CoCo Brown is an

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, DJ and former

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Early life

Brown moved to

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with her family when she was in

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. At age 15, she ran away from home and never returned.

Career

Adult entertainment

Brown was stripping at

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in Las Vegas, where she danced for about seven months, when she was discovered by porn producer Nicky Starks. She entered the adult film industry in 1998. Her first scene was in ''Bomb Ass Pussy''. She initially used the

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Honey Love. In 2001, she signed an exclusive deal with DBM, a studio for which she did about 19 films. She began using the stage name CoCo Brown in her second film for the studio. She stopped performing in adult films in 2003. She once worked briefly as a

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as well.

Music

Brown launched a music career after quitting porn. She rapped under the stage name Ms No Tonsils between 2004 and 2009. She is currently working as a DJ.

Suborbital flight

Brown had signed up to go on a

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flight in 2016, which would have lasted approximately one hour and would have provided 90 seconds of weightlessness. The flight was to have been arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a

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-based

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company. This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a

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she knew after another person canceled their appearance at the event. She began training for the flight, with help from

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, that same year. In preparation for the trip, she had to earn a

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. She was to have been the flight's

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. If the trip had taken place as planned, she would have been the first pornographic actress on a suborbital high altitude flight. XCOR ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2017 without flying a single person on their Lynx spaceplane.

Personal life

Brown moved to

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in 1999. She was married to German millionaire Andreas Gauger between 2001 and 2010. She also has a son from a previous relationship.

Awards and nominations

References

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