Tina Marie Machado, formerly Placourakis, (born 1960) is an American actress, businesswoman, former model, athlete and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Hawaii USA 1985.
[1][2] Tina Machado graduated from Waipahu High School, then earned a Bachelor's degree in International business from the University of Washington in 1980.
[2][3] She worked as a model, and had multiple minor acting roles in the television series Hawaiian Heat, Magnum, P.I., and the film Aloha Summer (1988).
[15][16] In 2000, Tina Placourakis left Hawaii to live in Arizona with former major league baseball player Charles "Chili" Davis, taking the three children, and getting an amicable divorce.
[18][20] In 2006, Placourakis appeared as "The Divorced Mom", on the CBS reality television program Tuesday Night Book Club, where she was described as a former beauty queen and karate champion, the oldest of seven Scottsdale, Arizona women who gathered to discuss their lives and relationships.
[21][22][23] In 2007, Tina Marie Placourakis was working for the Sherman Oaks, California-based Diversified Lending Group, when it bought Phoenix, Arizona-based private label water bottling company, Sun West Bottlers, LLC, as a subsidiary, and appointed her president and chief operating officer.
[24] In 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Diversified Lending Group, and its head, Bruce Fred Friedman, with operating a $216 million Ponzi scheme.