Vanessa Del Rio
Nude

She is credited with over a hundred movies, with the earliest —The Horny Landlady and Bizarre Thunder — undated even by the expert archivists at IMDB.com, but since the mid-’70s, there has been only one Latina lover for which no holes — literally — are barred, and that wonder woman is Vanessa Del Rio. Yes, Vanessa is one of the Golden Age of Porn’s greatest stars. True, most of those movies are the type delivered in plain, brown envelopes, but she did play herself on NYPD Blue in 1996 as a retired porn star, and appeared, uncredited, in the exploitation classic Let Me Die a Woman (1978). The five-foot-six-inch, 42 DD-26-38 babe was born under the name “Anna Maria Sanchez” in Harlem< New York, to a family of Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants. She attended Catholic school, but that doesn’t mean Vanessa was a good girl — she reportedly lost her virginity at age sixteen with her eighteen-year-old boyfriend in the balcony of a porn theater. How appropriate! After leaving the jizz biz in the late ’80s, Vanessa was unable to resist the camera’s siren call and appeared in several hip-hop videos, including “Get Money” by Junior M.A.F.I.A. Currently ex-Leg Show editor and now book editor at Taschen Dian Hanson is working on a magnum opus on the legendary sex star, but if you can’t wait to see more, than log onto Vanessa’s official website, VanessaDelRio.com. Comb through her flesh-filled archives and store some of your favorite flicks in the ol’ spank bank.