Tianna Top Porn Star

Written by Mark Kernes for AVN Magazine:

It's not every man who enjoys watching his wife have sex with other men, but director Patrick Collins is hardly "every man" - after all, he helped his girlfriend Tianna get into the adult business and then married her - and was unperturbed when his wife showed no sign of "forsaking all others." After all, that was their agreement - particularly when her husband was watching.

"I was doing the food [on a shoot] and three guys were doing Tyffany Million," recalls non-sex actor Brockton O'Toole. "Tyffany went to the ladies room, and Tianna fluffed one of the guys. Now, Tianna was just visiting with [Collins] but she got into the spirit of the occasion and gave a couple of the guys head."

From the late 1980s until her 1995 retirement, Tianna had more than 100 features to her credit, apparently beginning with 1988's The Last Temptation of Kristi, which Scotty Fox directed for Moonlight Entertainment. It was a recommendation from Collins' friend, former performer Raven Richards, that convinced Collins to give Tianna a shot at porn stardom.

"I asked [Richards] if she felt that Tianna would... enjoy the business," Collins, who owns Elegant Angel, remembers. "She said, 'I have never met anybody in my life who would more enjoy this business.'"

Richards set up a meeting between Tianna, Collins and director Fox - the rest is porn history.

Collins says the lithe blonde "loved" doing porn. It seems he's the one who helped her lose her inhibitions initially; Collins claims responsibility for Tianna's first orgasm (which occurred as he was fucking her in the doggie-style position).

"From that day on, she began to discover her sexuality," Collins insists. "I was going over to this record release party. I dressed her up with no panties. She didn't want to [get on the back of his Harley dressed immodestly]. I said, 'Fine.' I left her. She ran out in the street after me. She got on the bike, showing her pussy to the world. With all the attention that she got... she realized that she was an exhibitionist."

Tianna's first big project was Jim Holliday's Sorority Pink, but the director admits he was a bit skeptical about her.

"I thought for the longest time she had to be on drugs," Holliday remembers. "Why else would [agent] Jim South give me somebody brand new? He barely knew me, and she was fresh off the bus. I was actually one of the few people that ever let Patrick on the set. Everybody else ran him off as a 'house-husband' but he struck me as a good guy; maybe that's why we're still buddies."

Performer/director Joey Silvera didn't welcome Collins' presence on the set.

"[Tianna] was incredibly honest about her sexuality," sighs Silvera. "She was so cute, she was so friendly, and I wish[ed] her husband wasn't there because she seemed to genuinely like me, and I was always too shy to overcome the barrier..." Tianna reassured Silvera that Collins was okay with the situation, but Silvera remained uncomfortable.

Silvera's high opinion of Tianna's sexuality was shared by former bondage star Lia Baren, whose first girl/girl scene was with Tianna in Elegant Angel's Buttman Vs. Buttwoman.

"She was the first blonde that I really wanted to fuck," Baren says. "I remember complimenting her on one of her scenes, and she blushed 10 shades of purple... she was such a sexual person... but she was uncomfortable receiving a compliment. I thought that was hysterical."

Collins believes Tianna's best movies were Bruce Seven's Where The Girls Sweat and John Stagliano's Shadow Dancers. "She was in that league... with the Debi Diamonds, the Jeanna Fines, Porsche Lynns, the Bioncas - the very best of the best," he says.

Sharon Mitchell waxes even more effusive.

"What an incredible, timeless, ageless sort of sexuality; the kind of a chick that wasn't really aware of how beautiful she was," Mitchell recalls.