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Natasha Lyonne
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She grew up in a conservative Jewish household. Her father, Aaron Braunstein, is a former boxing promoter and racecar driver, while her mother, Yvette Lyonne, is a product licensing consultant and former ballerina. When her parents divorced, and she moved back to New York and lived with her mom and older brother Adam in a one-bedroom apartment.
Angry and confused over the divorce of her parents, Natasha hated her high school years and spent time in several different schools. She first attended private Jewish school at Manhattan's Yeshiva High School. Natasha's frustration during these years caused her to get into fistfights and skip school in order to be alone and away from peers, who made fun of her economic status. Her mother moved them to Miami, where she switched to a public high school. At 16, she left her mother in Miami and moved back to New York on her own. She later dropped out of school to start making movies.
She dated actor Edward Furlong, who she met on the set of Detroit Rock City, from 1998 to 2000.
Lyonne became friends with actor Michael Rapaport in 1997 and later rented an apartment in a building he owned on East 18th Street. In 2005, Rapaport evicted her and wrote an account of the matter in May 2005's issue of Jane Magazine. He said problems began in 2003 when Lyonne's heavy partying and harassment of tenants triggered complaints. After her eviction, he went to inspect her apartment and found it trashed |
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