Melissa Monet

Melissa Monet, born Mindy DeBaise on July 16, 1964, in Staten Island, New York City, is a retired American adult film actress, writer, director, and producer of Italian Catholic and German Orthodox Jewish descent. Raised in a middle-class family, she worked as an accountant after high school, later becoming a sexual surrogate, escort, and madam. Melissa has stated that she lost her virginity at "an early age" to a boy but she had also always been interested in women and had her first experience with a woman at the age of 15, as a result of her and her then-boyfriend having sex with an older college couple. She entered the adult film industry in July 1994 at age 30, an unusually late start, when she accompanied her then-boyfriend to a porn audition and was offered a job instead, per prabook.com and Boobpedia. Using aliases like Mellisa Monet and Melisa Monet, she appeared in over 308 films, including My Daughter’s Boyfriend (2009, AVN Best Actress nominee 2010), River Rock Women’s Prison (2010, AVN Best Supporting Actress and Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene nominee 2011 with Justine Joli ), and Killer Sex and Suicide Blondes (2004, AVN Best Screenplay nominee 2005 with George Kaplan and Michael Raven), per IAFD and IMDb. Known for her 5’1” height, 110-pound frame, brown/auburn hair, brown eyes, 32C-23-33 measurements, tattoos (ladybug or bird on right hip, right ankle), and no …