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Danyel Cheeks was a voracious sexual performer who could've been a legend if physical and mental problems didn't force her early departure from Porn Valley. At last word, the divorced blonde lived in Nevada.

A source writes to me 11/98: " I don't think it's nice that you say "mental problems" were some of the reason she left the business. She left because she did't like it. It's that simple. We uses to go to the mall and the weirdest men would just strike up conversations with her like they really knew her! She divorced Sam in 1994, and married a real doll of a guy named Joey. She got two kids and is a very happy wife and mother."

Danyel entered porn in the fall of 1992 through Bill Margold and quickly became "the stuff of award winning crotch operas. She has a body that compels an instant hard-on, the face of a pouty fallen angel, and the kind of sexual exhibitionism that will make adult fans never forget her. See what we mean as she makes 'em scream when she takes cock in her cunt and ass crack in Bend Over Babes 3 and steals the sexual heat in Butt Freak... She has gone from a randy and eager newcomer to one of the nastiest and most endearing ass sluts and cocksuckers to come up in the porn ranks. Her all time best anal sex scene would have to be in Theory of Relativity [Nici's Sterling's debut] where she tells her male partner at the end of a lusty bit of back-end balling, "You f--- good ass." Pure porn poetry." (AFW 96D p.17)

Danyel retired from porn in 1995 to raise a family.

"Danyel could've been a superstar, but she burned out," says Bill Margold. Danyel and her husband stayed with Bill for a few weeks and he still has her cat Samson.

Along with Nina Hartley, Danyel Cheeks had a well-publicized fling with actor Tony Curtis.

Hard Copy used the following soundbite from Cheeks in their reports on Savannah's suicide: "They (the industry) put us on such pedestals with limos and star treatment that it's hard to deal with the real world out there."

In AVN's 3/93 issue, Danyel said: "I'm a laid-back country girl, born and raised in Southern Indiana on a pig farm; now I'm a sexual beast and exhibitionist who enjoys L.A.. I'm 5'5, 110 pounds, 38-DD boobs with a tiny waist and rounded hips like the cartoon characters you see people draw. I have blonde hair to my butt; it is all mine but not my real color.

"I was dancing at Brad's Gold Club in Indianapolis. I became good friends with the owner, and he took me in June 1992 to the Ponderosa Sun Club in Roselawn, Indiana for the Ms. Nude Galaxy contest. I got first runner-up in the contest and met directors and people from Video Exclusives and John Stagliano. A week later, I was in Las Vegas with John doing my first film. We shot Bend Over Babes 3 and it came off like a dream. I had always wanted to do films. I though it would be great to take your own sexuality and put it on a screen.

"I flew back home and thought that would be the only tape I'd ever do. A couple of days later, I got a phone call from Video Exclusives and they said that they were sending me tickets; 'come on out, we would like to meet you.' I deep-throated Rocco Siffredi and it was fun because we did it in a love swing. He put me in it and I turned around and put him in it.

"I learned to deepthroat many years ago, but I started like everybody else, choking and hitting teeth. But within a year or two, I learned how to breathe in and out at one time to make everything easier. I was determined to do it after seeing Linda Lovelace in action.

"I did Butt Freak for John Stagliano and did a couple of DPs with four men. As soon as the top guy was done, we moved him out of the way and put somebody else in. I did an anal with Jon Dough the other day and he's enormous.... If I watch a movie with a girl with a nice butt, I wonder when they are going to f--- her ass." (AVN)

In 1997, Danyel divorced her husband Sam Johnson, who performed under the name Jim Sparks. Sam directed films for Ray Pistol's Arrow Productions until forming his own company Primal in late '97. (AVN 1-98)