‘Bikini teacher’ from Boca was at Leyritz birthday
party
Published January 6th, 2008
By Dale M. King
CITY EDITOR
If you’ve been wondering where the “Bikini Teacher”
from Boca Raton has been lately, reports say she was among those attending
the 44th birthday party for former New York Yankee’s catcher
Jim Leyritz the night before he was involved in a fatal car accident
in Fort Lauderdale.
The New York Daily News reports that Erica Lee Chevillar attended
the party.
Chevillar, 26, was a first-year social studies teacher at West Boca
Community High School last year when a parent complained about seeing
photos of her posing for the U.S.A. National Bikini Team sometime
during the 2005/06 school years.
The teacher was reprimanded by West Boca High Principal Fran Giblin,
but the Palm Beach County School Board ruled that she did not do anything
wrong.
She resigned from her $33,000-a-year job and has found success as
a model and in photos shoots. She signed with a modeling agency in
Miami Beach, competed in the 2006 WWE Diva Search and posed nude in
the March 2007 issue of Playboy.
Chevillar has a Web site that says she was born in Hanover, Pa.,
but moved to Boca Raton with her family at the age of four, and grew
up in the city.
She said she dreamed of being a teacher and a model. “As fate
would have it, both my desires and dreams have come true,” she
said.
Leyritz was charged with DUI manslaughter and DUI property damage
after his SUV crashed at an intersection, hitting the car of Fredia
Ann Veitch, 30, of Plantation. She was ejected from her car and died
at Broward General Medical Center.
Dale M. King can be reached at 561-549-0832 or at dking@bocanews.com.
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