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Jenna Jameson
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Profile
Jenna
Jameson (born Jennifer Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974)
is an American pornographic actress. She is one of
the most famous female porn stars in the world, sometimes
given the unofficial title "The Queen of Porn".
She has been in over 100 porn related videos in her
career.
Biography
Originally from Las Vegas,
Nevada. Her father is a police officer of Italian
descent and her mother was a Las Vegas showgirl.
Her mother died of cancer when Jenna was three years
old. During her childhood, she took ballet classes,
which helped her future career as a stripper,
and was a frequent entrant in beauty
pageants.
At
age 16, Jenna began dancing in strip clubs with the
help of a fake I.D. Initially rejected from dancing
at the Crazy Horse strip club because of her braces,
they quickly relented when she removed them herself.
During her dancing days, she became a voracious drug
user, using such drugs as LSD and methamphetamine.
When
she was 18, she moved to California, where her father
had moved, and with his help she became clean. By
age 20, and with her father's blessing, this quickly
led to nude pictorials in such magazines as Hustler,
Penthouse and Chéri.
After
a bidding war, Wicked
Pictures, a pornographic film production company,
signed Jameson to an exclusive contract. After only
a few films, she quickly achieved notice and critical
success, and, in 1996, won top awards from three major
industry organizations.
Jameson
has also made cameo appearances in some mainstream
movies, including Howard Stern's 1997 film Private
Parts.
In
1997, she made an appearance for an Extreme
Championship Wrestling PPV as the valet for the
Dudley Boyz, followed by a few months where she was
the ECW interviewer. She also filmed a vignette with
Val Venis, a character in the WWE,
in the late-1990's.
In
2001, she was scheduled to debate the merits of porn
against a panel of anti-porn activists at the Oxford
Union but cancelled at the last minute. Despite her
absence, the debate was won 204 to 27. The widely-held
view that she actually attended the debate is mistaken.
In
2002, she voiced Candy Suxxx in the video game
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, one of the most recognizable
characters in the popular video game.
In
2004, Jameson's autobiography, How to Make Love Like
a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale (ISBN 0060539097) was
released. Co-written with Neil Strauss, it was an
instant best-seller.
She
currently is co-owner of ClubJenna, a website and
movie-production company, along with her husband,
porn producer/director Jay Grdina (whose professional
pseudonym is "Justin Sterling"). The couple
resides in Arizona.
In
2005, her moan tones telephone ringtones were made
available for download.
As
of April 13, 2005, she and publisher ReganBooks were
embroiled in a lawsuit. The point of contention was
the new reality show around Jameson's "everyday
life" -- a deal inked between her husband and
A&E. ReganBooks maintained that the A&E deal
was a breach of Jameson's ReganBooks contract, as
the contract indicates that ReganBooks has a stake
in the profits generated by two different venues:
a one-hour special based on her memoir and reality-based
series. As of this writing, a resolution has not been
reached.
In
August 2005, she launched Club Thrust, an interactive
website for her gay fans, which includes videos, galleries,
sex advice, gossip, and downloads. Jameson is one
of the few actresses in straight porn to have developed
a following among gay audiences.
In
October 2005, production began on The Provocateur,
in which Jameson made her directorial debut. The film
is expected to be released in late 2006.
In
2005 she purchased Babes Cabaret, a strip club in
Scottsdale, Arizona. The club faces closure under
a new Scottsdale ordinance limiting adult-entertainment
venues.
She
is the host of Playboy
channel's Jenna Jameson's American Sex Star.
On
February 3, 2006, Jameson, Savanna Samson, and several
other Vivid Girls hosted the first ever Vivid Club
Jenna Super Bowl Party at the Zoo Club in Detroit,
Michigan for a $1,000 ticket price, that featured
a lingerie show. When
first announced, the party caused controversy with
the NFL, which did not sanction this as an official
Super Bowl event. In the January 19, 2006 edition
of The Detroit Free Press, Jameson attempted to end
some of the controversy by assuring that there will
be no nudity or sex acts at the party, although the
February 6, 2006 edition of The Detroit News reported
Jameson did have one planned "wardrobe malfunction"
at the party.
Jenna
will star in the motion picture, Sin-Jin Smyth, which
is due for release in October. Info about her character
in the film has been kept classified by the writer
and director, Ethan Dettenmaier.
On
June 22, 2006 Playboy Enterprises
Inc. announced the acquisition of Club Jenna
Inc., a multi-media adult entertainment business
founded by Jenna Jameson. The acquisition adds
a premier and profitable brand to Playboy’s
Entertainment Group business, with assets including
a successful film production business, a library
of video content, a network of web sites and a
DVD retail distribution deal.
Jenna
Jameson has been called the world's most famous
porn star and "The Queen of Porn". She
started acting in erotic films in 1993 after having
worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996,
she had won the three top newcomer awards from
pornographic film industry organizations. She
has since won more than 20 adult film awards,
and has been inducted into both the X-Rated Critics
Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN)
Halls of Fame.
Jameson
founded pornographic entertainment company ClubJenna
in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married.
Initially an individual website, this business
expanded into managing similar websites of other
stars and began producing pornographic films in
2001. The first such film, Briana Loves Jenna
(with Briana Banks), was named at the 2003 AVN
Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic
title for 2002. By 2005, Club Jenna had revenues
of US$30 million with profits estimated at half
that.[6] Advertisements for her site and films,
often bearing her picture, have towered on a forty-eight-foot-tall
billboard in New York City's Times Square. Playboy
TV hosts her Jenna's American Sex Star reality
show where aspiring porn stars compete for a Club
Jenna contract.
Jameson
is also noted for her relative success in crossing
over into mainstream celebrity, starting with
a minor role in Howard Stern's 1997 film Private
Parts. Her mainstream appearances continued with
guest-hosting E! television, an award-winning
voice role in the 2002 video game Grand Theft
Auto: Vice City, and a recurring role on the 2003
NBC television series Mister Sterling. Her 2004
autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star:
A Cautionary Tale, spent six weeks on The New
York Times Best Seller list. Jenna created a horror
comic book with Virgin Comics entitled Jenna Jameson's
Shadow Hunter, which was released in February
2008.
Relationships
Jameson
has stated that she is bisexual, and that she
has slept with 100 women and 30 men off-screen
in her life. She has stated the best relationship
she ever had was her lesbian love affair with
porn actress Nikki Tyler, which she documents
in her autobiography. They lived together at the
start of her porn career and again before her
second marriage. Famous male boyfriends discussed
in her autobiography include Marilyn Manson and
Tommy Lee.
On
December 20, 1996, Jameson married porn star Brad
Armstrong (real name Rodney Hopkins). They were
together for only ten weeks, informally separating
in March 1997, though continuing to act together
in pornographic films. They legally separated
and divorced in March 2001.
In
the summer of 1998, Jameson met former pornographic
studio owner Jay Grdina (born John G. Grdina),
scion of a wealthy cattle-ranching family, who
had entered pornographic film production after
college. Since 1998, he has been Jameson's only
on-screen male sex partner, acting under the name
Justin Sterling. They were engaged in December
of 2000 — before her divorce from Hopkins—
and married June 22, 2003 in a Roman Catholic-style
ceremony. They unsuccessfully tried to have children
since mid-2004, and Jameson planned to retire
from acting in pornographic movies permanently
after having their first child. The couple resided
in Scottsdale, Arizona, in a 6,700-square-foot
(620 m²) Spanish-style palace, bought for
$2 million in 2002.
In
November of 2004, Jameson was diagnosed with skin
cancer. Though surgery successfully removed the
cancer, she miscarried shortly after the diagnosis,
possibly due to stress. She was unable to get
pregnant again, even with in vitro fertilization.
Jameson said the in vitro process "wasn't
a good thing for me"; she gained weight and
did not get pregnant. According to Jameson, the
stress of the cancer and then being unable to
conceive resulted in the collapse of her marriage.
In
August 2006, Star magazine and TMZ.com confirmed
with Jameson's publicist that she and Grdina had
separated, and that Jameson was dating musician
Dave Navarro. A more serious relationship seems
to be with mixed martial artist and former UFC
champion Tito Ortiz. Ortiz cancelled a November
12, 2006 appearance as the guest of honor at the
United States Marine Corps birthday ball at the
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego,
when the Corps refused to let him bring Jameson
as his guest. On November 30, 2006, in an interview
on The Howard Stern Show, Ortiz stated that he
is in love with Jameson, that she is no longer
acting in pornography, and that they are in a
monogamous relationship. On December 12, 2006,
Jameson filed for divorce from Grdina. Jenna introduced
Tito Ortiz and talked about their relationship
at the 2008 AVN Adult Movie Awards that were shown
on Showtime while she was presenting an award.
In
March 2007, Jameson blamed her anemic and gaunt
appearance at the AVN Awards on the harsh divorce
proceedings.
Business
Jameson
and Grdina formed ClubJenna as an Internet pornography
company in 2000. ClubJenna.com was one of the
first pornographic sites to provide more than
pictures and videos; it provided explicit diaries,
relationship advice, and even stock tips to paid
members. The site reportedly was profitable in
its third week. The business later diversified
into multi-media pornographic entertainment, first
by administering other porn stars' web sites,
then, in 2001, by production of pornographic films.
Early
Club Jenna films starred Jameson herself, limiting
herself to on-screen sex with other women or with
Grdina, who appeared as Justin Sterling. The first
ClubJenna film, Briana Loves Jenna (2001), co-produced
with Vivid, cost US$280,000 to make, and grossed
over $1 million in its first year. It was the
best selling and best renting pornographic title
of its year, winning twin AVN Awards. It was marketed
as "Jenna. Her first boy/girl scene in over
2 years." referring to Jameson's abstention
from heterosexual on-film intercourse. Grdina
has said that Jameson's films averaged sales of
100,000 copies, compared with run-of-the-mill
pornographic films, which did well to sell 5,000.
On the other hand, he also said that their films
took up to twelve days to film, compared with
one day for other pornographic films.
In
2004, the Club Jenna films expanded to starring
other actresses without Jameson — Krystal
Steal, Jesse Capelli, McKenzie Lee, Ashton Moore
and Sophia Rossi — as Jameson stepped back
from starring roles. In 2005, Jameson directed
her first film, The Provocateur, released as Jenna's
Provocateur in September of 2006. The films were
distributed and marketed by Vivid Entertainment,
which Forbes magazine once called "the world's
largest adult film company." They made up
a third of ClubJenna's revenues, but over half
of the profits.
Club
Jenna was run as a family business, with Grdina's
sister, Kris, as Vice President in charge of merchandising.
In 2005, Club Jenna had estimated revenues of
$30 million, with profits of about half that.
Merchandising
capitalized on Jameson herself. Since May 2003,
she has been appearing on a 48-foot (15 m) tall
billboard in New York City's Times Square promoting
her web site and movies. The first advertisement
displayed her wearing only a thong and read "Who
Says They Cleaned Up Times Square?" There
is a line of sex toys licensed to Doc Johnson,
and an "anatomically correct" Jenna
Jameson action figure. She stars in her own sex
simulation video game, Virtually Jenna, in which
the goal is to bring a 3D model of her to orgasm.
Jackson Guitars made a limited series of King
V guitars with Jameson's likeness. Y-Tell, ClubJenna's
wireless company, sells Jenna Jameson "moan
tones" (telephone ringtones), chat services,
and games in partnerships with 20 carriers around
the world, mostly in Europe and South America.
In 2006, New York City-based Wicked Cow Entertainment
started to expand her brand to barware, perfume,
handbags, lingerie, and footwear, sold through
high end retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue and
Colette boutiques. Her prominent merchandising
and mainstream media coverage has been criticised
as "obscene" by Morality in Media.
Club
Jenna kept diversifying. In August 2005, Club
Jenna launched Club Thrust, an interactive website
for Jameson's gay male fans, which includes videos,
galleries, sex advice, gossip, and downloads.
The director of webmaster relations for Club Jenna
said the straight site had always had a lot of
gay traffic. By 2006, Club Jenna administered
more than 150 official sites for other adult entertainment
industry stars.
In
August 2005, a partnership that included Jameson
purchased Babes Cabaret, a strip club in Scottsdale,
Arizona, intending to make it the first foray
of ClubJenna into live entertainment. Soon after
the purchase attracted attention, the Scottsdale
City Council proposed a new ordinance banning
nudity at adult-entertainment venues and requiring
a four-foot divider restricting contact with dancers.
Such a divider would have also effectively banned
lap dances, the dancers' main source of revenue.
Jameson argued strongly against the ordinance,
and helped organize a petition against it. On
September 12, 2006, in a referendum on the ordinance,
voters struck down the stricter rules, allowing
the club to continue to operate as before.
On
February 3, 2006, Jameson hosted a "Vivid
ClubJenna Super Bowl Party" with several
other Club Jenna and Vivid Girls at the Zoo Club
in Detroit, Michigan for a $500 to $1,000 ticket
price. It featured a lingerie show, but no planned
nudity or sex acts. When first announced, the
party caused controversy with the National Football
League, which did not sanction this as an official
Super Bowl event. For 2007, Jameson signed up
to play quarterback in the Lingerie Bowl, but
retired due to her insurance company's damage
concerns. She will instead act as commentator.
On
June 22, 2006, Playboy Enterprises Inc. announced
the acquisition of ClubJenna Inc., in conjunction
with personal service agreements by both Jameson
and Grdina. Playboy CEO Christie Hefner said that
she expected to rapidly ramp up film production,
producing about 30 features in the first year,
and will expand the way they are sold, not only
as DVDs but through TV channels, video-on-demand
services and mobile phones. On November 1, 2006,
Playboy renamed one of the Spice Network's pay-per-view
channels from The Hot Network to ClubJenna.
In
April 2007, Tera Patrick and her production company
Teravision filed a lawsuit against Jameson and
Playboy Enterprises for failing to properly account
for and pay royalties on monies earned by Patrick's
website clubtera.com
Trivia
She has a tattoo on her right buttock. It says "Heartbreaker"
inside a double-heart.
Jenna has stated that the best relationship she ever
had was her lesbian love affair with retired porn
actress Nikki Tyler, which she documents in her autobiography.
Jenna has her husband's name, Jay Grdina, tatooed
on her left ring finger.
There is an anatomically "correct" Jenna
Jameson action figure.
Jackson Guitars made a limited series of Rhoads guitars
with Jenna's likeness.
Jenna is the star of a Video Podcast ad for Adidas
where she plays a game of Whack-A-Mole
She stars in her own 3D video game "Virtually
Jenna" developed by Thrixxx Technology.
In an interview, she stated that she came up with
the name Jenna Jameson taking her first name and her
last name being a reference to Jameson Whiskey, which
she drinks.
On his website autobiography, popular male porn star
Peter North mentions Jenna Jameson as being one of
the two stars that he most enjoyed working with in
his entire career.
Supermodel Josie Maran has admitted to having sex
with her
Selected filmography
Pornographic
Work
Up And Cummers 11 (1994, 4-Play Video)
Blue Movie (1995, Wicked Pictures)
Wicked One (1995, Wicked Pictures)
Jenna Loves Rocco (1996, Vivid)
Conquest (1996, Wicked Pictures)
Wicked Weapon (1997, Wicked Pictures / Vidéo
Marc Dorcel)
Satyr (1997, Wicked Pictures)
Dangerous Tides (1998, Wicked Pictures)
Flashpoint (1998, Wicked Pictures)
Hell On Heels (1999, Wicked Pictures)
Virtual Sex with Jenna Jameson (1999, Digital Playground
FX)
Dream Quest (2000, Wicked Pictures)
Briana Loves Jenna (2001, Vivid / Club Jenna)
I Dream of Jenna (2002, Vivid / Club Jenna)
Bella Loves Jenna (2004, Vivid / Club Jenna)
The Masseuse (2004, Vivid / Club Jenna)
Krystal Method (2004, Vivid / Club Jenna)
The New Devil in Miss Jones (2005, Vivid)
Janine Loves Jenna (2006, Vivid / Club Jenna)
Jenna Depraved (2006, Vivid / Club Jenna)
Mainstream
Work
Private Parts (1997)
Ali G, Aiii (2000)
Family Guy (2001) (Episode: "Brian Does Hollywood")
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (as Candy Suxxx) (2002)
Porn 'n Chicken (2002)
Eminem video "Without Me" (2004)
Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2005)
What Love Is (2006)
Sin-Jin Smyth (2006)
Television
Mr Sterling (2003, NBC) Recurring role as girfriend
of a political financier on the short-lived, but highly
acclaimed, prime time show
Awards
1996
AVN Best New Starlet Award
1996 AVN Award for Best Actress (Video) - Wicked One
1996 AVN Award for Couples Sex Scene (Film) - Blue
Movie (with T.T. Boy)
1996 XRCO Starlet of the Year
1997 AVN Award for Couples Sex Scene (Film) - Jenna
Loves Rocco (with Rocco Siffredi)
1997 AVN Award for Couples Sex Scene (Video) - Conquest
(with Vince Vouyer)
1998 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Film)
- Satyr (with Missy)
2003 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Video)
- I Dream of Jenna (with Autumn and Nikita Denise)
2003 G-Phoria Award for Best Female Voice Performance
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2004 XRCO Award for Best Girl/Girl scene - My Plaything
2 (with Carmen Luvana)
2005 AVN Award for Best Actress (Film) - The Masseuse
2005 AVN Award for Couples Sex Scene (Film) - The
Masseuse (with Justin Sterling)
2005 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Film)
- The Masseuse (with Savanna Samson)
2005 XRCO Hall of Fame
2005 XRCO Mainstream's Adult Media Favorite Award
- How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary
Tale
2006 AVN Hall of Fame
2006 AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress (Film)
- The Devil in Miss Jones
2006 AVN Award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene (Film)
- The Devil in Miss Jones (with Savanna Samson)
2006 AVN Awards for Best Themed Scene (Film) - ""Fun
in Room 422"" (Directed by Chris Collins)
Credit: Wikipedia
News
Articles
PETA's
Pleather girl, by Mindy Laube - 12th March 2008
(Credit:
The Sydney Morning Herald)
Adult
movie superstar Jenna Jameson is best known for
hard-core pornography but her latest sexy pose
is for a good cause - animal rights.
Using
her sinful reputation for saintly ends, Jameson
has joined forces with People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA), in a new campaign
promoting the use of synthetic leather alternative,
Pleather.
The
"Pleather Yourself" promotional poster
features a retro-look Jameson in a black wig and
skimpy Pleather-made lingerie evoking 1950s S&M
pin-up girl Betty Paige.
But
Jameson is no fetishist when it comes to the animal
welfare movement - she has embraced "SINthetic"
leather wholeheartedly saying, "I live half
my life in Pleather ... it is so fun and sexy"
The
star says she was converted to the animal rights
cause by Joaquin Phoenix's animal husbandry documentary
expose, Earthlings.
"I
watched Earthlings and I was so shocked. I turned
to my best friend and said, 'I think my life just
got changed.' A week later I was talking to PETA.
"It's
okay to be an animal in bed but not at the expense
of real animals. If I can show off the hot look
of Pleather and convert a few leather lovers,
then mission accomplished."
Websites
Club
Jenna official website
JennaJameson.com
Adult.com
Jenna
Jameson - Cool Dudes and Hot Babes
Jenna
Jameson - Internet Movie Database
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