In Tribute:
Aliyah Yi prior to entering porn she worked as a commercial and corporate real estate agent for 2 1/2 years.

In 2000, she moved back to Southern California where she began her career in the adult industry by posing for mens magazines - most famously for Hustler and adult website pictorials that were for mostly Asian, fetish, and straight hardcore layouts. Her first appearance in an adult film was in Fuckumentary, where she is credited as Aaliyah Yi. She appeared in only about 15 video-tape distributed adult films, but the list of websites for which she performed and/or posed is quite long. She once appeared on Playboys call-in show Nightcalls 411.

Aliyah had also worked as an exotic dancer in the Southern California area. She was at one tim...