Miyuki Asou, Gravure Idol Turned Japanese Porn Star Commits Suicide

Mikuki Asou was a stage actress as a teenager, and as a young adult became a gravure idol. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, a gravure idol is a young Japanese model who poses for sexually provocative photo shoots. The models are never nude, but mostly pose in bikinis or scant clothing, in a sexually suggestive manner. Basically it’s softcore porn without nudity, think Barely Legal magazine with clothes on.

Unhappy with the level of success she was achieving as a gravure girl, Asou made the transition into performing hardcore Japanese porn in February of 2008. She believed that she would be a much more popular porn star, and would be in higher demand, having worked previously as a model. She was poorly represented, and was immediately thrust into the dirtier side of Japanese video, filming a gang bang rape scene in only her second appearance.

In Japan ex-gravure girls often become famous stars. Many of Asou’s fans were upset about her decision to do hardcore, as she more-or-less ended her chances of ever being a respectable mainstream star. Apparently the career move and the backlash caused her some shame, and she committed suicide a month after filming her first hardcore scene. Police found her in her bathroom, dead from intentional inhalation of hydrogen sulfide gas. The method of suicide Asou used is a growing practice among young people in Japan. By mixing certain detergents and bathroom cleaners, a chemical reaction occurs which produces the hydrogen sulfide gas which is then inhaled.

Asou was 22 years old at the time of her death.

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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.

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40 Years Of Marilyn Chambers

Marilyn Chambers (born Marilyn Ann Briggs, April 22, 1952, in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.) is a former American pornographic actress and stripteaser perhaps best known for her 1972 hardcore debut Behind the Green Door.

Early life

According to John Hubner’s book Bottom Feeders, (1994), Chambers came from a middle-class household. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. She was the youngest of three children. Her father tried to discourage her from pursuing a modeling career, citing brutal competition. Chambers landed some modeling gigs and a small role in the Barbra Streisand starred The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), where she was credited as “Evelyn Lang”. Her parents were not impressed, so she moved to Los Angeles for more work. But she didn’t get any roles, except for a low-budget film Together (1971), in which she appeared nude. Depressed, she left Los Angeles for San Francisco where she held several jobs, including work as a topless model and a bottomless dancer. She also married a hippie named Doug (whose surname she did not provide to writer-researcher John Hubner).

Adult film career

Chambers happened to see an advertisement for a casting call, and rushed to the audition only to find out that it was for a porno film. She was about to leave when the Mitchell brothers stopped her, because of her resemblance to Cybill Shepherd, and feeling that a wholesome blond actress was needed for their film. (At this point, they did not realize that she was the “cover girl” on the Ivory Snow soap box; she posed as the woman holding the baby. According to some urban legends, Chambers was the baby; this turned out to be false, as was the claim that the baby was Brooke Shields). The product’s manufacturer, Procter & Gamble quickly dropped her after discovering her double life as an adult film actress. Chambers, who was initially ambivalent about starring in Behind the Green Door, asked the Mitchell brothers, Artie and Jim, for a $25,000 salary and a percentage of the gross, never expecting that they would agree. After filming concluded, she dropped the Ivory Snow bombshell, which resulted in her being billed as the “99 and 44/100% pure” girl.

In the film, Chambers had sex with the well-endowed African-American actor Johnny Keyes. She also fainted at the end of one scene lasting over 45 minutes. The porno industry and viewing public were shocked by the then-taboo spectacle of a white woman having sex with a black man. (Chambers’ parents refused to talk to her for several years after the film’s release, but eventually reconciled with her). In subsequent porno films with John Holmes, who was noted for his extremely large penis, Chambers “talked dirty” to him off-camera to give him an erection. Eventually, mainstream films noticed Chambers, who in 1977, nabbed a major role in David Cronenberg’s Rabid. However, her adult film career made Hollywood studios nervous, and hence she was unable to transition to mainstream films.

She was noted for her enthusiastic performances of deep throat, anal, lesbian, interracial, extreme bukkake, and double or triple penetration scenes. She was one of the first female stars to shave her pubic hair, a practice now routine for porn actresses. Chambers continues to appear in porn films for such companies as Naughty America and MILF Hunter. Later in her career, she had a series of breast augmentations raising her from a B-cup to at least a D. She is reputedly one of the first porn actresses to have her genitals pierced.

Her first marriage ended after the release of Behind the Green Door. During her 1975-1985 marriage to porn producer/director/manager Chuck Traynor, Chambers continued in both mainstream and porn films. After that marriage ended, Chambers married for the third time to truck driver Tom Taylor. She gave birth to their daughter, McKenna Marie Taylor, in 1991, before that marriage also ended in divorce. Chambers has admitted to writer John Hubner and other interviewers that she has battled drug and alcohol addiction in the past.

In recent years, Chambers has appeared primarily in independent films, claiming that their more laid back pace suits her as “there’s a lot less pressure on you to perform (and) you don’t have to be young and skinny.”

Other work

* Marilyn Chambers also had some chart success with the Disco single “Benihana” in 1976, produced by Michael Zager on the Roulette Records label. In the 2004 United States presidential election, Marilyn Chambers ran for Vice President on the Personal Choice Party ticket, a quasi-libertarian party. She received a total of 946 votes.

Fictional portrayals

* In 2000, Tracy Hutson played Chambers in the made-for-cable biopic about the Mitchell Brothers, Rated X.

Literature

* Nicolas Barbano: Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner (Rosinante, Denmark 1999) ISBN 87-7357-961-0: Features a chapter on her.

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Cheyenne Silver: Soul Survivor

Cheyenne Silver was born Cara Fawn on July  18, 1978 in San Clamente, CA and is of Native American decent.

Silver originally performed under the name Wildcat, a name she continued to use early in her adult entertainment career.  Silver was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in December of 2001 and appeared in over 70 adult films.  Her carreer blossomed and her good looks eventually landed her a contract with Vivid Pictures.

In  December of 2005, Silver was involved in a serious auto accident that left her with multiple skull franctures and brain bleeding.  After surgery she fully recovered and now focuses solely on mainstream acting although she still does promotional work for Vivid.  Silver now uses her real name for all her mainstream work and has found a new outlook on life since her recovery.  In her own words, “I see life differently than ever before and realize we are all here for but a blink of an eye.”

Silver’s latest project is The Villikon Chronicles: Genesis of Evil, a film adaptation of a comic book.  Silver plays Mystere, a character created in her likeness for the the comic book series.

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Where is Cassidey? Back For A 2nd Stint With Vivid

Cassidey (born December 24, 1980) is an American pornographic actress.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Cassidey now resides in Redondo Beach, California.

Cassidey began her career in 2000 with “Diary of Desire”, starring as an erotic novelist. She appeared in Enrique Iglesias’s music video Sad Eyes and made a surprise guest appearance on the internet talk show Tom Green Live, for the host’s birthday.

During her hiatus, she worked with children as a counselor, then worked for Brad Greenspan. She also got married to Raylene’s younger brother.

She renewed her contract with the Vivid Entertainment label in 2006.

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