Tabatha CASH

Tabatha CASH (born Celine Barbe on 27 December, 1973, in Saint Denis, France) is a former French pornographic actress of the early 1990s, starring in over 100 adult movies and appearing on countless porn magazines. Her exotic looks and enthusiastic on-screen performances made her one of the most popular performers with audiences in France and Europe. Born into a poor working class family, she grew up in an urban slum to the south of Paris. As a teenager, Tabatha CASH was involved with a notorious gang leader and also served time in a youth prison. Seeking a way to make money and get out of the ghetto, Tabatha CASH turned to nude modeling while still in school and found that she could earn more money than in a regular job. She became a lover of French neo-Nazi leader Serge Ayoub. She also worked as a photomodel, appearing in various kinds of adult magazines. Tabatha CASH falsely claimed to be half-Japanese, half-Italian (in a casting video back in 1991 where she gives her name as CELINE, she tells that her father is Japanese and her mother is Swedish!) to create an exotic appeal - she is half-French, half-Libyan. In fact, her biographical remarks are sprinkled with falsifications. She also claimed to have studied law at University of Paris II, another assertion she could never confirm. After working in porn for four years in the U.S. and France, and receiving several Hot d'Or, Tabatha CASH quit at what was perhaps the height of her fame. After leaving the industry she was highly critical of it, claiming that working in porn was just the same as being a prostitute only with a camera present, and further saying that the male performers were all stupid and the women were all horrible. On leaving the industry she has tried to use her popularity to propel herself into more mainstream situations. She has worked on TV (Canal +) and radio (Skyrock) in France, married a porn magazine publisher named Frank VARDAN in 1995.