Estelle Asmodelle

In October 2018, the screenplay "Pleasure Girl" won Best of its category (Script (Science Fiction)) at the 2018 Los Angeles Film and Script Festival

In January 2018 Asmodelle started a PhD, on a full scholarship, at the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, working in the field of quantum mechanics and relativity.

In 2017, Asmodelle is completed a degree with the University of Central Lancashire through their Study Astronomy portal, with a B.Sc. astronomy [honors]. Asmodelle graduated in 2017 with a 1st class honours. During the 8 years of study, the university has acknowledged her efforts

Asmodelle has continued to paint during her varied career, while she usually gains considerable publicity in all her activities. The Art Blog, ran a piece on her in 2016 about her abstract art,. Additionally, she has stated on her profile on Art Finder, that she is to launch another book in 2017 about her abstract art, entitled, “Symbiosis: Art and Mathematics.” She also has a profile on the Blue Thumb art portal

To Dec 2016, she has written one book – which is still seeking publication:

To date, Dec 2016 she has released seven albums, and two new pending releases, most are available at online outlets, while her website also said they were released physically:

Asmodelle continues to support other trans people who have become public about their transition. In 2015 Estelle offered support Caitlyn Jenner when she came out as trans.

In September 2015, Asmodelle became a Bronze Medal Winner, with Grooveatropolis Vol I

She is a featured artist on Triple J's Unearthed as well. In 2014 she released 5th Album Grooveatropolis, through Mondo Tunes worldwide: Asmodelle on Mondo Tunes.

In early 2013 Asmodelle became a Fellow of the Institute of Science and Technology IST. Additionally, in May 2013 the Express Advocate published an article about an introduction to cosmology Asmodelle was running at the Central Coast Community College on the Ourimbah campus of Newcastle University, in the Central Coast of NSW.

In June 2012 Asmodelle became a member of the Australasian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (ASGRG), and in May 2013 also became a member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG). Author John Gribbin has acknowledged her efforts with validating Einstein's original sources. Other authors have cited her work as well.

In early 2011, Asmodelle was signed to a major music distribution label: "Blue Pie Records" as a featured artist, for worldwide distribution of her albums. but during early 2013 she moved over to Mondotunes distribution.

During late 2011, as a result of Asmodelle's Cosmos magazine articles, several astronomical societies asked her to give presentations on astronomy and cosmology. She has given four presentations each since on areas such as "Cosmology and the role of the General Theory of Relativity", "GAIA: the Dawn of High Precision Micro-Arcsecond Astrometry", and "Water on the Moon". Some of the societies in question are Newcastle Astronomical Society (NAS), Sutherland Astronomical Society and Astronomical Society of New South Wales.

In 2010 Asmodelle published her first art book, entitled "Transience".

Asmodelle published several papers with the peer-reviewed Journal of the Institute of Science and Technology. Between late 2010 to mid 2011 she joined the part-time staff of Cosmos as a science writer, in the field of physics/space, and published six articles. The first of were "Neptune's day measured to the second" and "The Milky Way is a galactic cannibal".

In 2008 Asmodelle returned to academia, studying at the University of Central Lancashire in the field of astronomy.

Since 2005 Asmodelle has also been recording composition of electronic music. Many music magazines feature her CDs and often write reviews such as a review in Evil Sponge. Other publicity for her activity includes Vents Magazine and Urban Mainstream Magazine.

Upon returning to Australia Asmodelle continued her technical consultant work alongside her modelling and painting. Then in 1998 she formed her own internet company, Ellenet Pty. Ltd. Calling on background in computers. According to media reports, Asmodelle has become something of an internet entrepreneur and continues to build a significant online presence. In 2016 Ellenet Pty. Ltd. was sold to Sandgate Solutions in Australia for an undisclosed sum.

Earlier on in her modelling career, she became "Australia's First Transsexual Pin-up" by appearing nude in Australian Playgirl. Unlike the US version of the magazine, the publication featured women and not men, and it was the first time a trans woman had appeared nude in a mainstream magazine in Australia. Estelle Asmodelle was the face of the Supermodel Agency in Australia; she was their spokesman and main model during 1996-2000.

Asmodelle has been featured in a large number of newspaper and magazine articles, including Cleo (May 1987), People (Nov 1985 & 1993), Post (Dec 1988 Sep 1992), Penthouse Forum (1986 & 1991), New Idea (March 1986), She (July 1996), New Woman (June 1992 & 1998), Naughty Sydney (Cover – November 1991), Tomadachi (June 1991), Wellbeing (May 1989 & 1993), and Nature & Health (November 1997).

Asmodelle started painting abstract pieces from early childhood and while at Wollongong University, started creating large canvases. Her first solo exhibition was at Wollongong Regional Art Gallery, (now called the Wollongong City Gallery). During her varied career, Asmodelle continued to paint and exhibit, and while living in Japan also exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of the UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition in 1991. Asmodelle also started the Tokyo Eki (train station) Exhibition, displaying and selling her work in Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Tokyo.

After the media attention, she garnered considerable publicity in Australia, but decided to live in Japan for a period of four and a half years, where she worked as a model 1988-1992. It was there that she made her film debut, a walk in and walk out part, in a film by Japanese director Yoshimitsu Morita. It was made for the local Japanese market and never made it out of Japan. On returning to Australia, her next film was The Enchanted Dance, a documentary film about authentic belly dancing. It went international on video but was not released on DVD.

Estelle Asmodelle (born 22 April 1964), formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is an Australian model, belly dancer, musician, activist, abstract artist and academic. She became Australia's first legally recognised transgender person registered with the Births, Deaths and Marriages Department of New South Wales. In 1986, she was labelled "Australia’s First Sex-Change Pin-up Girl". In 1986 she was said to be the most photographed transgender person in Australia. Asmodelle was a controversial figure in the 1980s and as such her story has also appeared in books as well.