Amber Lynn

Amber Lynn
Birthdate:	September 3, 1964(1964-09-03)(age 43)
Birth location:	Orange, California, U.S.
Birth name:	Laura Allen[1][2][3]
Measurements:	36-24-35 (US)
Height:	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Eye color:	Green
Hair color:	Blonde
Natural breasts:	No
Orientation:	Bisexual
Ethnicity:	[Native American Indian
Alias(es):	homepage=
No. of films:	320
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Amber Lynn (born Laura Allen on September 3, 1964, in Orange, California, United States) is an American porn star and exotic dancer.^[1][2][3]

Early life

Amber Lynn was born and raised in southern California. She is of Native American Choctaw Indian, Black Irish or (Spanish/Irish) and Lithuanian descent.

She came from a family of six children, although one sister died in infancy due to heart disease. This caused the collapse of her family and her parents' divorce. She was placed in foster care at 3 years old and remained there until she was 8, when it was discovered that physical and emotional abuse were taking place in her foster home.

A car accident claimed the life of her mother soon after their reunion and left Lynn with severe head injuries. Her father died a short time later due to heart disease, leaving her to be raised by her stepmother and brothers. An older brother later gained fame as a pornographic actor with the stage name Buck Adams.

Entry into adult films

As a teenager, Lynn began modeling in bikini ads and hot-body contests and later got involved in the club scene in Los Angeles, where she met Althea Flynt, wife of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, and famed Hustler photographer Clive McClean. Before long, Lynn was in high demand posing for layouts in Hustler as well as other men's magazines such as Penthouse, High Society, and Club.

William Margold, trustee of the Protecting Adult Welfare Foundation, suggested she had huge potential in the adult film industry and predicted she could be the next overnight sensation. He gave her the nickname The blonde panther, a phrase he continues to use in reference to her.

Lynn entered the adult film industry in 1984, after her friend Ginger Lynn Allen (aka Ginger Lynn whom coincidentally shares the same middle and last name but is of no relation).^[4] The two friends, along with Porsche Lynn who entered the industry some time later, became some of the most successful female porn stars of the 1980s.

Her first movie was Personal Touch Part 3 by the late Bobby Hollander. Lynn's early on-screen sexual exploits included primarily vaginal intercourse and oral sex, as well as lesbian scenes. She starred in several movies with exceptionally well endowed men, and did a scene involving double vaginal penetration. In her early career, she did not perform anal sex. She was known for her standout physical form and strong screen presence.

She had a longterm live-in relationship with actor Jamie Gillis whom also managed her early career, as well as relationships with other well-known men. She has been engaged but never married.

Retirement

In 1989, she began dancing as a featured performer in upscale gentlemen's clubs, as well as and making personal appearances across the United States and Canada. She had record attendance numbers on the dance circut, even breaking Marilyn Chambers' record at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, where members of the band Aerosmith were among fans in the audience. As her earnings skyrocketed, she decided she preferred live entertainment to filmmaking and spent many years touring clubs.

Hustler released a line of trading cards using shots from her famous layouts stating that she was arguably the highest paid and most sought after adult entertainer of all time and that she was respected as much for her business sense as her incredible beauty. She traveled the country making appearances at Hustler stores nationwide signing autographs to hours long-lines of waiting fans.

Eventually, the number of porn stars on the dancing circuit exploded, reducing the amount of money any one could earn for each appearance. Lynn moved back to Los Angeles and returned to posing for mainstream magazines such as Arena, being shot by famed mainstream photographer David LaChapelle, as well as Suze Randall, co-hosting a radio show on Ksex with Ginger Lynn for awhile and keeping herself busy hosting, MC'ing and making personal appearances on such TV shows as The Man Show and How to Be a Pornstar with Ron Jeremy.

In 1992 Lynn dedicated her 28th birthday party at the prestigious Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills, California to a benefit in honor of The Youth AIDS Foundation of Los Angeles, an organization providing housing and assistance for runaways and teenagers afflicted with HIV, which was about to go under.^[5] Bankrolling the event with thousands of dollars of her own money, she enlisted friends adult superstar Victoria Paris and others and then brought a who's-who of the adult industry together for a gala that would raise funds to keep the suffering organization afloat. In the eleventh hour, as the organization under the pressure of its mainstream supporters such as Aaron Spelling began to back out due to its discomfort of the association with the porn industry, Lynn sprang into action again fighting for her right to donate what turned out to be in the thousands of dollars for the cause. An August 1992 Los Angeles Times article quoted her saying, "Let's give them food clothing and shelter and we'll worry about role models later" alongside a shot of her holding a small infant girl, dressed in a formal gown. This was a breakthrough moment for how the adult industry was viewed by the mainstream concerning its crossover involvement in children's organizations, as never before had a children's organization knowingly accepted support from the adult entertainment industry.^[6]

Today, she is a staunch supporter of children's charities and was recently in attendance again in support at Eddie's Kids, an adult industry owners childrens benefit. She says she is a proud Democrat and supports Hillary Clinton for president.

Return to adult films

She returned on a limited basis to adult films in the mid-1990s. Several of her roles were lesbian scenes or non-sexual parts. Her six-figure earnings for a girl-girl performance were the highest she had ever earned in previous films. She made three on-screen appearances in Sin City's Babewatch 3 & 4 and Vivid Video's Where the Boys Aren't 6.

She turned down an exclusive contract offer from Vivid to perform in boy-girl movies to respect the wishes of an exclusive relationship that was uncomfortable with her performing in sex scenes with other men. She went back to doing what she knew best and loved most feature dancing and touring the gentlemens club circuit. In 1993, she was the guest of honor and the recipient of the prestigious Hot d'Or lifetime achievement award in Cannes, France to an attendance of thousands. Onstage through tears she exclaimed, "I have never had any award mean so very much as this one as it is an acknowledgement of my peers and my fans of a job well done and that means a lot to me and I thank you all."

In the late 1990s she broke off an engagement to a man not in the industry whom she thought at the time to be the love of her life. Then while she was out on the road touring clubs with her dance show her home was broken into and severely burglarized. It was suspected by police that it had been an inside job. This devestated her as her closest inner circle were people she had treated as her own family for years.

By 1999, her struggles with drug abuse and alcoholism had severely damaged both her personal life and her career and Lynn dropped out of the business again to clean herself up, pursue her education and rebuild her family bonds. In 2000 she successfully faced her personal dependency issues and now works with and supports other women facing the same types of challenges today. "I am and will always be there for other women in the industry and I truly believe it is absolutely possible that you can be a healthy, emotionally balanced person and run a successful career in adult entertainment, just like any other entertainment industry". While in her early porn career Lynn refrained from breast enlargement surgery. However, by the time she returned to porn in the 1990s, her modest B-cup breasts had been enhanced to a 34 D.

After her second retirement ended, some of her roles were more extreme than those of her earlier career, including scenes containing interracial and anal sex and extreme lesbian bondage including leg and foot fetish, pantyhose and stocking magazines and videos.

In 2008 she made another huge resurgence releasing some of her hottest product yet with the biggest cutting edge companies in the business including Wicked Pictures, Evasive Angles and Evolution, hitting the dance circut to all new audiences with all new shows and releasing a 2008 comeback tour commemorative poster "In the Presence of a Legend". "I am a performer in my heart and soul, I love my fans and they seem to love me right back".

Due to her dedication and commitment to her health and fitness regime today it is said that she looks far better in the new year than ever before. Having had a career spanning over two decades of success she will always be regarded as one of the great women of adult entertainment and a true legend of all time.

Notable TV guest appearances

• The Man Show – "Hypnotist" (episode 2.20) February 4, 2001
• Frontline – "Death of a Porn Queen", June 1987

Awards

• 1993 Hot d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1987 XRCO Best Supporting Actress for Taboo 5^[7]

• AVN Hall of Fame^[8]

• XRCO Hall of Fame^[9]

References

External links

• Official MySpace site
• Interview and biography at LukeIsBack.com