Nearly bankrupted by her divorce, in September 2003, "Mimi" came out of retirement and appeared in the adult film Happy Ending (not to be confused with Happy Endings later released by Lions Gate Entertainment). In 2001, after a divorce, she quietly dedicated herself to several humanitarian and animal volunteer organizations. She was the publisher of the erotic American Asian magazine Oriental Dolls (now known as Asian Hotties). In 1998, she appeared in an America Undercover documentary entitled Strippers: The Naked Stages. She hired a consultant to set up a website (), then got embroiled in a legal battle over control of the domain name.
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She married a former professional football player. In 1996, she retired from adult film acting and moved to Henderson, Nevada. She says she cloaked her actual ethnicity in Asian mysticism. Miyagi in the film The Karate Kid, although she has nothing to do with him. "Miyagi" was derived from the character Mr. She took the name "Mimi", the childhood nickname given by her grandmother. ĭamayo says she saw an advertisement for nude models and answered it. She took some part-time gigs as a go-go dancer at an Asian nightclub in Beverly Hills, before transitioning into adult films and nude modeling.
Adult film career and mainstream appearances By age 18, she had become a Certified Master Makeup Artist at the makeup artistry school at FOX studios in Hollywood. ĭamayo returned to Los Angeles and obtained a scholarship to the American College for Fashion Merchandising, but, once again, she dropped out without graduating when she had run out of money and began looking for jobs. She says she had been a disc jockey on the college radio station and had decided on a career in show business. After finishing high school, she enrolled in an Adventist college in Bukidnon, studying finance and economics at Mountain View College, but she dropped out in her second year. ĭamayo went back to Mindanao for high school, and her family enrolled her in a Seventh-day Adventist academy ( Mindanao Mission Academy) in Misamis Oriental, hoping she would absorb Filipino values. When she was six, she moved to the United States with her parents, and she grew up in California. Melody Damayo was born in Davao City, the second of four children, to conservative Seventh-day Adventist parents.
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