After appearing in Playboy, she modeled frequently on assignments in Los Angeles, Miami, and Hawaii.

On February 7, 2002, Bridges died in a guest bedroom of the Benedict Canyon, California mansion of Edward Nahem, a longtime acquaintance of Hugh Hefner.

He found her unresponsive in her bed and attempted CPR as instructed by 911 operators; paramedics arrived and pronounced her dead on the scene.

[3][4] Playboy initially stated that she died of natural causes, but an official coroner's report listed her "manner of death is accident ...

Acute intoxication by the combined effects of heroin, methamphetamine, meperidine and alprazolam".