Christy Mack (born ) is an American model and former

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Early life

Mack grew up in

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, where she was a

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. She married at the age of eighteen but later left her husband and moved to Miami where she began her career.

Career

Mack portrayed

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character

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in the 2012

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''The Dark Knight XXX''. In April 2013, Mack launched her official website with Puba, and in November,

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released ''Attack'' and ''Booty'', her signature

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s. In a 2013 interview with ''

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'', Mack stated that she planned to retire from performing in adult videos once she had earned enough money to do so. By July 2014, she said she had not performed in a new scene in ten months. She confirmed her retirement in an April 2015

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story. In 2016, Mack launched a clothing line with the website

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to raise money for domestic violence survivors, following her assault by her ex-boyfriend, mixed martial artist

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Personal life

Mack began a relationship with mixed martial artist

(born Jonathan Koppenhaver) in 2013. She says Koppenhaver became physically abusive toward her a few months later. The relationship ended sometime before August 2014, when Mack and her then-boyfriend Corey Thomas were assaulted by Koppenhaver in her

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home. Mack sustained eighteen broken bones, a broken nose, missing teeth, a fractured rib, a ruptured liver, and a thigh bruise that made her unable to walk for a week. Mack says Koppenhaver also attempted to rape her at knifepoint, but was unable to maintain an

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. Koppenhaver was later found guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole after thirty-six years.

Awards and nominations

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