Melissa Cheng

Melissa Cheng

A church arrest involving a threesome with Mindy Dixon and a priest brought Melissa Cheng, known professionally as Empress Ming, into public awareness in a way few adult performers experience. The incident generated significant media coverage and became a defining moment in her early career narrative.

Background and Career Path

Born on July 27, 1992, in the United States, Melissa Cheng works across several areas of the adult industry as a dominatrix, fetish model, and porn star. Standing at 5'11", she is notably tall for the industry, a trait that fits naturally alongside her dominatrix work. She is of mixed race background, primarily Asian.

Her professional identity under the name Empress Ming centers on domination and fetish content. The dominatrix persona has been the throughline of her career, distinguishing her from performers who work primarily in conventional adult film. Fetish modeling and domination work often operate in parallel to mainstream porn, and Melissa has maintained a presence in both spaces.

Physical Profile and Aesthetic

Melissa has natural breasts, a nose piercing, both nipples pierced, and various tattoos. Her look aligns with the alternative and fetish modeling space, where body modification and a commanding physical presence are common. At 5'11", she is taller than most women in the industry, which she has used to her advantage in domination-oriented content.

Industry Presence

Now 33, Melissa Cheng has built a career that straddles fetish performance and adult content creation. She maintains an OnlyFans page under her Empress Ming brand and is active on social media. Her work leans heavily into the niche fetish market rather than high-volume studio production, which is a common path for dominatrixes who enter the broader adult industry.

Her collaboration with Mindy Dixon, while most publicly known for the church incident, also points to the kind of networking that occurs among performers working in overlapping niches. The arrest, regardless of its legal outcome, cemented her name recognition in a way that years of conventional content creation might not have.

Melissa continues to operate primarily as an independent creator and fetish professional, a model that has become increasingly viable as platform-based content distribution has grown.