Tammy Lynn Leppert

About Tammy Lynn Leppert

Tammy Lynn Leppert was an American actress, model and beauty queen.

Leppert began participating in beauty contests when she was four years old, competing in nearly 300 beauty pageants and taking home about 280 crowns. She was employed primarily as a model throughout her adolescent and teenage years, appearing on the cover of CoverGirl Magazine in 1978

Leppert appeared in the film Scarface (1983) as the girl who distracts the lookout car during the bloody chainsaw scene. Before that, among other minor roles, she played a party girl in Little Darlings (1980) and a participant in a boxing match in Spring Break (1983). Reportedly, Leppert's legs, hips and torso were used in the main poster for the latter movie. It is also claimed she had plans to go to Hollywood in 1983.

After the Spring Break shoot was finished, Leppert went unaccompanied to a party one weekend. According to her close friend, Wing Flannagan, she came home from the party "a different person". After performing her role in Scarface, Leppert suddenly returned home after the fourth day of filming. Her mother assumed that Leppert had been afraid of being murdered by someone, and that she had become overtaken by this delusion. Her mother felt obliged to have her examined by a doctor, but after 72 hours in a medical center, Leppert was released and there seemed to be no signs of drug or alcohol use according to doctor statements.

Leppert was last seen in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on July 6, 1983. She was reported to have worn a blue denim shirt decorated with flowers, along with a matching skirt, a gray purse and sandals. Some agencies have stated that Leppert left without shoes or money. A male friend told authorities that he had an argument with her while driving her from her home in Rockledge and had later "left her [...] in a parking lot." Although he is the last person believed to have seen her, he is not considered a suspect. However, Leppert's mother has claimed that her daughter was "afraid" of him.