Syvette Wimberly (Celebrity In Spotlight)

Born in 1982. Lara Madden (aka Syvette Wimberly) attended Kingwood High School in Houston, Texas. She married while still in high school. According to some sources, she dropped out and never graduated high school. Over the next few years, Lara made her way into the pornographic video business -- presumably in Texas and California. She took the name of an old high school pal as her moniker for porn films --"Syvette Wimberly". Under the Wimberly name, Madden made around a dozen hardcore porn films. Her current attorney, Kent Schaffer, says Lara is no longer in the adult film business and has "started her life over again".

Lara Madden is a 25-year-old porn movie actress who uses the stage name Syvette Wimberly when starring in films like "Anal Camera 19." While Madden's professional alias is catchy and distinctive, the name is identical to that of a former Texas high school pal of the X-rated performer. As a result, Kristen Syvette Wimberly, 25, has filed a lawsuit against Madden and the porn distributor Vivid Entertainment for the misappropriation of her name.

In a June 26 complaint filed in Harris County District Court, Wimberly notes that she and Madden became friends after meeting at the beginning of ninth grade in Kingwood, Texas. That friendship, however, "ended due to conflict," The complaint adds that Madden married while in high school and did not graduate with Wimberly, who lost contact with her former friend. Until recently, that is, when Wimberly discovered that, "there was a woman appearing in multiple explicit pornographic videos" using her name. Wimberly soon learned, the lawsuit reports, that the porn actress who boosted her name "was her former high school friend Lara Madden."

In a TSG interview, Madden acknowledged appropriating Wimberly's name because she thought it was "really cool." Madden, who said that her first name is actually Laura, denied ever being friends with Wimberly and said that she did not marry in high school. She added that her porn career ended in 2005 after she appeared in 13 films.