Vanilla Ice
aka Robert Van Winkle
Owns a pet lynx named Jinx and a pet kangaroo named Bucky. Coined the phrase "word to your mother", bastardization of "word to The Mother," referring to his traditional African Motherland. Vanilla is a rapper, after all.
Timeline
| 31 Oct 1968 |
Robert Van Winkle born to Beth Mino, Miami Lakes FL. |
| 1986 |
Drops out of high school. |
| 1988 |
Changes "rap name" from MC Vanilla to Vanilla Ice. |
| 1990 |
Hit Ice Ice Baby, in which he blatantly rips off a 1982 Queen riff from Under Pressure. Inexplicably sells 15 million copies. Settles out of court with Queen/Bowie. Ice claims Suge Knight forced the issue at gunpoint: "He took me over to the balcony, and he had me look over. He says to me, 'You're gonna sign these papers'... I signed it. I gave millions away."
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| 28 Jul 1990 |
In Dallas TX, Signs a record deal with SBK label, $1M. Spurns Def Jam's offer of $30K. |
| Jan 1991 |
"To the people that try to hold me down, kiss my white butt." Spoken at the American Music Awards. |
| 22 Mar 1991 |
In the highlight of Ice's film career, appears as himself in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. |
| 1991 |
Selected as one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." |
| 1991 |
Has sexual intercourse with Madonna. Spoken to Launch magazine, about rumors of a Ice/Madonna sex tape: "Her and I in a sex act? It could, could possibly, absolutely, it could possibly exist." About their falling out: "Everything was cool, man, until she did the Sex book. And basically I didn't want to be part of that slutty package, and they took all of those pictures and stuff and I found myself in the Sex book, you know?" |
| 4 Jul 1994 |
Passes out from an overdose, and is hospitalized. |
| 1994 |
Attempts a stoner-dreadlock festooned comeback. |
| 1994 |
Attempts suicide. |
| 1998 |
Marries Laura. |
| 1998 |
Daughter, Dusti Rain born. |
| 8 May 1999 |
Video for Ice Ice Baby voted on MTV the #9 lamest video of all time. At the ceremony, instead of destroying the video as the network had intended, Ice trashed the set itself. So very stupid. |
| Mar 1999 |
Daughter, Keelee Breeze, born. |
| 1999 |
VH1 does a Behind the Music. A dilemma for VHI in that Ice has so many "rock bottoms" to choose from. |
| 3 Jan 2001 |
Arrested in Broward County over a domestic dispute with his wife. He tore out some of her hair. $3500 bail. |
| Apr 2001 |
Pleads guilty to disorderly conduct, over the wifely hair-pulling incident. |
| 13 Mar 2002 |
On the Fox television special Celebrity Boxing, Todd "Mac Dog" Bridges defeats Rob "Bi-Polar" Van Winkle (caucasian rapper Vanilla Ice) in a unanimous decision. |
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