"I was such a weird kid to begin with," she said. She used to think she was a cat, and she'd collect dead animals trying to bring them back to life.
It wasn't easy, but Jade thinks Japan would have been a hard place for her to grow up, too, because she always struggled to fit into the mainstream. She played violin on the street and drifted around the Bay Area, staying with women she'd befriended. After five years of waiting, with no green card in sight, her mom decided to move back to Japan. Jade's brother had a lot of health problems and the family never seemed to have enough money. But the aunt did nothing to help the family gain legal status. Her mom started working in her sister's beauty salon, with the promise that the aunt would help her get a green card. She was only 8 years old when her mother brought her and her brother from Nagasaki to San Jose. Most people know her as Jade-Blue Eclipse, Jadeblue Lotos, or simply Jade.
Her first name is not Jade-Blue, but Takako. "I have better things to do with my time." "So I felt compelled to not engage in this game anymore," Jade wrote in a Jan. The nimble contortionist slipped out of the country and set off for a spiritual journey to the Amazon. Jade has no interest in spending time in prison, so last month she broke the law again. That question may never be answered in court. Jade's bust comes at a time when the Diplomatic Security Service has launched an aggressive campaign against passport fraud, a felony it says can be linked to forged credit cards, drug trafficking, and even terrorism.īut is this former sex worker and well-known San Francisco performance artist really a serious threat to national security? After setting up a meeting in a cafe, the feds swooped in, handcuffed her, and took her to jail. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service spotted inconsistencies in Jade's paperwork early last year and located her online. passport application by using the identity of a deceased American.Ī special agent with the U.S. After years of frustration, and failed attempts to get a "green card," Jade lied on her U.S. as an undocumented immigrant since she moved here with her mother from Japan more than two decades ago. Her arrest this past August, which sent her into hiding, was only the latest struggle the performer has had in a lengthy fight to stay in the United States. She even opened her own crime-scene cleaning business.īut Jade recently took on a new mysterious role: international fugitive. Subject(s): Spicuzza on Jade-Blue Eclipse Jade-Blue Eclipse seemed to have done it all on the illicit and shadowy side of life.
A look into whos getting caught up in the identity theft crackdown. #absinthe #blanche #organic #wormwood #absinthia #cocktails well-known erotic performer is now an international fugitive. Absinthia can be found at better bars and bottle shops throughout the city and East Bay.Ībsinthia at the Dark Kabaret at the Great Star Theatre in San Francisco Absinthia Organic Absinthe Blanche in a flask with iced champagne for Death in the Afternoons at Dark Kabaret at the Great Star Theater. Vermut feels her obsession with it is almost bashert: While she knows her ancestors are Jews from Latvia, her brother’s research confirmed that her last name Vermut is “wormwood” in German, one of the herbs found in absinthe. After starting out with Everclear, herbal tinctures and a bottle of green food coloring, Absinthia Vermut (she legally changed her first name) is now marketing her own small-batch, artisanally made bottles of absinthe. To find her products, visit .Īn Oakland Jewish woman has a relationship with absinthe, the spirit known as “the green fairy,” that goes back 20 years. Her items can be found throughout the East Bay at places like Alameda Natural Grocery and Berkeley’s Three Stone Hearth. Diehl is now operating under the name Living Vision Kitchen and making three types of paleo and vegan cookies, coconut yogurt and vanilla coconut chia porridge. My very first Organic Epicure column was about Chaya-Ryvka Diehl, a raw-foods chef who taught a nondairy cheesecake-making workshop at Berkeley’s Chabad house in 2012, and it’s always fun to revisit people I’ve written about before.
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