Biography of Kascha Papillon (a.k.a.: Kascha)

Kascha Papillon is a retired American porn star and stripper of Chinese descent. She was frequently billed simply as Kascha. She was best known for her exotic looks, and for having had just one partner in most of her adult film work.

Kascha Papillon graduated Leileihua High School in 1984, and played tennis with aspirations of professional competition before suffering an injury that ended her career.

Kascha Papillon began her porn career in 1988 at the age of 20, with Introducing Kascha. She was photographed by Suze Randall in the August 1988 issue of Penthouse, and was on the cover of Hustler magazine for November 1989. Kascha was one of the early performers to use "high class spreads" in men's magazines as an entry into pornographic acting. Among her appearances she was the cover girl for High Society in July 1988 (photographed by Suse Randall), the cover girl for Fox in November 1988, Leg Show in September 1988, Juggs in February 1990, and the Very Best of High Society number 20. She appeared in the Girls of Penthouse July/August 1991, photographed by Earl Miller.

She appeared in over 50 features, starring in several that included her name in the title (including Educating Kascha and From Kascha with Love). In 1988–89, she starred in eight films in the Hawaii Vice series.

She was billed as being of mixed descent (half Chinese and half Swedish), and was known for her East Asian features and contrasting blonde hair. Contrary to popular belief, Kascha had little or no European heritage and was of primarily Asian ancestry. According to Anthony Petkovich's 2002 book, The X Factory: Inside the American Hardcore Film Industry, she is simply of Chinese origin.

Kascha was married to French porn actor Francois Papillon, and did most of her pornographic acting with him. She had a tattoo of a butterfly on her left buttock, which presumably is a reference to her husband: papillon is the French word for "butterfly".

During her career in adult films, Kascha's appearance went through several changes. She had two breast enlargements, which contributed to her weight going from a skinnier 105 lb (48 kg) to start, to a curvy 130 lb (59 kg). Kascha was among the first wave of porn stars to get breast implants to bolster her career, though she initially denied having gotten them, and instead claimed that "her newly enlarged bosom was the result of an auto accident in which her breasts bashed against the dashboard."

She left adult films in 1994, after which she performed as an exotic dancer for a few years.

Kascha also had bit parts in a few B-movies under the name Alison LePriol, including Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1993), Caged Fury (1989), and Fortress of Amerikkka (1989).