 She also is a faculty member at the Oakland, California-based The New School of Erotic Touch.As Ellen Steinberg, Sprinkle began working at the ticket booth at Tucson's Plaza Cinema at 18, when "Deep Throat" was playing.The film was busted, and when Steinberg had to appear in court as a witness, she met and fell in love with "Deep Throat's" director, Gerard Damiano, and became his mistress, following him to New York City, where she lived for twenty-two years.