Bikini teacher charged with threatening old love's new flame By ANDREW MARRA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Tiffany Shepherd, the bikini-wearing former teacher who drew fame for her stints as a scantily clad shipmate, was bounced off to jail Sunday.
The St. Lucie County School District fired back that Shepherd missed more than 30 days of school this year and received two written reprimands for the absences. But within days, Shepherd was an Internet sensation, with photos of her sporting a bikini popping up on sites.
She was invited to appear on several television shows and said she received an offer to pose nude in Playboy magazine.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Tiffany Shepherd, the former teacher who claims she lost her teaching contract because of her bikini mate job, denied going topless (see photo above) during fishing charters, though admitted doing so on personal trips.
"That's what Florida people do," Shepherd, 30, said Friday. "You go out in the middle of the ocean, you get rid of your tan line. It's not that big of a deal."
The former Port St. Lucie High School biology teacher described a photo that surfaced of her donning a bikini bottom but no top as "simply laying on my stomach."
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Police say they arrested Shepherd, 30, after she left several text and voice mail messages last month on the cellphone of the 22-year-old woman, challenging her to a fight.
Tiffany Shepherd, 30, was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail Sunday on a charge of making harassing telephone calls; Special video report .....More photos of Tiffany
The woman, who said she is dating and living with the father of one of Shepherd's children, told a Fort Pierce police officer that she tried to ignore the messages, but called police because the incessant calls were interrupting her normal activities.
UPDATE;Sunday, January 04th, 2009,
From a phone interview today, 1/04/09, with Tiffany Shepherd and examining Criminal Court Records in Okeechobee County Fl, Broward County Fl, Brevard County Fl and the Fort Pierce Fl Police reports it is obvious that Tiffany Shepherd (and other females) have had serious problems with this "ex-boyfriend" since at least 2000.
There are restraining orders, multiple domestic violence complaints, repeat violence reports, and battery reports on this "ex-boyfriend" filed by Tiffany Shepherd and other females, which the Media in West Palm Beach and elsewhere did not bother to investigate or report on, Tiffany Shepherd is a victim here.
A warrant later was issued for Shepherd's arrest and she was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail Sunday on a charge of making harassing telephone calls. Shepherd became a media sensation this year when she claimed she was fired from her job as a teacher at Port St. Lucie High School because of her after-school job as a bikini mate aboard Smokin' Em Charters fishing tours.The St. Lucie County School District fired back that Shepherd missed more than 30 days of school this year and received two written reprimands for the absences. But within days, Shepherd was an Internet sensation, with photos of her sporting a bikini popping up on sites.
She was invited to appear on several television shows and said she received an offer to pose nude in Playboy magazine.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Tiffany Shepherd, the former teacher who claims she lost her teaching contract because of her bikini mate job, denied going topless (see photo above) during fishing charters, though admitted doing so on personal trips.
"That's what Florida people do," Shepherd, 30, said Friday. "You go out in the middle of the ocean, you get rid of your tan line. It's not that big of a deal."
The former Port St. Lucie High School biology teacher described a photo that surfaced of her donning a bikini bottom but no top as "simply laying on my stomach."
Bill WArner
Private investigator
www.wbipi.com
