Apollonia and her house were featured in an episode of E! Celebrity Homes along with the homes of members of the tv-created boy band O-Town and Rodney Jerkins.
Apollonia is the former Miss San Pedro.
Apollonia teamed up with McCall's in 1986, and created a few do-it-yourself patterns. Each of these designs even featured her on the packaging.
Apollonia is a fashion designer and all the outfits she wore on the show Falcon Crest were of her own design.
Apollonia was a public supporter of Connecticut Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman.
Apollonia had a lead role in Tom Savini's obscure 2001 horror film, Vampirates, about Blackbeard the Pirate being brought back as a vampire. Legendary rockers, Alice Cooper and Adam Ant also appeared.
Apollonia guest starred as Gilda Rivera in the episode The Centerfold Murders (credited as Patti Kotero) on the 1980's private investigator show, Matt Houston.
Apollonia is almost always referred to as "former Prince protege Apollonia" in articles and interviews when she is mentioned.
Apollonia has an appearance on the 2003 album release, Blackberry Belle by The Twilight Sisters (a side project by Greg Dulli, former frontman for the band Afghan Whigs), along with other musicians as diverse as Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan, Petra Haden of that dog, the Rentals, and Alvin Youngblood Hart.
Apollonia had a guest appearance playing the part of Iya on the 1980's show Fantasy Island (credited under Patty Kotero), in the Love Island / The Sisters episode.
Apollonia's rocker ex-boyfriend, David Lee Roth was quoted as saying that she is the only woman he would ever consider marrying.
Apollonia dropped out of high school at age 16.
Apollonia collapsed from hypothermia after doing multiple takes of the infamous Lake Minnetonka skinny dipping scene in Prince's movie, Purple Rain.
Apollonia attempted an unsuccessful musical comeback in 1997 with the Spanish/English album, Stay With Me.
Apollonia is of Mexican and Italian descent, and is subsequently fluent in both Spanish and Italian.
Her stagename of Apollonia was given to her by Prince.
Apollonia starred in three straight-to-video movies: Back To Back, Black Magic Woman and Ministry of Vengeance, which can all be regarded as classic "B-movies".
Apollonia left Prince and company in 1985 to pursue a role acting in television. In 1986, she became part of the cast on the primetime soap opera, Falcon Crest. She was allowed to use her own stage name "Apollonia" on the show and played a budding young pop star and the love interest for the character Lance (in Season 5).
She joined Prince's entourage upon the departure of Vanity, as both the lead in his film Purple Rain and as the lead singer for the group Vanity 6, which was renamed to Apollonia 6.
Her Astrological sign is Leo.
She was married to Greg Patschull on February 16 1980, until their divorce in 1985.
She is 5 feet, 4 inches tall.
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