One of the true pioneers in the adult-film business, Debi Diamond grew up in the San Fernando Valley, drag-racing motorcycles. She came from an old Hollywood family, and was pushed into acting at an early age. She attended acting school and tried breaking into Hollywood through a series of small roles on shows like The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), The Fall Guy (1981), and Knight Rider (1982). She never gained much footing though, claiming that she was constantly being hit on and nobody took her seriously.

At 18 years old, she became the personal assistant to producer Robert Evans who then introduced her to photographer Helmut Newton. Newton featured Diamond in several of his volumes of photography in the 80's. When her acting career in mainstream media didn't take off, she turned to adult films instead.

The zenith of her porn career was in the early 1990s, when she worked virtually nonstop and her performances garnered just about every award the industry gave out, and she was inducted into the XRCO Performers' Hall of Fame. After intense pressure from her family, she quit the business. She married a porn actor and became a legal secretary before moving to Las Vegas and working as a beverage waitress. But she missed the excitement of performing and in 1989, Diamond re-entered the industry. She left the industry again in 1995, but came back in 2010 and worked for for Playboy Radio SiriusXM. She also started a fem-dom company, Debi Diamond Films, and is a producer as well.

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Debi Diamond

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