Cameren Diaz Celebrates Her Father's Life

A grief-stricken Cameren Diaz has received heart-felt support from her friends and family at a memorial service (celebration)for her father.

The actress is devastated following the sudden death of Emilio, 58, from pneumonia last Tuesday. The oil company foreman had been diagnosed with flu several weeks earlier and never recovered.


The informal(celebration) service, which was held in Seal Beach, California, on Sunday, saw the Hollywood star comforted by her friends and family.

They arrived at the memorial service and stayed until around 4pm.

Cameren Diaz - keen to ensure the service would be a celebration of her father's life - asked friends and family to wear colourful clothing and to not bring flowers.

Instead, she asked guests to make donations to two ocean protection charities.

One guest said: 'Most people started arriving at 1.30 and hardly anyone wore black.


'Lots of people were wearing Hawaiian shirts. It looked more like a party.'

In a statement released last week, Cameren Diaz, who was very close to her father, said: 'My dad was loved by so many people. His humour and spirit will always live on in our hearts.'

He is survived by his wife Billie and Diaz's older sister Chimene.

Cameren Diaz Under Medical Attention

Diaz 'Under Medical Attention' After Father's Death

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Cameren Diaz is seeking "medical attention" after the sudden death of her beloved father, according to her "What Happens In Vegas" co-star Ashton Kutcher.

The actor is currently in London to promote the movie without Diaz after her father Emilio, died last week at age 58.

And 30-year-old Kutcher expressed his concerns for Diaz at the movie's premiere in the British capital on Monday night.

He told a WENN photographer, "Sadly she will not be joining us for the premiere as she has just lost her father and is under medical attention with stress at the moment.

"But she will be better soon."

Kutcher went on to thank the paparazzi for their concern for the heartbroken star, adding: "I will be telling her of your get-well-soon wishes and condolences following her father's passing on."

On Saturday, Diaz was joined by ex-lovers Justin Timberlake and John Mayer at a memorial service in California.

Cameren Diaz

Cameren Diaz Bio
Born: 30 August 1972
Where: San Diego, California, USA
Awards: 4 Golden Globe and 1 BAFTA nominations
Height: 5' 9"

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Many were jealous to the point of fury when Cameren Diaz made her film debut in the high-budget Jim Carrey vehicle, The Mask. Here's another good-looking bit of fluff stealing another prime role, it was said - she's all face'n'figure, no acting ability at all. There's precious few decent roles for actresses anyway, for God's sake. Now, ordinarily, you'd now read a detailed rejoinder to that attack. You'd hear how the artist under fire actually began studying under the private tutelage of Montgomery Clift at the age of 3, before winning a scholarship to the Lee Strasberg Actor's Studio. Then there was the toil and starvation of years spent struggling off-Broadway. This overnight sensation was actually over a DECADE in the making.

So the story USUALLY goes. But, in the case of Cameron Diaz, those enraged attackers were pretty much correct. Before her debut, there'd been no acting classes, no honing of her skills in repertory, no years of rejection. She was a successful model, and there can be no doubt that her looks played a huge part in winning her the role of Carrey's love, singer Tina Carlyle, in The Mask. What's incredible about Diaz is not the story we don't know - that standard tale of the building of knowledge and experience - it's the story we DO know. For this model, this complete non-actor was actually EXCELLENT in The Mask. Beyond this, within two years she was starring opposite Harvey Keitel, within three she was alongside Julia Roberts, within five it was Al Pacino. And, miraculously, she more than held her own beside all three. Immediately, somehow, she was a world-class screen actress, a complete natural, a freak of cinematic nature.

Cameren Diaz was born on the 30th of August, 1972, in San Diego, California. Her father, Emilio Diaz, was a second generation Cuban American and worked as a foreman for an oil company. Her mother, Billie, was an import/export broker of English, German and Native American descent (a complex blend of bloodlines that helps to explain Cameren's outrageous good looks). There was also an older sister, Chimene.

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Nadine grew up poor in Greenwich, Connecticut. At the age of 19, she packed her bags and moved to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer. Nadine started by selling scarves at street fairs and flea markets, and within a few months, she had accumulated more than $60,000 in cash.

This small-town girl's dreams started to become more of a reality after she got married and opened Yoshi, a trendy clothing boutique in New York's SoHo neighborhood.

Within six months, Yoshi was becoming one of the hippest stores in the city and had become quite profitable. Their first year of sales topped $1.2 million, and during their best year, Nadine says they made $2.2 million. "It was amazing how much cash was coming in and also how fast we were spending it," Nadine says.

Nadine and her husband started hanging out with an elite crowd. She says they took extravagant vacations, even paying $500,000 in cash for a new condo, and spending about $1,000 a week in New York's finest restaurants. "I felt like I had arrived," Nadine says. "At the time, it was my dream life."

Nadine, her husband and their three children were living in a beautiful home and enjoying the success of their small boutique…until Nadine's life took a sudden turn.

"I hung out with the beautiful people, and I felt very inadequate," Nadine says. "Like I wasn't up to their level…like the people were going to find out I was a fraud."

That's when Nadine decided to start using drugs. "Cocaine gave me a feeling of strength," she says. "It was a really good feeling in the beginning."

Nadine became a cocaine addict and, she says, developed a $600-a-day habit. She estimates that she spent about $250,000 in one year on drugs. Nadine's husband divorced her and she lost custody of their children.

After the divorce, Nadine says, she began abusing heroin and sleeping on the street. "One of my lowest points was being homeless and living in the New York City subway system in the tunnels and not being able to see my children," she says.

After stints in rehab and in prison, Nadine says she did a lot of work on herself and realized she had been trying to fill a hole in her heart with material things. She says she thought she needed the fancy car, the clothes and the trips to make her happy. "[I didn't realize] that man makes the money, money doesn't make the man," she says.

Since then, Nadine has been picking up the pieces and rebuilding her life. She's been clean for five and a half years. "It was a long, rough road," she says.

She's currently running three clothing boutiques with her sister. The stores are called Purdy Girl, and Nadine does the buying for all three locations. She's also living in an apartment with her children and managing her finances.

"I don't have a lot of extra. I pay my bills, [but] it's tough," she says. "I wouldn't mind having the money that I had back then, but I definitely don't want the lifestyle. I'm so much happier with the way that I am now."