Tara Moon Interview

Dear Mike, Luke:

I want to make a response to what you have posted in your sites: First of all I do come to dance in Vegas every week or every other week.

Second of all: I was at the hospital and I am suing them because I had a problem there - I was in for three days a big difference from six weeks. Another thing: I was not seven and a half months pregnant: Don't you think I would know that? If someone has it for me: WHY DON'T THEY MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE POSTING IT IN ANY SITE? I have not burt anyone and pretty much trying to build my name on my own because as you two know I had someone try to destroy my name before: Chante is dead and is not coming back Tara Moon is here and it will be here and my personal life is of nobody's business but my own.

I am responding to this adds that were posted because it is unfair that aomeone will say something about someone before knowing the truth and coming from you Mike? That is the worst thing about it: One of the people I like the most in the industry. At this time I do not have a computer because mine got stolen a couple of weeks ago so I am using the clubs computer! I would appreciate it if you got this cleared up as soon as possible as I am or was never seven and a half months pregnant and it is of nobody's business if I got a transfussion or not, but if you most know I was in there for 3 days for personal problems - I did lose a lot of blood due to my period and had to get an infusion not a transfusion - other than that it is of no-one's business what happened - but the pregnancy thing:

I am not stupid not to know if I was that far along, I have 2 kids and I know how it feels to be pregnant and it is not in my near future plans except to save money and try to get my name out there in a good way not with gossip that is not true and people make up because they feel like it. Any questions, call me and I do expect an apology in both your sites for the wrong postings because quite honestly it is embarrassing what you have wrote and even if it was true it is a personal thing not of anyone's business. This is the only e-mail address I have access to in the next week or so until I get my laptop replaced, so you may e-mail me back if you want to - and I will warn you one time only: If this mess is not cleared up by tuesday I will proceed further - I am being nice this time but trust me: I will not be nice if the apology and the truth is not there because I am not going to let anyone get in my way this time.

Mike you know me for a long time and I am not this way, but in this case I have no other option but to write you first and be nice and then go forward withit if nothing is done about it because I do not need my reputation to go bad again - I am not 18 anymore and I have become quite stronger and when it comes to feeding my kids I am not going to let anyone get on my way and I hope you understand that. Thank you Tara Moon

PS: Please do not refer to me as Chante as that name is no longer alive and thanks to you is almost coming back and I do not want it related to Tara Moon. Any of this goes on the site I do know enough people that I will do something about it. Thank you and sorry, but I found it out from a friend and it is very disturbing that you make me sound like I am stupid or something: BUT do not test me now - because I am MAD- REALLY MAD AT THOSE COMMENTS.

Tara Moon, who's 38, returns my call at 9:46 pm Thursday, December 2, 2004.

She speaks with a strong Mexican accent (she came to the United States in high school).

She got into porn circa 1992 as Chante and left in March 2000 before returning in August 2003 as Tara Moon.

Tara: "I don't know who started it [gossip first published on MikeSouth.com Thanksgiving day]. I don't know where they heard it. But it's gotta be fixed. It's not even remotely true. Now it's on The-Blue-Pages.com and 15 different sites. I'm trying to get feature bookings and porn work and all this is affecting [that]. Nobody wants to touch me.

"All I want is for people to leave me alone. I don't need people talking about me. Good or bad. I don't want them talking about me."

Duke: "I'm afraid that is impossible. Once you make yourself a porn star, people will talk about you."

Tara: "I know. But when they start saying negative things that are not true, that affects people's lives. Come on. To say that the blood they gave me came from an AIDS person who died an hour after they gave me the blood?"

Duke: "Someone wrote that."

Tara: "At The-Blue-Pages.com. So now, I was supposed to have three shoots next week. They all got canceled because of it. Here's my current [HIV] test. I just got it three days ago. It never happened. A friend told me about it [the posting]. My last [time on the Internet] was three weeks ago."

Duke: "There is nothing on The-Blue-Pages about you getting blood from someone with AIDS."

Tara: "That's what somebody read to me."

Duke: "I don't know why they'd make that up."

Tara: "One of those sites. I can email you the link."

Duke: "Please. I'd like to expose that."

Tara: "It takes a while to clear your name up. People don't believe you. They are too paranoid."

Duke: "Did the people who canceled the scenes say it was because of the gossip on the Internet?"

Tara: "Yeah. They're all thinking that I got blood from an AIDS patient. They're all under the impression that I was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. If this happened to you three weeks ago, we don't want to shoot with you. We may be hurting you. Then we'd get a lawsuit."

Duke: "When did you get out of the hospital?"

Tara: "Three weeks ago."

Duke: "What kind of shape are you in?"

Tara: "I'm working. I'm flying back and forth [from Vegas] to Florida.

"I wasn't going to go to the show in January but now I may need to show up. I'm not pregnant and I'm ok. I'll be getting looks from everybody.

"I'm supposed to get my boobs redone. They've been postponed until February. I'm getting 2000cc [G-cup?]. I've got 1400cc [FF cup?]. I'm getting them replace bigger but lighter."

Duke: "They are enormous."

Tara: "They're leaking. It's not easy to come up with the money for a boob job. You have to wait for them to come here from France.

"A few feature entertainers have died from having the wrong implants."

Duke: "Really? Like who?"

Tara: "I don't know."

Duke: "Do you regret getting enormous breasts?"

Tara: "These ones I had no choice. One got ruptured and that was all they had available."

Duke: "How did they get ruptured?"

Tara: "A horse fell on top of me [in March 2003]. I fell off the horse. He turned around to make sure I'm fine. He tripped and ended up on top of me. That's when I decided to get back in the [porn] business and make some money. August 1, 2003, I started with Tara Moon.

"Lethal Weapons has problems with her implants. Elizabeth Starr. Minka has problems. It takes [some of the super busty girls] two hours to shoot a 45-minute scene. These things are so heavy...

Duke: "You can't hide your enormous breasts."

Tara: "You can't, but they make me money."

Duke: "Men love them, I'm sure."

Tara: "They love them. They say, oh, they're so nice. And I'm going, I glad you like them, because I hate them."

Duke: "How many movies have you done?"

Tara: "Between Chante and Tara Moon, I've done over 300."

Duke: "Why do you want Chante to be dead?"

Tara: "Because Reb [Sawitz of Pretty Girl International] destroyed my name. Michael J. Coxxx had asked me to marry him. Reb didn't agree with it. So he started destroying my name all over the place. That's why I got out of the business [March 2000]. Then I came back as Tara Moon [August 2003].

"I still use Chante in Canada. It takes longer to get a name known in Canada. In Canada, they don't put two-and-two together. It is a French name. But in the US, it hurts your business."

Duke: "How many breast jobs have you had?"

Tara: "I don't even know. Like 13."

Duke: "Do you like being in the industry?"

Tara: "Yes, but I don't like all the talk, people getting into your business without knowing the story. And if someone doesn't like you, they try to destroy you. That's the way I feel right now. They're trying to destroy my name by these postings. You're not on my side. Your web site, you post stories about people that you hear. That does not affect you. But if you were actual talent... That really hurts you, especially when you're trying to get feature bookings. I'm not 21 anymore. I don't have 20 more years in the industry.

"I have a two and a four-year old and I'm just trying to make money to survive. People keep canceling my things and telling me they heard this and that. No, no, no. That is not true. But the stories keep getting bigger.

"I'm putting myself through med school. I start again next September. I do courses on line. I'm a little behind because somebody stole my laptop and I can not do my work until I replace my laptop.

"I already have a four year degree in Electrical and Aerospace Engineering from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1984 at age 18). Now I'm getting a second [bachelors degree] because after ten years, the math and the science courses have to be redone. I'm taking more calculus courses. I'm in Calc 4 now. I'm in statistics. For some reason, I can't pass that damn class online. It's very easy but online.

[A check of MIT records shows nobody with Tara Moon's real name being enrolled there.]

"I already did two-and-a-half years of med school [at the University of Miami], but I have to repeat everything because I quit for more than six months.

"I'm normally in Las Vegas Wednesday through Sunday. I take the redeye on Sunday back to Florida. I land at 7:30am [Monday] and I'm at school by 9am. Then I go to school from 9-3 the next three days and then I grab a flight to Vegas. At the same time, I'm a full-time mom (boys are four and two) and single. I have a nanny who flies with me to look after the boys. I have daycare. I spend about $10,000 a month [in childcare].

"I have a special-needs child. He's had three transplants. That's why I decided to go back into [porn]. It would help me moneywise. Otherwise, I don't know. It does hurt you, like with neighbors. I moved three times because the neighbors said, oh, you're a porn star.

"They keep sending [social workers] after you.

"Depending what week it is, I stay with the kids at Excalibur, Mandalay Bay, Circus Circus. Tomorrow we're moving to the MGM. It costs me about $1500 a week to stay in Vegas. I should get a place in Vegas but I don't want to be a Nevada resident [because she would lose her inexpensive education in Florida].

"Tara Moon Corporation can have a business here [in Nevada].

"I want to become an MD [medical doctor] for the industry. I have a 3.89 GPA right now.

"People think I am from Canada because I use Canadian IDs to do movies. Not my American ones, because for some reason, when you take your bar exam or your MCATs [med school test], they don't pass you. I have Tara Moon and my real name. I have two different identities. I went through the fictitious name change and everything. Copyrighting the name.

"During the [three years and five months she left porn], I was going to school and working for Honeywell, aerospace engineering. The lighting systems in the aircraft. It was boring. I'm not an indoor person. I look to be on the go. I was the only female obviously."

Duke: "What would you rather do, porn or that rocket science stuff?"

Tara: "Porn."

Duke: "Do you enjoy porn or do you just enjoy the money?"

Tara: "Depending on who you're working with. I've had scene where you're out of there in an hour. And I've had scenes where you're still there eight hours later, struggling to get out of there because the guy has problems.

"Luckily, I learned to separate porn from my real life.

"When I was Chante, I didn't get many good reviews. As Tara Moon, I've been getting all good reviews."

Duke: "Because as Chante, you weren't really into the sex?"

Tara: "No. I've had to gear my mind up to doing it. It's hard, but I wanted to be a feature entertainer. The way was to become a porn star. I got aggressive.

"I've been dating one person. That's it. I don't do any escorting. Believe me, they've tried. It scares me. I could get a lot of money because of my porn star status, but I can't even think about that. I've had offers of $5,000 for an hour. No. I'd rather come to the club and make $200 in eight hours then sleep with a guy I don't know.

"I will be a porn star until the day I die because my videos will be on the shelf. I have to be proud of it in a way, but am I proud of it? No."

Duke: "How many other people have you met in the porn industry with a degree from MIT?"

Tara: "Very few. They are almost all illiterate."

Duke: "How did you go from MIT to porn?"

Tara: "I went with the guys to a strip club [in 1987] and they bribed me three thousand dollars to get on stage and strip. So I was dancing at night and working at Honeywell during the day. Then I got into the drugs and alcohol and there goes my job at Honeywell [she quit around 1987].

"I went through rehab [in 1987] and made my way into the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader tryouts. I got it. I was in Dallas for five seasons [as a Cowboys cheerleader from 1988-92]. I still have the uniform at home."

Duke: "I love Dallas and I love their cheerleaders."

Tara: "You may like the cheerleaders but Dallas sucks this year."

1988 Cowboys cheerleaders 1989 squad 1990 squad 1991 squad 1992 squad

Can you pick out which one was Tara Moon?

Tara: "I still do it sometimes for Thanksgiving games. They call their ex-cheerleaders."

Duke: "When did you last do it?"

Tara: "Three years ago. I posed for Playboy when I was a cheerleader. I posed with my uniform on. It lasted two days on the shelf and it got pulled [after the Cowboys threatened to sue]. That's when I stopped being a cheerleader. They sued me. We came to an agreement. I'm not allowed to use their uniform, but to feature [dance], I do use their uniform."

Duke: "I guess there are no pictures of you in your uniform on your website?"

Tara: "No. I can not say "former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader." I can say, 'former Dallas cheerleader,' or 'former Cowboys cheerleader.' You would get paid $15 a game and you're there every day of the week practicing. When you travel, they pay you good money."

Tara was a part-time stripper while she was a cheerleader. "I lived in Valley Ranch [home to the Cowboys and elsewhere in Dallas]."

Duke: "They don't care you were also a stripper?"

Tara: "They won't say much as long as you are there when you are supposed to be there.

"If Jerry Jones likes you, he'll buy you a boob job [from Dallas's Dr. Katz]. Then he'll tell you to dye your hair and he'll give you a new name.

"You're a redhead one day and the next week you have black hair and then the week after you have blonde hair. If they want you to get hair extensions, hair extensions you get, if you want to keep being a cheerleader."

Tara says the Cowboys have weird rules for their cheerleaders, including that you can't bounce your boobs from side-to-side. Ninety of the cheerleaders have boob jobs, she says.

Duke: "How did you go from Dallas Cowboy cheerleader to porn?"

Tara: "Because of Playboy. I was dancing in New York. Sunset Thomas got me into the business."

Tara was born in Sweden but was adopted by one of Mexico's ten most powerful families. She grew up in Mexico City. She went to a private all-girls school in Ohio at age 13. "I had tutors most of my life. I was supposed to go into seventh grade but they put me into eleventh grade. That's how I got to go to MIT a lot sooner. When I was at MIT, I kept getting bored in most of my classes. I was slammed. I was taking 28 credits a semester."

Tara's father is a PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) politician. "Mexico is run by ten families. My family is one of those. I don't talk to them."

Fred writes: "Do you really think Ms. Moon actually went to MIT, or is this B.S.? Have you ever heard of any other woman in porn who has an engineering degree, or who went to a school of that level of prestige? I seem to recall that Jamie Gillis went to Columbia. Other than him, I don't think I've ever heard of any Ivy Leaguer in the business."