Darlene Ortiz is widely known as the first cover girl of rap. Her poses for such seminal Ice T albums as "Rhyme Pays" and "Power" made her a Hip Hop icon. She also starred in multiple music videos and modeled in dozens of magazines.

As an Author

Heidi Siegmund Cuda is an Emmy Award-winning producer and author of the first rap book, The Ice Opinion with Ice T. She also wrote Tupac’s bodyguard Frank Alexander’s Got Your Back, Sublime’s Brad Nowell: Crazy Fool (Portrait of a Punk), and Warped Book: Tales of Freedom and Psychotic Ambition, about the Vans Warped Tour. Cuda is a former Fox 11 News investigative producer and a former Los Angeles Times music critic and columnist. She is now a screenwriter.

How Darlene Ortiz came up with Ice-T

She is best known for Tracey Lauren Murrow, also known as Ice-T, a famous American rapper with whom she has been dating for almost 17 years. Darlene reportedly first encountered Ice-T in 1984 at MCd at the now-famous radio transmitter in Los Angeles. Ice-T was Darlene’s inspiration, and their relationship mirrored her childhood.On December 9, 2021, our beloved Darlene Bernadette Ortiz Tiford Romero, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died in Lompoc, California. Darlene described the 17-year relationship as “lovely,” even though Ice-T is nearly ten years her senior. While trying to impress Darlene at the club, he told her that he would like to put her on the cover of his next album.

Darlene Ortiz as a Businesswoman

When it comes to work, Darlene Ortiz has established herself as a successful businesswoman whose calm life is in stark contrast to the one she lived in her youth.

Net worth

Darlins’ fortune is estimated at between $1 million and $5 million.