Annette Heinz Needs Help—So She Doesn't Become Homeless

Fans of classic porn are sure to remember Annette Heinz. A veteran of 29 XXX movies between 1982 and 1987, she worked for some of the day's most prominent companies—Command Video, VCA, Video-X-Pix, Caballero and Femme Productions, in such prominent films as Candida Royalle's Three Daughters, VCA's Burlexxx, Video-X-Pix's Succulent, Command's Dangerous Stuff and plenty more. Her first role was a non-sex one in 1982's Consenting Adults, directed by Gerard Damiano and featuring fourteen (14!!!) sex scenes—five with Annie Sprinkle—some of which we're guessing she watched and possibly cheered on. (Damiano "discovered" Heinz when he saw her act at the Melody Burlesk in Manhattan.) She received an XRCO Best Supporting Actress nomination in 1983 for her role in the film Public Affairs, in which she essayed three sex scenes. Annette began her career in adult in 1970 as a go-go dancer in Larry Flynt's Hustler Club, and it's rumored that she and Flynt were an "item" for a while. After leaving Hustler, according to her biography on the Internet Movie Database, she "bought snakes for her Cleopatra act, a wardrobe that cost over $100,000 dollars, a van, and a super trooper spotlight as well as had her own roadie as she went on the road performing various fantasy-related shows that included Circe, a French maid, and even a pyro act." Anyway, after leaving adult, she went on to graduate cum laude from Cincinnati State University with degrees in culinary arts and hotel/restaurant management, and later apprenticed under two prominent chefs, Jim Kinsella and James Wyatt, but eventually settled into a homebound life, in part because her Marfan Syndrome was getting worse. And now she's on the verge of becoming homeless in Newport, Ky., where she lived with her partner, painter/construction worker James Seward, until he died in 1995—so she started a GoFundMe campaign. Her plea, under the title "House is falling apart," is short and simple: "Unless I get help, I will be homeless. The house has a leaky roof and the bathroom floor is caving in. The air conditioner isn't working. Marfan Syndrome is in overdrive. Help please." She's only seeking $3,000, and as of this morning, she was about one-sixth of the way to her goal. Contributions can be made here.