Porn star Marilyn Chambers, who made waves in the 1970s by having screen sex with an African-American, has been found dead at her Los Angeles home at the age of 56adult film star Marilyn Chambers, who also once modeled for Ivory Snow detergent, has died. She was 56.
a friend of the actress told the Associated Press that the daughter of Marilyn Chambers found her dead at her home in northern Los Angeles County on Sunday night.
More than 25 porn movies are made by Marilyn Chambers, trading on her earlier role as the blonde cover girl on the Ivory Snow soap box, where she posed holding a baby under the tag line "99 & 44/100% pure".
In addition to adult films, Chambers also appeared in 1970's The Owl and the Pussycat, which starred Barbra Streisand and George Segal.
Police have not yet inform a cause of death.
