Vanity starred in the 1992 detective film, South Beach, as Jennifer Derringer, where she hires two ex-football players turned private eyes, played by Fred Williamson and Gary Busey.
In 1995, Denise married pro football player Anthony Smith after a month-long courtship. Denise said in a Jet magazine interview that as soon as she met Anthony, God told her that Anthony was destined to be her husband, but the marriage didn't last and ended in divorce.
Even after she stopped being Vanity, Denise gave interviews to the media about herself, and in many of the interviews she said she was disgusted by her past in the entertainment business.