Karen Lancaume

Born Karen Bach outside of Lyons France Karen Lancaume came from a wealthy family The biracial beauty French father Moroccan mother married at 17 while she was attending college Even though her husband was a disc jockey and she worked weekends at a nightclub to make ends meet the couple was soon awash in debt They saw an opportunity to make a good amount of money quickly by performing in porn films and in 1996 they both entered the industry Unfortunately the marriage didnt last past their first film together and while her exhusband left the porn industry she stayed in it She soon divided her time between making porn films in Europe and the US She appeared in a documentary about porn performers called Exhibition 99 1998 It was while making this film that she began to have second thoughts about her chosen career and after appearing in the controversial mainstream film Baisemoi 2000in which she performed hardcore sex scenesshe began to ease out of the industry finally quitting altogether in 2002 Karen Lancaume died in Paris France on January 28 2005 She committed suicide by taking an overdose of prescription drugs in her boyfriends apartment