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Jenna Jameson
Most of you probably already know that Jenna Jameson is an entrepreneur and former porn actress, but I didn't. Â This woman has made millions by merchandising all kinds of products in her name. Â She has been called the most famous porn actress in the world.
Jameson founded pornographic entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially a single 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.[12] 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 48-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.[13]
Jameson has also crossed-over into mainstream pop-culture,[14] starting with a minor role in Howard Stern's 1997 film Private Parts
Her mainstream appearances continued with: regular appearances on The Howard Stern Show; guest-hosting stints on E! television's Wild On! and Talk Soup programs; a guest-starring voice-over role in a 2001 episode of the Fox animated television sitcom Family Guy; an award-winning voice-over role in the 2002 video gameGrand Theft Auto: Vice City; and, a guest-starring role in two episodes of 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.[6] She has also created a horror comic bookwith Virgin Comics entitled Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter, which was released in February 2008. She played the female lead character in the 2008 horror-comedy Zombie Strippers.
She has also appeared as a guest on Oprah, The Bill O'Reilly Show, and William Shatner's Raw Nerve.Â
Jenna Marie Massoli was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the only daughter and second child born to Lawrence Massoli and Judith Brooke Hunt. Her father is an Italian American police officer and program director for KVBC-TV. Her mother was a Las Vegas showgirl who danced in the Folies Bergère show at the Tropicana Resort & Casino.[3][15] Her mother died of melanoma on February 20, 1976, two months prior to her daughter's second birthday.[5] Thecancer treatments bankrupted the family and they relocated in Nevada, Arizona, and Montana, While Jameson has stated in the past that she is bisexual, and that she has slept with 100 women and 30 men off-screen in her life,[7] she has also stated she is "totally hetero."[120] She has stated the best relationship she ever had was her lesbian relationship 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.[12][17] Famous male boyfriends discussed in her autobiography include Marilyn Manson[121] and Tommy Lee.[5][12][33] On December 20, 1996, Jameson married porn star/Wicked Pictures director Brad Armstrong (real name Rodney Hopkins).[5][17] The marriage lasted just 10 weeks. Although they informally separated in March 1997, she remained contractually obligated to work on Wicked Pictures projects involving both of them. They legally separated and divorced in March 2001, after Brad discovered her sexual affair with Jorge Araya Montoya (whom she met in a visit to Costa Rica).[5] In the summer of 1998, Jameson met former pornographic studio owner Jay Grdina (born John G. Grdina),[57] scion of a wealthy cattle-ranching family, who had entered pornographic film production after college.[6][122]  Since 1998, he has been Jameson's only on-screen male sex partner, acting under the name Justin Sterling. They were engaged in December 2000 – well before her divorce from Armstrong/Hopkins[5] – and married June 22, 2003.[3]  They unsuccessfully tried to have children from mid-2004 onwards, as Jameson had planned to permanently retire from porn performing upon becoming a mother.[6][7][9] The couple resided in Scottsdale, Arizona, in a 6,700-square-foot (620 m2) Spanish-style mansion, bought for $2 million in 2002.[3] In November 2004, Jameson was diagnosed with skin cancer. Though surgery successfully removed it, she miscarried shortly after the diagnosis. 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 stresses of the cancer plus infertility led to her marriage's collapse.[123] 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.[124][125] In October 2006, it was reported that Jameson began dating mixed martial artist and former UFC champion Tito Ortiz,[126] whom she met on Myspace.[127] 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.[128][129]  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 amonogamous relationship.[130] On December 12, 2006, Jameson filed for divorce from Grdina.[131] She introduced Ortiz and talked about their relationship at the 2008 AVN Adult Movie Awards while she was presenting an award. She also made brief appearances on two episodes of The Celebrity Apprentice to help Ortiz on the tasks assigned in those episodes. Jameson announced in August 2008 that she and Ortiz were expecting twins together in April 2009.[133][134] On March 16, 2009 Jameson gave birth to twin boys[135] named Jesse Jameson Ortiz and Journey Jette Ortiz. Jesse weighed in at 4 lbs and Journey weighed 4 lbs 11 oz.[136]Early life
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