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She was first married, at the age of 19, to Larry Ray Robertson (from 1984 to 1993), but, while participating in a Hawaiian Tropic Beauty Pageant in 1985, she caught the eye of Ron Rice, Hawaiian Tropic's founder. After one date, they quickly became inseparable and were married in 1991.
Jun 29, 2022 · Not long after marrying his second wife, Darcy LaPier, a former Hawaiian Tropic beauty contestant, in a reported more-than-a-million-dollar ceremony (“The Daytona event of all time,” Snook ...
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Rice was an early participant in what would become known as guerilla marketing — getting a product’s name in the mainstream through a variety of promotional methods, some of them unconventional. It worked, as Hawaiian Tropic became a mainstay on the shelves in drug stores, grocery stores and T-shirt shops the world over — a far cry from the surfsid...
Among the celebrity judges Rice courted during the pageant’s run was a future United States president, Donald Trump, who met his second wife, Marla Maples, when she was a Miss Hawaiian Tropic contestant. Trump’s relationship with Rice and Rice's annual event was also seen as the impetus for Trump’s later purchase of the Miss Universe franchise. The...
Over the past few years, in an effort to chronicle his amazing life, Rice collaborated with author Jeff Snook on an autobiography, “Great Times and Tan Lines.” Work bogged down at times for various reasons, and up until his final days, Rice was helping sort through photos and writing captions for the book that will now be published posthumously. “W...
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Nov 28, 2021 · Darcy Lynn LaPier is a former model and actress who represented Oregon in the Hawaiian Tropic Beauty Contest in 1985 and won the Oregon Miss Hawaiian Tropic title in 1986. A few years later, she made her acting debut as Donna in the 1989 comedy film Think Big.
Jul 26, 1992 · He met Darcy LaPier, his “perfect” woman, 25 years his junior, at a Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant in Oregon. He married her in Daytona Beach and hasn’t even had to divorce her to end the...
Oct 17, 2005 · This fall, after 15 years of being a bachelor, Rice married 25-year-old Darcy LaPier, a former Miss Hawaiian Tropic from Oregon. He lives by one rule: "If it's not fun, don't do it."
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May 21, 2022 · Mr. Rice’s first marriage, to Linda Rice, ended in divorce. In 1990 he married Darcy LaPier, a former Miss Hawaiian Tropic who was 25 years his junior.
