Adriana Molinari
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| image =
| title = Miss Hampton Beach, New Hampshire in 1984{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19910310&id=NXBKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=05MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4370,2325894&hl=en |title=Miss USA-NH says she's victim of blackmail plot|agency=Associated Press|location=Concord, New Hampshire|publisher=The Telegraph|date=1991-03-10|accessdate=2016-10-01}}
Miss Teen All-American New Hampshire in 1985{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19910427&id=CYVKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=55MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1405,5321451&hl=en |title=Hampton stripper loses beauty title|agency=Associated Press|location=Hampton, NH|publisher=The Telegraph|date=1991-04-27|accessdate=2016-10-01}}
Miss Petite New Hampshire in 1987
Miss Latin USA in 1989
Miss New Hampshire USA in 1991{{cite web|url=http://www.adultfilmdatabase.com/actor/alex-taylor-1046/ |title=Alex Taylor|publisher=Adult Film Database|accessdate=2015-03-09}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19910308&id=JhMxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1805,2019018&hl=en |title=People: Telling all|work=The Toledo Blade|date=1991-03-08|accessdate=2016-10-01}}{{cite news|last=Baird|first=Jim|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19910307&id=e4QcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8mMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3239,3480032&hl=en |title=People Watch: Stripping defense|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=1991-03-07|accessdate=2016-10-01}}
| nationalcompetition = Miss USA 1991{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19910307&id=_JRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VvgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5425,1118642&hl=en |title=Pageant entrant to answer claims of nude dancing|work=The Day|publisher=Knight-Ridder Newspapers|date=1991-03-07|accessdate=2016-10-01}}
| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|11|26|df=yes}}
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dV1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YPADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2072,3211167&dq=adriana-molinari&hl=en |title=Daily Bump and Grind Does Not Wear on Beauty Pageant Queen|last=Doug Clark|date=25 February 1993|work=The Spokesman-Review|accessdate=4 May 2013}}
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Adriana Molinari (born 26 November 1967), known professionally as Alex Taylor, is a former beauty pageant winner, model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress who mainly worked for Vivid Entertainment from around 1998 to 2000.{{cite web|title=Alex Taylor |publisher=IAFD |url=http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=AlexTaylor/gender=f |accessdate=16 February 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621055813/http://iafd.com/person.rme/perfid%3DAlexTaylor/gender%3Df |archivedate=June 21, 2009 |url-status=live }}{{better source needed|date=January 2020}}
Early life
She moved to Hampton, New Hampshire from South America with her parents when she was in seventh grade. She was a bathing suit model for a time as a teenager. She is a graduate of Winnacunnet High School.
Career
Molinari was named Miss Hampton Beach, New Hampshire{{cite web|url=http://www.alex-taylor.com/html/bio.htm |title=Bio|date=6 December 1998|work=Official website|accessdate=1 October 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206010751/http://www.alex-taylor.com/html/bio.htm |archivedate=6 December 1998}} in 1984 and Miss New Hampshire USA in 1991.{{cite web|title=Pageant has launched more than just pretty face|author=Patrick Cronin|publisher=SeaCoastOnline.com|url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080727/NEWS/807270313/-1/PUBLICRECORDS05|date=27 July 2008|accessdate=16 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622005010/www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080727/NEWS/807270313/-1/PUBLICRECORDS05|archive-date=22 June 2018}} She started stripping in 1990 in Massachusetts and failed to place in the 1991 Miss USA pageant. In the Spring of 1991, Miss USA pageant officials stripped her of her crown when a national supermarket tabloid publicly revealed that she had been moonlighting as an exotic dancer.
She was a Penthouse Pet in August 1994 under the stage name Alex Taylor{{cite web|url=http://www.penthousepinups.net/penthouse_pets.php|title=Welcome Penthouse Pets Fans|publisher=Penthouse Pinups|accessdate=2015-03-09|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223225600/http://www.penthousepinups.net/penthouse_pets.php|archivedate=2014-12-23}} and appeared in that adult magazine over thirty times. She has also appeared on the TV shows A Current Affair, Hard Copy, Inside Edition, and Entertainment Tonight.
Personal life
As of 2008, Molinari had retired from the adult industry and was residing in Orlando, Florida.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/19981206010751/http://www.alex-taylor.com/html/bio.htm Archived biography on her Official site]
- {{IMDb name|0851938|Alex Taylor}}
- {{iafd name|id=AlexTaylor|gender=female|name=Alex Taylor}}
- {{afdb name|id=1046|gender=female|name=Alex Taylor}}
{{New Hampshire Pageant Winners}}
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Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:Miss USA 1991 delegates
Category:Actresses from Buenos Aires
Category:Argentine emigrants to the United States
Category:American female erotic dancers
Category:People from Hampton, New Hampshire
Category:20th-century American actresses