Christy Mack

Mack grew up in Edinburgh, Indiana, where she was a cheerleader. She married at the age of eighteen but later left her husband and moved to Miami where she began her career.^[1]

Mack portrayed DC Comics character Zatanna in the 2012 porn parody The Dark Knight XXX.^[2][3] In April 2013, Mack launched her official website with Puba,^[3] and in November, Fleshlight released Attack and Booty, her signature sex toys.^[4]

In a 2013 interview with Vice, Mack stated that she planned to retire from performing in adult videos once she had earned enough money to do so.^[5] By July 2014, she said she had not performed in a new scene in ten months.^[6] She confirmed her retirement in an April 2015 ESPN story.^[7] In 2016, Mack launched a clothing line with the website Pornhub to raise money for domestic violence survivors, following her assault by her ex-boyfriend, mixed martial artist War Machine.^[8][9]

Mack began a relationship with mixed martial artist War Machine (born Jonathan Koppenhaver) in 2013. She says Koppenhaver became physically abusive toward her a few months later. The relationship ended sometime before August 2014, when Mack and her then-boyfriend Corey Thomas were assaulted by Koppenhaver in her Las Vegas home.^[1][10][11] Mack sustained eighteen broken bones, a broken nose, missing teeth, a fractured rib, a ruptured liver, and a thigh bruise that made her unable to walk for a week.^[12] Mack says Koppenhaver also attempted to rape her at knifepoint,^[13] but was unable to maintain an erection.^[14] Koppenhaver was later found guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after thirty-six years.^[15][16]