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King Crucifi❌io | 盗品ドラゴン The Great retweeted
Vanessa Del Rio stole cars at 18, worked the streets of New York as a prostitute, shot her first adult film in 1974 for $150 to cover rent. Over 100 films across 12 years. Drug problems. Multiple arrests. First woman of color to break major barriers in the industry. Quit when AIDS hit and producers still didn't care about the safety of the women in front of the camera.
In the video below, Vanessa looks back at a career that started with a teenage decision made lying in bed - and explains why she has zero regrets.
She said she used to watch a Mexican actress named Isabelle Sarli. Pure raw sexuality on screen. Said she wanted to be exactly like that. Made the decision at 14 or 15. Never looked back.
She brought her own clothes to shoots because they were just her actual everyday wardrobe. Showed up exactly as she was in real life. Said that was always the difference - she wasn't performing a character, she was just herself.
She's now releasing a book. Signed copies. Nasty pictures. Polaroids. Bodybuilding photos. A lenticular cover of her licking her lips that moves as you tilt it. Said the outside is classy - white and leopard print - and the inside is filthy.
She said labels don't define her. Said she'd like the word capitalized in the dictionary the way Madonna is.
Said she was a bad girl. A very bad girl. But she had fun doing it.
And she can't regret something she genuinely enjoyed.
Is Vanessa Del Rio the most honest person to ever come out of that industry, or just the rare one who actually meant it?
War Machine was obviously a violent and jealous psychopath who could’ve done this to anyone. Christy Mack being a porn star had zero to do with it. When authorities finally caught up with War Machine, he was in a similarly violent relationship with another woman.
Porn star Christy Mack's ex, a UFC fighter, walked in at 3am and found her with another man. Over the next hours he broke 18 bones in her face, knocked out her teeth, sexually assaulted her and sawed off her hair with a knife. She's only alive because he went to the kitchen.
In 2014 she was one of the biggest names in the adult industry, the girl covered in tattoos with millions of followers. Her boyfriend was Jon Koppenhaver, a former UFC fighter who had legally changed his name to War Machine. Their relationship was violent long before that night, and a few months earlier she had finally ended it and moved on.
On August 8, 2014 he let himself into her Las Vegas home at around 3am and found her there with a friend. He attacked the friend first, who managed to run out of the house. Then he turned on her. She says the beating went on for hours. He broke her nose, knocked out her teeth, fractured her ribs and ruptured her liver. At one point he grabbed a knife, held it to her and started hacking off her hair.
When he walked off to the kitchen, she ran. She went out the back door barefoot, climbed over the fence into the neighbor's yard and begged them to call the police. A few days later she posted photos of her face from the hospital bed on Twitter. Half the internet was horrified. The other half wrote that a porn star had it coming.
War Machine went on the run for a week before police found him hiding in a motel in California. In 2017 a jury convicted him on 29 counts, including kidnapping and sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison, and he won't even be eligible for parole until he has served 36 years.
She has had multiple surgeries and still lives with the damage to her face. She stepped away from the industry, and today she tells the story herself on podcasts.
She survived because he decided to go get a knife instead of finishing what he started.
Should a man who did this ever walk free again, or is 36 years before parole still too easy?
The IWC’s gooners never miss. As I’m watching the show and I saw this, I was like, “Yup. Pervs gon clip this right up before 11pm.”
#WWERaw
King Crucifi❌io | 盗品ドラゴン The Great retweeted
At 18 Vanessa Del Rio was programming computers. Then stole cars across America for two years, got arrested, ended up on the streets of New York as a prostitute, moved to strip clubs, shot her first adult film for $150 to cover rent. Over 100 films. One of the biggest names in the industry. Arrested for drugs. Did time. Quit when AIDS hit and producers still didn't care.
In the video below, she sits down for a rare 1986 TV interview - and says something nobody expected her to say.
The only real victims in p*rnography are the people in front of the camera.
She said you lose something of yourself. Said she didn't know how to love because she was channeling everything through the camera. Had to shut down certain emotions just to function - and didn't realize what that cost her until years later.
She grew up with violence at home. Father beat her. A relative made advances on her as a child. None of it came into focus until she was sitting in a jail cell after a drug arrest, looking at her life from the outside for the first time.
She started bodybuilding in jail. First decision she'd made purely for herself in years.
Retired at the peak. Not because the money stopped. Because she grew out of it.
Said the industry had gotten worse since she left. Women coming in by the truckload. One-day shoots. No budgets. Just a meat market.
She saw it clearly now because she was finally outside it.
Is Vanessa Del Rio proof that you can build an empire out of something and still walk away whole, or did she just get out before it finished taking what was left?
Not the biggest fan of Union but celebrity aside, I gotta admit that 54 today hit way different than it did for my parents. My mom couldn’t and wouldn’t do what Gabrielle is doing here at THIRTY-FOUR. Gen X really is the greatest generation.
Lola Vice’s entrance theme is BEYOND catchy, btw. I hear that shit and my hips start swiveling like my name is Wren Sinclair. I be doing the salsa, the bachata, all kinds of shit while singing along with that hook!!
#WWERaw
Ouch.
Faith Evans has been ordered to pay more than $12.5 million to a trust established by Voletta Wallace, the late mother of The Notorious B.I.G., following a legal dispute over the rapper’s estate.
A Delaware judge ruled that the trust is owed distributions tied to Wallace’s 25% stake in Notorious B.I.G. LLC dating back to her death in February 2025. The judgment includes $12.5 million in unpaid distributions and compounded interest, rejecting Evans’ argument that the payout should be limited to $48,612.
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I expected some sort of physical confrontation or *something* that would move things forward, storyline-wise, ahead of Blood & Guts. But nope. Just a regular ‘ol squash. On AEW’s “A” show. In 2026. It served exactly zero purpose. Who booked this crap?
#AEWDynamite
Divine Dominion (@meganbayne @lena_kross) looked UNSTOPPABLE ahead of Blood and Guts! 💪
Watch the #AEWCollision replay on HBO Max!
At this point, I can’t even remember the last time I was impressed by the championship reign of a female WWE superstar. The main eventers only defend at PLEs, if that and the midcard titles just go MIA all together. Creative needs to give them the same effort they give the men.
Fake news, obviously but had a white person said this to defend wearing Blackface…well, it just further shows their ignorance (not surprising amongst this generation) and their lack of knowing this country’s history and why one is a much more egregious offense than the other.
French Montana ain’t had a solo hit EVER. Please tell me how he can afford this? You’d think a guy that was such an unsuccessful rapper and a blip on the cultural radar would be trying to save every dime.
French Montana gives a tour of the underwater suite he's renting in Dubai and says the stay costs $50,000 a night. 🤯🦈
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This generation wasn’t even born when this incident happened so how and why are they offended? The Halloween costume police need to fucking stand down. Sensitive asses.
Jessica Alba appears to have deleted her Halloween photos after facing backlash for dressing as figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, complete with a bloodied knee bandage, while her friend Kelly Sawyer dressed as Tonya Harding and held a baseball bat.
The costumes referenced the infamous 1994 attack on Kerrigan, with some commenters calling the portrayal insensitive and accusing the pair of making light of a traumatic incident. Others defended the costumes, noting that the story has been revisited in films and television for decades.
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Without fail, every year at this time, some white person feigns ignorance about a decades-old racist trope. In 2026, if you know about Blackface, you’re well aware of the negative social connotations involved. How’d she even make it to the clock w/o being sent home and/or fired?
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Remember when Zaria…?
#HalloweenHavoc
Don’t feel the same without Shotzi and Scarlett hosting…
#HalloweenHavoc
The right person went over the wrong opponent.
#SmackDown
In other words, they don’t intend to make movies that reflect reality. And that’s their right. How it works out for them? We shall see.
Angel Studios Banning Sex Scenes, F-Words and Misuse of God’s Name in Movies variety.com/2026/film/news/a…
This should’ve been Blake’s first feud. She was off TV for most of ‘26 anyway, waiting for Paige to finish (or maybe not feud at all) with the Bellas wouldn’t have hurt. You sacrifice Paige to get Blake over, not GIULIA. Why do they hate Giulia so much?
#SmackDown
Clean loss to Blake Monroe on SmackDown last week, Main Event the week after. I have zero quarrel with anyone in the IWC saying WWE has managed to fumble Giulia because they 100% have. Meanwhile, B-Fab currently holds a title.
#SmackDown
