Jenna Marie Massoli (born April 9, 1974), professionally known as Jenna Jameson, is an American model, businesswoman, and television personality. She has been dubbed "The Queen of Porn" and the world's most famous adult entertainer.
Net Worth:
Jenna Jameson is a businesswoman and retired adult film star with a net worth of $5 million. Jenna Jameson's net worth is derived from her work as an adult film actress. She also co-founded ClubJenna, an adult company. ClubJenna was founded in 2000 by her then-husband, Jay Grdina.
The company began by offering diaries, relationship advice, and stock tips, as well as pictures and videos. It eventually expanded into a multimedia adult web empire, selling merchandise and adult films starring Jenna and other adult actors and actresses. Jenna's roles have mostly been with other women, but she has also worked with men. Jenna has also directed films such as "Jenna's Provocateur".
After working as a stripper and glamour model, she began acting in erotic videos in 1993. By 1996, she had received "Top Newcomer" awards from all three major adult film organisations. She has since won over 35 adult-video awards and been inducted into the Halls of Fame of the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN).
In 2000, Jameson and Jay Grdina co-founded the adult entertainment company ClubJenna, which she later married and divorced. Initially a single website, this company grew to manage similar websites for other celebrities and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. Briana Loves Jenna (starring Briana Banks) was named the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title in 2002 at the 2003 AVN Awards. ClubJenna had revenues of $30 million in 2005, with profits estimated to be half that amount.
Jameson has also made an appearance in mainstream pop culture, beginning with a supporting role in Howard Stern's 1997 film Private Parts. Her mainstream appearances continued with guest hosting and starring roles on various television shows. Jenna's American Sex Star was a Playboy TV reality show in which aspiring porn stars competed for a ClubJenna contract. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, her autobiography published in 2004, spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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At the 2008 AVN Awards, Jameson announced her retirement from pornography, stating that she would never return to the industry. Despite the fact that she no longer appears in pornographic films, she began working as a webcam model in 2013.
Early Life:
Jenna Marie Massoli was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 9, 1974. Laurence Henry Massoli, her father, was a police officer with the Las Vegas Sheriff's Department and the program director for a TV Station. Judith Brooke Hunt, her mother, was a Las Vegas showgirl who performed in the Folies Bergère show at the Tropicana Resort & Casino.
Her mother died of melanoma two months before her daughter's second birthday, on February 20, 1976. The cancer treatments bankrupted the family, forcing them to relocate to Nevada, Arizona, and Montana, where they typically lived in a trailer or with her paternal grandmother. She and her older brother Tony were raised Catholic, but they were largely left to raise each other.
Jameson participated in beauty pageants as a child and took ballet lessons throughout her childhood. Jameson says she trained in dance for fifteen years in a featurette on the Zombie Strippers DVD.
Jameson wrote in her autobiography that she was beaten with rocks and gang raped by four boys after a football game at Fromberg High School in October 1990, when she was 16 years old and the family was living on a cattle ranch in Fromberg, Montana. The incident began when she attempted to hitchhike home and entered the car of the four boys, thinking she would be driven home. She claimed she was raped a second time when she was 16 by "Preacher," her boyfriend Jack's biker uncle. The rape, according to Preacher, never happened. Rather than tell her father, she left home and began her first serious relationship with Jack.
Early life Problems:
She attempted to follow in her mother's footsteps as a Las Vegas showgirl, but most shows turned her down due to her lack of the then-standard height of 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm). She was hired at Disneyland Resort, but she left after two months due to scheduling and salary issues.
Her boyfriend Jack encouraged her to apply for dance jobs, and in 1991, she began dancing in Las Vegas strip clubs while underage, using a fake identification. After being turned down by the Crazy Horse Too strip club due to her braces, she removed them with pliers and was accepted. She was earning US$2,000 per night after six months before graduating from Bonanza High School.
Her first stage name as a dancer was "Jennasis," which she later used as the name of a company she founded ("Jennasis Killing Co."). In terms of deciding on a permanent professional name, she stated, "I needed to come up with a catchy name.
I didn't want a pornographic name. So I sat down, opened the phone book, and thumbed through the J's until I found one that matched my first name." She saw 'James', but rejected "Jenna James" because it "sounds too porno". Right beneath that was 'Jameson,' which struck her as the name of a whisky she enjoys and she thought, "Ok, that's perfect." That night at work she saw her brother and asked him what he thought of the name "Jenna Jameson".
Adult Movies Career:
Jameson claims she began acting in sex videos in retaliation for her boyfriend, Jack's, love affairs. She made her erotic film debut in 1993, in a non-explicit softcore film directed by Andrew Blake, alongside girlfriend Nikki Tyler.
Randy West shot her first pornographic movie scenes, which broadcasted in 1994's Up and Cummers 10 and Up and Cummers 11. While still living in Las Vegas, she quickly rose to prominence and appeared in a number of other pornographic films.
"Jenna contacted me and said she wanted to get into the XXX business, but her agent didn't want her to do porn," Randy West said of her first adult film. A month later, I'm on set in Woodland Hills (a San Fernando Valley neighbourhood of Los Angeles) with Jenna. Despite what her agent said, she stated that she wanted to get into the business. I told her that if she just wanted to do a girl/girl scene, we could do that. She expressed an interest in working with Kylie Ireland, so I set it up. She just fucking rocked when the sex started! I could tell Jenna was special right away.
First Public Appearance :
Jameson made her first public appearance since her retirement at the 2013 Exxxotica New Jersey convention in October. She returned to the adult industry as a webcam model the following month. Fleshlight released Jameson's signature artificial vagina on January 15, 2014. On January 24, Jameson served as the master of ceremonies for the 2014 XBIZ Awards.
Business Career:
In the year 2000, Jameson and Grdina founded ClubJenna as an Internet pornography company. ClubJenna.com was one of the first pornographic websites to offer paid members more than just pictures and videos; it also offered explicit diaries, relationship advice, and stock tips. According to reports, the site became profitable in its third week.
Later, the company expanded into multimedia pornographic entertainment, first by managing the websites of other porn stars, and then, in 2001, by producing pornographic films.
Early ClubJenna films featured Jameson only having on-screen sex with other women or with Grdina, who played Justin Sterling. Briana Loves Jenna (2001), the first ClubJenna film, cost $280,000 to produce and grossed over $1 million in its first year. It won two AVN Awards for being the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title of the year.
It was promoted as "Jenna. Her first boy/girl scene in more than two years "referring to Jameson's refusal to engage in heterosexual on-screen intercourse. According to Grdina, Jameson's films sold 100,000 copies on average, compared to the average pornographic film, which sold 5,000. On the other hand, he claimed that their films took up to twelve days to shoot, as opposed to one day for other pornographic films.
Jenna Jameson's First Book:
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, Jameson's autobiography, was published in 2004. It was co-written with Neil Strauss, a New York Times and Rolling Stone contributor, and published by ReganBooks, a HarperCollins division. It became an instant success, spending six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.
The autobiography also shared the 2004 XRCO Award for "Mainstream's Adult Media Favorite" with Seymore Butts's Family Business TV series. Pornostar was the German translation. Die Autobiographie was published in November 2005, and Cómo Hacer El Amor Igual Que Una Estrella Porno was published in January 2006.
Her early career is covered in the book, from her start in show business living with her tattoo artist boyfriend to receiving the Pornographic Hot d'Or award at Cannes and wedding photos from her second marriage.
It contains graphic details about her two rapes, drug addictions, an unhappy first marriage, and numerous affairs with both men and women. Personal photos, childhood diary entries, family interviews, movie scripts, and comic panels punctuate the first-person narrative.
In January 2007, Jameson was reported to be in talks with producers about adapting his autobiography into a film. Due to complications from a recent vaginoplasty, Jameson was reportedly missing meetings with producers in March 2007, putting the film in jeopardy.
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