Susanne Saxon
Penthouse Pet of the Month, October 1976

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Susanne Saxon Bio

December 27, 1956 - September 4, 2006 / Capricorn / Age 49

Susanne Saxon was an American-born Penthouse model, actress. She was born Susan Marie Swanson on December 27, 1956 in Joliet, Illinois, United States.

Susanne Saxon was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in October 1976, stepping into the spotlight at just 19 years old. Her measurements are 36-24-35. Susanne Saxon has charming brown eyes, rich brown hair, and natural breasts.

Susanne Saxon came into Penthouse with the kind of youthful charge that makes an entire issue feel suddenly more daring. At nineteen, she had the fresh, unmistakable impact of a woman stepping quickly into visibility and handling it with far more confidence than her age might suggest. There was nothing shy about the impression she made. She had the look of someone ready to be seen — bright, glamorous, and entirely in tune with the bolder mood of the late seventies as it began to take shape.

What made Susanne especially compelling was the sense of motion around her. She did not seem anchored to one place or one role for very long. Born in Illinois and educated in the Plainfield area, she moved to Texas in 1974 and worked as a cocktail waitress in Houston before heading on to Los Angeles with her musician boyfriend in the middle of the decade. That restless progression suited her image. She felt like a woman in transit toward a larger life, learning quickly, changing scenes, and bringing a little more polish and confidence with each new chapter. Penthouse caught her at exactly the right moment, when ambition, beauty, and youth were all working together.

That first appearance made an immediate mark. Susanne Saxon was both the cover girl and Penthouse Pet of the Month for October 1976, an unusually strong introduction that placed her squarely in the spotlight. The attention did not end there. She returned for follow-up pictorials in May 1977 and September 1978, and also posed for Oui, Viva, and Hustler, establishing herself as one of the more recognizable nude models of that period. Her image reached beyond magazines as well, appearing on the cover of the Average White Band's 1978 album Warmer Communications. Screen work followed in smaller doses, with appearances on Red Foxx and Soap, along with film parts in Racquet and Caligula. Yet even with all that visibility, her career retained an intriguingly fleeting quality, as though she had moved through fame quickly and on her own terms.

That brevity makes her story all the more affecting in retrospect. Susanne left nude modeling in the late seventies, returned to Illinois in 1984, later moved to Arkansas, and lived a life that continued well beyond the version of her fixed in glossy pages. She was married twice and died far too young in September 2006 at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, at just forty-nine. What remains is the image of a woman who burned brightly in a very particular era — youthful, fearless, and vivid enough that the memory still lingers.

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Susanne Saxon Measurements

Height: 5'9 (175 cm)
Weight: 123 lb (56 kg)

Breast: 36" (92 cm)
Waist: 24" (60 cm)
Hips: 35" (90 cm)

Breast type: natural

Susanne Saxon Details

Zodiac: Capricorn
Ethnicity: caucasian
Hair сolor: brown
Eye сolor: brown

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