eveningdistraction asked: I remember in the 1980’s a porn actress who went by the name Viper, and had a long snake tattoo on her body. I only saw two videos of hers, but would love to see anything else you may have on her. Thanks!
Viper was born September 12, 1959 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but was raised in rural New Hampshire. She was interested in theater and ballet while growing up, first dancing with the New Hampshire Ballet Company from 1968 to 1976, then one season with the American Ballet Theater in New York City after graduating high school. In 1978 Viper joined the United States Marine Corps, where she served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and achieved the rank of corporal. After six years, Viper was expelled from the Corps for fraternizing with her superior officers, and worked a year in Baltimore as a prostitute and an entertainer at “The Block” nightclub.
She got her trademark tattoo from tattoo artist and street gang member Harry Von Groff in Philadelphia, described as “…a snake poised to strike her left nipple, that morphs into a tiger composed of interlaced skulls across her belly, and finally reanimates as a snake snapping at her clitoris.
In 1986, Viper moved to Los Angeles to enter pornography, where she met Bill Margold, already an influential pornographic actor, director, and agent. They lived together for 5 years, and Margold describes her as the love of his life. She made a total of 70 hardcore pornography films, her first film with Tom Byron in White Trash, and her last Erotic Heights. She made her only mainstream appearance in the 1988 comedy feature Vice Academy, where she played a porn film director. In August 1989, wanting to get more work, she got breast implants, moving from a 34A to 34DD. Margold believes these caused "implant schizophrenia” driving her to a mental breakdown by September 1990. In May 1991, she left without warning. Her driver’s license, social security card and birth certificate were found on a gravestone in Arkansas, and Margold has not seen her since. In his Gear magazine article, author Mark Ebner recounts having spoken with her mother who reported her alive and well at that time.
Viper died on December 24, 2010 of lung cancer.
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