- During high school she was a published writer and won a prestigious award.
- Each year during 1997-1999, she was voted "Best Body on the Beach" at Cape May, New Jersey, the popular NJ summer resort.
- A renown criminal psychologist, who was serving as a consultant for Discovery Channel's "Most Evil" series, described Lugene's off-camera transformation from beauty queen to serial killer for an episode as so authentic that she felt "chills".
- Playboy approached her about a pictorial, which she declined.
- Featured in the October 2006 issue of French high fashion magazine ISA, where she worked with famed photographer Bruce Gilden and Soprano's actor Vinny Vella. During the outdoor shooting of the layout in the streets of NYC, a crowd of over 1,000 people gathered and applauded the dramatic role-playing between Vinny and Lugene that Gilden had requested for the pictorial.
- The former Victoria's Secret model was discovered at age 5 by a modeling agent. Lugene continued modeling in high school and by her junior year in college was offered a lucrative modeling contract. She appeared in national TV ads for Chevrolet, as well as numerous regional print and TV ads.
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