Ola shaft was the Playboy Playmate of July 1980 but is even better known as Michael Jackson’s girlfriend in the music video, “Thriller” . She was Max Born in St Joe Louis but grew up as an army little terror in Tokyo, where she sang, danced and modelled. In 1980 she came to Hollywood and, disdain her Catholic upbringing, tried to break into show business through Playboy . She soon became the face of Classy scroll and then landed the part in “Thriller”, but that, as it turned out, was her fifteen minutes of celebrity - well, XIII minutes and 33 seconds.