Background
Mizzi was born on the Mediterranean island of Malta and grew up in London.
Mizzi was born on the Mediterranean island of Malta and grew up in London.
She made regular appearances as a Page 3 girl in the British newspaper The Sun during the 1980s and 1990s, before going on to have a career as a catwalk model, as well as being involved in film and music In her later years, she developed a career as an interior designer and abstract artist. After leaving school at 15, Mizzi opened a clothes shop in Bethnal Green, London, where she was discovered by a photographer while working.
In the first six months of her modelling career, Mizzi shot 26 calendars and was in high demand for personal appearances.
Her success was helped by Page 3 photographer Beverley Goodway, whose pictures helped to establish her career. She could command fees of over £1,000 for a personal appearance.
In 1988, she quit glamour modelling and made the crossover into catwalk modelling, succeeding where many of her contemporaries of the time had not. She signed with the Storm Model Agency and began doing fashion shoots, something which would eventually lead to her working with Vivienne Westwood.
At the age of 21, she signed a £400,000 contract to front her own lingerie range for high street chain Dorothy Perkins.
A lingerie company once insured her face and body for £11 million. She once said of this: "We had a record deal, but the label wanted me to sing a popular track. I wanted to be an "artist", not a popular star." According to a British Broadcasting Corporation report, she was one of a number of celebrities who took out insurance on the assets for which they were famous.
She did this in 1989, when she insured her body with Lloyd"s of London for $16 million.
In the 2000s she became an artist and interior designer and was known as Mizzy. She exhibited her work at London"s Rainbird Fine Art Gallery and ran an interior and building design consultancy business, which she started after friends saw work she had done on her house and asked her to design rooms for them.
She began painting after having difficulty sourcing works of art for her clients. Her abstract paintings sold for up to £10,000 each.
An exhibition of her work titled "Timeless" was held at the Artbank Gallery, also in London.
Mizzi had an interest in music and was a founding member of the group Wildflowers, but her attempts to launch a musical career faltered, something she blamed on her record company.