Viper (September 12, 1959 – December 24, 2010)
["Bill Margold Speaks: 1"]
By Rodger Jacobs
Rodger Jacobs (March 12, 1959 – July 5, 2016) was an American journalist, writer, author, film producer, columnist, playwright, editor and screenwriter.
Career
Jacobs was a journalist for publications such as ''Salon'', ''Los Angeles Review of ...
, ''XBiz'', July 14, 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-04. was the stage name of Stephanie Green, an
American
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pornographic actress
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dist ...
, known for a prominent full-body snake tattoo, for co-founding
Fans of X-Rated Entertainment
Fans of X-Rated Entertainment (F.O.X.E., also known as FOXE) is a United States-based pornography fan organization founded by adult film actor, director, and critic William Margold and actress Viper.[Bill Margold
William Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 17, 2017) was an American pornographic film actor and porn film director.
Known as Bill Margold, he was a former director of the Free Speech Coalition and was a co-founder of X-Rated Critics Organiza ...]
,
["FOXE 16 Sunday, May 27"]
FOXE
Fans of X-Rated Entertainment (F.O.X.E., also known as FOXE) is a United States-based pornography fan organization founded by adult film actor, director, and critic William Margold and actress Viper.[Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak ...]
, but raised in rural New Hampshire
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. Green joined the United States Marine Corps
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, where she served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Camp Lejeune, rising to the rank of Corporal#United States, corporal.[Mark Ebner, ''Gear (magazine), Gear'' magazine article, May/June 1999, independently cited b]
"The Soft Toy Dept."
Bmezine. Retrieved 2007-07-04. After six years, Green was expelled from the Corps for fraternization, fraternizing with her superior officers,["Boogie Wonderland"]
Giles Whittell, January 10, 1998, ''The Times''. and worked a year in Baltimore as a prostitute and an entertainer at "The Block" nightclub.[ She got her trademark tattoo from tattoo artist and street gang member Harry Von Groff in Philadelphia, described as "...a snake poised to strike her left nipple, that morphs into a tiger composed of interlaced skulls across her belly, and finally reanimates as a snake snapping at her clitoris."]["Hormonal Convergence/The Soft Toy Dept."]
May 15, 1999, Bmezine. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
Career
In 1986, Green moved to Los Angeles to enter the adult film industry. Soon thereafter she met Bill Margold
William Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 17, 2017) was an American pornographic film actor and porn film director.
Known as Bill Margold, he was a former director of the Free Speech Coalition and was a co-founder of X-Rated Critics Organiza ...
, an influential pornographic actor, director, and agent. They began a romantic relationship and lived together for five years. Adopting the stage name of “Viper”, she made a total of seventy hardcore pornography films, the first of which being ''White Trash'', and the last being ''Erotic Heights''.[ She won the AVN Awards#Winners 1990–1994, 1990 AVN Award for AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress in ''Mystery of the Golden Lotus'', playing a Nazi spy.][ She made a couple of mainstream appearances a role as a porn film director in the 1988 comedy ''Vice Academy'', starring fellow adult film actress Ginger Lynn.
In an effort to get more adult film roles, Viper underwent breast enhancement surgery in August 1989. The breast implants she received took her from a 34A to 34DD.][ In May 1991, Viper abruptly disappeared. Her driver's license, social security card and birth certificate were found on a gravestone in Arkansas. Her boyfriend of five years, Bill Margold, never saw her again.][ In his ''Gear'' magazine article, author Mark Ebner recounts having spoken with her mother who reported her alive and well at that time.
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Death
Viper died on December 24, 2010, of lung cancer. In her obituary, it was stated that after she left Los Angeles, she returned to New Hampshire, where she worked as hair stylist and later as a phlebotomist.
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1959 births
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