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Supermodel/talk show host Tyra Banks (1973)

Veteran actor Max Baer Jr. has spoken for the first time about the moment he discovered his 30-year-old girlfriend had shot herself in the chest in January. The Beverly Hillbilles star, 70, called emergency services after he found Chere Rhodes unconscious from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Lake Tahoe home on the California/Nevada border on January 27.

Happy Birthday to busty supermodel Tyra Banks (1973), Shawn Carter a.k.a. rapper Jay-Z (1970), My Cousin Vinny actress Marisa Tomei (1964), "The Big Lebowski" actor Jeff Bridges (1949), Beach Boy Dennis Wilson (1944; d. 1983), British actress Gemma Jones (1942), actor, screenwriter and hillbilly Max Baer, Jr. (1937),

MINDEN, Nev. (AP) - Max Baer Jr., who as Jethro in the 1960s sitcom ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' lived off his uncle Jed's oil riches, is hoping to strike it rich in the gambling market.

Happy Birthday to busty supermodel Tyra Banks (1973), Shawn Carter a.k.a. rapper Jay-Z (1970), My Cousin Vinny actress Marisa Tomei (1964), "The Big Lebowski" actor Jeff Bridges (1949), Beach Boy Dennis Wilson (1944; d. 1983), British actress Gemma Jones (1942), actor, screenwriter and hillbilly Max Baer, Jr. (1937), "Little House on the Prairie" actor Victor French (1934; d. 1989), Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866; d. 1944), and Sioux Indian chief Crazy Horse (1849).