Vanessa del Rio born Ana Maria Sanchez on March 31, 1952 in Harlem, New York, USA is an American pornographic actress. She is a daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico. As a child and young adult she attended mostly Catholic schools. Vanessa del Rio began her career in 1974 to earn rent money, and thus became the first Hispanic porn star. Though she has been credited occasionally as "Veri Knotty" this was not a name she ever used herself, but an error made on "loop" boxes by producers in the industry due to her very superficial resemblance to another '70s-'80s porn star who went by this very name, whose signature claim to fame was her ability to tie her labia in a knot. Similarly, she was credited as "Ursula Pasarell" on some early film boxes by loop producers, but again, she never used the name herself. Though she retired from adult films in 1986 in part due to the AIDS scare prevalent at the time, she remains somewhat active in the adult entertainment industry through her web site and by making special appearances at award shows, conventions, etc. Over the course of her 22-year career, del Rio has appeared in over 200 pornographic movies. Initially, del Rio was well-known due to her extremely large and prominent clitoris and for being the first "anal queen" of porn, being the first porn actress to regularly engage in extended anal sex. She was also know for turning on the side, as an expensive callgirl.
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