Asa Akira was born on 3rd January 1985, in Manhattan, New York City, USA of Japanese descent. She is a pornographic actress as well as adult film director which are the main sources of Asa Akira’s net worth. She is a real star in the pornographic industry, as she has been nominated for 82 and won 31 awards, including 16 AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, three NightMoves Awards, two Urban X Awards, f our X-Rated Critics Organization Awards among others. It is worth mentioning that all those career highlights helped her to gain popularity as well as to increase her wealth.
How rich is Asa Akira? The overall amount of her net worth is estimated to be as much as $1.5 million, including contributions reported to be as high as $6,000 per night earned at the New York strip club named Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club.
Asa Akira Net Worth $1.5 Million
To give some background information about Asa Akira, she was raised in the SoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan, but from from 9 to 13 years of age she lived in Tokyo, Japan as her father worked there at that time. When they moved back to the USA, the family finally settled in Clinton Hill. Asa was a student of the prestigious United Nations International School, although poor grades saw her change educational institutions, so she continued at Washington Irving High School, then City-As-School. Being 19 years old, she started working a dominatrix, a female taking the dominant role in BDSM, sadomasochism, discipline or bondage scenes. Afterwards, she continued working as a stripper in the very popular Hustler Club, and also took part in the radio talk show “The Bubba the Love Sponge Show” (2006 – 2007), hosted by Todd Clem in which she had the role of Show Whore. All these activities added to Asa’s net worth.
Asa Akira continued doing porn work, and landed her first scenes with partners Travis Knight and Gina Lynn. Asa Akira signed a contract with Vouyer Media, and landed roles which, of course, added to her net worth. In addition to this, she was working as a freelance porn star which has also brought her revenues. Asa Akira was listed as number four in “The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars Right Now” by media platform Complex, and she was placed third in the “10 Innovative Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Sasha Grey” list made by weekly tabloid LA Weekly. This proves that Akira is really one of the best ones in her field.
Furthermore, Akira appeared in a small role in the feature film “Starlet” (2012) directed by Sean S. Baker. As a guest she was invited onto the radio show “Loveline” (2014). Akira has also released a memoir book, “Insatiable: Porn – A Love Story” (2014) published by Grove Press. In 2015, the series “Hobbies with Asa Akira” was released in which she tries out various activities such as ice sculpting, taxidermy, boxing, tattooing and others. Those engagements have also add to the overall amount of Asa Akira’s net worth.
In her less-than-private personal life, Asa claims to be sexually attracted to males and boyish-looking females. In 2012, Akira married pornographic director and actor Toni Ribas.
