Asia Carrera

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uring the early 1990’s, Asia Carrera worked as a go-go dancer in her home state of New Jersey. After she did a photo shoot with an adult magazine, she compiled a demo tape in 1993 and moved to California. She hoped to break into the adult movie business and soon became a Vivid Contract Star. She took her name from actress Tia Carrera, but changed the spelling for legal implications.

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fter Carrera’s contract with Vivid was up in the 1990’s, she married adult film director Bud Lee in 1995, but divorced in 2003. She married Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003 and had two children. Before the birth of her second child, Lemmon was killed in a car accident, near Las Vegas. By 2007, and after 250 or so movies, Carrera left the business to raise her kids. Asia opened the door for other Asian adult actress’ currently coming up in the business and was one of the most famous ladies of the day.