Kat Von D hooked up with Canadian music producer Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 in September 2012 but they broke up a month later. The couple reconciled and got re-engaged in August 2011 only to finally break up again in September 2011. They announced their engagement in January 2011 but the duo split in July of the same year.
On August 2010, the artist announced she was dating TV personality Jesse James. Sadly, the marriage ended in August 2007 after which she dated Motley Crue, the bass guitarist of Nikki Sixx from 2008 to 2010. She married her first husband Oliver Peck, a tattoo artist, in the year 2003. Is She Married, What Do We Know About Her Husband And Daughter? It’s obvious that the tattoo artists whose parents were missionaries came from a humble background and she had a close bond with her mom Sylvia Galeano she even named one of the products on her makeup lines Mother. The Argentine–American tattoo artist, musician, author, has an estimated net worth of $14 million. Von D appeared in 3 of Chris Comer IMAX album Alive in New Light in 2018 as well as other music videos. She also recorded vocals for Chicano electronic rock duo – Prayers, in the song Black leather, appearing also in the music video of the same song. Kat Von D featured as a background vocalist for the gothic rock band The 69 Eyes in the year 2012. She opened an art gallery and boutique Wonderland Gallery just beside her tattoo shop in LA and launched a clothing line tagged KVD in both Los Angeles and Canada in 2011. She has released new collections yearly and has also included perfumes in the mix. Kat Von D make-up line Sephora was first released in 2008.
She launched another book titled The Tattoo Chronicles on October 26, 2010, which was ranked 3rd on the New York Times Hardcover Advice & Misc.
The book is a collection of her artworks and tattoo and ranked 6th on The New York Times bestseller list. The multi-talented celebrity also wrote a book titled High Voltage Tattoo in 2009. Kat claimed that the decision to cancel was hers. After four seasons, the TLC network announced the cancellation of the LA Ink show in September 2011. The record was later broken on June 13, 2008, by Oliver Peck, her ex-husband, with 415 and subsequently by Hollis Cantrell of Artistic Tattoo who totaled 801. On the show, Kat Von D set a Guinness world record of most tattoos given in 24hours, which totaled 400. The very ambitious Kat Von D, spurred by her termination from the show, she opened her own tattoo shop, High Voltage and acquired her own TLC reality TV series, LA Ink, which was telecast in her shop in 2007. She worked two seasons in the TLC network Miami Ink show before she was fired for having repeated verbal clashes with shop owner Ami James. When the 305 Ink, Miami tattoo artist Darren Brass broke his arm in 2005, Kat Von D was hired to replace him. She worked with the likes of Tim Hendricks, Clay Decker, and Chris Garver, the owners of the last tattoo shop where Kat Von D worked urged her to take part in a trending reality TV show – Miami Ink to showcase her outstanding tattoo art skills. Kat Von D’s first job as a tattoo artist was with Sin City, a local tattoo shop where she was employed the same year she quit school.įrom there, she found employment in various shops for years, honing her tattoo art skills. She became an ardent fan of rock bands like Ramones, Misfits among others.Īt 14, she got her first tattoo and by the time she was 16 years of age, she quit school in 1998 to become a tattoo artist. Highly influenced by the Latin culture in Los Angeles, Kat Von D, at the age of 12, developed an interest in tattoo art and punk rock.
Her family migrated to Los Angeles in the United States when she was just 4 years of age and at 6, she began to learn how to play the piano from her grandmother. She has a brother Michael Drachenberg and a sister Karoline Drachenberg. Her dad is of German descent while her mom has Italian-Spanish ancestry. She was born to Argentine Seventh Day Adventist missionaries Rene Drachenberg (father) and Sylvia Galeano (Mother). Her original name is Katherine von Drachenberg, born on March 8, 1982, in Monte Morelos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. In this article, you will get to know more about Kat Von D, where she is now and who she is married to. Her realistic and intricate tattoo portraits are mostly inspired by the various cultures she encountered while growing up.
The Queen of Ink, Kat Von D, is an American tattoo artist, writer, model, musician, and businesswoman who hit the limelight in 2005 when she appeared in two seasons of Miami Ink reality TV series on TLC network.