CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER TERRY RICHARDSON SHOOTS
BITCH SLAP ACTRESS AMERICA OLIVO FOR PLAYBOY’S JUNE ISSUE

The famed photographer pays homage to the good ol’ USA
in his first cover and pictorial for the magazine

She can do a job on a popsicle, but when it comes to acting, America Olivo doesn’t suck. With four movies coming out in 2009, including the much hyped Bitch Slap, the sexy singer and actress was photographed for the cover of Playboy’s June issue by famed celebrity photographer Terry Richardson, and appears in a 6-page nude pictorial inside (issue on newsstands and online at  www.playboydigital.com  Friday, May 15).  The photos are Richardson’s first for the magazine.

Olivo, last seen in the recent Friday the 13^th remake, stars as a drug-running, street-fighting lesbian in the upcoming movie Bitch Slap, which boasts the longest girl fight in cinema history. While filming, Olivo teases that she had to do “blatant lesbian scenes on a trapeze, in which I'm making out, kissing this girl between the legs and riding her so intensely I was more sore than a mofo.”

Before her Bitch Slap days, the 31-year-old earned her degree as a mezzo-soprano at Juilliard. “‘Every time I sang about love,’ she giggles, ‘my 97-year-old mentor would say, ‘You can’t really sing a song like this until you’ve lost your virginity, and I can tell you haven’t!’” Her solution?  “I lost my virginity in Rome in a park with a view of the Vatican—literally.”

Following her graduation from Julliard, America toured the world with her Hispanic, DreamWorks Records-signed band Soluna. The Latina beauty went on to acting and has since starred in Neighbor, The Last Resort, Iron Man, Transformers 2 and Circle, and has a recurring role on General Hospital.