Marilyn Star

About Marilyn Star

Kathryn is a Vancouver-based former stripper and adult film performer. She was born in Prince George, British Columbia, where as a child she danced in a display for Prince Charles.

In 1990, Kathryn moved to Edmonton, Alberta, to study pre-medicine. There she became Marilyn Star, a feature dancer on the Western Canadian circuit from Victoria, BC, to Thunder Bay, ON. She later moved to Los Angeles and debuted in adult films in 1994 with More Dirty Debutantes 30, with Randy West. She married Japanese businessman Bruce Akahoshi that year and divorced him three years later. She appeared in 90 films during her career.

In December 1999, she was accused of misusing inside information about bank mergers. The information was allegedly given to her by her former lover James McDermott, an investment banker and former president and CEO of the investment banking firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. She allegedly shared it with another former lover, businessman Anthony Pomponio. Prosecutors said she used the information to illegally obtain $88,135 in the stock market from May 1997 to August 1998.

Star moved to Vancouver, where she married stockbroker Michael Gilley in 2000. She was arrested on May 24, 2000, and extradited to the United States. Gilley filed for divorce on October 13. Star pleaded guilty to insider trading and accepted a three-month sentence at a women's correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, which began on December 2, 2002. She retired from public life and now lives in Vancouver, BC.