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Secrets of Penthouse,” which premieres on A&E on Sept. 4. The now-retired adult actress, who worked for Penthouse for 12 years, was fascinated with the men’s magazine from an early age. “When I was young, probably 16, I used to sneak into my dad’s closet and he had all kinds of magazines, and my favorites were Penthouse,” she said. “I loved the way Bob Guccione [Penthouse’s founder] portrayed women powerful and embodying sex, and I just really loved that.”Playboy, she explained, “was just not even an option” for her since she had already worked as a stripper, nude glamour model and adult actress.“Back in the day, Playboy would never touch a girl that had stripped or done any kind of adult film,” she said. “So I just kind of decided, ‘Ok, they’re not going to touch me, I’m going to become the biggest porn star on the planet.'”By the time she was 19, her first shot was featured in Penthouse in 1994, and at 20 she was making six figures — daily. “Oh, I mean, I would pull down 100 grand a day,” she said. “Money hand over fist … It was insane … I was renting Rolls-Royces.

Everything that you would think being the most famous porn star would mean.”She was also famous for being the pickiest woman in porn. “I had a list of about four to five guys I would be willing to work with,” she said. “I never liked to work with men that would make passes at me.

To me, this was acting. It was business. I don’t want to date you. I don’t want to go and have a drink afterwards.”The Las Vegas native frequently visited Guccione’s Upper East Side mansion — a 27-room townhouse on East 67th Street valued at $49 million, with a Picasso in the bathroom. “It was just an assault on the senses . . .