Suzanne Mizzi

Suzanne Mizzi (1 December 1967 – 22 May 2011) was a Maltese-born glamour model, singer, interior designer, and artist. She made regular appearances as a Page 3 girl in the British newspaper The Sun during the 1980s and 1990s, before going on to have a career as a catwalk model, as well as being involved in film and music. In her later years, she developed a career as an interior designer and abstract artist.

Career

Mizzi was born in Malta and grew up in London.

After leaving school at 15, Mizzi opened a clothes shop in Bethnal Green, London, where she was discovered by a photographer while working. Her success was helped by Page 3 photographer Beverley Goodway, whose pictures helped to establish her career.

In 1986 Mizzi appeared in a music video for the song "Anything She Does" by Genesis alongside comedian Benny Hill and fellow glamour model Maria Whittaker.

In 1988, she quit glamour modelling and began catwalk modelling. She signed with the Storm Model Agency and began doing fashion shoots, something which would eventually lead to her working with Vivienne Westwood. She did this in 1989, when she insured her body with Lloyd's of London for $16 million.

In the 2000s she became an artist and interior designer and was known as Mizzy. She exhibited her work at London's Rainbird Fine Art Gallery and ran an interior and building design consultancy business, which she started after friends saw work she had done on her house and asked her to design rooms for them.

She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2010; she died at St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney, East London, on 22 May 2011, aged 43.