Your memory serves you well and you're not the only reader to have inquired about Aki Alma, so here's her story.
Aki, the single name by which she was known when she performed in Las Vegas, was born in the Netherlands. She started dancing at age 16 but at 5' 9" was too tall to be a classical ballerina, so she instead became a showgirl, working first in Monte Carlo and then as a dancer in the original Crazy Horse in Paris, before moving to Las Vegas.
From 1995 to 2000 she was the star performer in Enter the Night, the topless revue at the Stardust, which promoted her as the "Showgirl for the 21st Century." In that capacity, Aki was frequently interviewed, appeared on billboards around town, and yes, even had her image adorn the tail of Western Pacific Airlines' Las Vegas-bound planes.
When the show ended to be replaced by a residency by Wayne Newton, Aki peformed for awhile in Jubilee! at Bally's, but she'd always had higher ambitions for when her dancing career was over. She comes from a family of professionals, speaks five languages (English, French, Dutch, Spanish, and German), and while dancing she studied law on the side. In May 1994 Akke Levin, as she's now known, graduated third in her class at UNLV's Boyd School of Law and today is a commercial litigator with Las Vegas law firm Morris Pickering Peterson & Trachok (we called to check and she's still there). She's also a wife and mother.
