Steve Spielberg’s daughter chose not to follow in the film director’s famous footsteps – instead forging her own career as a sex worker, a move that reportedly ‘embarrassed’ her dad.
Mikaela George Spielberg – who was adopted by Steven and his wife Kate Capshaw when she was a baby – went public with her new career in adult entertainment back in 2020.
She confessed that she had gone on a “healing journey” with the “life-affirming” work after years of struggling with her mental health and denied that her parents had any shame.
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She had previously struggled with anorexia and borderline personality disorder, opening up about how she turned to drink as a way to cope with her issues.
She told The Daily Beast: “I felt like had I not done the work I needed to do on myself, and on my relationships, I would have been dead within the year.
“I was heartbroken, vulnerable, and felt like my soul had kind of been split in two. And I was covering that up with drinking… I am no longer like that.”
Daily Star takes a look inside her failed career selling adult videos on ManyVids and OnlyFans.
Dad ‘embarrassed’
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Though Mikaela insisted she won’t do “hardcore content” reports emerged at the time that her famous director dad wasn’t happy with what she was putting out into the world.
Going under the moniker ‘Sugar Star’, “sexual creature” Mikaela self-produces porn and fetish videos on the internet.
And not long after her decision went public, a family friend claimed to Page Six: “Outwardly, Steven and Kate — who are the most evolved parents in the world and love their kids beyond all measure — have always been supportive of Mikaela and try to understand her.
“Obviously, though, they’re embarrassed by her sudden public admission of entry into the sex worker world.”
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The source added: “Nothing can hurt Steven Spielberg’s immaculate reputation, nor Kate’s, but they’re worried about how it looks for their other kids, who are trying to be supportive but who are also embarrassed.
“This certainly isn’t how they were raised.”
But for Mikaela, she insists that her parents were “expecting” her to do a “taboo art”.
She told The Sun: “My parents, despite what people have written, aren’t embarrassed. They were actually kind of expecting it to be my career… some sort of outsider art… or taboo art, because they’ve always known that I was a little bit neurotic.”
Age-gap romance
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Mikaela’s chosen career path wasn’t the only thing that raised eyebrows – so did her age-gap romance with her 54-year-old fiancé, Chuck Pankow.
Mikaela is 27, which makes Chuck 27 years older than her.
She has described him as her “rock” and Chuck says he is “fine” with Mikaela’s decision to venture into the adult film industry.
He confessed: “It was a little weird at first when she was telling me what she wanted to do – I thought it was a little unusual.
“A conversation we had, I asked her, ‘But I feel you have so much more to offer the world than t*ts and a** and she looked at me and said ‘Well why not both?’ So I couldn’t really argue with that.”
Arrest
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It was after an incident involving Chuck that Mikaela was arrested in February 2020, when she was 23.
The star was admitted into the Hill Detention Centre in Nashville, Tennessee, on a misdemeanour of domestic violence, allegedly against her fiancé.
Bail of $1,000 was posted for the star and she was released after a 12-hour hold behind bars.
Her arrest warrant claimed she was at a bar with Chuck when the pair got into an argument, and Mikaela allegedly began throwing objects at him – one of which hit his hand and caused an injury.
Eventually, however, the case was dropped in September 2020, after Mikaela completed court-ordered counselling sessions.
Meagre earnings
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Despite her advocacy for body positivity and capitalising on one’s body, Mikaela went on to slam OnlyFans for its faults, with her page disappearing into the ether.
She was at one time charging $15 per month for her racy content, but didn’t appear to be raking it in like other famous performers including Iggy Azalea and Bella Thorne.
During an interview with Perez Hilton, she seemingly lashed out at the platform, claiming: “The other platform where I was working — and I won’t say the name, because it’s not my place to say too much about it — there was too much theft, and not enough care for performers, or regulations, or legal safety.”
She added: “My end goal for my life is to start painting again, and [her porn career] is a way to get to a spot where I’m secure in my finances to paint.”
Now it appears that Mikaela has stopped producing raunchy content altogether.
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