An Interview With Tiffany Towers

Here is the text from an interview I did with Tiffany Towers through her MySpace account.

Big thanks to Tiffany for her time!

You were born in Toronto Canada according to several sources, is this where you grew up as well?

TT: Yes

What was your childhood and early family life like?

TT: Difficult but we are very close now

Do you have any siblings?

TT: Yes I have 2 younger brothers

Looking back, were there any things in your childhood that influenced your decision to become an adult performer?

TT: Probably…..

Where did you go to High School?

TT: I went to several before dropping out

What was your first sexual encounter?

14

How old were you when you lost your virginity?

14

What is your natural breast size?

TT: Before any surgical procedures. D

Your Wikipedia entry says that you started out as a dancer and then moved on to men’s magazines. What was your first job as a dancer and how was that experience?

TT: I was a table dancer for 5 bucks a dance and they were good times, I was 17

What are some of the magazines that you posed for early in your career? How did posing for men make you feel? Do you consider yourself an exhibitionist.

TT: I think Gent was my first mag I posed for and at 18 it was very exciting

When did you have your first breast enlargement surgery?

TT: Probably just after I turned 18

What is the largest breast size you ever carried?

TT: Tripe HHH

You have had breast reduction surgery in recent years. Why did you reduce the size? Were they becoming burdensome?

TT: Yes they were, very difficult to find clothes and it really wasn’t me, plus one burst…

Do you have a large-tit fetish or were the surgeries something you did to please a lover, or were they done to help your career by appealing to a certain genre of porn?

TT: I was young and foolish…

How did you become involved in adult films? What industry insiders did you meet? How did you meet them?

TT: I really don’t know it just went hand in hand with the job

Did you enjoy having sex with men on film? Any particular scenes that you enjoyed? Any particular performers you enjoyed working with?

TT: I did in the beginning, but I didn’t like the way I was treated for the most part and I really don’t remember any men that stand out, would have liked to work with Rocco

What was the most challenging scene you ever shot?

TT: Probably Tommyknockers only movie with a real script and had to memorize lines….

Did you ever perform on film with more than one guy at once? If so how was that experience?

No

I myself have never seen any scenes where you did anal? Did you perform anal and if so what are some of the films?

TT: I unfortunately did in my last movie with Seymore Butts but I regret giving it to his company

Any crazy or horror stories from you involvement in the adult industry?

TT: No

Have you ever been involved in any real-life gang bangs, group sex, or swinging, off camera?

TT: Yes

You also preformed with women on film, in life are you bisexual or were the scenes something you just had to do?

TT: I love cock….

You have left the adult industry more than once, are you currently retired? and if so, do you have any plans on returning to adult films?

TT: I am retired and have no plans to return

In 2005 you were in Faster Pussycat, Fuck! Fuck!, which won an AVN-award. What type of scene did you do for that movie, who did you perform with, and what was it like to perform after such a hiatus?

TT: It was o.k. I did a girl-boy and girl- girl..was not the highlight of my life….

Do you keep in touch with any friends from the adult business?

TT: No

Many sources report that you are currently a dancer in Toronto. Are you still dancing, and if so what club?

TT: No I am in Thailand working with animals and teaching

Do you enjoy meeting your fans and are you available for any private sessions?

TT: Yes

Your MySpace says you are currently single. Have you ever been married, if so how many times? If not, what are some of the long-term relationships that you have had that you consider important in your life?

TT: All my long term relationships were important

You volunteer at several animal shelters around Toronto. How important are animals in your life? Do you have any plans for a career path in this field?

TT: I would love to be able to just make money from helping animals unfortunately it’s not really possible, animals mean everything to me..

I noticed that you are planning a trip to Thailand to work with animals. What type of work will you be doing and is there any way that your fans can donate or assist with the expenses of the trip.

TT: Yes anybody can donate on paypal to tiffanytowers@hotmail.com

Is there anything you would like to plug? Sites, upcoming movies or events?

TT: Just want to wish everybody well!!

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Penthouse Pet Paige Summers, A Leathal Dose

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.

Taken from: http://www.biographicon.com/view/w3jgq

Star Stowe, A Fallen Star

“Star” Stowe (born Ellen Louise Maligo , March 19, 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas - died March 16, 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.

She was an acquaintance of Gene Simmons and hung out with him and the rest of KISS. In 1977, she married Peter Maligo and had a son. She eventually divorced her husband.

Stowe moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1986 to find work as an exotic dancer. She fell out of the limelight and into drugs, alcohol and street prostitution in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. She was found murdered on March 16, 1997. Police belived her killing to be a serial murder.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Stowe

Elisa Bridges, Death Of A Beauty

Elisa Rebeca Bridges (May 24, 1973 - February 7, 2002) was a Houston-raised American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for December 1994, and Playboy’s Video Playmate of the Month for September 1996. She appeared in several video productions from Playboy Home Video from 1996 to 2000.

Bridges died at the luxurious mansion of Edward Nahem, a longtime acquaintance of Hugh Hefner. Nahem found Bridges dead in bed when he came home that evening. The official coroner’s report listed her cause of death as “acute intoxication by the combined effects of heroin, methamphetamine, meperidine and alprazolam”. Playboy stated that Bridges had died of natural causes. This statement was dis-proven by the official medical reports on Bridges’ autopsy.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Bridges

Dorothy Stratten, Murder Of A Playmate

Dorothy was raised in Vancouver, B.C., and it was in Coquitlam that Dorothy Hoogstraten grew up, and, in 1976, entered high school. She was already a beauty– darlingly blue eyed, blonde, voluptuous. An early male admirer, Jeff Staudacher, described her as being “wholesome” and “sexy” at the same time. To earn spending money, Dorothy took a part-time job at a Dairy Queen in Vancouver, and it was there that she met a local promoter, Paul Snider.

Paul was a fanatical “get rich quick” kind of guy. Pushy, sleazy, know-it-all obnoxious - he quickly saw Dorothy’s potential and after boyfriending her, he persuaded her to take some nude photos for him, which he sent to Playboy. She forged her mother’s signature on the model release when she sent her nude pictures to Playboy. A year later she was a Playboy Playmate and living at the mansion in Los Angeles. On Stratten’s Playmate data sheet, she listed her major turnoff as “jealous people.”

Paul followed, with all his schemes always working. Although Dorothy’s career began to flourish, Paul languished. Seeing that he was losing his grip on her, he constantly pressured her to marry. Finally talking her into it during an on-the-whim trip to Vegas in June 1979, but it was over almost as quickly as it began. Snider was obsessed with Dorothy and her career. He forbade her to drink coffee, because it would stain her teeth, and he supposedly poisoned her pet dog because he was jealous of it. It eventually caused their relationship to deteriorate, and by August of 1980 they were separated, pending a divorce.

Posing by Paul’s Car Back In Canada, The Dairy Queen She Worked At, and 1977 Yearbook Photo

Paul had a lot of crazy ideas - he once took to making weight benches, and with the scraps made a bondage bench he was hoping to market. He was inspired when visiting The Pleasure Chest, a sex shop in LA. The Pleasure Chest opted NOT to buy the bench, and it stood in a corner of his bedroom for months and months.

Anyways - Dorothy went to work on the Peter Bogdanovich film THEY ALL LAUGHED. She fell in love with the director and was basically leaving Paul for him. Now to talk to Paul and get rid of him….yeah, right. She didn’t know that Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten around after she began staying part of the time at Peter Bogdanovich’s Bel Air home.

On the morning of August 14th, 1980, Dorothy agreed to meet Snider at the apartment, and showed up just after noon. She was wearing flats and slacks, carrying a big zippered handbag. She had withdrawn $1000 in cash to give to Snider, and hoped to settle her split from him, once and for all. At 12:30, the private investigator called Paul, and Paul told him that “everything was going fine.”

SNIDER - Almost Like A Bad Caricature of Himself - You Can FEEL His Creepiness From a .jpg

At 5 in the afternoon, the two female occupants of the apartment came home and noticed the two vehicles (Dorothy’s and Paul’s) in the driveway. They saw that Paul’s door was closed, and they heard no sounds. They assumed that Paul and Dorothy wanted privacy. At 6:00 they watched the news, and then went out to eat. At around 7, Dr. Cushner came home and he too decided to give them privacy. At 8, the women returned home. At around 11, the investigator called the Doctor on his private line (no one was answering Snider’s phone, and it was continually ringing), and suggested they take a peek into the room. Boy oh boy did they get a surprise. They called the cops.

Cops arrived at 12:30am. They found Dorothy lying across the end of a low waterbed. Get this: she had black ants crawling all over her. Wild, eh? They found a bullet hole from a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun (that Snider had bought from and ad in a local newspaper) on her cheek, blood on the walls and curtains, and she was missing the tip of her left index finger.

Marriage License and Tombstone - Same Shape

No one knows for sure what transpired during their meeting, but blonde hair was found in Snider’s fists. The only scenario that makes sense, was that Dorothy was sitting on a corner of the bed when Snider put the gun up to her cheek. She tried to shield her face with her left hand, thus destroying her left index finger when Snider pulled the trigger. A half an hour later, Snider turned the gun on himself, and fell on top of the shotgun. Kinda makes you wonder what he did for 30 minutes. No wait, I don’t want to know. There were bloody handprints on Dorothy’s buttocks. Oh yeah, Paul had ants crawling all over him too.

Near Dorothy, was the “love seat.” According to police, it was set in a position for “possible rear entry intercourse.” There was evidence that the seat had been used, and she had been fastened to it with medical tape.

Murder Scene - 10881 W. Clarkson - Los Angeles, California

Bogdanovich married Stratten’s younger sister, Louise, who was born in 1968, a year after Bogdanovich’s own daughter. The couple divorced in 2001.

Taken from: http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews/stratten.htm

Heather Hunter, A Well-rounded Ex-Porn Starlet

Heather Keisha Hunter (born October 1, 1969 in Bronx, New York) (nicknamed Double H) is a former pornographic actress, who is now a hip hop artist, painter, and author.

Adult film career

Heather Hunter entered the adult film business in 1988 and her career peaked in the mid-1990s. She became known for her interracial and lesbian themed films. Heather also stood out because of her toned, muscular and athletic physique which was rarely seen in pornography at that time in the 1980s. In her hometown, she was a mainstay on the Robin Byrd Show and was a frequent performer.

Hunter got her start while dancing at the Latin Quarter nightclub in New York City, where she met adult film actress Hyapatia Lee, who suggested she perform in movies. Her first video Heather Hunter On Fire came out in 1988. She filmed her first sex scenes on her 18th birthday.She did a few low-budget movies for New York-based Vidway, before moving to Los Angeles and eventually becoming the first African-American woman to be a Vivid Entertainment contract girl. She has 69 videos and 1 directorial effort to her credit on the Internet Adult Film Database; her final adult video appears to be Honeywood, released in 1999. Old scenes with Hunter continue in numerous compilations.

Hunter was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2003.

In 2004, she and fellow legend Ginger Lynn appeared in non-sex roles in Hustler’s Can You Be A Pornstar?

Music career

Heather Hunter has been involved with music professionally since 1993, when she was under contract with Island Records doing House music. She released a song titled “I Want It All Night Long.” Hunter later worked for Tommy Boy Records without much progress, as the company did not know whether to market her as an R&B or pop singer.

Hunter released an 18-track rap music album on July 12, 2005 titled Double H: The Unexpected. She released the music through Blo Records label, owned by her long-time manager, Dave Copeland. Hunter is the company’s CEO. In creating the album, she worked with well-known music producers DJ Premier and Scott Storch. Guests on her album include Akinyele, Madison Taylor, plus Chalu and Erin Yes. Hunter’s old adult movie friend Janet Jacme appears on the interlude of “My Toolbox.” “So Serious” was the only single released from the album. The single and her album’s title refers to Hunter’s desire to be taken seriously as a hip hop musician. Hunter said in a VIBE interview:

“ What people may not expect is how serious I am about this. I really want people to take me seriously. Being retired from the adult industry nearly thirteen years ago, I think I’ve done enough in the mainstream business and I want to be accepted as an equal, as an artist. I’m going for my respect whether they give it to me or not. ”

From 1998-2000, Hunter hosted The Peep Show on pay-per-view TV. The program was first hosted by rapper Luther Campbell as Luke’s Peep Show. It was a raunchy interview show that aired uncensored music videos. On a 1998 episode, she met rapper Akinyele, who encouraged her to pursue a music career. He later appeared with Mr. Cee on Double H: The Unexpected.

Hunter has recorded with Esham (All Night Everyday off his album Tongues. Song also features Kool Keith), Kool Keith (I Wanna Play off his album Spankmaster), N.O.R.E. (Big D off his album God’s Favorite. Also features Akinyele & Khia), Bubba Sparxxx (Would You Like, which was cut from his album Deliverance), Above The Law (”Freak In Me” and “Playas, Gangstas And Ballers” off their album Sex, Money, & Music).

Painting career

Hunter has had an interest in art since she was a child, when she began painting portraits of family members. She furthered this love by majoring in design and illustration at Fashion Industries High School in New York City. For a short time during her teenage years, she was involved in illegal graffiti art as Ms. 45, but quit after being cited by the police. She enrolled in a special workshop under the direction and inspiration of renowned street artist, Keith Haring.

In June 2006, Hunter opened her own art gallery, Artcore-NYC, in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. She debuted her “Hunter Collection” paintings as the gallery’s first exhibition. The gallery was located at 111 Front Street, and there is an ongoing search for a new location.

Writing career

Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star by Hunter and Michelle Valentine is a novel published on July 24, 2007, from St. Martin’s Press. It purports to tell the story of Simone Young, a young woman with a career and background similar to Hunter’s. In an interview, Heather implied that her story would be fictionalized to protect the privacy of others.

Cartoon series

Hunter starred in her own animated cartoon series Bulletproof Diva (2003), in which she saves the world from the inhabitants of hell.

Taken from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Hunter

Stephanie Swift, Actress, Director, Producer

Stephanie Swift (born February 7, 1972 in Louisiana) is a American pornographic actress who has been actively making movies (with occasional breaks) since 1995. She has appeared in over 300 adult movies.

Stephanie Swift was born in Louisiana and has described herself as a mutt in terms of ethnicity: Cajun. Irish, English, French, Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian. When she was 10 years old, her father died of cancer and her family then relocated to Southern California. At 19 she lived in San Diego, California and worked as a stripper for 6 months at a local club called The Body Shop (not to be confused with the cosmetics store chain). She earned an Associate’s Degree in Dental Assistance, and eventually became a registered dental assistant. She posed in nude modelling photographs for five years after that.

She segued from nude model work to the region’s adult film industry, where she has been since 1995. Her first softcore scene was in Playboy TV’s Up Close and Dangerous. Her first hardcore sex scene was in Space Sirens. She went on to become a very successful adult actress, winning several awards, including AVN’s coveted Female Performer of the Year in 1997.

Despite a lack of new releases, she still has an official website and makes appearances on the exotic dancing circuit as a featured performer, thanks largely to her notoriety and built-in fanbase from her adult film days. In 2006, Swift was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Her trademark acts include lesbian scenes, and she was usually cast as the prim and proper professional woman who goes bad. While she did a number of anal scenes in the first few years of her career, she has shied away from them in recent years. She is openly bisexual in her personal life, preferring relationships with females to that of males.

In 2004 she launched her own production company called Swift Entertainment, in which she is a director, screenwriter and producer.

Taken from Wikipedia

Stephanie speaks of her new endeavors:

“As of 2004, I celebrated my 10th year in the industry. I have earned a place at the top of the adult industry. My ambition and drive have paid off with the beginning of my movie production company, Swift Entertainment. This year marks the launch of the new and improved stephanieswift.com which proves to finally truly reflect my presence the way I want to be online. My first series is Swift Tours. I have produced, directed, and starred in the first two productions for Swift Entertainment shot on location in Brazil and at the Brazilian Sex Club. I am currently in legal issues involving certain parties, but when all is said and done -you will not be disappointed with these movies. I promise you will find yourself thoroughly satisfied”

http://www.stephanieswift.com/aboutme.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Swift

Italian Porn Star Lolly Pop Found Dead

The Italian porn star known simply by the name Lolly Pop, was born Mary Besesti Federica in 1969. She also went by the name Federica Gori. She had a very brief adult career, only appearing in two adult films back in 2000, both anal flicks directed by Rocco Siffredi. Federica was also known for being the TV mascot for the Italian football (soccer) club Fiorentina.

On February 7, 2008, Federica’s mother was concerned because she had not heard from her daughter in some time. She entered her daughter’s house in Rome and found Federica in bed, already deceased and surrounded by her four dogs. An autopsy was performed and the results will be given to the mother after about 60 days. According to the doctor it appeared that Federica died of some sort of natural cause, possibly a heart attack. She was 37 years old.

http://www.einsiders.com/features/columns/feb08obituaries.php

http://www.rame.net/faq/deadporn/

http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=LollyPop/gender=F/lolly-pop.htm

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Lea De Mae, Former Olympic Hopeful Dead At 27

Andrea Absolonová (December 26, 1976 – December 9, 2004), better known by the pseudonym Lea De Mae, was a Czech adult model and pornographic actress.

Born December 26, 1976 in Czechoslovakia, she was a member of the Czech high diving national team and injured her spine in an accident when training for the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, diving from the 10m platform. Some time after her injury, Lea did her best to recover, and qualified again for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. However her problems persisted, so she retired from high diving. She was later persuaded by a photographer to pose nude, thus turning eventually to the adult film industry.

Lea de Mae appeared in over 80 adult films. She first showed up on American screens in a series of features for Private Studio where her stunning looks were well received.

Lea de Mae ended up returning to Europe after the time she spent in US. She then started to film more adult films in her native land but after a brief period of time she returned to the States.

Lea De Mae along with colleagues Silvia Saint, Daniella Rush and Monica Sweetheart (known as “The Dream Team”) led the home contingent in the early days of the Czech adult movie/modeling world. She was nominated for the 2004 AVN Award for Foreign Female Performer of the Year.

Lea was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer in July 2004. During Lea’s battle for life, fans from around the world and fellow porn actors supported a medical fund that had been set up for her in Prague, but she succumbed to the disease on December 9, 2004 at the age of 27, 17 days shy of her 28th birthday.

Taken from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_De_Mae

Kathy Harcourt … A Mysterious End

Kathy Harcourt was a little known porn actress who appeared in a handful of films in the early 80’s. Her biography is scarce at best. IAFD does not list her date of birth, date of death, or place of birth. Because she was only active in the industry for a couple of years, and was not exactly a fan favorite, very little is known about her.

According to RAME.net, Harcourt did die sometime in the mid 80’s. Her body was allegedly found floating the East River; the cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head. The gun was actually found upstream leading some to believe that that the wound was self inflicted. Because the gun had been in the water for nearly a day no fingerprints could be lifted. It is also rumored that Harcourt was deeply in debt to a drug dealer who might have murdered her and thrown the gun into the river after the murder took place. To this day the case is unsolved.

I would like to hear from any of Kathy’s friends or family who may have a little more information about her life. Please leave a message below.