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Tina Marie straddled two completely different worlds: by day, you could find her behind a desk in a Beverly Hills legal office or by the pool of the senior living community she found her way into. On nights and weekends, she was Bad Tina – an adult film star and high-end call girl whose image was plastered across men’s magazines and movie screens.

Tina was conflicted and wanted out of the business, but the bills kept piling up. Then she met aspiring porn producer Mark Carriere who traveled halfway across the country to find her. They built an adult industry empire together that earned them plenty of money – but how much is enough when all you really want is to be Good Tina.

In this second part of her story, Tina Marie talks about transactional sex, the price of a deathbed promise, and what happens when you finally decide not to be ashamed anymore.

Tina Marie calls it an exorcism. I call it an affirmation.

This podcast is 58 minutes long.

Listen to the first part of Tina Marie’s story.

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Tina Marie









with Richard Milner



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When you think of adult video vixens in the 1980s, you may think of Ginger Lynn, Christy Canyon, or Traci Lords. But they weren’t the only fan favorites on the scene.

Take Tina Marie: she was like a Robert Crumb goddess come to life. She started out in men’s magazines and sex loops in the early 1980s, and quickly moved on to starring roles in feature films before stepping behind the camera to produce and direct adult movies with her husband Mark Carriere. 

It wasn’t the professional path Tina imagined for herself growing up as the daughter of a fundamentalist Samoan minister in New Zealand and Trinidad. And while it was a career that introduced Tina to many things she prizes to this day, it was a job that came at an existential price: how do you reconcile the idea of yourself that you grew up with – the dutiful daughter, the spiritual sister, the good girl – with the adult industry powerhouse you became?

In this first part of her story, Tina Marie talks about growing up as a preacher’s daughter, finding and starting to question her identity, getting her start in porn, and the wild party scene that wrapped around the adult industry. 

This podcast is 64 minutes long.

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Tina Marie





Laurie Smith with Tina Marie

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A look back at Ray's controversial life and work in his last years, in light of the investigation into the disappearance of several women.

After the death of his wife, Ray Horsch returned to the world of adult film.

A few years after first meeting Ray Horsch, I returned to his home in Philadelphia to film an interview with him.

It was there, and in subsequent visits, that I met a number of people who knew him: filmmakers, artists, a number of women who moved into his house for varying periods of time.

I also met his former wife Amy McHale with whom I corresponded for a while.

It was only this year, I learned that Amy had disappeared in 2016.

At the time of this recording, what happened to her remains unresolved, and her disappearance has become part of the wider investigation now involving Ray’s former Philadelphia home.

Ray Horsch talks about his life as a forger – of banknotes and Picasso etchings, being a wholesale manufacturer of illicit drugs, and becoming a fugitive from the law.

If you know any information that may relate to the ongoing investigation of Ray Horsch or his son Eugene, please contact Detective Joseph Murray, at the Homicide Division of the Philadelphia Police Department, at 215 686 3334.

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