She is a former law student who turned to modeling.
Her parents are French and Chinese.
As a prostitute in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, about the Vietnam War, her line "Me So Horny" has become legendary, especially after it was used in a rap song.
2 Live Crew wrote a song sampling her voice/famous line from Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, and in fact named the song after the line of dialogue, that has since become iconic.
Papillon means "butterfly" in the French language.