July 30, 1963 / Leo / Age 62
Monique Gabrielle is an American-born Penthouse model, adult model, and actress, born Katherine Gonzalez on July 30, 1963 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Delphine, Jaimie, Lindsay, Luana Chase, Luana Chass, Lucy Burnett, Michelle, Myra, Sally, or Sue.
Monique Gabrielle was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in December 1982, stepping into the spotlight at just 19 years old. With her statuesque 34-24-34 figure, charming brown eyes, rich brown hair, and natural breasts, Monique balances youthful curiosity with a growing confidence, creating an allure that feels both innocent and daring.
There is a kind of debut that reads like a promise: small-town nerves braided with movie-star ambition. Before she was the centerfold every man secretly wished he could unwrap, she grew up devouring movies, dreaming of the day she'd trade the Rockies for studio lights, and when Los Angeles finally took her in she carried Hollywood in her bloodstream. It didn't take long for photographers to notice that this wasn't just another pretty face; the camera found a willing conspirator.
On set she moved with the assurance of someone who understood the camera's hunger and knew exactly how to feed it. Her Penthouse pictorial did not document a model so much as stage a performance—an artful balance of innocence and invitation that became her signature. She didn't pose; she performed, turning each frame into a scene you wanted to linger on, playful and self-aware.
That signature translated into pages and into celluloid. Readers voted her one of the most unforgettable Pets of the early eighties and Penthouse's editors recognized more than a beautiful subject; they saw a star. By the mid-'80s she carried that momentum into cult favorites and erotic thrillers—titles like Bachelor Party, Evil Toons, Chained Heat and Deathstalker II—roles that let her mix sex appeal with a sharp sense of humor and that knowing wink to camera. She wasn't afraid to wink at the camera—to play both the fantasy and the woman behind it.
What keeps her timeless is a command of presence as much as of form: the body was, and remains, the kind that launches daydreams, and the mind that could play both the fantasy and the woman behind it. She rose in an age when glamour and eroticism blurred into neon, and she walked that line with confidence, daring and control of her own pleasure. Monique Gabrielle — the December 1982 Pet who proved that temptation, when handled with intelligence and humor, never goes out of fashion.