Heather Hunter Biography

Heather Hunter was born Heather Keisha Hunter, on October 1, 1969 in The Bronx, New York City, USA. Her father was a funeral salesman.

At 16, Hunter left home. She later worked as a clerk at the nightclub Latin Quarter to support herself. The club was one of the first downtown/midtown clubs that played rap.

At 18, Hunter responded to an ad for striptease artists in the news and culture paper The Village Voice. She was later featured in pictorials in porn magazines such as Players and Swank. Following this, she started receiving offers to act in adult films.

Heather Hunter began her career in the adult industry in 1988. She was one of the first porn stars to use her real name in the industry instead of a pseudonym.

She gained instant fame with her interracial- and lesbian-themed movies. Back in her hometown, she was a regular on the Robin Byrd Show.

Back then, porn companies avoided Black girls and would not usually offer contracts to them. When in 1990, she signed to Vivid Entertainment, she became the first Black woman to be under contract with the company.

From 1990 to 1992, she also performed as a dancer on Soul Train. During that time, she still had a booming adult film career. However, once the makers of the show learned about her porn career, they asked her to leave the show, as the sponsors had objected.

She appeared as a prostitute named Chartreuse in the 1990 Black comedy horror film Frankenhooker. While at Vivid, she was named one of their Vivid Video Girls.

In 1996, she was featured in the music video of How Do U Want It by Tupac Shakur, along with Nina Hartley and Angel Kelly. In 2003, she launched her animated series Bulletproof Diva on UBO. The series featured her someone who saves the world from Hell dwellers. The same year, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Hunter has also appeared in minor roles in several mainstream or non-porn films. In 2004, she appeared with Ginger Lynn in Hustler’s video series Can You Be A Pornstar? However, their roles did not involve sex. Hunter has also appeared in movies such as He Got Game and American Gangster.

In 2022, Hunter was named to the XRCO Hall of Fame. She has also hosted her own public access TV show called Wild Style.

Hunter has also been part of a Playboy TV show with rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot and has hosted her own pay-per-view show on BET named The Peep Show from 1998 to 2000. The latter featured uncensored music videos with adult content.

Known for her signature long curly hair, Heather Hunter is also popular by her nickname, Double H. Some sources state she was previously married to American record producer Rex Salas and the two divorced later.

She has reportedly dated comedian Bill Maher and former NBA basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. She was also in a relationship with actor Charlie Sheen back in 1994. She is a self-proclaimed bisexual woman and has admitted to relationships with both men and women.

Since 1993, Heather Hunter has focused on her music career, which she launched by signing a contract with Island Records and by releasing the single I Want It All Night Long. Following this, she had an unsuccessful stint with Tommy Boy Records.

In 1998, rapper Akinyele, who is known for his explicit lyrics, encouraged her to continue her career in music. In 2005, she launched her rap album Double H: The Unexpected, through Blo Records, which she heads as the CEO.

Over the years, she has worked with musicians such as DJ Premier, Esham, N.O.R.E., Kool Keith, Bubba Sparxxx, Above The Law, Scott Storch, and Wyclef Jean. She is known for her singles such as So Serious, Orgasmic, and In Love.

Apart from being a successful former porn star and a hip-hop and rap musician, Heather Hunter is also a talented painter. As a child, she would paint portraits of family members. She has also apparently majored in design and illustration from New York’s High School of Fashion Industries. In her teens, she was known as an illegal graffiti artist named Ms. 45.

In June 2006, she opened her own art gallery, Artcore-NYC, in Brooklyn’s Front Street. The same year, she launched her Hunter Collection at the gallery. She has also lent her voice to games such as Grand Theft Auto.

She has penned a semi-autobiographic novel of the erotic fiction genre named Insatiable: The Rise of a Porn Star. It was released in 2007 and narrated the tale of a fictional young woman, Simone Young, with a background similar to hers. Hunter was later sued for plagiarism by Dianne Miller, though the case was dismissed later.

She has dabbled in photography, too, and maintains a separate website for her work. She launched two online magazines to showcase adult models in a classy way, including Hunter-Man.com, which focused on nude art and haute photography and offered an online membership.

In 2019, she announced that she would be releasing several coffee table photography books, named Hunter Glam, Hunter Man, and The Unforgettable. While Hunter Glam was to feature adult model Sarah Russi, The Unforgettable was designed as a black and white portrait book with top-notch male African American icons of entertainment industry.