Brandi Downs discussions

[Uncle Willy]

I noticed the MC in Starlets Xposed Vol 2 announces Brandi as Charleen and added she'd just made a movie with Angie Dickinson called Big Bad Mama II (starring Julie McCullough, too; you probably remember it). So I consulted IMDb. The film was released in 1987. There is only one uncredited addition to the studio cast list: Cristina Turek as "smoking prostitute." On Cristina's page I found a list of numerous films she had done audio work on since about 2000, but no vids listed and this the only film as an actress. Elsewhere appearances in Cheers and First & Ten are, or were, listed. BTW, there is no Brandi Downs IMDb page now. I'm thinking that's where I got the latter.

However, there were recent pics on IMDb that looked very much like the pics of an older Brandi I picked up probably from Myspace a few years ago, altho it may have been from a modeling emplyoment website, as well as a frameshot of the scene in Big Bad Mama II, all of which must have been added by her.

One of the Myspace pics is Brandi's avatar or whatever there now, or I should say one of them, because there's another Brandi Downs Myspace account, too. The rest of first account is not viewable now if it ever was, tho I think it must have been, but lists her living in Huntington Beach, and has her name as Brandi Leigh Jones. The other Myspace account dates from 2007 and appears to be an abortive attempt to start a perhaps bogus phone chat operation on the Keen website along with a website on Godaddy.

I felt certain enough to submit the aka for the Trivia section of Cristina's IMDb page, and the fact she had appeared in Bert Rhine. But not all Rhine's video productions are listed at IMDb, so that's as far as I felt it possible to go. She was also clearly in at least one of the California Girls Bikini Contests, and appeared in other videos, such as the one for Triumph when obviously very young.

A look at one of the people search websites turned up this info:

Cristina Marie Turek age 46

no aliases

lived:
Castaic, CA
Whittier, CA
Burbank, CA
North Hollywood, CA
Fullerton, CA
La Puente, CA
Rowland Heights, CA

related:
Joseph John Turek

Brandi's Myspace page I think said she was 44 a few years ago.

A reunion website shows a Cristina Turek graduated John A. Rowland High School, Rowland Heights, California (near LA) in 1984. Presumably she was 18 then, and thus must have been 20 when Big Bad Mama II was filmed. Best Chest in the West was supposed to have been made in 1983, and she has boobs then. Unless these dates are wrong, or I've got the wrong girl, she began even before graduating. Foxy Oil Wrestling and Wild Bikinis came out in 1987. She would have been 23-24 when she first appeared in Playboy in 1990.

There is a Cristina Turek Robassa on Facebook. There is no phone listing for a Robassa or Cristina Turek in CA, however. There are also three Brandi Leigh Jones' on Facebook, one of whom looks somewhat like her.

A people search website has the following:

Brandi Leigh Jones age 46

aliases:
Brandi Leigh Jones
Brandy Jones
Brandi Leigh Downs
Brandy Downs

lived:
Huntington Beach, CA

related:
Brandee Michele Jones
Caren L Ferrera
Scott Allen Downs
Robert Lee Downs
Matthew K Downs

She's the same age. But it would indicate she married a guy named Jones, or named Downs and got divorced, but never left her hometown, peculiar for a 46-year-old. Appears fishy to me. I think she's Cristina Turek.