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Ariana and Luc Wylder ranked among porn's best known couples until their 1996 divorce. 

Ariana, a heavily tattooed brunette with a hard look, usually appears opposite her ex-boyfriend Luc (Robert Reilly), who has even more tattoos than she does. "The smaller the tattoo, the better," writes Steve Brent. "Large tattoos indicated lousy films…" 

In 1995, Ariana launched her own series, Ariana's Dirty Dancers. Ariana also appears in Everything is not Relative, Happy Ending and Butts Up. 

"Open wide and say cum! Those sudsy sirens are back in Chug-A-Lug Girls 4, and this time it's Ariana who's leading the pack of slop-happy sluts. She takes two separate dick-drainings in her foam-friendly face, the first with longtime paramour Luc Wylder. He gives up the goo in a long thick streak that chalks up one side of her cheek, with the drippy dregs landing in her mewing maw. She also gets greased by Peter North, who makes sure he's up close and personal to let loose with his powerful payload. At close range, he fills up her mouth with four heavy doses of spunk, while squirting the rest around her face and chin." (HEVG 10/94) 

Arianna began her porn career as Ari. She appears in most of Bobby Hollander's features as well as many "Ten Most Ugly Porn Stars" lists. "Arianna can make a train take a dirt road," writes Savvy on RAME. "YIKES! Perfect match for that creepy looking husband." 

The hard looking brunette started as a house girl at different strip clubs in New Jersey. "I was beating feature performers. The women in adult films were the ones that I always became friends with. I met Nina Hartley and I was drawn in by her personality. She would do this question-and-answer thing with the audience, and I thought, "Wow, I would love to be able to do that." 

"I wrote to Tori Welles's fan club and sent pictures. She and her husband Paul Norman called me and I went to see them. Ron Sullivan hired me to do a movie and from there I just kept meeting people... 

"The bondage I've done has all been with Bruce Seven. We're friends and he's a good man to work with." (AVN) 

Arianna reads two or three trash novels a week, having ploughed through everything by Anne Rice. 

"Ed Maxy [Robert Maplethorpe's brother] is here in Florida with us. He's much different from his brother. He hadn't shot anything hardcore until he shot me. He wants to shoot me tied naked to trees." (AVN 8/93 p.20) 

Ariana appears in every scene of the eight volumes of Ariana's Dirty Dancers and introduces her friends. In Vol. 1, she tongues Shannon Rush and shares an impaling on a double-headed dildo with Sasha Sweet. The girls in Vol. 2, dance and strip before being interviewed, eaten, interviewed, eaten - and then ravaged. Blonde and slender Roxxi Raye is dick-hardening as she bends over to give her boyfriend head while Ari munches away. Also look for natural bodied Shane Taylor riding Heather's face; Heather riding Angel; Ari cumming, with a vibrator on her clit and a dildo in her ass and pussy; and Ari on a table-top ride with a suctioned dildo. Vol. 4 features '96 newcomers Candy Lane, Lolli Pop, Megan and Tatyana, while Vol. 6 delivers blonde Susie Cassidy. (AVn) 

The series becomes Wilder Dirty Dancers with Vol. 9. 

Jim Enright directed Happy Endings, which Ariana wrote and performed in. Though reluctant to do anal sex, Arianna does it anyway. To get work in porn, her character believes, you have to do the nasty. A three-way with Bionca and Marc Wallice primes Ariana to mount a hydraulic humping machine for an anal ride. 

"She greases up the sphincter stretcher and lets the pistons flow. Luc Wylder, feeling left out, engages in some wine and small talk before delivering a wild ass-f---ing. Debi Diamond does double duty as she bends over and allows Johnathan Morgan to fender-bend her rear end, then engages in loving with Bionca (complete with surgical glove and strap-on)." (AVN) 

After her divorce from Luc Wylder, Arianna moved to Las Vegas. With veteran porn seller Gigi Attleton, Luc heads the new distribution company Fallen Angels. 

Luc managed Ari's career as a stripper from the early '80s until their split in 1996. He directed and edited all nine editions of Arianna's Dirty Dancers. He performed in about 200 bondage flicks and appears on dozens of such boxcovers - probably more covers than most strippers claiming to be "porno stars." Much of his best work came under the direction of Ernest Greene. Luc produced Fetish which Paul Norman directed and Greene wrote. 

Luc has 150 hardcore credits under his belt, debuting in an LBO production. Ari and Luc's first feature was Masquerade - also the debut video for Crystal Wilder and her husband. 

"Everyone thought Crystal and I were married," remembers Luc. 

"There's a similar mentality between dance and porn," says Luc. "They're both adult entertainment industries. They both revolve around image." 

Luc's been completely sober for a dozen years - no drinking or smoking or drugs. "I try to leave my work on the set and not bring it home. But you're on call 24 hours a day. 

"My family keeps me centered. I'm raising three children - from age nine to 17. I keep my work private so it doesn't affect them. It's what I do for a living, it's not my life. 

"I led an extreme life during the '70s and early '80s. Lots of drugs and alcohol. Hanging out with strippers and bikers. 

"I've always had a 'f--- the world' attitude. If someone were to ask me about drugs, I'd warn them. My tattoos have lost me some work. It's stereotyped me as an actor. People tend to prejudge, though not as much now as they used to. They once were a mark of criminality." 

Luc's father was an orthopedic surgeon who was rarely around. Wylder has one brother, two sisters, and a domineering mother. 

"My parents know what I do. They found out early in our career. I did a CNBC interview they saw. They don't like it but they accept it. 

"I attended an all-boys conservative Roman Catholic boys school in New Jersey. Most of my high school buddies are professionals - lawyers, doctors, stock brokers, accountants... I rode my Harley into my 10-year reunion. 

"In high school I was a stoner. The kids who used to be the aggressive jocks were now chest high. I could look down on these old bald men." 

Luc is a single father "doing the best I can. I tell my kids about my experiences with drugs. You can't tell them what to do. All you can do is share your experiences. 

"My 17-year old is more responsible than most adults. Kids tend to grow up taking on the opposite values from their parents. I did."

4/21/00

GeneRoss.com reports that Gigi Appleton has filed suit against her former business partner Luc Wylder. Gigi says Luc owes her over $90,000 and two investing partners about $60,000. Gigi tells GeneRoss.com: "There was also a clause in our dissolution agreement that he [Wylder] would continue to pay our producers and manufacturers [Roy Alexander, Dave Cummings, Liquid Video, Twist Productions, Bob's Video, et. al.] the money they were owed through my sales and the sales deparatment of Fallen Angel - in a prompt fashion. These things have not occured. We have been in negotiations for a year over that."

Mike Bushler of Phase One Graphics, a highly respected boxcover man in the industry, says that Wylder entered his office with a goon and sought to intimidate him. Wylder reportedly cleared Bushler's desk, destroying an important project, and generally caused havoc at Bushler's business.

Bushler told GeneRoss.com about Wylder: "He plows through my front door, past all my employees and goes into my office, about two inches from my face. He starts screaming at me that I can't do this to him, that nobody's going to put him out of business. This all transpired from a week before with me telling him that I wasn't going to be doing work for him anymore. He started screaming, clenched fist. I saw frustration in him and felt sorry for him. Then he stomped around in my office with his hobnail boots and my employees were hiding under their desks at this point. He walked over to my desk and with one fell swoop of his arm, cleared my desk. I had a prototype for a big project that I was doing for another client which he shattered."

Appleton is well regarded around the adult industry and porners will tend to take her side against Luc, who some view as a pretty boy lacking substance. Though his business has been struggling the past few years, Luc never fails to get in his regular gym workouts and tanning sessions to keep himself looking on top.

According to sources favorable to Gigi, Appleton provided most of the money and the money-making expertise for Fallen Angel. They say that Luc spent Gigi's money recklessly in production, so that the money flowing out of Fallen Angel far exceeded the dollars coming in.

Appleton is not the type of person to file suit quickly and without cause. But she's been waiting for payment from Wylder for months. He's way behind schedule.

Luc has his own share of friends in the industry, and his wife Alexandra Silk is popular inside and outside the industry. Wylder may simply be overwhelmed with the responsibilities of running a manufacturer and distributer. There's no free lunch, not even in porn.

Porners have been expecting Appleton's lawsuit for months.