Michelle Torres

Michelle Torres--aka Melena Star--was born Sheila Montez (an August "Leo") in Galveston, TX. Her life started out difficult; she was adopted at the age of four and grew up in the small west Texas town of Uvalde. She took part in several school plays, the choir, 4-H, and was involved in band--she played trombone in her junior high and high school years. However, there wasn't anything that really captivated her attention for very long. Not content with small-town life, she moved to San Antonio, Texas, and dreamed of bigger and better things. She worked numerous jobs in San Antonio, including waitress and assistant manager at a health club, and while working there she met a Scandinavian businessman, got married, had her first son and moved to Europe. This would be her first of three abusive marriages and travels to three different countries before settling back in the US. She was restless and, having wasted so many of her years in a troublesome childhood and failed marriages, she finally