Date of Birth: 16 January 1945
Place of Birth: USA
Date of Death: 8 April 2021
Place of Death: Florida, USA
Porn Debut: 1978
Ken Yontz originally met Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley - later known as Seka - around 1972, when she started working in the adult bookstore he owned. He was 9 years older than her.
"Ken was very nice to me. He treated me well and spoke to me as an equal. Back in those days, women weren’t always treated with dignity. Ken spoke to me in a more respectful manner than most men had in the past, especially employers. As time went on, I became very attracted to him. Maybe because he was my boss, an authority figure, combined with all the other things he seemed to have going for him."
Over the next couple of years she would occassionally have sex with him, and when she divorced her first husband, Seka and Ken moved in together.
"I don’t think I was ever in love with Ken. He needed a place to crash near the store where I worked; I had a place, so we both figured it would be cheaper if he moved in and we shared the rent."
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| Seka and Ken, 1978 |
At the time he used to present himself as Seka's husband, but they were never married. According to Seka:
"Everybody
thought we were married at the time, but we weren’t. Ken told everybody
we were married because it kept the hound dogs away from me. I went
along with it like everything else this domineering man told me."
Adult director and actor Fred Lincoln later remembered:
"She [Seka] had this suitcase pimp husband, Ken, who thought he was Elvis, who had no idea what he was doing with her. And she was soooo good, this girl. So I called Freddie over at the Melody and said, 'Boy, you gotta hire this girl. She’s gonna be really on top in our business.' Seka finally saw what an asshole her husband really was. He was fucking every girl at the Melody. I mean, she’d work, and he’d take the money, and then get her more work."
They eventually split up in 1980. Seka: "He wanted to be there during all the sex scenes, which made me uncomfortable. I enjoyed what I was doing, but he was real strange, very obsessive."
In 1981 Ken met Lisa Cintrice, who had just started nude modelling. She later recalled:
"I met him because he was hanging around that world. He’d just split from Seka, and he was still trying to get over it – and not doing a great job of it. He saw himself as a real player and insisted he didn’t need Seka to be successful. He was trying to convince everyone that he was a producer of adult films. He was creepy. I was pretty naïve at that point in my life. He wanted to make me his new Seka, someone he could promote and live off. Ken had written an autobiographical script called The Starmaker and he wanted me to star in it. He truly believed he was the starmaker. He was the quintessential guy that winks and says, 'You want to make some money?' So he made himself the star of the movie too. We shot one scene at Plato’s Retreat because Ken was good friends with the owner, Larry Levenson. Larry even convinced Ken to give him a sex scene in the movie. It all happened very quickly. My mom thought I was still waitressing."
Soon after the movie's release, Lisa said: "After we finished filming The Starmaker, I broke up with Ken. He is much older than me and I’m sure that he’ll eventually find someone who loves looking at old Seka movies and admiring her stills in magazines."
Ken directed a couple more adult movies but without much success and in 1983 faded from public view. He eventually moved Florida, married and had children. He died in 2021.
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