Syvette Wimberly is My Wife's Receptionist

I think my wife works with a porn star of considerable repute.

My wife has now officially upped the ante on hilarious life stories considerably.

When I came to pick her up from school today she told me there was some insanity that happened at work. I assumed said insanity included misplaced documents, a mercurial mood swing from her exasperated boss or maybe some enticing drama from her cube-mate’s love life. None of the above.

Instead, she said that someone in the office had e-mailed them a link to a news story from Houston’s ABC News channel about a stolen identity. It seemed like a standard cautionary tale at first, but as they read through the story they noticed something…odd. A Houston woman, Kristen Syvette Wimberly, accused a former high school BFF of stealing her name and using it as her porn pseudonym. Apparently they were very close in high school but had a falling out before graduation. Kristen Wimberly regarded her friend’s use of the name as some sort of revenge.

My wife and her posse at work began doing some light research at work, balancing their acute interest in finding out whether the porn star was their receptionist or with their fear of accidentally pulling up porn on their work computers. In their favor was the fact that the receptionist had conveniently called in sick that day and had said she wouldn’t be able to make it to work for the rest of the week. They found information on the case at The Smoking Gun related to the case, including the plaintiff’s legal petition.

The legal documents identified the porn star’s civilian name as Lara Madden. Their receptionist, however, was named Laura. Luckily, The Smoking Gun had contacted the defendant, “who said that her first name is actually Laura.”

This set off the girls in the office who raised all sort of circumstantial evidence. Laura was a receptionist, but she had a sweet pad downtown. Everyone had assumed that she came from money, but it was becoming clearer that maybe she actually came for the money, instead. One pointed out that she cleaned up exceptionally well, like she routinely went to a spa and had herself done up.

They all agreed to do some real research when they got home and reconvene the next day. This is where I stepped in.

I did a quick search and found Syvette’s IMDB page. There was a striking resemblance according to my wife. But when I found a candid photo of her from another website she was almost sure it was her.

But we were still curious. We couldn’t find her on facebook, but that may be because she didn’t go to college (according to the legal documents we found). So I searched on myspace, which was ludicrous at first, until we searched Kingwood High School, which the article had mentioned was the institution where the two had allegedly met. My wife knew the receptionist was 25, which placed her as graduating in either 1999 or 2000. After some trying, we found someone we settled on as the receptionist/porn star at www.myspace.com/madmich81. Since these are still allegations we decided not to reveal the receptionist’s last name (which was probably fake anyway). But a People Search of Lara Madden came up with one name across the state, but using the receptionist’s name we found addresses within Houston.

When my wife arrived at work this morning, her little group had decided it was her. It had to be.

But either way, it’s a hell of a story.