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Rebecca Gayheart Trivia
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- Ethnically part Cherokee.
- Formerly engaged to director Brett Ratner.
- On 13 June 2001, Gayheart struck 9-year-old Jorge Cruz Jr. as he jaywalked across the street. According to the police report, the boy was walking home from school, and crossed the street about 160 feet from the nearest crosswalk. While several cars stopped to let him go, Gayheart allegedly swerved around the traffic and into a two-way left-turn lane, striking the boy; he died the next day at Los Angeles Children's Hospital. His parents, Jorge Cruz and Silvia Martinez, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on 6 August 2001 against her. Gayheart paid for Cruz's hospital and funeral expenses. [13 June 2001]
- Crowned Miss Centralian in high school in 1987.
- Studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
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