Hyapatia Lee

Vicki Lynch, known professionally as Hyapatia Lee, is an American former adult film actress. She was one of the best-known actresses of the Golden Age of Porn. Lee is an AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.

Early life Lee was born to teenage parents in the Haughville neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is of Irish and Cherokee descent. She attended the local high school, where she performed in several musicals.

Career In 1984, Lee appeared in Sweet Young Foxes and Penthouse magazine.

Over time, her husband Bud Lee joined the cast and crew of her films. Together they created the second-most-expensive pornographic film (at the time), The Ribald Tales of Canterbury (1985), a version of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

In 1993, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1994. She was also given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Free Speech Coalition in 1995.

In 1998, members of her fan club received a report that she had died due to diabetes. The report was falsified by Hyapatia Lee herself.

Like many adult performers of the era, she retained no rights to her films.

Music For SRO Records, Lee recorded the 7-inch single "Telephone Man", released in 1988; and the album Two Sides Of Hyapatia Lee in 1989. "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" from the album featured on Dr. Demento's 'Funny Five' playlist, airing April 30, 1989.

In 1994, Lee recorded the album Double Euphoric with her band W4IK. She toured with the same band, which was based in Los Angeles, and also with another band, based in Indiana, called Vision Quest.

In 1999, one of Lee's tracks from her 1994 release appeared on the music CD Porn to Rock.

Double Euphoric was re-released in September 2010, both in physical and digital versions,

Personal life Lee met and married Bud Lee, with whom she bought land in rural southern Indiana, where she has lived since. The couple had two children, whom she homeschooled at their Indiana home. In 1993, she retired from the industry and separated from Bud the same year. She has since remarried and had another child. Lee has referred to herself as a "Blessed Woman" of the Lost River Band of the Cherokees, an unrecognized Cherokee heritage group in Mitchell, Indiana.

Filmography (selection) 1983: Young Like It Hot 1984: Let's Get Physical 1985: Ribald Tales of Canterbury 1986: Hyapatia Lee's Sexy 1986: Secret Dreams 1986: The Wild, Wild West 1987: The Insatiable Hyapatia Lee 1990: Lust in the Woods 1990: The Masseuse 1992: Telesex 1993: Snakedance

Publications

Awards 1991 AVN Best Actress - Film for The Masseuse 1993 F.O.X.E. Female Fan Favorite 1993 AVN Hall of Fame Inductee 1994 XRCO Hall of Fame Inductee