These days, Ray, who is now a mother living in Sacramento, Calif., looks nothing like she did in the video. She modeled for Playboy and was the Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue. Add to Collection Add to Wantlist Remove from Wantlist "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Explore more about Ola Ray wiki, bio, net worth and much more. Ola Ray will forever be known as Michael’s girlfriend in the classic “Thriller” short film. View the photos of Ola Ray, then and now, and view Michael Jackson’s famous “Thriller” video below. Ola Ray and Michael Jackson in Thriller View the slideshow to see photos of Ola Ray then and now and view … MICHAEL Jackson’s co-star in the Thriller video has revealed how the King of Pop stripped naked and passionately kissed her.

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Ola Ray (born August 26, 1960) is an American model and actress who costarred in the short film for "Thriller" in 1983. A settlement for Ola Ray was reached in May 2012. Now - And "Them" For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed Ola hit the big time when she starred in the Jackson video for Thriller Ola has claimed she got 'intimate' with Jackson on set She claims she shared a passionate kiss with the King of Pop Ola and Jackson became close while filming for the Thriller video went on Ola claims she is owed millions from the Jackson estate due to her contract for the Thriller video Get to know if Ola Ray married with a husband or is single right now. New Submission After a decades-long hiatus, she jumped back into the acting world with a smattering of projects slated for 2019. Ola started her career of modeling and acting as a Playboy bunny in the early 1980s. Also know whether Ola Ray daughter is from her husband or boyfriend.

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 Vinyl release of Now - And "Them" on Discogs. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.MICHAEL Jackson’s co-star in the Thriller video has revealed how the King of Pop stripped naked and passionately kissed her.Former Playboy model Ola Ray, now 58, appeared in the iconic video as Jackson’s girlfriend and has now claimed she shared a kiss with the singer on set.“I kissed him for the first time on the set, I kissed him on the cheek, then he asked me to come into his dressing room one day and I went in there and we sat down and had a conversation and we got really close and that's when he kissed me the second time.“It was a very passionate kiss and, you know, we also did a little something else, but that's all I'm gonna say.”“I'll just tell you this much,” she added. A settlement for Ola Ray was reached in May 2012. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. “He undressed in front of me, I'm not going to tell you anymore about it - you've got to read my book.”Ray, who was a former Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue, said even though she didn’t expect something like that to happen, “getting intimate” with She added that over the two weeks they were together they became “very, very close.”Ray, who had previously appeared in George Benson’s video Give Me The Night, was thrust into the spotlight in her early 20s due to her featuring in the Thriller video which became a huge hit when it was released in 1983.The video is still hugely popular with fans and has been viewed more than 597million times on YouTube.Ray’s comments came on the 10th anniversary of Jackson’s death with his 1983 Thriller album thought to be the best-selling LP of all time with sales of 66million, according to the Guinness Book of Records.While Ray has fond memories of working on the video she claimed that Jackson’s estate still owed her millions of dollars in royalties and she was struggling to get by, living in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.Ray beat off hundreds of hopefuls to feature in the 14-minute video directed by John Landis which took two weeks to film.She described Jackson as a “sweet” and very nice guy as well as being a “gentle soul”.After shooting had finished she met Jackson one more time at Westlake Studios a few months later when Quincy Jones was producing his Bad album.Jackson had told her he couldn’t continue their fling because of a promise he had made to a friend, meaning they were interested in Ray.The pair talked about the situation and Jackson invited her out to lunch but Ray refused and instead handed him her number and asked him to call her.She said she got an initial payment of $2,500 (£1,900) for her role in the video but didn’t get another payment for at least two years even though she had signed a lucrative contract.Ray claims Jackson promised her 2.5 per cent of the royalties from the Thriller video but said that when Jackson died in 2009 her contract was changed and she was “duped” into signing a settlement agreement.It is reported that up to June 2010 the video earned $92,735,816 in digital video sales and $78.6m in DVD sales.Ray said that her cut of the money should be $4.2m (£3.3m) but claimed she had been paid less that $200,000 (£157,000) in the 35 years since the video came out.The 14-minute promo video for Michael Jackson’s song Thriller was directed by John Landis, who was responsible for An American Werewolf in London.Jackson’s record label Epic initially refused to finance the ambitious project which had a budge of half a million dollars.On its release on December 2, 1983 the video was a huge success and played regularly on MTV.It is said to have helped double the sales of Jackson’s album of the same name, and helping it to become the best-selling album of all time.The Library of Congress has described it as “the most famous music video of all time”.It was the first music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry, saying it was “culturally, historically or aesthetically”.In 2012 was awarded $75,000 in back payments after a court battle, with $20,000 of that going to her legal team.She told DailyMailTV: “All I can say is that the Michael I know would never do anything like that.” Gordon Ramsay shows off incredible new swimming pool at £4.4million Cornwall home Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dead at 43 after colon cancer battle Jesy Nelson shares stunning bikini selfie after revealing lockdown weight gain Three-bed house on sale for £270k… but there's a secret out the back Furious Becky Vardy files papers to force Coleen into court immediately©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No.