Arabelle Raphael
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- Pornographic actress
- sex worker
- activist
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| Born | 1988 or 1989 (age 36–37) France |
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Arabelle Raphael (born 1988 or 1989[1]) is a pornographic film actress, sex worker, and activist based in California.[1][2][3]
Raphael was born in France to a French and Tunisian mother and an Iranian Jewish father. Her family immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area when Raphael was five years old.[2][4]
Pornographic film career
Raphael began working in the sex industry in 2010 and would go on to perform "almost every form" of sex work, including performing at The Lusty Lady, a worker-owned strip club in San Francisco,[2] as well as working as a prostitute.[5] Her first pornographic film role was for Kink.com, also in San Francisco.[2] She co-directed the film All My Mother's Lovers (2017) for Grooby Productions, which was awarded "Most Tantalizing Trans Film" at the Toronto International Porn Festival.[6]
Raphael has said she has had difficulty finding work because of her extensive tattoos, a relatively uncommon feature in mainstream pornography. As a result, she built her initial following on Tumblr, a popular site for hosting alternative porn before sexually explicit imagery was banned from the site.[7] She has said mainstream porn producers either fetishized her ethnic appearance or attempted to make her appear more white early in her career.[8]
Raphael would see her income from content produced for OnlyFans increase sixfold during the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] She eventually began using the website as a full-time occupation.[5] In 2022, she appeared in Manuel Ferrara's Raw 44, the final official installment of his Raw series that depicts him and a fellow porn star in an intimate space rather than the typical pornographic film set.[10]