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Jenna
Jameson (Jenna Marie Massoli) was
born April 9, 1974 in Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA. Jenna Jameson is an
American pornographic actress and
entrepreneur who 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
Club Jenna in 2000, with Jay Grdina, whom
she later married. This business was initially
an individual website, which 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. Advertisements for her site
and films, often bearing her picture,
tower 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.
Her
father is Lawrence Massoli, an Italian-American
program director for an NBC affiliate
and a police officer. Her mother was
Judith Brooke Hunt Massoli, a Las Vegas
showgirl who danced in the Folies-Bergère
show at the Tropicana Resort & Casino.Her
mother died of skin cancer on February
20, 1976, before Jenna Massoli's second
birthday.The cancer treatments bankrupted
the family and they moved several times,
including living in a trailer and moving
in with her father's mother. Her father
spent most of his time at work at the
Las Vegas Sheriff's Department, and
she became very close to her brother,
Tony Massoli.She was a frequent entrant
in beauty pageants as a child, and took
ballet classes.
Jenna
Massoli tried to follow in her mother's
career as a Las Vegas showgirl, but most
shows rejected her for not having the
required height of 5 feet 9 inches (175
cm).She was hired at the Vegas World show,
but left after two months stating that
the schedule was brutal, and the money
was terrible.
Massoli's
boyfriend Jack encouraged her to apply
for jobs as a stripper,and in 1991, though
underage, she began dancing in Las Vegas
strip clubs using a fake I.D.After she
was rejected from the Crazy Horse Too
strip club because of the braces on her
teeth, she removed them with a pair of
needle-nosed pliers and was accepted.
After six months, she was earning US$2000
per night, before finishing high school.
Her
first stage name as a stripper was "Jennasis",a
name she later used for incorporating
as "Jennasis Entertainment".She
chose the name "Jenna Jameson"
to use as a model after scrolling through
the phone book for a last name that
matched her first name, before finally
decided on Jameson for Jameson Whiskey,
which she drinks.
Besides
dancing, starting later in 1991, she
would pose for nude photographs for
photographer Suze Randall in Los Angeles,
hoping to get into Penthouse magazine.Jameson
was paid $300 per day, without rights
to the pictures. After her photos had
appeared in several men's magazines
under various names,Jameson stopped
working for Randall, feeling Randall
was "a shark",and had been
taking advantage of her.
She has been called the world's most famous
porn star, and "The Queen of Porn".
She is beautiful...
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