She was born in Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento, and moving to Los Angeles to start an adult career was, by her own account in later interviews, a deliberate choice rather than a drift. She retired around the turn of the millennium, and what followed looked, for a while, like a clean exit: a marriage, three children, a small role in a Jon Favreau film that suggested she might carve something out on the other side. That marriage ended after more than a decade. The documentary After Porn Ends caught up with her and she talked about what that passage of time had actually looked like — not triumphant, not destroyed, somewhere more complicated than either. When the pandemic came she was living in the Philippines, newly remarried, and she opened an OnlyFans, returning to the industry she had left fifteen years earlier. She died that same year. The cause was an infection from a tattoo she had applied to herself, which spread and led to surgical complications she did not survive. The AVN Hall of Fame induction came the following year, posthumously.
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