Who is Darcy LaPier?
Darcy LaPier was born 21 July 1965, in Molalla, Oregon, USA, so her birth sign is Cancer and she holds American nationality. She is a former actress, producer and a model. Even though high-profile marriages are the most prominent detail about her life, in the last two decades she’s transformed herself into one of the top award-winning professional barrel racers.
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Darcy graduated from Portland (Oregon ) University, and studied drama at the University of Oregon and Huntington Film Institute in Florida
Acting Career
Besides modeling, she dabbled in acting as well, with supporting parts in minor movies between 1988 and 1999.
Some of those are ‘Think Big’, ‘Double Trouble’ and Street Fighter’ alongside Jean Claude Van Damme. In 2013 she came back into public focus as the star and executive producer of A&E’s reality TV show ‘Rodeo Girls’ , which followed a group of rodeo veterans and rookies driven by the singular goal of winning as they travel the country with their horses.
Marriage 1#
In 1984 at the age of 19, she married Larry Lay Robertson. Driven by the wish to step into the Hollywood scene, she began attending beauty pageants, and soon gained a lot of attention.
However, her ambition and her status as a married woman didn’t match at the time, so she left her husband and set off for a possible acting and modeling career; the latter was somewhat successful, as she was Miss Portland International, Raceway, Miss Budweiser, Miss Miller.
Marriage 2#
It seemed that she was not meant for small-town fame, as she dreamt of making it big. Soon she would be given a chance to taste Hollywood fame when she was chosen as a representative for the Hawaiian Beauty Contest in 1985.
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As a beautiful and attractive young lady, she caught the eye of the President of the Hawaiian Tropic, wealthy mogul Ron Rice whom she ‘married’ in 1991, in a ceremony which reportedly cost $1 million. Their ‘marriage’ was blessed with a baby girl, Sterling, however, complications arose, as while she was still married to Ron Rice, she met and fell in love with the screen-action hero, Jean Claude Van Damme, who was also married at the time, to Gladys Portugues. Consequently Ron Rice filed for divorce, but learned that at the time of their marriage she hadn’t still divorced from her first husband, Larry, so Rice filed for the annulment of the marriage, and as a consequence of that, Darcy was allowed child support, but not alimony. She finally divorced Larry in 1993.
Her marriage 3# to Jean Claude Van Damme
After the annulment of her ‘marriage’ to Ron Rice, she and now-divorced Van Damme married in February 1994, in Bangkok, Thailand. On 10 October 1995, they welcomed a son, Nickolas Van Varenberg, but this marriage wasn’t meant to last either, and they divorced in November 1997 – apparently the relationship was rather volatile and intense, as she filed for divorce three times in three years. According to the reports, Darcy claimed that Jean Claude was an aggressive cocaine addict who would often resort to violence and beat her. She even filed for a restraining order.as well as custody of their son. As a part of the divorce settlement, she received $10 million plus child support.
Marriage 4#
Her next marriage was to Mark R. Hughes, the founder of Herbalife, a global nutrition and weight management company. They married on Valentine’s day in 1999 in an apparently extravagent ceremony, and settled in Hughes’ 32,000-square-foot house in Malibu. As usual, the pattern for Darcy continued, as this marriage also wouldn’t last, but this time because Hughes died just one year into their marriage – he reportedly took a prescription pill, after drinking a huge amount of alcohol, making it a lethal mixture, and Darcy woke to find her husband dead. The autopsy revealed that the pill he had taken coupled with alcohol proved to be deadly. Darcy inherited $100 million from her husband’s business and estate.
After Hughes died, she took her children and moved to Oregon, where she would begin her barrel racing career.
Marriage 5#
After four unsuccessful marriages, Darcy was still determined to find the love of her life. In 2002 she married Brian Snodgrass, co-owner of Seven Dee’s Nursery. They had a child together, Madison, but again this marriage also wasn’t meant for the long run, and they divorced in 2013.
Barrel Racing
As a girl, she attended many rodeo events with her father, and soon developed a liking for it, which would drive her to learn and compete in barrel racing.
Despite her adoration of equine sports, which were instilled in her at a young age, only after the death of Hughes would she take a chance to reinvent herself, and take a shot at barrel racing. She made a risky move and moved with her children to Oregon, in hopes of training and becoming an exquisite barrel racer. Eventually, her resolve and tenacity paid off in 2004, earning the most money for a rookie. After that, she continued to add various titles and winnings to her already stacked biography.
Briefly about Jaun Claude Van Damme
Jean Claud Van Damme is a famous action star, born in 1960 in Belgium, the son of Eugene Van Varenberg and Eliana Van Varenberg.
At the urging of his father, he started training at the age of eleven at the Center National De Karate. By 1980 Van Damme had become one of the best full-contact fighters in Europe, and after a successful sports career, he ventured to the US in pursuit of his dream of becoming an actor. He had his first notable role in 1984 in the movie ‘No Retreat, No Surrender’, which kick-started a series of roles in martial arts movies that made him famous. In the late ’80s and until the mid-’90s, he had roles in several commercially successful movies- ‘Bloody Sports(1988), Kickboxer (1989), Universal Soldier (1992), and ‘Time Cop’ – the latter movie became a major international hit, grossing over $100 million. However, in the second half of the ’90s, he starred in a series of commercially unsuccessful films that hurt his career.
Even though he never managed to score a role that would top the success of the ‘Universal Soldier’, he continued to star in various minor movies throughout the last two decades.
Net worth?
As of late 2020, Darcy’s net worth has been estimated at an astonishing $100 million, most of her money coming from hefty divorce settlements. The barrel racer is also known for endorsing several brands and companies however, reliable information about her income hasn’t been revealed.
It seems that her busy life kept her from being active on social media, but even so, she uses Instagram to post photos of her children, her barrel racing scores, and an occasional meme or two.
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