Tawny Kitaen, film actress also in 1980s music videos, dies at 59

Julie Kitaen was born in San Diego on Aug. 5, 1961, and gave herself the nickname Tawny when she was 12. She dated Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby in the early 1980s and appeared as the cover model for the EP “Ratt” — on which only her lower body was seen — and the band’s first LP, “Out of the Cellar.”