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Dear Friends,

I have only just found out from one of our members that there are many photos of Lea with Monica and Daniella etc. that we have never seen before on www.leademae.com (activated after Lea died).

I have written to Monica as below to seek permission to display some of these on here. Please see below,...

----- Original Message -----
From: Victor
To: Monica
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:47 PM
Subject: Hello Monica!

Dear Monica,

I just saw some of the pictures that you kindly gave Chris Danneffel.

Please may I have your permission to post a few of them on the CSS Forum where I have gathered almost all of the many tributes and good thoughts for Lea from all around the world in a topic "Remember me!" ?

Best wishes and hoping to hear from you.

Vic.  20th August 2005

A Message to Monica

Thank you very much Monica for your kind permission to allow the display of some of your own personal photos on the Forum here.

They are to be found in the "Remember me!" topic dedicated to your dear friend Lea De Mae (Andrea). This topic was started on 9th December 2004, - after we heard the sudden news that we had lost Lea, but in the knowledge that she was not having to suffer anymore in her brave struggle to endure the unendurable. 

The photo chosen to start this topic was one taken by Chris Danneffel with lovely Lea blowing us a kiss. It is a really beautiful picture of Lea as is the following one, also taken by Chris.

To date, there have been over 2,700 viewings of this topic by Lea's fans and admirers.

Gathered together are messages from many countries posted on various fan sites and forums including tributes, song dedications and poems from fans and friends in Canada, Russia, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Australia, USA, Mexico, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, France, Germany, Holland, Scotland and England. 

This other special photo of Chris's displayed below has an almost magical quality of gentle beauty with Lea's pretty blue eyes and soft smile - I think it is perhaps the loveliest photo of Lea ever taken.

To these wonderful photos, thanks to your kindness, are now added a selection from your own personal collection of happy days during 2001 - 2004 including the very nice picture of yourself and Lea by the famous bridge of Avignon in France a few years ago (Sur Le Pont D'Avignon, as the song goes) where you are both looking very happy.

Thank you again Monica.

Love from all Lea's fans at CSS.

Best wishes,
Vic. 24th August 2005.

Dear Lea:

All was so fast, so brutal, that the world did not have the opportunity to say goodbye to you as a Princess.  You have not gone far away, you have remained in our hearts, in our marvellous memories of your beauty and humanity.  Youre still alive, Lea. Among millions of people on all of the planet, in the five continents, - we continue admiring you and wanting you as yesterday, today and always. 

A red rose for you, adored Andrea.

Rodrigo, Santiago de Chile
05-03-2005 / 18:38
(Ex: Chris's Site Forum - translation by the kindness of Camanos)

These words - for us all, in the loving memory of Lea De Mae.

Dear Friends,

Chris Danneffel, the devoted and loyal photographer friend of the late Lea De Mae, wrote to me a few days ago that he is visiting Prague right now.

Chris is in touch with Monica Sweetheart and Lucie (Lea's younger sister).  Chris is also hoping one day to speak to Daniella Rush (now, I believe, a Doctor) and Silvia Saint to obtain some recollections of their happy times with Lea when they were leading the way for the Czech glamour stars in both their successful modelling and movies work.

Monica was Lea's best friend and from our own experience missing Lea and being sad for what transpired and we never had the pleasure of know Lea in person, we can easily imagine the devastation and sadness that Monica has suffered.  Lea and Monica used to love their chatting and going places and partying together but I hope that the pleasant memories will sustain Monica and also the knowledge that we are all sharing in her grief.

Monica has a new Web Site organised in the USA and I have written to the Webmaster, Christian Amico to hopefully send a little material which I can place on the Forums.

I have also written to Monica yesterday and one day perhaps she will be able to give us a few recollections of the two best friends' visits including to France in 2002, where we saw that lovely and happy picture of Monica and Lea "Sur Le Pont D'Avignon" (On the Bridge of Avignon) in France.  The French title became a famous children's song!  This picture is from the personal collection of Monica's who kindly made it available to Chris for www.LeaDeMae.com and also for us here.

Monica & Lea "Sur Le Pont D'Avignon" (FRANCE 2002)

I recently asked Chris if he would be kind enough to send me a copy the original file of the photo he took of Lea in the local park with Lea looking through the trees. I do not think that I had ever seen that particular shot before and I noticed it amongst a number of small sample pictures located by Greek fans, (please see below) who sent me the reference and I then contacted Chris, as I knew from the setting that it was one of his from the informal pictures taken in Prague in Autumn 2003.

What an unusual and stunning picture! (PRAGUE Autumn 2003)

I think most of us agree that Chris's pictures had a magical quality about them and we are lucky indeed that this set was taken as I believe they are amongst the loveliest and most natural pictures of Lea ever taken.  NB. Although Lea was a professional model, she declined to make any charge for this photo shoot and Chris also told me that early on, he did not even fully realise how famous Lea was as a movie star!

Chris wrote to me that Lucie had been asking their mother for some more historical details of Lea, but her mother began to cry so she is not troubling her more.  Hopefully, some of the later information can be given by Monica, Daniella, Silvia and any other friends and colleagues.

You may remember that Silvia wrote last winter,....

I am writing today-news because I want to help to my friend and colleague Lea De Mae, who undergo severe operation of brain tumor that has been taken away. Her cure and therapy will take a long time so she will need lot mental but also financial help. You can get to know more on my page in introduction. Yesterday I had chance to visit her with my old agent and friend Oldrich Widman. You have no idea how happy she was when I could hug her and talk to her. I also have to say thanks to you from her, for thinking about her. You know...I will not describe you all details, because it is unbecoming, but yesterday meant a lot to me.

I enjoyed with Lea De Mae lot of fun in work, but also in free time. We traveled a lot and visited a lot of beautiful places in the world. (Brazil, USA) I remember our first joint work.... She laugh all the time to something, but she was also ashamed. Producer asked us all the time to be little bit more serious otherwise we would never finish that scene.... if I should remember everything what we saw, I could sit before my PC till the Christmas ) She is amazing girl and friend in the same time, so please keep your fingers crossed for soon recovering of her health. Thank you.

With love  Your Silvia Saint     ----------     Newsletter 200435 added Oct 27, 2004

Dear Friends,

I have just received permission from Monica Sweetheart's Webmaster in the USA to display some photos from Monica's Official Site.

The ones I have chosen are solo shots of Monica (non-explicit) and there are hundreds of others on there plus various other guest stars galleries, film clips and bonus items. You can obtain a 3-day trial membership for a small fee.

I found the wording on the small print billing section slightly confusing at first, but it is best to give notice after 1 day's use if you do not wish to convert to a full monthly membership. [This will allow taking into account time differences between countries, as the billing arrangements ask for 1 day's prior notice on the 3-day trial only usage if you wish to terminate without converting to the monthly membership].

The original file sizes are quite large so I will need to get them re-sized for our Forum limits (under the size of 100Kb as a .jpg). Nice photos of Monica to follow soon.

Some lovely pictures above - from Monica Sweetheart's Official Site, by kind permission.

Once again, this super elegant Czech star shows her kindness, good nature and consideration towards the fans. Thank you Monica in Prague for sharing these with us. Thank you Christian (Monica's Webmaster in the USA at www.hotmonicasweetheart.com).

As I have commented before, what would the glamour movies have done without the Hungarian and Czech stars?  Think how many movies would be left without their contributions!

Wonderful Monique Covet, elegant Deborah Wells, seductive Anita Blond, magnificent Rita Faltoyano, jolly Michelle Wild and beautiful Sharon (Szilvia Lauren), etc.,  - they have continued that great tradition of Hungarian excellence and enthusiasm set by the gorgeous dark-haired and with flashing eyes Angelica Bella in the early days (well before Dvds arrived!).

Angelica Bella is still regarded by many as perhaps the greatest of them all and of course we have our own great Czech stars led by Silvia Saint, Lea De Mae, Daniella Rush ("The Bride Wore Black") and the "baby" of them  -  the kindly, charming and lovely Monica Sweetheart.

I should think there is hardly anyone on the planet who hasn't heard of Silvia Saint, who has now become virtually a living legend? Could you find a movie or glamour Site on the Web without Silvia on there somewhere? There is even a music band named after Silvia!

I just typed in "Silvia Saint Pornstar" in the www.Yahoo.com search panel and there are 891,000 entries to check through!  Even checking say 50 sites a day, it would still take 48 years to check these all out!

So, let's remember these happy days  - as we have seen alas, they can be cut tragically short.

With lovely Lea De Mae, we were at least able to show our gratitude and good feelings in a little way, when we joined Lea's battle for life  - which Lea knew about and was very touched to discover. Lea's sister Lucie (also a former high-diver for her country) wrote to Chris Danneffel how Lea began to cry when she heard that people around the world wanted to help her with her medical expenses, etc. to try to recover her health.  In that moment, Lea realised how much she was loved by us all and I am sure that this strengthened her a little to endure the unendurable, as she did.

Thanks again to all our fine stars who in their modelling and movie appearances shared their beauty and elegance with us. We shall not easily see their likes again.

I received a very nice message from Monica in response to a musical greeting I sent her which contained a Xmas scenes slide show and the whole of John Lennon's famous song that starts off "So, this is Xmas" with accompanying animated lyrics!

Best wishes to all and in John's words, "and a Happy New Year. Let's hope it's a good one without any fear"

Lovely Monica's message read as below,..

From: Monica Sweetheart
To: Victor
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Happy Xmas.

Thank you, Victor.. I wish you great holiday too :)
Take care and all the best in 2006 for you.. Kisses

For Monica, with love from London. Have an enjoyable birthday.  xxxxx