Porn Valley- This is the story of a pretty nurse who loves dogs and Hello Kitty and a nice, Jewish boy from Brooklyn.
This is also the story of a porn star who makes millions off her statuesque body and a tough rock musician with sleeves of tattoos and a wild past.
Her work includes “Tera Tera Tera” and “Asian Street Hookers 7.” His includes an album called “Kill or Be Killed” and a lengthy stint as an actor playing a fearsome prison inmate.
Tera Patrick and Evan Seinfeld are porn royalty, recognized as performers and entrepreneurs at the top of the industry. They lead a jet-set lifestyle that bounces them between Los Angeles, New York and all sorts of exotic locales. Their Studio City-based company, Teravision Entertainment, makes a lot of money off them having sex with each other – and other people – on camera.
“We’re a pretty straight couple when it comes to it,” he says. “The difference between … me and whoever’s reading this is that they can’t be honest with their wife. They can’t tell her what turns them on.”
She nods and tells a story of a man who showed up at one of her dance gigs. He was carrying a tuxedo, so she asked him why. He told her that he’d lied to his wife and pretended to be on his way to a wedding, then slipped off to a strip club.
“There’s a lot of couples out there that have to lie and sneak around,” she says. “I’m really lucky because I have a husband who’s very understanding. People may think we’re completely whacked out because of what we do, but yet we have trust and understanding. That’s what’s important.”
Together, they make an extremely eye-catching couple. She’s tall, dark-haired and curvaceous, with a striking beauty that makes her stand out even in a crowd of porn actors. He’s compact, bald and has a warm smile that belies his otherwise threatening appearance.
Before she became Tera Patrick, she was Linda Hopkins, who did some modeling as a child, went to nursing school in Idaho and worked as an emergency medical technician. She moved out to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s and cycled through jobs, never really finding one she liked. She got into nude modeling, which led to shoots for Hustler and Penthouse. Then soft-core porn. Then hard-core. She didn’t find it to be that much different.
“Porn is really funny,” she says. “To this day, I don’t really know why I did it at first. I had good jobs and made good money from them.”
All the while, he was touring the world with the rap-influenced metal band Biohazard and testing his acting chops as the evil biker Jaz Hoyt in HBO’s prison drama “Oz.” Midway through 2001, a photographer friend told him of this porn actress named Tera he had to meet.
“I was like, `I don’t know who Tera Patrick is. I’ve been living on a tour bus or a prison set for the last 15 years,”‘ he said. “Sure enough, I looked her up on the Internet and I was like, `Wow, that girl’s (freakin’) beautiful. What’s the hook? There’s gotta be something wrong with her. She’s got to be crazy, hooked on drugs, broke, needy or something.”
But she wasn’t. Their schedules didn’t mesh, so in a very old-fashioned way, they started courting over the phone. For three months, they got to know each other. He thought she was classy. She thought he was romantic.
“We laugh about what we’d do if we weren’t like this – he would pump gas and I would work at the grocery store and we would still love each other,” Patrick said.
“I knew right away. We were together for a week and I knew. He proposed a month later.”