from www.suntimes.com – A self-styled preacher and reality star has been charged with torturing and murdering a former adult movie actress.

Brian Lee Randone is accused of suffocating Felicia Lee, 31, inside a Monrovia, Calif., apartment earlier this month. He was charged last week.

Adult film actress and model Felicia Lee was murdered in Los Angeles earlier this month.

Preacher and reality star Brian Lee Randone, a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, is accused of the torture and murder of Felicia Lee.

Randone, 45, holds a bachelor’s degree from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and a master’s of divinity degree from Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, according to a brief biography on the Baylor University Web site.

In 2000, Randone appeared in the 2000 Fox reality show “The Sexiest Bachelor in America.”

The Gabriel Valley newspaper also said Lee had modeled for videos aimed at the import car subculture and appeared in various magazines and calendars, as well as on Playboy television, according to her now-defunct Web site.

She also appeared in movies like “Rush Hour 2,” “The Fast and the Furious” and adult movies.