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Whatever Happened To Sin
City Contract Star Nikki Lynn?
From
Phoenix New Times 7/30/98:
Nikki Lynn was born Tammy Hallen in Torrance, California, 24 years
ago, the eldest of five children. She moved to Phoenix when she was
12. Her first high school was Independence, but she soon transferred
to Glendale High, where she became captain of the cheerleading squad.
...Tammy dropped out of school in her junior year and got her GED.
In late '91, while visiting Kingman with her erstwhile boyfriend, Tammy
met her soon-to-be-husband, an affable truck driver named Richard Schaffner,
who was living in Kingman with his 7-year-old son, Ricky--a boy who
had been in a tragic car accident that claimed the life of his mother.
...In late '92, while vacationing in Tucson with Richard's relatives,
Tammy started working at a topless club called TD's West for some "extra
Christmas cash." She had never stripped before, but on her first day
she took home $350. The money was too good to pass on, so Tammy remained
in Tucson while Richard continued working and maintaining their Kingman
home.
...In January '97, Tammy went to porn's biggest event, the Consumer
Electronics Show and Adult Video News Awards (the Oscars of porn) in
Las Vegas, dolled up in full adult-star regalia. There, she nabbed attention
away from some of the biggest names in porn who were there signing autographs.
...Nikki starred in her first adult video just two weeks after the
CES convention, and since has graced glossy covers of hard-core porn
videos released through some of the biggest production companies in
adult video, such as VCA, Sin City and Wicked. (Titles include Lapdance,
Spinners, Hot Seat, Babewatch 7.)
...She has also appeared in more than 100 adult magazines, including
Cheri, Oui, Hustler, Penthouse (three times this year), Swank, Club
and High Society.
..."We love Kingman," says Nikki. "It is a great place to raise children."
...Nikki introduces their son Brandon. He comes in wet from jumping
through the sprinkler. Brandon is a beautiful 4-year-old with big blue
eyes and a blond Ringo bowl cut. He's always laughing. He farts and
it just kills him. And like his mother, he's a ham in front of the camera.
He mugs up to it and gives it a big world-revolving grin. Then he turns
to his mother and tells her he loves her. She squeezes him tightly and
tells him how much she loves him back. It's a tender moment.
Says a porn source: "This a tragic story. One day about two years
ago, she up and left her husband and her son Brandon and his son Ricky
from another marriage. She left without providing any means to contact
her. When her husband tried to contact her, when he heard she was working
at a strip club, she wouldn't return phone calls to him or her son.
"Brandon became sick. He tried to contact her. She needed to come
home to be there for him. She wouldn't take anybody's calls. It turns
out the son had stomach cancer. The son died a month later. She never
saw her son from the day she left till the day he died. She didn't come
to his funeral.
"Brandon was twelve years old."
Luke: "You thought she was one of the great girls of the industry?"
Source: "I did. And so did her husband. Her husband sat there crying
with me. He said she turned into a person he never knew existed."
Richard's first wife died.
"One day Brandon had told his father he had an upset stomach. Richard
took him to a doctor. They found out he had cancer."
Luke: "Can a woman do porn and not be mentally ill?"
Source: "No. There's no doubt in my mind that it f---- people up."
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