- Jade-Blue Eclipse
Jade Blue Eclipse is a former
San Francisco -basedperformance artist /contortionist /acrobat born in Nagasaki,Japan . She was left behind by her mother at 13 in San Francisco, because Jade felt that she wouldn't fit in in Japan (her mother wasn't a US citizen) [cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-01-24/news/a-twisted-tale/full|title=SF Weekly Article on Jade Blue from January 2007] . She supported herself as abicycle messenger ,stripper , andsex worker . She has appeared in a number of pornographic films, such as "Asianatrix" and "Kung Fu Girls"imdb title|0308477|Kung Fu Girls] even though her preference at the time was stated as being lesbian.Career
She became involved in circus performances as an acrobat, and
Cirque du Soleil wanted to hire her forZumanity , its Las Vegas show devoted to eroticism, acrobatics, and sensuality. She was unable to take the offer because she wasn't an American citizen. She worked various jobs, but her immigration status prevented her from taking on any regular employment. Eventually she started her owncrime scene cleaning business using the identity of someone who had died at birth inHawaii . In August 2006 she was arrested by a special agent with the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. She then fled the country, and is apparently in the Amazon. [cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-01-24/news/a-twisted-tale/full|title=SF Weekly Article on Jade Blue from January 2007|accessdate=2007-01-24|author=MARY SPICUZZA |publisher=sfweekly.com] [cite web|url=http://www.jade-blue.com/|title=Jade-Blue's personal page|accessdate=2007-06-24|author=Jade-Blue Eclipse] [cite web|url=http://bestof.sfweekly.com/2007-04-11/news/contorted-justice/|title=Contorted Justice / Is a federal agent wooing a sexy fugitive back to the U.S.?|accessdate=2008-02-07|author=MARY SPICUZZA|publisher=sfweekly.com]
=HoWilliam Gibson named a character "Jade Blue Afterglow" in an episode of theX-Files titled "First Person Shooter" as an uncredited homage to Jade.Fact|date=June 2007See also
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William Gibson's "The X-Files" episodes References
External links
* [http://www.jade-blue.com/ Jade-Blue's Official web page]
* [http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2007-01-24/news/feature_full.html SF Weekly Article on Jade Blue]
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