Paige Summers (born
Nancy Ann Coursey on
July 21, 1976 in
Lorain, Ohio, USA, died
September 22, 2003) was an
American adult model. She moved with her family to
Morganton, North Carolina and graduated from Freedom High School where her senior superlative was "Barbie Look-Alike".
She invented the name Paige Summers for her pornographic modeling career. She appeared in several issues of
High Society and
Cheri magazines in 1995, and was first chosen
Penthouse Pet of the Month for August 1996, but her fame came as
Penthouse Pet of the Year for 1998 - the first North Carolinian to be so chosen.
Kia Motors gave her a
Sportage SUV as part of her award, and in exchange for advertising. She claimed to earn half a million dollars a year. Summers appeared on the
Howard Stern show, and several Penthouse videos.
Nancy Coursey traveled the world as part of her career, including to India and Australia, but kept in touch with her family, and by 2003 had moved back to live with them in Morganton. She was engaged to be married to local
pharmacist and real estate owner Bracey Bobbitt on
October 11, 2003. She was found dead in his home on the shore of
Lake James, on the morning of
September 22 of a
drug overdose from a combination of the painkillers
codeine and
oxycodone.