Criss Angel has admitted to being afraid of dying.
Wife Joanne Sarantakos filed for divorce in June, 2007 citing mental cruelty and abandonment. They were married for five years.
Criss says his cat Hammie uses his own magical abilities to his advantage. He jokes that Hammie once dematerialized on the way to the vet's office.
Not only does Criss own some of the most expensive types of cars, but he also owns a Criss Angel Go-Cart.
Criss's favorite month is April.
Criss had a white mouse named Zeeke that he ate (chewed and swallowed) alive. As a trick.
Criss was the lead singer of his own heavy metal rock band, which was called Angeldust and he coproduced the song that is the theme of his television show Mindfreak.
Criss is appearing in an illusion based version of Cirque du Soleil at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.
Some of Criss' most notable television appearances are the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen Degeneres show, as well as VH1's Rock Honors Awards performing with and introducing legendary Honoree Ozzy Osbourne.
In June 2007 Criss appeared on the cover of DUB magazine.Criss's very first television appearance was on the ABC special Talents in 1995. He appeared as a magician.
A few of Criss's favorite bands are; Billy Joel, The Killers, The Beatles, Korn, and Led Zepplin, GodSmack.
Criss Angel's catch phrase is "Are you Ready?"
Criss's first music video, which was for the song MF2 premired on his show Mindfreak. The whole video premiered on Yahoo Video.
Criss Angel's trademark is an A with a backward C around it.Criss's fans are called Loyals.
Special celebrity guests on Criss's show Mindfreak, include Korn's Jonathan Davis, Rob Zombie, Amazing Jonathan, Mandy Moore, Penn & Teller, Carrot Top, and Lance Burton, Robin Leach, Flavor Flav, Sully Erna.
Criss hates the words "Magician" and "Tricks." He perfers the words "Illusionist" and "Demonstrations."Criss is right-handed.
Criss's favorite colors are black and red and his favorite food is pizza.
Criss had a show on Broadway where he performed magic from his TV special Supernatural. It was also called MindFreak, and it lasted 600 shows before it closed on January 6th, 2003.
Criss was unanimously selected for the 22nd Louie Award for outstanding achievement in the art of magic
In May of 2007 he broke Houdini's and his own record of fastest straitjacket escape on Operah. His record before was 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and Houdini's was 5 minutes. His new record is 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
He holds the record for the longest body suspension, which is hanging by meat hooks. It is 5 hours and 42 minutes.
Criss can perform the fastest "Metamorphosis" illusion. He does it in less than one second.
Criss did a special in Japan in 2003.
Criss has worked with Klayton of Celldweller.
It was his Aunt Stella that showed him his first magic trick. It was a card trick.
Criss has been preforming magic since he was 6 years old.
Criss has had 2 TV speicals before Mindfreak the series. Both were on ABC family one was called Supernatural, and the other was called Mindfreak they were mini series that only lasted a few episodes during ABC family's Thirteen Nights Of Halloween.
Criss has a black belt in karate.Aside from the art of magic Criss loves music. He is a musician himself and he has 5 CDs out.
When Criss was younger, his father died of cancer.
Criss is the youngest of three boys. His brothers' names are JD and Costa.
Criss' cats' names are Minx and Hamlet (Hammie for short). Criss picked Minx up as a stray. Hammie (with help from Criss) can levitate and disapear from a box.
He has written a book entitled "Mindfreak: Secret Revelations from the Master of Surreality."
Criss was named the 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2007 Magician of the Year by The Academy of Magical Arts (AMA).
Criss' Mindfreak is the first weekly magician show in over 40 years.
He is the only magician ever to appear on covers of Magic Magazine (October 2003) and Genii Magazine (December 2003) both almost simultaneously.
On his first episode of Mindfreak, Criss burned himself alive for exactly 46 seconds for his mother's 70th birthday.
Criss is a friend of Lance Burton, the best known magic performer in Las Vegas.
Criss' first season DVD features 3 of the 55 mindfreaks from his book, "55 Mindfreaks".
Criss is the author of the book, "55 Mindfreaks".
His hero is Harry Houdini.People believe that his tricks are fake. To prove them wrong, he introduced the spectators camera in the second season of Mindfreak. A camera held by an audience member to shoot any footage of the show that they please.
Criss won the Merlin Award in 2001, 2004, and 2005.
Criss claims that his ego is never happy and that is one of his motivations to make him work harder.
Criss is a proud Greek. But his mother is Mystra.
Criss has a 40-year old stuffed monkey that has been handed down from his familly.
Criss stated that if he where reincarnated, he would like to be a fly on the wall so he could hear and see everyting.Criss was in a band called Angeldust with Klay Scott. They released the CD Musical Conjurings from the World of Illusion with the name Angeldust but then made CDs with the name Criss Angel.
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