Interview With Seka

When you think about it, adult stars come a dime a dozen. There is an endless sea of women who drift in and out of the adult business never to be heard from again. Most of them come along to make a quick buck, not giving much thought into what they are doing. They disappear just as quickly as they came never to be heard from again.

There are a few who come along who turn the entire industry on it’s head. Women who become superstars and achieve a level of fame not often achieved by a porn star. What makes these women different from the average run-of-the-mill starlet? What is it that they have that the others do not?

Women who reach the upper echelon of porn greatness all have a few things in common with one another. First and foremost, they are beautiful creatures, with an appeal that sets them apart from the rest of the crowd. There is just something about them, that you just cannot put your finger on, that adds to their attractiveness. They also have to have a little luck, and come into the business at the right time and place. But most of all they are all enthusiastic about what they do. They are painfully aware of their sexual power, and use it to light-up the screen with powerful performances, and instantly capture the desire of multitudes of men.

You can literally count the number of women who reach the very top of the porn business on your fingers. You have your Annettes, your Gingers, your Jennas and then you have Seka. One of a kind, Seka was one of the first superstars of adult cinema. Like a blond sex bomb she burst upon the scene and was an instant star. She passionately performed for several years and enjoyed a longevity that few women in the adult entertainment industry achieve.

I recently contacted her, and she agreed to be interviewed. I was completely surprised how easy she was to contact and how willing she was to participate. She is a very gracious and down-to-earth person and it has been an absolute honor to interview her.

Where were you born?

Seka: Radford Virginia

Where did you grow up?

Seka: Virginia

What was your family life like, your parents, siblings, how would you describe your family?

Seka: 1 brother 1 sister, both older; I’m the baby. Pretty normal I guess. Parents divorced when I was young. I am still close with nearly everyone in my family.

What was your earliest sexual experience? At what age did you lose your virginity?

Seka: April 22,1972, the day after I got married the first time.

I read that you were a beauty queen in high school and during your early adult life. What are some of the pageants you won?

Seka: Miss Hopewell High School and Miss South-side Virginia.

What other jobs did you have before getting involved in adult entertainment?

Seka: Factory worker, waitress, shoe sales person, bartender…

Did you go to college?

Seka: Yes, Northwestern in Chicago

I read that you were once a co-owner of a few adult bookstores before you became involved in the adult film business. How did you get involved with the owning a bookstore and was that something you enjoyed?

Seka: I was dating a person who owned one and then as time went on we bought several more of them and yes I did enjoy the stores very much.

When did you first become involved in the adult film industry?

Seka: It was in the late 70’s.

When did you start using the name “Seka” and what does it mean?

Seka: The first movie I did I was asked what name I wanted to use and I said ” I don’t know use “SEKA” What I have been told it means is “LITTLE GIRL”

You performed with some of the best known studs of the 70’s and 80’s. I’m going to throw out a couple of men that you performed with and I want you to give me your impression of them. Randy West, John Leslie, Jamie Gillis, and Ron Jeremy.

Seka: They were, and still to this day, some of the most wonderful men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or being with.

You also performed with the “King” John Holmes. In fact, it appears that you may have performed with him more than any other woman, and according to your IAFD page, you did more scenes with John than any other man during your career. How close were you with John in your personal life? Were the two of you ever romantically involved off-screen? How was he as a performer? A person?

Seka: I loved John and will always love John. We were never lovers off screen. John was always a perfect gentleman with me as a performer and as a person.

I read somewhere that you spent a year in rehab in the late 70’s. Is this correct?

Seka: I was never in rehab for anything ever. I never did see drugs on the movies I worked on so I can not answer this question for you.

I was also surprised to learn that you actually spent some time in jail in San Diego during the early 80’s. What lead to that ordeal? What were you arrested for? Were you actually sentenced to a prison term, or just arrested?

Seka: I spent 12 hours in the Women San Diego Prison for lewd dancing and obscene conduct.
I was never convicted as it was a case of they just wanted to try to make an example of someone and it turned out that I was not the one.

Your IAFD page says that you actually directed two titles. Was directing something that you enjoyed? Why did you not pursue more directing jobs?

Seka: I enjoyed it very much though it is very stressful and I just wanted to give it a try.

You stayed active in adult film from the late 70’s through the early 90’s, which is an eternity in adult film. You started at 24 years old which is the age most girls retire from the business. You actually retired at about 40 which is just way beyond when most girls give it up. Despite your age, you were in high demand throughout your career. Why did you give it up? What made you quit the film business? Could you have kept going?

Seka: I am sure I could have kept going but I am in love with living and there were no demands being made for testing in those days so I stopped.

The adult film business has changed a lot since your heyday. Do you think has changed for the better or worse? What do you think is lacking in today’s porn movies?

Seka: I don’t fell it has changed for the better. It seems to me that most everyone looks the same these days, there is no romance any more or at least a reason for sex to happen in the first place. It seems to me that that there is so much ANGER in today’s Adult Movies and for me at least SEX and that kind of ANGER do not mix.

What have you been up to all these years after you left the adult film business? Where have you lived? What have you been through? Tell us about things you have been involved in. Your fan club, websites, personal life… etc…

Seka: For the most part I have been working on www.seka.com and my life.

I remember reading that you performed in a hardcore scene a few years ago and that it is available on the Internet. Where can your fans go to see the scene?

Seka: On my site www.seka.com under the VOD banner that says ” clips.com “

What was it like to perform in a sex scene after all the years away from adult film?

Seka: I didn’t miss a beat. LOL

Describe the scene, what can your fans expect to see watching you perform hardcore at over 50?

Seka: The only difference I saw was that I had a hell of a lot more fun, there was no pressure.

Was it just the one scene, or have you done more? If not do you plan on doing any more?

Seka: There were several scenes, go and watch.

Did you ever have any children over the years?

Seka: No, I never wanted children.

It’s surprising to learn that you never really left the adult business. You pretty much stayed active with your fan club, dancing and websites, etc. Do you have any plans of ever retiring completely?

Seka: No.

Are you currently romantically involved with anyone? Married? Dating? Single?

Seka: Married.

Do you enjoy interaction with your fans? Have you ever dated any of your fans? What is the best way that your fans can contact you?

Seka: Yes I enjoy interacting with my fans, never dated my fans. and the best way to reach me is through www.seka.com .

Any chance you would ever hookup with a younger fan, say by about 20 years, who runs a website about retired porn stars?

Seka: No, I’m married and I take that very seriously.

That was a joke… I guess it does not hurt to ask

Seka is still a hot, sexy, smokin' lady

Is there anything else in your life that you would like to mention that I did not cover? Anything you would like to say to your fans?

Seka: Thank each and every one of my fans from the bottom of my heart, with out all of you I would not be who I am today and I owe that to my fans. They were and to this day the BEST FANS a girl could ever have.

Thank you very much for your time, and I would love to do another interview sometime in the future when there are new things to talk about. Please stay in touch.

Seka: Well hopefully that will be very soon. You see I have a book coming out …
The title is “Inside Seka” just like the movie and as a matter of fact it will have the same cover on the book as the movie has.

I will get in touch with you when the book comes out to discuss it.

Inside Seka box cover

Rebecca Steele The Life And Death Of A Porn Star

By EARL SWIFT , The Virginian-Pilot
March 24, 2004

SHE WAS DARK-EYED and fine-boned, with chestnut hair that tumbled over her shoulders. She had a body, lithe and firm, that she loved to show off. In the spell of her smile, sweet and inviting and crazy all at once, men gave her money, jewelry, a Corvette.

For years, Jeanette Dee Rogers traded on her most obvious strengths. She worked Norfolk’s go-go bars young, made bigger money as an exotic dancer in Hawaii and earned an international following as Rebecca Steele, a centerfold model and featured player in scores of X-rated movies. She lived large, dressed well, partied without care.

But the heady times didn’t last, and she wound up back in Norfolk with little to show for them. By the time she turned 42, on Jan. 17, Rogers had been through so many marriages that her mother couldn’t name all her exes. She was flat broke, on the run from creditors and half a step from homeless. She’d fallen into drugs and spent days on end in chemical fogs. She was suffering from full-blown AIDS.

Her fall ended two days after her birthday, on the floor of a worn motel room on East Little Creek Road. Her obituary, two sentences long, failed to mention her peculiar fame - that a Google search of her name generates more than 4,000 hits, that she continues to flicker on video screens around the world.

Only a handful of people turned out for her funeral.

Rebecca Steele is easy to find: Years after her departure from adult films, her turns in such fare as “Down and Dirty” and “Open Ended,” in “Bi-Bi Baby” and “Dutch Masters,” still sell on the Web.

Online biographies chart her career: “Rebecca Steele was easily one of the most enticing young women on the late ’80s/early ’90s hard core scene,” one reads. “Her endlessly alluring good looks were sure to please, but it was her energy and spirit that kept fans coming back for more.”

The real woman is far more elusive, for Rogers assumed many names, and many roles, over the years. She was Jeanette Markvart, Jeanette Moore and Jeanette Zuelly, Mindy and “Rebel.” She was a biker chick, a construction worker, a victim and a predator, exploited and exploiter.

Stretches of her life, some of them years long, are blanks.

This is certain: She was born in 1962 to an enlisted sailor and a teenage mother from the sticks named JoAnn Skeeter. The sailor took off before her arrival; a young Marine named Markvart married the pregnant JoAnn instead.

The couple split soon after. For a while, JoAnn Markvart raised Jeanette in an apartment nestled among the honky-tonks of East Ocean View, but she eventually sent the girl to live with relatives in Bent Creek, in Appomattox County. Jeanette bounced between Norfolk and Bent Creek for the next several years.

Before long, JoAnn was with another sailor, Joel Anito, and two more children, Priscilla and Joseph, followed. In the meantime, JoAnn Anito became troubled by her firstborn’s visits. “All you had to do was say no,” she recalls, “and she was almost like an untamed horse.”

An angry Jeanette set the laundry on fire. She spiked her mother’s bath water with broken glass.

“A psychiatrist told me that when she came home, if I had any knives or anything, I should secure them because she was capable of killing me,” JoAnn Anito says.

“They told me that when she was about 7.”

Rick Mills sits on the bed he shared with Jeanette Rogers. He is the key to another certainty about her: the manner of her death. Mills, a 41-year-old carpenter, was Rogers’ fiance. He reaches into a knapsack of her belongings.

“This was her last cell phone,” he says, eyes red-rimmed. “This is the bandana she wore. These are the earmuffs she wore when she was cold.”

He continues to live in their motel room, to sleep in their bed. “She was my soul mate. We shared everything. There was nothing we didn’t talk about.”

He opens a small, wooden box to reveal a tangle of elastic hair bands. Opens a velvet box containing a long lock of her hair. He sniffles. Beneath his feet, at the foot of the bed, is the spot he found her.

“I seen her curled up, right here.”

As the police report put it: “Ms. Rogers appears to have overdosed on prescription medication and pills were found on floor of room.”

A couple feet away is a bright red Christmas gift bag. It contains her ashes. “I called 911 immediately,” Mills says. “They talked me through CPR on the phone.” He shakes his head.

He was the last man to fall for her. No telling how many came before him; his fiancee learned early that she had a power to beguile. Her family says she traded favors for cash with a Bent Creek neighbor while still a preteen. She broke hearts in Norfolk whenever she swept into town. Once her mother had her institutionalized, and she performed stripteases in the hospital.

“She was always wild, even when we were young,” says her half-sister, Priscilla Garbett. “Men fell out over her. Guys went ga-ga over her.”

“The men, it was like they were coming up out of the floor,” JoAnn Anito says.

“She loved it,” Garbett says.

She quit school in seventh grade, about the time the Anitos’ marriage was breaking up in a swirl of drunkenness and violence. At 15, she was pregnant. She married her baby’s father, who lived near Bent Creek, but the pairing didn’t stick. Neither did motherhood: When her son, Brian, was still a baby, Jeanette Moore - that was her name by now - left him with her husband’s parents and took off.

Back in Norfolk, Jeanette dropped by the beauty shop where her mother worked to announce she wanted to dance at a go-go joint. She was “about 17″ at the time, JoAnn Anito says. That’s her recollection, anyway: Rick Mills says his fiancee told him she was 14 or 15 and that she used a fake ID to get the job.

Whatever the case, Anito accompanied her daughter to an audition near the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. “She did real well. She looked good. And before I knew it, she had beautiful outfits, and the money was rolling in.”

She worked clubs in Ocean View and the Peninsula as “Mindy.” She danced at military bases. “She could work two, three days a week,” her half-sister says, “make a couple grand, and do what she wanted, when she wanted.”

She bought a motorcycle and in her off hours ran with a gang. At a North Carolina bar, she was jumped by other bikers, dragged into the woods; they broke her ribs, even shaved her head. Years later, she told of having been kidnapped by a rival gang, too, and held prisoner for months.

If so, she managed to escape back to Norfolk. She danced under a tough new name, “Rebel,” and the money kept coming. “She could pick a sucker out of a group,” Garbett says. “She’d say she could tell them by the shoes they wore. She’d use ‘em up, take everything they got and leave ‘em with nothing.”

Greater glory beckoned, however. Anito remembers Rebel telling her she was headed to California to make movies. “I said, ‘I guess there’s not a whole lot more you can do in those movies that you haven’t already done,’” she says. ” ‘You’re 18. I can’t stop you.’ “

So was born Rebecca Steele. She moved west, got a house in the San Fernando Valley, and got busy. One online database lists her as a performer in 66 titles. Anito says she’s heard her daughter appeared in 152. Mills says she was in about 350.

Rebecca Steele movies tended to be the sort the porn industry turns out by the hundreds - shot in bad light, with bad sound, on cheap tape, with little thought given to plot or actual acting. Performers weren’t paid well, though some, like Steele, earned more by agreeing to onscreen acts that others refused.

One of her 1990s vehicles, “Sex and Other Games,” was typical. Steele, who has top billing, appears about halfway through the movie, couples with a stranger, then pairs up with a girlfriend. The camera shows off her tattoos - eagles on her left shoulder and upper back, an amateurish flower on her right thigh, smaller images scattered elsewhere - more than talent; her screen presence, in fact, approaches lethargic.

She took pride in her work, however. “She took me down to the place they were doing the filming,” Anito says of a visit to California. “They had different scenes going on. To them, it’s like sitting down, having a cup of coffee and lighting a cigarette.

“She wasn’t working that day,” she adds.

Last year, Adult Video News, the trade paper of the porn industry, estimated that adult film performers engage in as many as 50 sexual contacts per workday. At the time Steele made most of her movies, male performers rarely used condoms, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases among her co-stars was not the routine it is today. Sometime in the early 1990s, she was infected with the HIV virus.

Apparently unaware of her illness, she moved to Hawaii to dance. Many adult film performers join the stripping circuit, where a performer with a national following can make thousands of dollars a week. She tried her hand at film directing, too, and posed for Cheri magazine in leather chaps and little else. She appeared with Anito on “The Joan Rivers Show,” in a segment devoted to mothers and their porn-star children. Otherwise, her activities left few footprints.

Anito figures she was married again, perhaps several times, and says that after seven years in Honolulu she moved back east, to bounce among Norfolk, New York and Florida. She stripped, raised pit bulls, kept snakes. And she fell ever deeper into drugs: Anito and Garbett say she was jailed in Florida on a cocaine charge in the mid-1990s, was busted in Mexico at another point. She may have broken her neck in a car wreck and acquired a yen for prescription painkillers. She married yet again, becoming Jeanette Rogers.

In 1999 she was back in the Virginia Piedmont, with another husband. As Jeanette Zuelly - the spelling is inconsistent from one court record to the next - she ran up a slew of bills, was arrested for stealing from a drug store, lived in a trailer in the woods. Her family says she was almost constantly drugged - on crack, cocaine, pills, marijuana.

The marriage broke up, and she moved in with one “J.D.” On Christmas Eve, 2000, he threw her out of his car on a roadside near Crewe, Va. She sought help at a truck stop where Rick Mills, born in Richmond but living in Dinwiddie, was sitting in his car.

“I had a ‘93 Ford Mustang, and I had the whole back of it filled with presents and flowers, because I was going to Richmond the next day,” he says. “Jeanette came walking up. She had on baggy jeans, an Oakland Raiders jacket. She was beautiful, and she asked me which way I was headed.”

Mills agreed to drive her to Norfolk the next day. On the way, they stopped in Richmond. His family, Mills says, recognized that she was high on something, and horrified, urged him to dump her.

Already smitten, he refused, creating a rift that has yet to close: When his mother died last April, Mills says, he didn’t attend her funeral.

In the late spring of 2001, the couple moved to an apartment on Norfolk’s Willoughby Spit. They got construction jobs on a new department store, and for a while, the money was good. But both used copious quantities of cocaine and other drugs. The cash didn’t last.

“She had an - I’d call it an arsenal of pills, all prescription drugs,” says Chris Glover, a neighbor who befriended her. “I’ve seen pictures of her when she was younger, and she was a knockout. But that lifestyle, it’ll burn you out.”

The worst was yet to come. The couple bounced among Ocean View motels and apartments, growing ever more lost in drugs. They argued frequently, three of their fights ending with Mills facing battery charges. He was locked up for several weeks.

When he got out of jail, Mills moved to Richmond without her. He got work. He cleaned up. “But one night I got to missing her real bad,” he says. “I wound up going and getting her the same weekend.” The happy reunion gave way to another bout with drugs. Miserable, the couple attempted suicide together in Richmond in April 2002; they split a 100-count bottle of Carisoprodol, a prescription muscle relaxer.

“We both woke up in Chippenham Hospital, not dead,” Mills says.

Once released, they lived for a while in another motel, then moved back to Norfolk. Rogers - she was using that name again - raised money by hustling. Around the same time, she began to complain of chronic diarrhea, and in short order dropped to 90 pounds. A thrush infection bloomed in her mouth. The symptoms went undiagnosed until she and Mills tried to donate plasma at a Wards Corner clinic in the fall of 2002.

“I used to say, ‘Look, Mom, we’ve got to let her hit bottom,’” Garbett says. ” ‘We’ve got to get her to the point where she realizes she needs to get clean and get her life together.’ Then she found out she had AIDS.”

Her downward spiral steepened. While Mills checked himself into a hospital in July 2003 to straighten out, an emaciated Rogers began abusing the prescriptions written for her by doctors treating her AIDS. In the fall of 2003, she overdosed on pills four or five times, Anito says.

Once, she collapsed in a supermarket. She seemed to turn a corner late in the year: The AIDS medicine appeared to be working. She put on weight.

“I said, ‘You can get pretty again. You can,’ ” Anito says, “and she was just getting to grasp that. She seemed really happy that last week.”

Mills agrees: “Jeanette was very happy.”

Perhaps she was. Acquaintances say Rogers was proud of her past, comfortable with herself and generally upbeat.

“She considered herself a movie star,” says Cindy Williams of Virginia Beach, who came to know her about the time she was diagnosed. “And she was no angel, but she had a whole lot of compassion. Doors opened for her and people wanted to be kind to her because she was always kind to them.”

Still, whatever odd glamour Rogers had enjoyed earlier in life clearly was vanished from it now. She and Mills lived in a room at the M.D. International Inn. They ate meals she cooked in the room’s microwave.

“All she had were a few things in a bag,” Anito says. “Her life kind of deteriorated.”

A final certainty: On Friday, Jan. 16, Mills picked up Rogers’ prescriptions, and she immediately dived into one - another bottle of Carisoprodol.

“She started doing pills that day, and she stayed that way all weekend long,” Mills says.

She passed her birthday in a stupor. Garbett called on the couple to drop off a present; Rogers gave her 10 of her pills, but later remembered nothing of the visit. Monday came. Mills left for a roofing job.

“I begged her, I said, ‘Jeanette, please, don’t be all messed up on these pills when I get in,” he says. On his return, the motel manager told Mills he’d discovered Rogers incapacitated in a hallway. Mills found her cross-legged on the floor of their room, surrounded by strewn clothes. Of the 100 pills in the bottle, 13 remained.

He called for help. Norfolk paramedics arrived. She told them she didn’t want treatment and signed a form saying so. The rescuers left. Just before midnight, Mills woke - he’d drifted off to sleep - and found his fiancee lying on the floor. The same paramedic crew returned to declare her dead.

Mills hangs his head, eyes welling. “After I met Jeanette,” he says, “my whole life changed.”

Friends came into town from Florida for the service, but no one from the movies, no co-stars or directors or producers from her glory days. Mostly just family, and not all of that; her son didn’t make it, either.

The few who did were surprised when they approached Rogers’ open casket, Garbett says. It was as if she hadn’t spent decades in a high-mileage life, as if too many bad decisions had left no mark. Years had vanished from her face.

She looked beautiful.

Taken from this article: 

http://www.oneangrygirl.net/RebeccaSteele.html

Taylor Summers, Murder, A Bondage Shoot Gone Horribly Wrong

Taylor Summers, born Natel King, was a Canadian born porn star who mostly appeared in fetish porn shoots. In March of 2004 King’s nude body was found down a deep ravine in Whitemarsh, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. She was found draped in black fabric secured with duct tape, bound with straps and a ball gag. Her body had multiple stab wounds to both her chest and hands indicating a struggle with her murderer.

Police quickly arrested and charged photographer Anthony Frederick, 47, and his assistant Jennifer Mitkus alleging that the murder occurred during a bondage shoot gone terribly wrong. Police speculated on the possibility that the murder might have been recorded and that King may have unknowingly been the subject of a snuff shoot.

In August of 2005, Frederick was found guilty and sentenced to 24-51 years in prison for the murder. At sentencing he issued a verbal apology to the King family during which King’s mother fled the courtroom in tears. Frederick claims the murder took place during an altercation over money immediately following the photo shoot although evidence suggests otherwise. King was 23 years old at the time of her death.

http://8763wonderland.wordpress.com/2005/08/01/killer-sentenced-in-taylor-summers-slaying/

http://www.nbc6.net/news/2948262/detail.html

Where is Cara Lott? Back for a 3rd stint… at the ripe old age of 46

Cara Lott was born on August 6, 1961. At the age of 18 she sent Polaroids of herself to Hustler Magazine and was soon called to pose as a centerfold. By 1981 she was appearing in adult features. Cara’s first stint as an adult actress lasted until 1991. In 1990 Cara was charged with prostitution. In 1997 she returned to the industry and quickly made 6 more films. In 2005 she made a second comeback appearing in mostly MILF and 40+ titles. At the age of 46 Cara appears to be in for the long haul. According to her own site she is available for “appointments” although she denies that she is an escort or a hooker.

She looks to have aged rather well for a porn star.

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

Where is Candy Barr? Dead from Pneumonia at 70

The infamous stripper, burlesque dancer and pornographic actress Candy Barr passed away on December 30, 2005 at the age of 70.

Candy Barr was born Juanita Slusher in the small town of Edna Texas. Her early years were traumatized by the sexual abuse at the hands of her neighbor who was also her babysitter. At the age of 13, Barr ran away from home to Dallas Texas where she landed in a brothel and was virtually a slave.

In 1951, at the age of 16, she appeared in a short underground blue movie called Smart Alec. She claims she was drugged and forced to perform in the pornographic film. Despite being an underground film, it was wildly circulated and many consider Barr to be the first porn star because of it.

In 1953 she married Troy Phillips and had a daughter in 1954. The marriage was actually her second, her first coming at the age of 14. In 1956 Barr shot her husband Phillips who was known to be violent. Phillips was not fatally wounded although Barr was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The charges were later dropped.

While stripping at the Largo Club in L.A. Barr met gangster Mickey Cohen and the two dated. In October of 1957, Barr’s home was raided and the police confiscated close to an ounce of marijuana. She was charged with drug possession and Cohen helped to bail her her out of jail. Cohen also helped Barr go into hiding and set her up in Mexico for a short while in an attempt to avoid sentence.

She was also a know acquaintance of club owner Jack Ruby who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald immediately following the Kennedy assassination. Barr was questioned by the FBI 12 hours after Ruby murdered Oswald.

Barr was arrested and charged with marijuana possession again in 1968 though the charges were later dropped. Barr eventually retired from stripping and settled in Brownwood Texas.

In 1976 at the age of 41 Barr re-appeared in a Oui Magazine pictorial older and out-of-shape. Barr later moved back to her home town of Edna where she lived out her remaining years in quiet retirement mostly wanting to forget her past.

Barr’s Wikipedia

Where is Linda Wong? Dead from an Accidental Drug Overdose

Linda Wong was one of the first Asian porn stars. Linda was born in Hawaii and raised in San Francisco. Before entering the adult film business Linda worked as a legal prostitute in Las Vegas. Linda first appeared in porn flicks in 1976. She appeared in films with some of the biggest names in the business including John Holmes and Joey Silvera. She retired in 1981 and returned 4 years later. In 1987 Linda died of a drug overdose. Her body was found in the bathroom of a restaurant the same day that she was released from the hospital after being found unconscious face down in her hotel room. Linda was also out of jail on bond having been arrested in the months prior to her death for trying to fill a phony prescription for codeine. Linda had battled heroine addiction in the past but according to her husband she was not using it at the time of her death. Linda died from a mixture of Xanax, Chloral hydrate, and alcohol. Chloral hydrate, known on the street as a “mickey,” is a Quaalude like drug. Accrording to an interview with Linda’s husband after her death she was taking Chloral hydrate “by the handful.” He went on to say that Linda was a major drug addict that took more drugs than anyone he had ever known. Linda was 36 at the time of her death.

Answers.com article

Where is Jim Mitchell? Dead… From a Sudden Heart Attack

The second half of the legendary porn siblings known as the Mitchell Brothers passed away in July, 2007 at the age of 63 of an apparent heart attack. Jim was buried next to his brother Artie in Antioch California.

Jim and Artie Mitchell otherwise knows as The Mitchell brothers, gained fame in the 70’s by opening the O’Farrell theater in San Francisco and producing porn flicks in the makeshift studio above the theater. The brothers were at the center of the fashionable mainstream porn craze of the 70’s and produced many classic films such as Sodom and Gomorrah, Resurrection of Eve and their most famous movie Behind the Green Door. Behind the Green Door starred the former Ivory Snow girl turned porn star Marilyn Chambers. Their success in the 70’s lead to cocaine and alcohol abuse by both of the brothers, particularly Artie.

Jim dominated the relationship between the two and was considered the real talent of the group. The two often argued and Artie was known to have an explosive temper fueled by alcohol, cocaine and jealousy of his brother.

In 1991 after a heated confrontation, Jim drove to Artie’s house and shot his brother dead. Jim was charged with murder but was later convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter and received a 6 year prison sentence. The lesser conviction came as the jury heard testimony about Artie’s violent temper and the actions that lead up to the shooting.

The duo’s story was recently made into a movie Rated X starring brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Estevez also directed the picture.

Jim’s Wikipedia

Where is Marilyn Starr? Convicted of Insider Trading

 

Ex-Stripper, escort and porn starlet Marilyn Starr was convicted and served time in 1999 for insider trading. Starr was the mistress of James McDermott Jr. the former CEO of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods Inc.

McDermott passed along information to Starr pertaining to six pending mergers in 1997. Starr in turn passed the information along to an acquaintance Anthony Pomponio. Pomponio and Starr both used the insider information to make trades that profited them over $80,000 each. All 3 were eventually arrested and convicted of insider trading. McDermott reportedly did not profit from the information but was arrested and lost his job over the flap.

 

CNN Money article

Where is Melissa Walker? In Jail… Atempted Murder

The pretty British porn star Melissa Walker, 26, is currently serving out a four-year nine month prison sentence. In 2005 Mellisa stabbed her boy friend Matthew Quant, 22, at her then home in Denmark Villas, Hove, in East Sussex. Quant nearly died. The pair were arguing over missing cocaine according to reports. In June of 2007 Melissa was convicted and sentenced to two and a half years. Upon appeal the sentence was increased to four-years, nine-months. Lord Justice Maurice Kay ruled the original sentence “unduly lenient.”

 

The Sun article
Lincolnshire article