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Karrine Steffans
was born on August 24, 1978 St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and is a former hip hop music video performer and actress.

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Video Vixen, her 2005 memoir about her life in the commercial hip hop world, which was wildly popular for its graphic descriptions of her sexual liaisons with numerous celebrities.  Confessions is currently [Oct. 2007] the all-time best selling book on AALBC.com

She lives in California with her son, Naiim, and is hard at work on her next book.

Here Karrine, is interviewed by Troy Johnson founder of AALBC.com on October 3rd 2007

 

 

The Vixen Diaries
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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446582263

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Read an Interview With Karrine about The Vixen Diaries

The Vixen Diaries debuts at #2 on AALBC.com, #4 on Publisher’s Weekly, #6 on The New York Times, #7 on The Wall Street Journal and #17 on USA Today

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This titillating expos+ chronicles the personal and professional adventures of this tabloid-laden socialite, dispelling some rumors, while confirming others. Diaries unveils the heavily shrouded Hollywood backrooms and its coveted secrets. Offering her ardent fans answers to burning questions and presenting lessons learned, this book will surely not disappoint. Karrine Steffans continues to dish out juicy gossip and the much sought after details of her star studded lifestyle and the celebrity men that helped her get where she needed to be. Karrine draws you in to get an up-close and personal look at the Hollywood life of fast money and sex; all the things that make for a great movie. She discusses her interactions with people after the release of Confessions of a Video Vixen and how she copes with it all.

A provocative and enthralling volume that offers Karrine's ardent fans lessons learned and answers to burning questions, THE VIXEN DIARIES will not disappoint.
 

 

Confessions of a Video Vixen
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ISBN: 0060842423
Format: Hardcover, 205pp
Pub. Date: June 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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    Part tell–all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip–hop dancer industry – from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life – to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling.

Once the sought–after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi–platinum artists, such as Jay–Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H–O–T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well–known film director F. Gary Gray to co–star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life.

Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood – all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first–hand to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair.

 

 

Vivid Entertainment To Release 'Superhead' Porn Film
Monday - April 10, 2006

http://videovixenmovie.com/

Vivid Entertainment To Release 'Superhead' Porn Film
Monday - April 10, 2006

Porn giant Vivid Entertainment is gearing up to release a new adult film that features Karrine Steffans -- known by the hip-hop world as "Superhead" -- who dropped a tell-all book called Confessions Of A Video Vixen, where she exposes her experiences as a music video model.

The forthcoming adult film, appropriately titled "Superhead," features the video vixen alongside adult film star, Mr. Marcus, in her one and only scene in the porn industry.

"She wrote [Confessions Of A Video Vixen] to expose on Jay-Z, Ja Rule, P Diddy and all these other guys in hip-hop, and now we can see her just before she joined those guys," Howard Levine, national sales manager of Vivid, told AVN.com. "Before she blew the lid off the hip-hop world, she blew Mr. Marcus."

Mr. Marcus narrates the intro to the video and also serves as Steffan's co-star, who she performs her legendary oral skills on. Marcus remembers the video model's attributes quite well.

"The thing that stood about her was that she gave incredible head," he told AVN.com. "She created something off that one act that people are still talking about today."

— Ronnie Gamble (http://www.ballerstatus.net/news/read/id/59783061) Read more at http://www.ballerstatus.net

 

 

Related Links

The Vixen Diaries (2007) - Interview with Kam Williams
http://reviews.aalbc.com/karrine_steffans_2007.htm

The Vixen Diaries by Karrine Steffans - Book Review by Kam Williams
http://reviews.aalbc.com/the_vixen_diaries.htm

Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans - Book Review by Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/confessions_of_a_video_vixen.htm

The Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005) - Interview with Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/karrine_steffans.htm

Official Web Site
http://www.karrine.com/

 

 

 

 














 

 

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