Nairobi, April 11 -- In September 1998, Stephanie Ann Gregory was making 100 dollars a show while working as a feature dancer in Cinnamon's titty-bar in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Her colleague Devon Michaels, linked her to a pornographic production company, Wicked Pictures, in Los Angeles California. She was offered 15,000 dollars a month, and on May 1, 2002, she officially signed for Wicked.

Stephanie had been a straight-A student at Scotlandville Magnet High School and commanded a photographic memory that steered her to becoming the editor of her school newspaper. She grew up an only child of a temperamental cruel mother Sheila, and an architectural absentee father Bill, who had never wanted to have children. When Sheila was pregnant with...