I ran into Sophia Lynn a few times in 2006.
Here are some pictures of her from Sept. 17, 2006:
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Then on March 13, 2007, Sophia was featured on ABC’s show Primetime.
Sunny Lane’s Parents Say She’s ‘the Girl Next Door’
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Sunny’s dad says she could’ve turned out worse. "She could’ve gone gay on us."
Here’s the audio of the first seven-minute segment on Sophia Lynn. Part two.
Some choice quotes from the show:
"The fantasy that Sunny is selling is that she’s underage."
"I have an empire. I have a massive team backing me," says Sunny.
"When she comes back home [from a porn set], I just ask her how her date was," says Sunny’s dad Mike.
"Her parents made a cameo appearance in one of her films [Dark Angels 2]."
"Most parents would be horrified," says therapist Fred Kahane. "It doesn’t sound like mom has a lot of protective genes."
Sophia Lynn says her Christian family found out within a week that she was doing porn.
"I have very low self-esteem," Sophia says.
ABC: "She lives on energy drinks, stomach medicine and sugar food. And she’s always rushing from one appearance to the next."
Sophia keeps saying how tired she is.
ABC: "Sophia often doesn’t know where she’s going and what she has to do."
"At the club, I’m getting paid to go," says Sophia. "They want me to drink and talk to people, whatever."
ABC: "It’s like she’s just going through the motions."
Heather Veitch shines. "You can’t have the life of a porn star without getting wounded."
Sophia Lynn: "Either they want to get under you, on top of you or run you over."
"Do you understand how lonely it gets?"
ABC: "She’s now suspicious of every man she meets."
ABC: "Sunny makes her stay at the [Bunny] Ranch sound like a teaching gig."
Sunny: "I taught them confidence. I taught them how to love themselves."
On the HBO show Cathouse, Sunny says: "Yes, I sell my body. Why not enjoy it?"
ABC: "Sunny says she did it just to help the ranch get publicity."
Sunny: "I gave it a try to see what it was like and I realized it was not for me."
ABC: "Not for her? According to Dennis Hof, Sunny turned tricks for almost a year and gave him half of her earnings."
ABC: "You were a prostitute at the Bunny Ranch?"
Sunny nods. "For a moment."
ABC: "Mom and dad say that the Bunny Ranch experience was a positive one."
Mike: "She was able to see how safe the environment was. They were fed regularly."
Shelby: "They had a chef, maid."
Mike: "They were tested. I know exactly where she’s at."
Sunny about the porn industry: "They’re always pushing it to the envelope and beyond."
ABC on Sophia Lynn: "She’s been told she’s not performing well in her scenes."
ABC: "One day on Sophia’s set, another girl is injured when her partner is too rough."
Injured Girl: "I think he saw an opportunity to take advantage of that I wasn’t going to say much. I wasn’t going to stop the scene altogether. I don’t want to be blacklisted."
Who is this girl? Who was the guy who injured her?
Fred Kahane: "Most of them do compartmentalization. They don’t feel much. But you can’t just turn the heart on and off."
ABC: "Fred Kahane says many performance split off or numb themselves with drugs."
ABC about Sophia: "She calls home, struggling to hold on to the person she used to be."
Sophia: "Hey mom, it’s your baby girl. I love you. I’m still your baby girl, k? You’ve got to say a prayer for me."
Sophia’s sister in Tampa: "I felt like she wasn’t my sister. Somebody else was taking over."
ABC: "Sophia turns back to her Christian roots."
Sophia is shown walking happily with Heather Veitch.
But Sophia keeps making porn.
Heather: "She has to be tough right now to continue doing it."
Heather: "At 14, I was raped. It just changed me. I became promiscuous. I thought sex is what makes me good."
Mike, looking at his daughter Sunny: "She looks great. I picked that outfit out. Those legs. Those are skater legs."
ABC: "While at the conference, [Sunny’s parents] looked at getting anatomically correct sex dolls molded of their daughter."
Sophia talks about her drug abuse and spiral downward: "When you surround yourself with the wrong people because they are the only people who are really around, you tend to just go with whatever."
ABC: Sophia was arrested a few years ago on drug charges and just after she started making adult movies, Sophia lost custody of her daughter.
"It takes your meaning away," says Sophia. "When you lose everything, what do you do? You do other things to make you forget."
Sophia moved back to Florida with her sister and claims to be done with porn. She wants to become a speaker at churches.
Sophia’s main goal is to regain custody of her daughter.
She’s trying to make it in the spa business.
On Nov. 18, 2007, I talk to Sophia Lynn’s ex-boyfriend Chris Melone.
Luke: "How did you get to know her?"
Chris: "We met three years ago. She was working for a lawyer in Sarasota, FL, before she had anything to do with all this porn stuff. At that time, she was addicted to percocet. My family owns a pizzeria there. She came in. She was very aggressive. She gave me her number. We started dating. She had a kid.
"After a month, I noticed things were shady with her. She’d go away for weeks at a time. I had no idea what she was doing but I found out she’d hooked up with somebody in Sarasota who told her she could make a lot of money doing porn… That’s where she got hooked into doing oxycontin.
"She says she was raped by her father from the age of four until she was 13. Her mother says the same thing. She claimed that was why she had a bad back and been on drugs her whole life.
"Before she went out to LA, she lost her job at the lawyer’s office. She claims to have a contractor’s license and to have a real estate license. That’s bull. She needed to make money. She flew out to LA to do porn, which I didn’t know. I was done with her.
"About a year ago, after everything fell through for her out there, she got in contact with me. She was doing heroin. She was crushing the oxycontin. Cocaine. Drinking. She was signed with Adam & Eve. They canceled her because she’d never show up. That’s when she came back to Florida.
"I went to see her. She’d lost about 30 pounds and looked like she was about to die. I felt bad. I believed her BS. I started helping her out, giving her money, loaning her money. I’m out about $3,000 on that girl and that’s not counting supporting her at my house, dinners out etc… I know where the money’s going. She’s constantly strung out. She’s spending hours at a time in the bathroom.
I’m wake up at 5 a.m. to go to work and she’s nowhere to be found. I go outside and she’s passed out in her car with the light on and door open and just leaving over… The whole heroin addict thing.
"At this point, she decided she wanted to go to rehab. Her mother and stepfather in Sarasota put up $17,000 and sent her out to rehab in California.
"She was out there for ten days. I sent her money. She took that money and got a flight and came back to FL. She was supposed to be in rehab for 30 days. She left after ten.
"At that time, I still loved her. I went to get her from the airport in Miami.
"She hung out with me for a month. I’m going to work during the day. She’s home alone. Her teeth were falling apart. I take her to my dentist. He hooks her up and pulls me to the side and says, ‘Who did you bring me? Every tooth in her mouth is rotted.’
"He cleans her up and gives her a prescription for percocet for the pain.
"She winds up stealing all those pills.
"Behind my back while I was at work, she was calling people and getting drugs. That went on for a couple of weeks until I flipped out and had to get rid of her.
"She runs back to Stark FL to the father she said raped her. It’s a redneck town. Her father and stepmother are trash. They think all this is fine. They give her money and send her back out to LA.
"She’d cry to me that she has cancer. That she has kidney problems. Pancreas. I’d send her a little money like a dope. When I stopped sending her money, she stopped returning phone calls.
"I don’t want anybody else to get burned.
"Her birth mother is a nurse in Sarasota, FL. When Sophia came back from rehab, her mother offered to get her a job at $10 an hour. She refused.
"She always wants the easy way out and because she’s a decent looking girl, she resorts to porn and prostitution.
"She’s a manipulative lying girl.
"In that industry, they probably see this all the time. I’m not familiar with it.
"She was constantly telling me, ‘Let’s go get married.’
"Thank God I didn’t.
"She married at 19 and had her kid. She divorced. She got married about two years ago to Nick Nardone for a month.
"I’ve gotten text messages from her numerous times that she’s going to kill herself and wishes that I’d be there to see it. Because I wasn’t quick enough to answer and send her money.
"She said that Ava Rose got her into drugs. That’s BS. Look at Ava. Her career’s still going.
"I’m afraid to go get an STD test."
"She was a good girl. She graduated high school early. She was a Sunday school teacher.
"She called me again when she found out I was going to talk to you. She cried and she pleaded and she said she was sick… I felt bad for her. I tried to help her… She played the whole thing out… The last time I sent her money, two weeks ago, was the last time I heard from her.
"She’s doing whatever she can for money — hooking and dancing.
"When she went back to LA six months ago, she left her her condo. She didn’t pay her rent. She got evicted. All her stuff was put in the trash. In the pouring rain, I rescued her stuff, all her daughter’s toys and clothes, all Sophia’s paperwork…"
"She’s like Britney Spears but without the music.
"Her kid’s growing up. Her father takes care of her."
