personality – Winner
  • 2004 – Choice Reality/Variety TV Star – Male for Punk'd – Winner
  • 2004 – Choice TV Actor – Comedy for That '70s Show – Winner
  • 2004 – Choice Movie Hissy Fit for Cheaper by the Dozen – Nominated
  • 2004 – Choice Movie Liplock Cheaper by the Dozen (shared with Piper Perabo) – Nominated
  • 2005 – Choice: TV Male Personality for Punk'd – Winner
  • 2005 – Choice TV Actor: Comedy for That '70s Show – Winner
  • 2005 – Choice Movie Actor: Comedy for Guess Who and A Lot Like Love – Nominated
  • 2005 – Choice Movie Rockstar Moment for A Lot Like Love – Winner
  • 2007 – Choice Movie Actor: Drama for The Guardian – Nominated
  • 2008 – Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy for What Happens In Vegas – Winner
  • 2010 – Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy for Valentine's Day – Winner
  • 2011 – Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy for No Strings Attached – Winner
  • 2012 - Choice TV Actor: Comedy for Two and a Half Men - Pending
• Golden Raspberry Awards
  • 2003 – Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple for Just Married (shared with Brittany Murphy) and My boss's Daughter (shared with Tara Reid) – Nominated
  • 2004 – Razzie Award for Worst Actor for Cheaper By The Dozen, Just Married and My Boss's Daughter – Nominated
  • 2010 – Razzie Award for Worst Actor for Killers – Winner

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ashton Kutcher

• Ashton Kutcher at the Internet Movie Database
• Ashton Kutcher at AllRovi
• Ashton Kutcher at People.com
• Ashton Kutcher on Twitter

Demi Moore
Moore at the 2010 Time 100 Gala
Born	(1962-11-11) November 11, 1962 (age 49) Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.[n 1]
Occupation	Actress, producer, director, songwriter, model
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Freddy Moore (1980–1985) Bruce Willis (1987–2000) Ashton Kutcher (2005–present)
Children	Rumer Willis, Scout Willis, Tallulah Willis

Demi Guynes Kutcher ( /dəˈmiː/ də-MEE; born November 11, 1962),^{[n 1]} known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter and model. Born in Roswell, New Mexico to teenage parents who divorced before she was born, Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to begin modeling in Europe, and posed for a nude pictorial in Oui magazine in 1980. After making her movie debut in 1981, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and established her career with such films as St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and About Last Night... (1986). Following the successes of Ghost (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Disclosure (1994), Moore became Hollywood's highest-paid actress,^[12] receiving an unprecedented sum of $12.5 million for Striptease (1996).^[13]

Moore took her professional name from her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, and is the mother of three daughters from her second marriage to actor Bruce Willis. She married her third husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, in 2005, and separated from him in November 2011.

Early life[link]

Moore was born in Roswell, New Mexico. As a child, she had a difficult and unstable home life. Her parents split up before she was born, with her mother, Virginia, leaving Demi's biological father, Charles Harmon, Sr.,^[14][15] and marrying Dan Guynes, a newspaper advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs; as a result, the family moved a great many times.^[16] Moore said in 1991, "My dad is Dan Guynes. He raised me. There is a man who would be considered my biological father who I don't really have a relationship with."^[15] Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her parents' marriage certificate and inquired about circumstances since "I saw my parents were married in February 1963. I was born in '62."^[15] Moore was cross-eyed as a child; this was ultimately corrected by two surgeries. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction.^[16] She has a maternal half-brother, Morgan Guynes, who in 1988 was a U.S. Marine stationed in North Carolina, and gave her away at her wedding that year;^[17] a paternal half-brother, James Craig Harmon (born 1974) who in 2006 was sentenced to 10 years in jail for aggravated assault;^[18] a paternal half-sister, Charlotte Harmon Eggar, who in 2012 said she had not seen Moore in 30 years;^[14] a paternal half-brother, Charles Harmon Jr.;^[14] and a sister, who in 1998 was named Carolyn Sneed and living in Farmington, New Mexico.^[19]

Virginia Guynes left her husband when Moore was 15 and moved to West Hollywood, California, where Virginia worked for a magazine-distribution company.^[15] Two years later, Dan Guynes committed suicide.^[15] Moore attended Fairfax High School there,^[15] and recalled, "I moved out of my family's house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year."^[20] She decided to pursue a career in the entertainment industry after being inspired by 17-year-old German actress Nastassja Kinski, who lived with her own divorced mother in the same apartment building.^[21] In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday,^[21] Moore met musician Freddy Moore at the Los Angeles nightclub The Troubadour.^[22] Freddy Moore was married to another woman at that time.^[21] In February 1980, six months after they met, Freddy and Demi were married^[23] and lived in an apartment in West Hollywood.^[22]

Career[link]

Moore with then-husband Bruce Willis at the Academy Awards in 1989

Demi Moore co-wrote three songs with Freddy Moore and appeared in the music video for their "It's Not a Rumor," performed by his band The Nu Kats.^[24] She continues to receive royalty checks from her brief songwriting career (1980-1981).^[25]

After training with John Casablancas — the founder of Elite Model Management — she posed for the adult magazine Oui,^[26] telling a reporter in 1988 she "only posed for the cover of Oui — I was 16; I told them I was 18."^[27] In 1990, she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover."^[28] Moore made her film debut with a small supporting role in the deaf-teen drama Choices (1981), directed by Silvio Narizzano,^[29] which was still unreleased at the time her second film came out.^[30] This was the 1982 3-D science fiction/horror film Parasite, for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen."^[26] Moore achieved greater exposure when she played the part of Jackie Templeton on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 1982 to 1983. She made an uncredited cameo appearance as that character in the 1982 spoof Young Doctors in Love.

Moore's career took off following her appearances in the youth-oriented films Blame It on Rio (1984) and St. Elmo's Fire (1985), and she was often listed as part of the Brat Pack, a label she shunned at the time. Moore reached a professional turning point with the release of About Last Night... in 1986. Film critic Roger Ebert praised her performance, writing, "There isn't a romantic note she isn't required to play in this movie, and she plays them all flawlessly."^[31] In 1988, she starred in The Seventh Sign, directed by Carl Schultz. The following year, she acted with Robert DeNiro in We're No Angels.

Her most successful film as of 2012 was the supernatural romantic melodrama Ghost, a sleeper hit that became the highest-grossing film of 1990. The film included a memorable love scene between Moore's character and that of Patrick Swayze's, which begins in front of a pottery wheel. Moore's performance as Molly Jensen garnered her a Golden Globe Award nomination as Best Actress.

In 1991, Moore co-produced and starred in the mystery thriller Mortal Thoughts, and appeared as a blonde for the first time in the romantic comedy The Butcher's Wife, with one review describing her as "warm and cuddly".^[32] Both films were box-office disappointments, but her next three films (A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal and Disclosure) all opened at #1 at the box office and became hits.^[33]

By 1995, Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.^[12] However, she subsequently had a string of unsuccessful films with The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Striptease, and G.I. Jane. Moore's Passion of Mind co-star Joss Ackland lambasted her by describing her as being "not very bright or talented",^[34] although he worked with her again on Flawless in 2008. Moore produced and starred in a controversial miniseries for HBO, If These Walls Could Talk, a three-part omnibus telefilm about abortion. Its scriptwriter, Nancy Savoca, directed two segments, including one in which Moore played a single woman in the 1950s seeking a back-alley abortion. For that role, Moore received a second Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress.

Moore was a founding "celebrity investor" in the Planet Hollywood chain of international theme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe and launched in New York on October 22, 1991) along with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and then-husband Bruce Willis.

After a break from her acting career, Moore returned to the screen as the villain of the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In 2006, she appeared in Bobby which featured an all-star cast, including her husband Ashton Kutcher, although they did not appear in any scenes together. As of 2012, her last appearance in a widely released film was in Mr. Brooks, which was released on June 1, 2007. She appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's longform video "Destination Anywhere" as Janie.^[35]

After modeling in a Versace ad campaign in 2005, Moore signed on as the face of the Helena Rubinstein brand of cosmetics the following year.^[36]

Moore had been cast to play feminist activist Gloria Steinem in the Linda Lovelace film biography Lovelace^[37] but within a month of being announced for the role, she dropped out of the production in the wake of a January 23, 2012, hospitalization and what her representative called "professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health."^[38] Sarah Jessica Parker took over the role.^[39]

[edit] Vanity Fair controversy

In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair under the title More Demi Moore. Annie Leibovitz shot the picture while Moore was seven months pregnant with her daughter Scout LaRue, intending to portray "anti-Hollywood, anti-glitz" attitude.^[40] The cover sparked an intense controversy for Vanity Fair and Moore. It was widely discussed on television, radio, and in newspaper articles.^[41] The frankness of Leibovitz's portrayal of a pregnant sex symbol led to divided opinions, ranging from complaints of sexual objectification to celebrations of the photograph as a symbol of empowerment.^[42]

The photograph was subject to numerous parodies, including the Spy magazine version which placed Moore's then-husband Bruce Willis' head on her body. In Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., Leibovitz sued over one parody featuring Leslie Nielsen, made to promote the 1994 film Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. In the parody, the model's body was attached to what is described as "the guilty and smirking face" of Nielsen. The teaser said "Due this March".^[43] The case was dismissed in 1996 because the parody relied "for its comic effect on the contrast between the original".^[43] In November 2009, the Moroccan magazine Femmes du Maroc emulated the infamous pose with Moroccan news reporter Nadia Larguet, causing controversy in the majority Muslim nation.^[44] In August 1992, Moore would again appear nude on the cover of Vanity Fair, modeling for body painting artist Joanne Gair in Demi's Birthday Suit.^[45][46]

Personal life[link]

Marriages and children[link]

Moore and Kutcher in September 2008

On February 8, 1980 (three months after her 17th birthday), she married singer Freddy Moore, adopting his surname.^[23] The pair had met six months prior to their wedding.^[25] Demi filed for divorce in September 1984; it was finalized on August 8, 1985.^[25]

In 1987, Moore met and married her second husband, actor Bruce Willis.^[47] She stated on her marriage license that this was her first marriage, explaining in an interview the following year, "I did it only because I thought it was going to take longer if I put that [first marriage] on there."^[17] She and Willis had three daughters together: Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988), Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis.^[47] The couple divorced in 2000.^[47]

After two years of dating, Moore wed actor Ashton Kutcher on September 24, 2005.^[48] The couple separated in November 2011, and Moore announced her intention to divorce Kutcher.^[49]

Charity work[link]

In April 2011, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher launched their "Demi and Ashton Foundation", a non-profit, non-governmental organization directed towards fighting child sexual slavery.^[50][51] Its first campaign was "Real Men Don't Buy Girls".^[52]

Interests[link]

Moore's primary residence is in Hailey, Idaho, near the Sun Valley resort, although she spent much time in the Los Angeles area during her marriage to Kutcher. She also owns a waterfront mansion on Sebago Lake, Maine. She is a follower of Philip Berg's Kabbalah Centre religion, and initiated Kutcher into the faith, having said that she "didn't grow up Jewish, but ... would say that [she has] been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of [her] friends that did".^[53]

According to The New York Times, Moore is "the world's most high-profile doll collector", and among her favorites is the Gene Marshall fashion doll.^[54]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Footnote[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Demi Moore

• Demi Moore on Twitter
• Demi and Ashton Foundation - official website
• Demi Moore at the Internet Movie Database
• Demi Moore at the Internet Broadway Database
• Demi Moore at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Demi Moore at AllRovi
• Demi Moore at People.com