- Was cool and chill, mostly well-rounded during student council, French club, and ski club, and was on the swimming and diving team while attending and graduating from Shore Regional High School (1988-1992).
- She has an older sister, Stacy O'Neil, a talent manager at The Firm that represents stars like Vin Diesel, Kevin Bacon, Rachel Weisz, and Scott Caan, and now manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and a younger brother, Carr. Her parents, Ralph Boniello, who is Italian, and Karen Bonifide, a holistic doctor, a government worker, and florist, who is Dutch, divorced when she was and both remarried to Kevin Bonifide (her mom) and (her dad).
- She has eastern European, Dutch, Czechoslovakian, and Italian heritage.
- Leigh loves homemade Italian food, though she hasn't eaten meat since she was 18.
- When she was in high school, her parents had a bad house fire and Leigh's family suffered another recently in 2009.
- After graduating high school in 1992, Boniello and Stacy moved to Los Angeles for college at the University of Southern California, where she got degrees in child psychology and filming. In 1997, they pursued careers in the entertainment business. Stacy started in the mailroom before becoming a talent manager at The Firm, Inc. for the stars. In contrast, Boniello started at Dreamworks, developing television projects with the head writers of Seinfeld, and later became a development executive for Jerry Weintraub Productions at Warner Bros. Studios, where she worked on films such as Ocean's Twelve (2004), Tarzan (1999), Nancy Drew (2007), Wild Bunch, and Westworld (2006).
- Her love and passion for entertainment started when she was five, listening to rock and reggae music. Her parents knew Bruce Springsteen and many people in that camp, so she attended many concerts and had some backstage experience. While growing up, her mom had taken her and her sister to the movies as kids, whether it was an art-house movie in Red Bank or a summer blockbuster at the Monmouth Mall, which brought them into the fantastical world where the idea of becoming involved behind the scenes as a profession was exhilarating. When she was in her teens, she started going to concerts alone but missed the enjoyment of heading backstage and thought, 'Wait a minute, I want to be back there!'.
- Gave birth to her first baby boy James Dorough at 2:30 pm on May 6, 2009. He is the first child of her and her husband Howie Dorough and is named after Howie's late father, Hoke, who died of brain and lung cancer in June 2008.
- Gave birth to her second baby boy Holden John Dorough at 6:37 am on February 16, 2013.
- Became the Backstreet Boys webmaster on December 6, 2000.
- She broke both ankles at 13 and had to go to physical therapy to walk again.
- She gave up caffeine a year ago. So now, her go-to Starbucks order is a Refresher Dragon drink with coconut milk.
- While at Warner Brothers, she worked on the Oceans movies and got to hang out in the Oceans 13 casino (built on the studio lot) with Clooney and Pitt. (Not a bad day at the office!).
- Launched her first line of eco-friendly handbags with Howie called Eslla, a luxury company she designed and founded with Charlotte Wienckoski.
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