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"Brittania Paris Apstein" is better known as Tori Welles. She dominated porn from 1990-92.

Born in the San Fernando Valley on June 17, 1967, Tori ran away from home at age 13, exchanging a blow job for a ride to Hollywood. That night she got a pimp, Mr T.

She changed her name to Brittania Paris, adding the last name Apstein upon marrying pornographer "Paul Norman."

Tori is a tough woman with a reputation for killing a fellow hooker with a knife.

At age 18, Welles lived in a lesbian relationship with a stripper. "I was the dyke with the surfboard and the flattop," Tori told Richard Pacheco in 1992. "I used to take her and pick her up from work. She had me join a contest at one of the clubs. I did it and I won. I started dancing with her and we used to fool around backstage. It was good money." (Batteries Not Included, April, 2001 issue)

After years turning tricks and stripping in clubs, Welles finally got her highschool diploma by age 20. Her porn debut came under the direction of her future husband in Offering.

Tori plays herself in F.J. Lincoln's 1989 film for Caballero - Coming of Age. In one sequence, Welles asks Tami Monroe, "Did a man ever ask you to suck his thing?"

Shocked, Tami says, "I don't think I could do that. I might bite it."

Welles: "You only bite it if he doesn't pay you."

Welles told Pacheco that her favorite part of the sex industry was the people. "They're down to earth. They don't put on the airs around each other. I can say, 'Hey, who do you think you're talking to? I'm not one of your fans.' Some of them are outrageous, though, untouchable.

"I want to do good for the industry people that are taking a chance on me. When I would do good for Mom and Dad, it wasn't that I wanted to do it. It was because I had to do it - to be on their good side.

"The people in this business gave me a second chance after I came back after those four months of utter chaos. Right after John's movie [The Chameleon]. I was recuperating, trying to get out of my drug thing. There was a lot of emotional s---. My brain was like jelly.

"I ran out of money. I missed the attention, too, because I love getting attention.

"I came back because of the money and because I lost everything.

"I'm obsessive. I either eat too much or I don't eat at all. I've got to learn how to even that out. I wasn't eating yesterday and I passed out on stage."

Pacheco: "Did the audience know you were in trouble?"

Welles: "They sure did because I said, "I'm going down!" The fans were great. They waited until the next show to see me. A lot of them sent me cards and money." (BNI, 4/01)

Tori could earn half-a-million dollars a year stripping in clubs but she's too wild and unreliable, and thus has a bad reputation with many club owners. The busty brunette star with a black bleeding heart on her pubic bone and numerous other tattoos is an alcoholic and drug addict.

Welles had two boys with her husband Paul Norman. They divorced and Paul moved on to impregnate Celeste. They later separated.

In the aftermath of the Savannah suicide, Tori talked to GQ about individual responsibility. "I was so pissed off at these talk shows: Victim, victim, victim; abuse, abuse, abuse. They use it to explain away everything. The real abuse comes when you let it rule your life. You just have to work through it. You have to help yourself however you can."

Director Paul Norman says Tori will perform for the first time in seven years before his camera in the summer of 1997. Paul posted on rame 3/13/97: "We had been waiting to announce this in May but she obviously is too excited to keep it quiet but then again she never did listen to whatever anybody said and that's part of what makes her incredible...

"She's looking better than ever. She weighs around 120 pounds, which has taken the weight off her legs, arms, and ass leaving her with that incredible chest. Her dark skin color along with her smooth complexion defies what the rest of us go through. Her heart and the fire in her eyes suggest an age five or six years younger than her actual years.

"I'm frightened that with the past few years of wisdom, the natural talent she posseses, combined with the raw sexual energy and hunger that lives inside her, I could be in uncharted waters this summer."

Eventually the deal fell through, and Tori announced she would make an anal video for Vivid and Paul Thomas. That deal also fell through, with Vivid charging that Tori was unreliable and Tori charging that Vivid did not know how to generate sexual heat.

In October, Tori talked to porn critic Roger T. Pipe.

Roger: Hello Tori, thanks for agreeing to do this sit down interview. How are you today?

Tori: Pissed. Pissed at the f---ing ex husband of mine.

Roger: I take it you've seen the ad for the video in AVN?

Tori: Yeah. Did you like that? Could he have gotten a better picture of me? The asshole. It is pretty much what I thought it would be, but his little saying was very clever. Smartass.

Roger: Well, that's pretty direct. I think we can all assume that this anger is directed primarily at the release of the video. Before we go on, I want to clear up a question that I have had from the start, and that many of my readers have mentioned as well. Is there a model release for this tape?

Norman has tons of releases on me. We were working on a Swedish television show, and most of those releases covered long time periods.

So, there really are no legal questions regarding this video. He CAN release it?

I guess. There is nothing I can do about it. The legality is not what bothers me. This is, like, embarrassing for me, it's a side of me I would never let anyone see before, do you know what I mean?

Embarrassing how? You did all these things right?

I did, but I used to separate myself a little bit. I mean, I never considered myself one of the "nasty chicks" in the business, regardless of what I was like off screen. I did what I did in my private life, but my professional name, was different.

Different how?

I wasn't like a prima donna, you know how I am. I didn't have that attitude, but in my own head, there were limits on what I would do on screen. My contract was always "No anal" and "No Ron Jeremy", I just didn't want to be associated with the gnarly side of the business, and not just for me, but for my future. Later on I could 'see my s--- was really clean compared to…"

And some of the stuff on these tapes is different than that on screen image?

This stuff is like all the stuff I talk about to people who know me. I talk s--- about the things I do, and like done to me, but never in front of a camera. So no one was ever sure when I was just f---ing with them. You know, that was just for private tapes so we could look back when we're old and say 'We were kind of crazy, weren't we?'

So, the obvious question is, if you are embarrassed, why tell people about what might be on these tapes.

It's going to be out there, there is nothing I can do about that, and people are wondering why I'm pissed. Well, I answer them and question that. f--- that, you ask me a question, I'm going to answer it.

OK, but when we were developing the script for "In Search of Tori Welles", you wanted people to see you do things you never had done before, anal, interracial, even a gang bang. Isn't this just another way for people to see that side of you?

Anal and interracial are one thing. That was stretching my on screen image quite a bit, but a lot of the stuff we shot goes further than that. I don't know yet, what all he plans to put in the tape, but there is some stuff that goes way beyond that.

Like what kind of stuff?

There's some violent stuff that I'm sure he is going to have to edit out.

Violent?

Not violent like, that I didn't like it. Violent, like, it was exciting, game playing stuff. Bondage, blindfolded and s---, like I didn't know who was doing me.

Wait a minute, didn't know who was doing you?

Yeah, I wouldn't know sometimes for weeks, until I would sneak a peek at the tapes when he was out running errands. Only then did I get a glimpse at the guys who did me.

That sound pretty wild. But fans know you f--- strangers on sets all the time. That's hardly the kind of thing that will ruin your image. I doubt if a lot of fans are going to be upset to know this sort of thing.

Yeah but, come on Rog, not everyone wants to know that their favorite porn star can take a fist up her pussy.

A fist?

Yes, believe me, that was many hours of working it, f---ing, tons of lube, but yeah.

Still, eww, not my thing.

Hey, you can ask anyone who has been with me, I have a tight one, so it took a lot of work.

I'll take your word for it, unless you want to give me a chance to find out for myself. But that stuff isn't going to be in any US version of the tape anyway, so what kind of thing is really going to shock anyone?

Come on, you've seen my tapes. Anyone who has seen one can tell you that me going "Oh yeah, deeper in my ass" is not somewhere I would go before. I would be screaming "Ow" if someone stuck a finger up there. I remember how humiliated I was in my last two movies for Vidco. That pervert Jamie Gillis couldn't get off unless he had a finger or something in my ass, so I was like "Oh God, just stick in there so you can cum already." So this is already going to be a huge leap.

Something else that seems to be bothering some people is that you made these tapes after you and Paul Norman divorced. What were you doing making these kind of tapes with your ex-husband?

Norman and I were best friends before we got married. We got married and hated each other. That's why we got divorced. Because once we got married we thought we couldn't be who we were. We thought we had to conform to society's views of what a husband and wife should be. I took out my piercings, started wearing cotton clothes with bows that matched and tried to be what my mom and others thought I should be. It was only later that I realized I could be who I was and still be better than most of the little Stepford Wives out there. We stayed together to give our kids the kind of home environment we didn't have, but we didn't like each other. It was just bad. We had too much growing up to do and had babies too early in the marriage. Now that I have grown up, I thank God I have my children. Then after we separated, it took us a couple of years, but being as close as we were before we got married, then going through all that made us even better friends after we were married. So we would be out, partying and ideas started flowing through your heads. He and I could do sick things that couple's couldn't do. I always had great trust in him.

Do you still trust him?

That's the thing, I trusted him, past tense. I thought these things would be kept private, and I am still hoping there is a little area, that will still be mine. I hope I did something in the past to at least make him feel some sympathy when he is editing these things to keep some of the super, super embarrassing s--- out.

Like what? What is super embarrassing to you?

There are some things I am not going to go into with you, or with anyone, because they will not end up on the tape. My lifestyle is very different now. I am already getting s--- from my straighter friends for what I did in the past.

But they would have given you s--- for the project you were going to do with Vivid as well.

I was getting ready to go on another movie binge, you know, do a few movies, push the limits, and decided not to, because of how it is going to effect my life.

Wait a minute, you were all ready to push your limits when we were writing the script for the original comeback movie, the one before the Vivid project.

I'm completely aware of what I wanted to do with the video Rog, but you have to understand, I don't do things half way. I really wanted to do a killer project that did push my limits. When it became clear that was not going to happen, I lost all interest.

Speaking of that, there has been a LOT of speculation as to why the Vivid project fell through, what happened?

When I made the decision to come back to the industry, it was a tough call, but I was happy with the project for Norman. When that fell through, I was really shocked by all the attention. I admit, it I was stoked about doing movies, being involved, being number one, you know, being a star. Before, I was more than that, I was the wife of a producer, so even the people in the business end of things respected me, that was a great feeling. So, I was excited, it was nice to have people fighting over me to do a movie. I got all caught up in being a star again. Vivid, went back and forth, offering this, then countering other offers. It was very cool. You know, you don't want your boyfriend to get into a fight, you love it when they are fighting over you.

Q: So, Vivid won the bidding war?

Well, I have always felt at home at Vivid. They are a great company. I wanted to take what I did with them a step further and make it a little nastier. I have really grown up a lot sexually and wanted people to see that. I was still totally excited at the time. Had they shot the movie right away, they would have a movie in me right now. But then, I started seeing what direction they were going, and it was not what I had in mind. I am one of those people who is all or nothing. I am either going to be a f---ing porn star, or I'm going to live a completely different life. They didn't give me the freedom to do what I really wanted to.

Q: Is it true that one of the scenes on the tapes has you and Kaitlyn Ashley together?

Yes, that one started off innocently enough, but ended up pretty wicked.

It was so much fun. Kaitlyn is a buddy, always has been. I always thought that something might happen between us, but the timing was never right. We had gone over there to talk to Kaitlyn's boyfriend. He wants to get involved behind the scenes, so Norman and I went over with that in mind. I suspect Norman might have had more in mind from the start. Kaitlyn and I have always been buds and we have always been attracted to each other, but it never went any farther than that because there were always circumstances in the way. So, when there were no hold barred, she and I were like, "f--- it, let's go."

Her boyfriend must have been loving that.

He was my DJ at a club a while back, so it was like a little family reunion for us all at first.

There are definitely some things in there that will have to be edited, because we got into some sick little mind trips in that one.

You know, the usual, violence, weaponry, every day porn star s---.

I think I had a gun in my pussy at one time, but I can't quite recall. I guess you'll have to ask her. I haven't seen if that scene is even in the movie, but keep that in the back of your little head Rog.

Yes, Paul said that he would give me a copy to look over. At least he is going to do that for me. You're welcome to come watch it with me.

I understand why Paul did it. He's an asshole, we don't talk about this. We have to see each other because of the children, and they are a priority. He is a great father, so I won't do anything to jeopardize that, but I swear to God, if I lose anything in my personal life over this, I'll strangle him. No, just kidding. He is good at getting what he wants, but he will pay.

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The Private Diary of Tori Welles video appeared in November 1997 and was a great disappointment to her fans like Randy. "She is no longer the woman that Adam Film World once described as a "Raquel Welch lookalike." Certainly she has aged and has given birth so some of this was expected, but what surprised me is how "used" she now looks. She appears to be in her late thirty's(although it is said that she is barely 30)and no longer has the muscle tone that she had 6 years ago, although she is not overweight and actually is much more lean than she was when I last saw her at the AVN Awards a couple of years ago. She has added many new tattoo's which are located in various places and now has some other piercings to go along with her "trademark" nose stud. She actually appeared "skanky" through most of the video…" (RAME)