Apollonia Kotero
Apollonia Kotero in 2006, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Patricia Kotero
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, United States
Date of Birth: August 2, 1959
Ethnicity: Mexican, possibly some German Jewish
Apollonia Kotero is an American singer, actress, model, and talent manager.
Her parents, Maria S. (Torres) and Victor Manuel Kotero, moved from Mexico to the U.S.
A 1984 article in People magazine stated that Appolonia is a “buxom California-born Latin-German Jew,” and she described herself as a “Latin-German Jew” in Rolling Stone the same year. It is not clear where Appolonia’s Jewish ancestry comes from.
Kotero is an unusual surname, and does not appear to be of Spanish origin. It may have a Jewish origin.
Her mother’s maiden name was Torres. I suspect, but cannot prove, that her parents were Victor M. Kotero and Maria S. Torres who divorced in L.A. in 1973.