Stephanie Adams is a Leo, born July 24, 1970. Adams was born in New Jersey and raised in New York City. Adams is an exotic mix of Black, White and American Indian. According to her Playboy pictorial, Adams is the direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

Adams was raised from birth by her aunts, who were former models. At the age of 16, her aunts convinced her to also start a career in modeling. Adams was signed first to Wilhelmina Models while completing her bachelor`s degree at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and then to Elite Model Management by John Casablancas. In spite of a vigorous agenda and successful modeling career, Stephanie managed to obtain a Bachelor of Science, having majored in Business Management and Marketing.

Being that Adams always admired the beautiful and artistic qualities of Playboy photography and viewed posing in Playboy as "every bad girl`s dream and every good girl`s fantasy", she accepted the invitation to appear at the Playboy Mansion, but declined to appear in the magazine. Eventually Adams realized what an honor it would be to pose in the magazine and finally accepted the offer to pose for Playboy.

Adams was dating the owner of Elite Model Managament (John Casablancas) around this time and he appeared with her in one of the photos for her pictorial. After dating Casablancas, Adams married an Italian investment banker, whom she subsequently divorced. (To this day, he considers her to be the love of his life.) She then dated several prominent New York City men, including Robert De Niro, before becoming the first and only Playboy Playmate to boldly step up to the podium and become a spokesmodel in the gay community.

Soon after ending a long term relationship around that time, Adams was seen around town with notables such as lesbian comedian Marga Gomez and rock star Joan Jett. Adams was later involved in a relationship with an Italian who appeared on the cover of various publications with her including her book entitled "Empress". Adams had often said of her romantic life that she is a "Playboy trapped in a Playmate`s body." Since then, Adams dated a very high-profile attorney, as well as a well-known financier, but prefers to keep the overall details of her love life private.

In 1999, Adams founded a new-age company named GODDESSY, a portmanteau of "goddess" and "odyssey". Following the death of her aunt from breast cancer on July 24, 2003, the day that should have been a birthday celebration, Adams decided to quit modeling full-time and dedicate most of her time towards writing. Eventually, GODDESSY also became the title of a series of astrology, new age, spiritual and metaphysical books written by Adams. Since then, Adams has written seventeen books in addition to three calendars and has contributed horoscopes and articles to various publications.

Aside from her active modeling and writing career, her being a private investor in Fortune 500 companies was the primary source for her becoming a self-made millionaire before the age of 30, and now she has decided to dedicate most of her time developing as much of a private life as she can possibly have.