FINALLY! MY HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCES A PORN STAR!

From the Houston Chronicle:

Porn actress just liked classmate's name

She may not be a star, but Laura Madden has made a name for herself in pornographic movies. The problem is it's not her own.

When she embarked on her career in 2004, Madden, 25, selected the stage name Syvette Wimberly. She has appeared in a dozen or so hard-core videos under that name, including Irresistibly Delicious, Innocence and Dominance and others inappropriate for mention in a family newspaper.

But Madden's nom-de-sex did not spring from her imagination. It belongs to an old classmate at Kingwood High School, and the real Syvette Wimberly is none too happy about the attention that has come her way from people wondering why she was appearing in 18 and Hitchhiking.

So unhappy, in fact, that she recently filed suit against Madden and Vivid Entertainment Group, a major producer of adult films, asking that they no longer use or publicize the name and demanding damages for inflicting "humiliation, embarrassment, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, mental anguish and anxiety."

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I disagree that Madden "may not be a porn star" because she works for Vivid, probably the major player in the porn industry--maybe she's no Jenna Jameson, but she's not some trashy internet-in-some-guy's-apartment model, either. But no matter. Can you believe it? My dignified old school produced a porn star! A kind of dim porn star, to be sure, for taking an actual person's name in order to get it on with tons of strangers on video, but a porn star nonetheless. I'm so proud! Madden is probably the most successful alumnus to come out of KHS, although my old friend Betsy tells me via myspace bulletin that there was another porn actress who graduated in the early 90s.

Anyway, even though Madden attended KHS a decade after I graduated, the J. Geils Band's song "Centerfold" seems extraordinarily appropriate, so here you go:



One last thing. I find it irresistable to avoid linking to a couple examples of Madden doing her thing. Yeah, that's right. For the first time in its history, Real Art is linking to some hardcore pornography! This is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Still photos.

Video.

Also, here are the words to the Kingwood High School Alma Mater; that seems appropriate, too:

Kingwood High, we pledge to you,
Honor and respect.
For you stand that we may learn
Wonders, then reflect.
As we spread throughout the land,
Knowledge is our light.
Through life's struggles we recall
Kingwood's blue and white.

I'm so proud of my old school!

UPDATE: Courtesy of my old friend Betsy, KTRK TV's local news coverage of the most successful Kingwood High School alumnus ever!

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