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AVN Award
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AVN sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1986 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony, the increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony AVN Magazine began hosting the GayVN Awards, however, it appears that the GayVN Awards have been discontinued, the last award year was 2010. Originally, the show was part of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The event started out as the Adult Software exhibition of the show, when the show became a separate event, it initially moved to Caesars Palace, but it has since moved to other Las Vegas venues. A writer from Los Angeles magazine made the claim in 2006 that awards often go to consistent advertisers in AVN magazine, actresses trying to secure a nomination stop in to schmooze at the magazines Chatsworth offices. Client once presented dolls of herself to editors and writers, similar allegations have been made regarding the Academy Award nominations and influencing Academy member voting that date back to at least 1988 with regard to movies such as Rain Man. In 2013, actress Tanya Tate offered some insights into the industry in an interview with the Huffington Post about the 30th AVN Awards at which she was nominated for an award. She stated, If you are more popular with the fans, companies are likely to book you for their production. People that win male and female performer of the year are generally solid consistent talent that are open to many levels, the following is a list of the winners in the major categories for the AVN Awards. From 1999 onwards, AVN Magazine began hosting the GayVN Awards, list of pornographic film studios Official website Adult Video News Awards at the Internet Movie Database The History of the Porn Awards and Las Vegas
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Caesars Palace
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Caesars Palace is a AAA Four Diamond luxury hotel and casino in Paradise, Nevada, United States, situated on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip, between Bellagio and The Mirage. It is one of the most prestigious hotels in the world. Caesars Palace was established in 1966 by Jay Sarno, who sought to create an opulent facility that gave guests a sense of life during the Roman Empire. It contains many statues, columns and iconography typical of Hollywood Roman period productions, Caesars Palace is now owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. As of July 2016, the hotel has 3,976 rooms and suites in six towers, the hotel has a large range of restaurants, including several serving authentic Chinese cuisine to cater to wealthy East Asian gamblers. From the outset, Caesars Palace has been oriented towards attracting high rollers, the hotel is closely associated with the entertainment industry and has served as a venue for boxing since the late 1970s, and hosted the Caesars Palace Grand Prix from 1981 to 1982. Notable entertainers who have performed at Caesars Palace include Frank Sinatra, the main performance venue is The Colosseum, a 4, 296-seat stadium with a 22, 450-square-foot stage, which was originally built at a cost of $95 million for Celine Dions show, A New Day. After departing in 2007, Dion returned to the Colosseum with her new show entitled Celine in March 2011, in 1962, cabana motel owners Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin applied for a $10.6 million loan from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. He began plans to build a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian, Sarno would later act as designer of the hotel he planned to construct. He wanted to emulate life under the Roman Empire, to come up with a palace in which everybody staying at the hotel would feel like a Caesar. Caesars Palace was instrumental in beginning a new era of lavish casinos from the late 1960s onward, Architectural writer Alan Hess stated, Caesars Palace needed only a sumptuous array of Classical statuary and a host of marble-white columns to establish its theme. The visitors imagination, in league with well-placed publicity, filled in the opulence, jefferson Graham wrote that the result was the gaudiest, weirdest, most elaborate, and most talked about resort Vegas had ever seen. Emblem was a chesty female dipping grapes into the mouth of a recumbent Roman, fitted out in toga, laurel wreath. Cocktail waitresses in Greco-Roman wigs would greet guests and say Welcome to Caesars Palace, among the performers at the opening were Andy Williams and Phil Richards. According to author Ovid Demaris, Caesars Palace was a casino from the day it opened its doors. By the time it opened, the significant publicity of the new hotel had generated $42 million in advanced bookings. On December 31,1967, stunt performer Evel Knievel arrived at the hotel to watch a boxing match and convinced Sarno that he could jump over the distance of 140 feet over the fountains. ABC came in to film the jump, in which Knievel hit the top of the safety ramp after the jump, fracturing his pelvis, several bones and suffering a concussion, he lay in a hospital unconscious for 29 days in a coma before recovering
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Paradise, Nevada
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Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas. The population was 223,167 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous unincorporated community in Nevada, as an unincorporated town, it is governed by the Clark County Commission with input from the Paradise Town Advisory Board. Paradise was formed on December 8,1950, Paradise contains McCarran International Airport, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and most of the Las Vegas Strip. Paradise contains most tourist attractions in the Las Vegas area, excluding downtown, despite this, the name Paradise remains relatively unknown. All Paradise ZIP codes have Las Vegas mailing addresses, the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley was referred to as Paradise Valley as early as 1910, owing to a high water table that made the land particularly fertile for farming. County commissioners established a Paradise school district in 1914, the commission voted to create the unincorporated township of Paradise on December 8,1950. In 1975, Nevada enacted a law that would have incorporated Paradise into the City of Las Vegas, before it could take effect, however, the bill was struck down as unconstitutional by the Nevada Supreme Court. According to the United States Census Bureau, the place of Paradise has a total area of 46.7 square miles. At the census of 2010, there were 223,167 people residing in Paradise. The racial makeup was 59. 8% White,8. 9% African American,0. 8% Native American,9. 5% Asian,1. 0% Pacific Islander, and 5. 5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 31. 2% of the population and 46. 3% of the population was non-Hispanic White. As of the census of 2000, there were 186,070 people,77,209 households, the population density was 3,947.3 people per square mile. There were 85,398 housing units at a density of 1,811.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 72. 51% White,6. 59% African American,0. 77% Native American,6. 52% Asian,0. 59% Pacific Islander,8. 37% from other races, and 4. 65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23. 47% of the population,31. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the family size was 3.04. In the CDP, the population was out with 21. 2% under the age of 18,10. 8% from 18 to 24,33. 3% from 25 to 44,23. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 109.1 males
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Robert Schimmel
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Robert George Bob Schimmel was an American comedian whose material was often X-rated and controversial. He was best known for his albums and his frequent appearances on HBO. Schimmel is number 76 on the 2004 program Comedy Central Presents,100 Greatest Stand-Ups Of All Time, Schimmel was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Betty and Otto Schimmel, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. He was voted class clown during high school and was in the United States Air Force for one year during the Vietnam War, a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, his career began when, at the urging of his sister, he performed at a comedy clubs open-mic night. A club owner in Los Angeles offered to him a regular. Undaunted, and with help from Rodney Dangerfield, who invited him to perform on his HBO Young Comedians Special. He wrote material for In Living Color and for such as Yakov Smirnoff. Schimmel married his first wife, Vicki, in 1977, and their son Derek died from cancer at the age of 11. Schimmel later divorced and remarried, having two sons with his wife, Melissa. Schimmel cited Lenny Bruce as his comedy hero. Schimmel incorporated many aspects of his life into his act, even his cancer. In one signature bit, Schimmel joked about making obscene suggestions to a lady from the Make-a-Wish Foundation and his act was described as raunchy and sexually explicit, which he claimed as the reason he never appeared on network television. He said his comments on Late Night with Conan OBrien and The Hollywood Squares caused him to be removed. However, his style made him a hit on The Howard Stern Show. As an adult, Schimmel suffered from cancer and had one of his testicles removed, in 1998, Schimmel suffered a heart attack. In June 2000, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and his treatments included chemotherapy and required long stays in the hospital. Schimmel was arrested in Calabasas, California on May 2,2009 as a result of a confrontation between himself and his wife Melissa. The district attorney declined to press charges, citing insufficient evidence
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Racquel Darrian
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Racquel Darrian is an American former pornographic actress. Darrian started her career as a model posing for lesbian-themed photoshoots. When she crossed over to film, she initially performed only in all-girl scenes. As offers increased for her to participate in scenes, she began working onscreen with Derrick Lane. She signed a contract with Vivid Video, eventually tiring of constantly working with Lane. In fact, her exclusive on-screen commitment to Lane has been credited as the reason to her waning popularity in adult films. Darrian divorced from Derrick Lane in 2000 and she has sometimes been referred to as the brunette goddess of porn or a Vivid Queen. Darrian was the October 1990 Penthouse Pet of the Month, as Kelly Jackson, and in Playboys 1996 pictorial Strippers
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Zazel: The Scent of Love
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Zazel, The Scent of Love is a highly regarded award-winning American adult erotic film, photographed in October 1995 and released the following year. Zazel is described as an angel, invoked in Solomonic magic. The film consists of nearly a dozen individually themed sequences which reference and recreate iconography drawn from mythology, religion, literature, film and even Jungian psychology. These include sirens, water nymphs, mermaids, flowers, the jungle, The Three Musketeers, classic old Hollywood movies, angels and demons, and she then performs cunnilingus on the Water Nymph. Sasha Vinni as Zazel sits at her desk and airbrushes an image of a flower, a visual pun is created as the petals start to move and contract and reveal themselves as artfully painted labial folds. Sasha Vinni appears as an assistant to a male lover/tattoo artist played by Devin Deray, Sasha Vinni shaves Lene Hefners crotch with a spa razor, rinses it with an urn full of water. The tattoo artist then designs a colorful flower pattern on Hefners vulva, the trio then engage in sex. In the Jungle sequence, Sasha Vinnis nude body is painted with tiger stripes as she writhes. The scene ends with a shot of a woman with a tigers face painted on her buttocks. The woman rides a mans penis, creating the illusion that the face is fellating him. This sequence is yet another variation on the motif as Sasha Vinni is shown penetrating herself with flower-shaped objects. In the Three Musketeers sequence, Sasha Vinni, Brooke Lane and they strip, kiss, perform cunnilingus on one another, and masturbate by penetrating themselves with rubber dildoes which they have outfitted on the back of their riding boots like spurs. The Angels sequence is filmed in bright, diffuse light and features three women as Female Angels, each with elaborately knotted hair and coated in pale, peach-colored body paint. These three female angels perform various sexual acts with a similarly painted man outfitted with giant angels wings —the Winged Male Angel. The black-and-white sequence is the one to feature no lesbian sex at all. It begins with Gina LaMarca as the Seductress, wearing ornate white pasties over her breasts with a matching white crotch guard, the fetish accessories are soon removed and she and her male partner engage in various sexual activities. Sasha Vinni performs a sensuous erotic dance with one half of her face and body painted and dressed as a woman in a skirt, Vinni takes turns showing her female and then male side to the camera while the other half remains hidden in shadow and out of view. In the penultimate sequence in the film, Sasha Vinni and Nikie St. Gilles appear as mermaids outfitted with tail fins and they dispense with the mermaid accessories and engage in lesbian activities
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Playboy TV
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Playboy TV is an American, adults-only premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Playboy Enterprises. Its programming focuses on premium adult programming, including pictures, first-run television series. The channel is available internationally in such as Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Greece, Iberia. The channel launched on November 1,1982 as The Playboy Channel and it was originally owned by Playboy Enterprises in partnership with Cablevision Systems Corporation, which eventually sold its interest in the channel back to Playboy in 1986. The original programming and style of the Playboy Channel was developed by the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises, Hugh Hefner, Playboy hired its own sales and marketing staff and launched the channel on several major multiple system operators. At the time of its launch, programming featured on the channel consisted of R-rated films and it was broadcast for only ten hours each day, from 8 p. m. to 6 a. m. ET, during its first eleven years of existence, the channel re-launched as Playboy TV and adopted its current name on November 1,1989. The network expanded its programming with the adoption of a 24-hour schedule in 1994, Playboy TV was originally developed as a video version of Playboy Magazine. Programming featured music reviews, celebrity interviews, men’s fashion and segments on cars and it was a video extension of the magazine - an established lifestyle brand. Slowly the programming on the channel evolved to feature more pretty girls and this then evolved to what would become more standard television programming with a focus primarily on a male demographic. In 2010, Playboy TV unveiled a new slate of TV For 2 programming, additional content included original documentary series produced by Joe and Harry Gantz, the Emmy-winning creators of HBO’s Taxicab Confessions. Playboy TV also airs original comedic programs such as The Stash, The Truth About Sex, Foursome, Walk of Shame and The Arcade. The channel features popular adult movie parodies, new releases and profiles of game-changing classic adult films in the popular series Groundbreakers hosted by legendary filmmaker John Waters. In December, Playboy TV presents Mr. Skin’s Year In Nudes, Playmate Anthology Playmate of the Year Playmate Playback Playmates
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16th AVN Awards
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The 16th AVN Awards ceremony, organized by Adult Video News honored the best of 1998 in pornographic movies and took place on January 9,1999, at Ballys Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. During the ceremony, AVN presented AVN Awards in 68 categories, the ceremony, televised by Playboy TV, was produced by Gary Miller and directed by Mark Stone. Comedian Robert Schimmel returned as host and actresses Alisha Klass, Midori, looker won six awards including Best Film. When the nominees for the 16th AVN Awards were announced, Café Flesh 2 earned the most nominations with 14, a new committee of 51 industry professionals voted to select the best in each category. The winners were announced during the ceremony on January 9,1999. Co-host Klass won Best New Starlet with Tom Byron and Chloe winning Male and Female Performer of the Year awards respectively, Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers, previously, technical and some other categories were presented separately from the awards show, with them included, the 1999 show ran four hours. Gary Miller was producer of the show and comedian Robert Schimmel was selected for a second stint as host. Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony and its related events, Mark Stone served as musical director for the festivities. John Leslie, who won his fourth Best Director statuette at the event, the award show kicked off with presentation of the Best Couples Sex Scene—Film award, with the winners announced as Stephanie Swift and Jon Dough. Erotic X-Film Guide magazine reported this was a faux pas, Stephanie went to the podium to get her award, in fact, it was true and was a misprint in the program. The Pam & Tommy Lee • Hardcore & Uncensored celebrity sex tape won the awards for Best Selling Tape and Best Renting Tape, presented to Steven Hirsch on behalf of S&D Video, the show received a mixed reception from sex publications. However, the magazine noted co-host Klass managed to shock the ceremony’s seen-it-all, heard-it-all organizers by repeatedly expressing her fondness for anal sex, erotic X-FIlm Guide was critical of the shows length, We realized this was indeed the longest and most drawn out show AVN had ever produced. As much as the industry likes to pat itself on the back and as much as we love AVN for giving us the equivalent of the Oscars. But only if its edited with a merciless sword, something must be done to make one of the most anticipated nights in porn not be one of the most dreaded. AVN Awards AVN Best New Starlet Award AVN Female Performer of the Year Award List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame 1999 GayVN Awards 1998 in film 71st Academy Awards Mark Stone, on the Road, From Las Vegas—The Adult Video Awards. New York, NY, Cheri Magazine Inc.178 July 1999, award-Winning Pussy, The Adult Video News Awards Ceremony. New York, NY, High Society Periodicals,82, } On the Scene, AVN Awards—Night of 1,000 Porn Stars
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AVN (magazine)
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Adult Video News is an American trade journal that covers the adult video industry. The New York Times notes that AVN is to films what Billboard is to records. AVN sponsors an annual convention, called the Adult Entertainment Expo or AEE, in Las Vegas, AVN rates adult films and tracks news developments in the industry. An AVN issue can feature over 500 movie reviews, the magazine is about 80% ads and is targeted at adult-video retailers. Author David Foster Wallace has described AVN articles to be more like infomercials than articles, Paul Fishbein, Irv Slifkin, and Barry Rosenblatt founded AVN in 1983 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Slifkin left in 1984, having lost interest in reviewing adult movies due to the transition from film to videos. Rosenblatt and Fishbein had an out in 1987. Eventually, Fishbein moved the magazine to the San Fernando Valley where it operates to this day, Fishbein sold the company in 2010. AVN is widely quoted for various figures about the adult industry, AVN estimated that the sales and rentals of adult videos topped four billion dollars in 2000 and 2002. Forbes has called this figure baseless and wildly inflated, when Forbes asked AVN how it arrived at this figure, the managing editor responded, I dont know the exact methodology. When asked to separate the figures for sales versus rentals, a practice among those who cover the video industry. Adams Media Research noted that no one tracked the adult video business with rigor or precision, AVN estimated that adult industry revenue in 2005 was $12.6 billion with $2.5 billion of that coming from the Internet. However, ABC News reported that figure could not be independently verified. According to Michael Goodman of the Yankee Group, it is difficult to estimate for an industry where few companies are public, eli Cross, former managing editor Anthony Lovett, publisher and editor-in-chief. In October 2007, AVN launched the first ever pan-European, English-language adult industry trade-magazine, AVN Europe, with offices based in Budapest. By mid-2009, following a change of staff, the publication lowered its ambitions somewhat, focusing more on photos from trade shows. It folded soon after, the last issue was June 2009, AVN sponsors an annual convention, the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, held each January in Las Vegas. The Expo is the largest pornography industry trade show in the United States, AVN also hosts an award show for the adult industry modeled after the Oscars
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Nici Sterling
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Nici Sterling, sometimes credited as Nici Norman, is the stage name of a British former pornographic actress. It was while working as a model for the Daily Sport that Sterling made her debut in the world of hardcore pornography, after this debut, she moved to the United States in the mid-1990s to work in the adult film industry. Sterling has appeared in over 250 videos, in 2007, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame
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Dyanna Lauren
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Dyanna Lauren is an American erotic dancer, pornographic actress, singer and director. Lauren was a singer before entering the adult industry and she explained her career change by saying, I decided that if I was going to get screwed, I would at least get paid for it. Lauren has also composed a song called Psycho Magnet, a ballad about being a porn star. She performed Silent Night/Feliz Navidad with Moby on the 2003 album of the 2001 film Moby Presents, Lauren started out in porn appearing on box-covers for films that she was not in. Later, before deciding on going all the way on film, she would make brief appearances in non-sexual roles. Lauren was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1995 and she was the first to appear as a single guest on Playboy TVs The Helmetcam Show. This appearance was broadcast live on August 21,1996, in addition to her work in adult films, Lauren also sang and appeared on the Marilyn Manson album Mechanical Animals, along with fellow porn star Kobe Tai. She also sang in the rock band Thousand Year Itch, who released one album in 2000, in 2007 she became the CEO and spokesperson of Ninn Worx_SR, a film production company which is owned by her ex-husband, John Gray. Lauren was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame at ceremonies held on January 12,2008, in April 2009 she began filming for her first feature appearance in over ten years. She is of English, German, Irish, Australian and Native American descent and she was married to John Grey, founder of the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemens Club chain
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Steven St. Croix
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Steven St. Croix is an American pornographic actor and director. St. Croix was born in Connecticut and he was raised as a Jehovahs Witness. He attended vocational school to become a mason and worked in telemarketing, St. Croix entered the adult film industry in December 1992. His first scene was in the film Deep Throat 6, on which he worked as production assistant. In 1995, he became the first male performer to sign a contract with Los Angeles based Vivid Entertainment. In February 2013, St. Croix published an e-book titled Porn Star, Everything You Want to Know, in the 1990s, St. Croix doubled for Brian Bosworth, was an extra on Baywatch, and danced in music videos for Gloria Estefan and Jon Secada. St. Croix left the film industry in late 2010. He lived in Cannes, France and ran an art gallery there during his hiatus. He identifies as a Libertarian with Republican business leanings, claire, Savanna Samson, Dale DaBone & Mickey G. Croix at the Internet Movie Database Steven St. Croix at the Internet Adult Film Database Steven St. Croix at the Adult Film Database
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Johnni Black
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Johnni Black is an American former pornographic actress, adult model, and film director. Black was born in Chicago, Illinois and she is of Italian descent and she attended Catholic school as a child and she was a captain in the United States Army until May 1,1996. She was stationed in Fort Bragg, Black entered the adult film industry in March 1996 and did her first scene in the film Anal Maniacs 4 for Wicked Pictures. Black previously studied psychology at the University of Illinois, Black married David Johnson in October 1995. They served in the army together, she as Army Captain while he served as a non-commissioned officer, Black and her husband founded the Erotic Entertainers Guild in 1998, which campaigned on sexual health issues for workers in the industry. 1998 AVN Award – Best New Starlet 1998 F. O. X. E, Award – Video Vixen Johnni Black at the Internet Movie Database Johnni Black at the Internet Adult Film Database Johnni Black at the Adult Film Database
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Stephanie Swift
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Stephanie Swift is a former American pornographic actress who starred in over 300 adult movies between 1995 and 2009, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and left the industry. She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame, Swift now works with XXXchurch. com, a Christian outreach group that offers to help pornographic actors leave the industry and help compulsive porn users overcome their porn addiction. Swift spent her childhood in Louisiana, between the ages of one and fourteen, she suffered sexual abuse at the hands of family members. Swift segued from nude model work to Southern Californias adult film industry and her first softcore scene was in Playboy TVs Up Close and Dangerous. Her first hardcore sex scene was in Space Sirens and she went on to win several awards, including the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award in 1998. She was, for a period, a girl with Wicked Pictures. She has made appearances on the exotic dancing circuit as a featured performer, in 2004, she launched her own production company called Swift Entertainment, in which she was a director, screenwriter and producer. Swift was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2006, in 2011, Swift released a video filmed for XXXchurch. com in which she said her cancer had been in remission since March 2010, and she explained her decision to quit the adult film industry. She said the industry gives a sense of accomplishment. She is currently working with the church in their efforts to reach out to film actors. An August 2009 XBIZ press release announced that Swift had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her left breast, later that month, she had a double mastectomy. By March 2010, she had completed chemotherapy and scheduled lymph node surgery,1997 F. O. X. E Award – Video Vixen 1998 F. O. X. E. 2006 AVN Hall of Fame inductee 2008 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee Stephanie Swift Interview at Adult DVD Talk Stephanie Swift, Stephanie Swift, Cancer Saved My Life. Archived from the original on 2014-09-15, Stephanie Swift on Twitter Stephanie Swift at the Internet Movie Database Stephanie Swift at the Internet Adult Film Database Stephanie Swift at the Adult Film Database
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Tom Byron
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Tom Byron is an American pornographic actor, director and producer. He is of Italian descent and is an alumnus of the University of Houston, a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame, Byron was also voted #20 in AVNs top 50 pornstars of all time. Byron is also co-founder and co-owner of the Xtreme Pro Wrestling independent professional wrestling promotion and he starred alongside the underage Traci Lords in many films including her porn debut in early 1984, What Gets Me Hot. He was also said to have had an ongoing relationship with Lords. He has changed his image several times throughout his career, frequently portraying a clean-shaven and his late 1980s long-haired hard rock persona was no pretense, as Byron was at that time moonlighting as a struggling hard rock musician in Los Angeles with hopes of a legitimate career in music. By the early 1990s, Byron again changed his image and appearance to that of a clean cut businessman type
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AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year
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The AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year is presented every January in Las Vegas, Nevada at the AVN Awards ceremony. It represents the female star who has had the best body of work in the previous year. It has been given annually since 1993, tori Black holds the distinction of being the first two-time winner, having won back-to-back years in 2010 and 2011
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Mark Davis (actor)
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Mark Davis is a former English pornographic actor, pornographic film director and exotic dancer. In 1981, Davis and his family moved from England to Toronto, Ontario, after graduating from high school, he went to Los Angeles to shoot a Playgirl pictorial at 18 years old. Soon thereafter, he moved to the states permanently, from 1984 to 1988, he was employed as a stripper for the Chippendale dancers. In January 1993, Mark began his career in adult films, in 2012, Mark Davis announced his retirement from pornography, ending a nearly 20-year career. Mark Davis was married to Kobe Tai and, later, Kitten and he served as best man for Jenna Jameson and Brad Armstrongs wedding in 1996. Mark was a friend of Jon Dough, whose suicide affected Mark big time
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Rod Fontana
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Ronald Boyer, commonly known by the stage name Rod Fontana, is a pornographic actor and director. In 2005, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and he was reported to have retired from the adult film industry in 2007 to pursue religious interests, but his career continued the next year. Boyer was raised as a Southern Baptist in South Carolina and he preached when in his teens before studying history & religion at Southern Wesleyan University. Boyer left college early to join the U. S. Army, on his return in 1975, he had expected to join the NYPD, but the job offer was withdrawn. A friend who was an actor suggested pornography, and Boyer filmed his first scene in the summer of 1976 and he left pornography during the 1980s to rejoin the U. S. military, serving as an E-4 specialist. He returned to pornography in the 1990s, louis Theroux watched a porn shoot including Fontana for his 2005 book The Call of the Weird, Travels in American Subcultures, calling him an older guy, jolly, manic, overweight. The New York Times reported that Fontana retired from pornography in January 2007 and became a private investigator. However, he appeared in and directed films for Hustler Video from the following year. Fontana is married to pornographic actress Liza Harper. Their daughter Diana, born in 2002, nearly died of an infection in 2003. This incident eventually led the couple to become more religious, Rod Fontana at the Internet Movie Database Rod Fontana at the Internet Adult Film Database Rod Fontana at the Adult Film Database
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Mr. Marcus
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Mr. Marcus is the stage name of Jesse Spencer, an American actor and director known for acting in or directing over 1,800 pornographic films. In 2009, he was inducted into the AVN Awards Hall of Fame, Marcus was born Jesse Spencer in Pomona, California on September 4,1970. Before becoming an actor, he worked as a truck driver. He started work in the industry in 1994. He has been married since the early 1990s and has two children, in August 2012, Marcus was the central person in an outbreak of syphilis among porn-performers leading to a hold on filming. The investigation revealed that Mr. Marcus was the first infected with syphilis, Marcus first noticed evidence of the infection as a rash of brown spots on his hands. He attempted self-diagnosis by Internet searches and asking people, with no success. He assumed it was due to stress or a vitamin deficiency, on June 13,2012, Marcus passed a medical test performed by Cutting Edge Testing because testing for syphilis was not standard at that time. In May, a performer noticed marks on his penis and refused to work with him, Marcus believed this to just be a rough patch of skin or a reaction to a personal lubricant. On June 24, Marcus filmed a production for Bang Bros with noticeable white lesions on his penis, none of the other performers or production crew mentioned anything, and with the recent clean test, Marcus still believed it was due to vitamin deficiency. Marcus was first diagnosed with syphilis on July 12,2012, by his personal doctor, on July 14,2012, Marcus went for another routine medical test with Talent Testing Services, which had added syphilis to its standard tests two weeks previously. This test was positive but was only a day after the injection and he waited the recommended 10 days from the initial test and was retested by TTS on July 21. The test was positive but his doctor informed him that it was safe, he was not contagious. For a different production, Marcus faked paper documentation by folding the page of the original to hide the RPR results and this was noticed by Mark Blazing of Blazing Bucks on August 7, a week after filming. During this time Marcus had worked three times, although the performers from these productions all subsequently tested negative. The outbreak had occurred before he was diagnosed and received the penicillin, on June 4,2013, Marcus was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 36-month probation for knowingly exposing at least two co-stars to syphilis after testing positive for the disease days earlier. In June 2014 a $129,360 judgment was made in favor of Lylith LaVey, im a Porn Star, and I Believe in God
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Sean Michaels (actor)
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Sean Michaels is an American pornographic actor and director. Michaels was raised in Brooklyn and attended Boys High School, in 1977, he moved to Southern California to pursue a career in nursing, which he did for six years before entering the adult film industry in 1988. He also did runway and print modeling prior to entering the industry, Michaels made his directorial debut in 1991 with the films My Babys Got Back and In Loving Color. He started Sean Michaels Productions in 1993, which became Sean Michaels International in 1997 when Anabolic Video began handling its distribution, according to the same adult film web page, Seans name was already registered as a trademark, while Shawn Michaels had not registered his moniker. Along with Lisa Ann and Nikki Benz, Michaels hosted the XRCO Awards in April 2010. P
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Ed Powers
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Ed Powers is an American production company owner of Ed Powers Productions, pornographic film director, pornographic film producer, hardcore pornographic film actor, and radio talk show host. Powers was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 2008, Ed was severely hit by the financial turmoil, and his Granada Hills, CA home was sold under foreclosure and taken by Wells Fargo. The Dirty Debutantes series has introduced many new actresses like Nadia Nyce, jamie Gillis was initially a co-producer on the series. Marylin Stars first film was More Dirty Debutantes 30, released in 1994, leanni Leis first movie was in 1997 for Powers. She had been inspired to become a pornstar after watching a film starring Mimi Miyagi, aurora Snows first film was More Dirty Debutantes 152. He filmed the debut of Lacey Duvalle in More Black Dirty Debutantes 27, in 2001 Sunrise Adams made her debut in More Dirty Debutantes 186. She later referred to the experience of making the film as nothing I want to remember, katie Morgans first scene was in Dirty Debutantes 197. Lisa Sparxxx made her debut in Dirtier Debutants #4 in 2003. Angelica Costello also made her debut in the series, felix Vicious made her debut in More Dirty Debutantes 225. Audrey Hollanders first scene was in More Dirty Debutantes 268, in 2005, HIV positive adult actress Brooke Ashley returned to the adult industry in Dirty Debutantes 328. She was filmed having sex with her boyfriend Eddie Wood, who is also HIV positive and his co-host was a young Latina woman named Elizabeth who had performed in a number Powers adult films under the pseudonym Bonita. The radio show was rated number one in its time slot and he also appeared in California based pro wrestling promotion, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla to support wrestlers Top Gun Talwar and Hook Bomberry. In 2009 Powers appeared in the film Crank, High Voltage,1996 AVN Award – Reuben Sturman Memorial Award for Ed Powers. 1998 XRCO Award – XRCO Hall of Fame 2001 AVN Award – Reuben Sturman Memorial Award for Ed Powers Productions,2003 AVN Award – Best Pro-Am or Amateur Series for The Real Naturals by Ed Powers Productions Official website Ed Powers at the Internet Movie Database Ed Powers on Facebook
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Jake Steed
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The XRCO Hall of Fame lists some of the most notable adult entertainment works and workers. The list is managed by X-Rated Critics Organization and inducted annually during the XRCO Awards, the first XRCO Awards were presented in Hollywood on February 14,1985. Inductees must have been members for at least ten years. Official website Adam Film World Guide Directory annuals, 1987–88, 1990–2005 and 2008 Canadas Best Adult Entertainment Super Site - Listing of XRCO Hall Of Fame inductees, archived from the original on 14 October 2007. XRCO Hall of Fame listing thru 2011
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Max Hardcore
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Max Hardcore is a pornographic actor, producer, and director. He rose to prominence in 1992 with the film series The Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore and his work has been classified as gonzo pornography and described as testing the limits of acceptability. He is a member of the X-Rated Critics Organizations Hall of Fame, Max and actress Layla Rivera appeared on the Howard Stern show on September 24,2007. He spent two and a half years in prison, convicted in a trial for obscenity and his company, Max World Entertainment, was headquartered in Altadena, California. Max Hardcores films generally consist of sexual acts executed by himself, with women, often porn industry newcomers, who act like underage girls or their upset mothers, with an emphasis on anal sex. All of the used in Littles movies are over the legal age of 18, however, they frequently dress and act in a way as to suggest that they are younger. There are also scenes wherein the actresses, at his direction, vomit or blow snot into their mouths or on themselves, films by Max Hardcore often depict their director and star inflicting apparent pain and humiliation on his co-stars. In an interview, Max said with pride that while no one is forced to do anything they refused to do, Hardcore calls his own material vile and crazy and considers that he has been influential on the porn industry, spawning many imitators. Writer Susannah Breslin, reviewing Hardcores work, has commented, In Max Hardcore movies – Pure Max, Hardcore Schoolgirls, – the women are verbally and physically degraded in an unprecedented myriad of ways. The treatment by Hardcore of his female co-stars has been described by critics as occasionally abusive. The tone of Hardcores work has been considered misogynistic and his films and alleged work methods have reportedly made him relatively unpopular in the porn industry. Porn star Debi Diamond in 2010 produced the DVD This Isnt Max Hardcore, in it, a male performer, Rod Fontana, dressed in an approximation of Maxs yellow outfit and cowboy hat, is humiliated in various ways, including pegging. Based on Max Extreme 4, the city of Los Angeles in 1998 charged him with child pornography and distribution of obscenity. The fact that the actress was over the age of 18 was not disputed, just before the case was brought to trial in 2002, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional. Based on this ruling, the pornography charges against Little were dismissed. The misdemeanor charge of distribution of obscenity was retained, but the failed to reach a verdict. An additional obscenity charge was subsequently levied against him by L. A. again resulting in a hung jury, Little commented after the trial that it was a frivolous waste of public resources. On October 5,2005, while Little was in Barcelona to attend an international FICEB Erotic Expo, five video titles and the offices computer servers were seized, ostensibly for research toward a federal obscenity indictment or a charge related to the 2257 record-keeping law
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Chloe (actress)
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Chloe is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, nude model and director. Chloe was born in Thousand Oaks, California and she is of Italian and Irish descent and was raised Catholic. She has described herself as having been a child, with more imaginary friends than real ones. She practiced classical ballet for 10 years from age 6 into her teenage years and she quit at age 17 due to developing arthritis in her hips and to feeling exhausted. She says she lost her virginity aged 11 with her 15-year-old boyfriend, in first grade, an accident had damaged her clitoris, describing it as always hard but I dont feel anything. However, she is able to orgasm through stimulation of her g-spot, which often involves inserting large, wide objects into her vagina. She appeared in a controversial double-fisting scene with porn actress Alisha Klass in Seymore Butts video Tampa Tushy Fest 1. The film won the Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Video award at the 2000 AVN Awards, when she was 17 she began using drugs, mainly amphetamine. At the age of 18 she moved to Riverside, California and she also worked as a waitress, and eventually became a roadie for the rock band Poison. In 1996, her boyfriend at the time had friends in the adult industry, at 20, Chloe began injecting heroin, and did not quit until 1999. Chloe began her career in 1995. She has commented that during her first porn shoot, she was on drugs. early on she appeared in mostly Gonzo hardcore movies. In 2001, Chloe signed a contract with the adult film company VCA Pictures. She is also involved with the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation and she is a strong supporter of practices preventing the spread of STDs, as she is known in the industry for having a policy requiring use of condoms for straight scenes. In a 2000 interview she said All of my orgasms are real, the day that I have to fake an orgasm will be the last day that I work. She has a few adult novelty toy lines which she endorses, the most noted is a toy called, The Fist of Fury. It was molded from Chloes closed fist and forearm, due to her numerous popular fisting videos and she has commented that, In every scene that I do there is a fisting going on the viewer just doesnt get to see it. The distributors are very paranoid about putting something like this out, in 2003 Chloe hosted the 20th Annual Adult Video News AVN Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Jill Kelly (actress)
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Jill Kelly is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, director and producer. Kelly is an AVN Hall of Fame inductee, Kellys stage name was derived from the names of the Charlies Angels characters portrayed by Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith. She started out as a stripper at the Babydolls adult entertainment theater in her hometown, after she broke up with her-then boyfriend, he informed the club of her true age, which caused them to fire her. When Kelly turned 18 she returned to the club, commenting that they didnt even recognize me and she later did live sex shows with Tiffany Million at the OFarrell Theatre in San Francisco. Kelly has appeared in over 50 B movies, including The Legend of the Roller Blade Seven, Toad Warriors, in the spring of 1998 she appeared in Spike Lees He Got Game. Kelly started her own company, Jill Kelly Productions, in October 1998, in April 2005, following the companys bankruptcy filing, Penthouse magazine paid $1.765 million to acquire its assets, which included the entire JKP back catalogue and nearly 60 unreleased features. A native of Southern California, Kelly was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Pomona and she married porn actor Cal Jammer, whom she met at a CES convention in Las Vegas in 1993. They were married a month later, Jammer introduced her to the world of adult movies and her career was launched. However, she separated from him due to his infidelities off-camera, Jammer took the separation hard, committing suicide by shooting himself to death on the road in front of Kellys house on January 25,1995. On May 6,2000, she married adult star Julian and she then married a third time, to porn actor/producer/director Corey Jordan on September 20,2003. Unfortunately, this marriage would not last, either, and the couple parted ways a year only to finalize their divorce in October 2004. Kelly also had a relationship with fellow female colleague P. J. Sparxx in the mid-90s. The pair would tour together and dance on stage as part of a duo act called Fire & Ice. They also released a feature film of the dance act called Fire & Ice. Kelly and Sparxx elucidated on their relationship in the Behind the Scenes documentary series Sex Under Hot Lights, Sparxx posited that she and Kelly had similar sexual personalities. Kelly stated that Sparxx had supported her following her husbands suicide in January 1995
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Shanna McCullough
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Shanna McCullough is an American pornographic actress. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, at school she was involved with the theatre group, and acted in drama and musicals. She went to college and received a degree in accounting, then she worked as an electrician for two years, and also as a veterinary technician. After starting to work in porn, she performed as a dancer in nightclubs. During a break from the business she worked as a stripper and went back to school to study zoology. In 1999 wired. com reported that Shanna was operating a website giving members 24 hour access to multiple webcams installed in her home, as of March 2009, the website appears to have ceased operating. In March 2008, she walked the Los Angeles Marathon, dave Cummings has said Shanna was one of the actresses he most enjoyed working with. In a 2014 interview with The Rialto Report, McCullough said she picked her stage name as it sounded like her grandmothers last name and she also professed to have had a fairly normal upbringing and that she did well in school. In the interview, she clarified how her name McCullough is pronounced and she is of English, French, German, Irish and Swiss descent
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Missy (actress)
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Missy was an American pornographic actress. Missy began her career in the business in 1994, when appearing in amateur videos with her then-husband Mickey G. She became a contract girl with Wicked Pictures by 1997. Missy was the first adult actress to win the AVN Awards for Best New Starlet. She left the industry in 2001, sending an open letter to AVN magazine detailing that she had found religion after suffering a mental breakdown. In September 2008, AVN reported that Missy had died from a prescription drug overdose over a month earlier in Santa Clarita. 2002 AVN Hall of Fame inductee 2009 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee Missy at the Internet Movie Database Missy at the Internet Adult Film Database Missy at the Adult Film Database
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Tiffany Mynx
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Tiffany Mynx is an American pornographic actress and film director. She is a member of the AVN, and XRCO Halls of Fame, in 1992 she moved to Los Angeles, where she lived with her grandmother, and started to work as an exotic dancer. Her first on-camera work was for a Penthouse video, while her first porn role was in the VCA movie The DJ, in 1998 she wrote, produced, directed and starred in Asswoman in Wonderland. Mynx has starred in more than 400 porn movies and has directed The Toe Story and she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2001, and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2003. 1994 AVN Award – Best Anal Sex Scene - Video – Sodomania 5, Award – Female Fan Favorite 1998 F. O. X. E
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Jasmin St. Claire
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Jasmin St. Claire is an American former pornographic actress. She is also known for her work as a wrestling personality. She has made appearances in the world of wrestling and such films as Communication Breakdown. St. Claire was born on October 23,1972 in Saint Croix and she is an American of Brazilian and Russian descent. She subsequently filmed a second gang bang movie, the 1998 film Jasmins Last Gang Bang and she continued to perform in adult films until 2000, by which time she had appeared in 73 titles. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2011, St. Claire subsequently briefly acted in non-pornographic independent films. Since 2003 she has appeared in four films, Blood. And Brawls, Recipe for Disaster, Communication Breakdown, and Swamp Zombies and she subsequently worked for MetalDarkside, a DVDzine. She also hosts the Metal Scene TV show, and is a journalist for Rock Brigade magazine in Brazil, St. Claire had a brief stint in ECW, during which she sparred with the Queen of Extreme Francine. St. Claire also made appearances for XPW and she made a few appearances for the XWF under the name Jazzy, and managed The Public Enemy. In July 2002, St. Claire made two appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, during the first, on July 10,2002, she performed a strip-tease. A week later, on July 17, Francine attacked St. Claire while she was being interviewed by Goldy Locks, the two had a match later that night which resulted in both women being stripped to their underwear. It ended in a disqualification after interference by The Blue Meanie and this was St. Claires only wrestling appearance. St. Claire also bankrolled and helped to run the Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling promotion with her longtime boyfriend Brian Heffron. She has said she was trained by Heffron for about a year before stepping into the ring and she acted as manager for both Heffron and The Public Enemy. Claire at the Internet Movie Database Jasmin St. Claire at the Internet Adult Film Database Jasmin St. Claire at the Adult Film Database
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Serenity (actress)
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Serenity is an American former pornographic actress. Serenity was born in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, raised everywhere from Maine to Mississippi and she holds a degree in Journalism. She was a dancer and waitress prior to entering the adult entertainment industry. Serenity started out stripping and modeling for mens magazines and her first scene was with Alexis DeVell and PJ Sparxx in Jennifer Ate for Wicked Pictures in 1993. Her first boy/girl scene was in The Temptation of Serenity and she was a contract performer for Wicked Pictures between 1996 and December 31,2001. In September 2002, she signed a one-year, multi-picture deal with Hollywood Video and she announced her retirement on September 22,2004. With the exception of her first boy-girl scene, she always shot with condoms, AVN ranked her 36th on their list of The Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time. She was also the first performer to win back-to-back AVN Awards for Best Actress - Video, Serenity worked as a correspondent on E. during her porn career. She appeared in over twenty specials for Wild On, in 1999, she appeared alongside Julia Ann in a skit for The Man Show. That same year, she appeared on Good Day L. A. reporting from Erotica LA. alongside Stephanie Swift and she made another appearance on the show shortly after. In 2000, she made appearances in Action and Frank Chindamos The Dalai Camel, the Dalai Camel is part of an anthology titled Love Bytes. In June 1999, Serenity launched Las Vegas Novelties, a sex toy manufacturer and she co-founded it with Mark Goodman. In 2001, she purchased Goodmans half of the company and became its sole proprietor, Las Vegas Novelties was acquired by Pipedream Products in March 2005. In November 2002, Serenity, Peter Chan, and Steve Lane launched C & L Wholesalers, a Canberra, Australia-based company that sold adult products such as condoms, personal lubricants, in May 2000, Serenity began reviewing pornographic films for Adult DVD Empire. She was also the publisher, as well as a columnist, Serenity is a strong supporter of PETA. She has done fundraising auctions for PETA as well as radio, a photo of her wearing fake snakeskin chaps and a pleather corset was featured in PETAs Shopping Guide to Nonleather Products, which was released in October 2001. Shes been a proponent of vegetarianism and received a nomination by PETA for Sexiest Vegetarian in 2003. She married her business partner, Steve Lane, in September 2004, she was in her third trimester of pregnancy with their first child
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Stacy Valentine
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Stacy Valentine is a former American pornographic actress. She is a member of both the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame, adopted by her parents in Tulsa, Oklahoma and married at a young age, Valentine posed for Gallery magazines Girl Next Door amateur photo contest. She won the contest and parlayed this into a spread in Hustler magazine. While shooting for Hustler in Mexico, she posed for a layout for Hustler’s offshoot magazine. She enjoyed the shoot and agreed to perform in Coast-to-Coasts hardcore film, a week after filming, she returned home, packed up her belongings, left her husband, and moved to Los Angeles to become a full-time adult actress. Valentine took her name from the fact that she appeared in her first adult film on February 14,1996. Her last film was exactly four years later in 2000. Valentine knew early on that she did not want to be in the adult industry too long, the goal when you get into the business is that you want to be a contract girl and you want to get the awards. I fought very hard to climb that ladder and I would be damned if I was going to climb down it, so I thought, this is a perfect time to make my exit. As of 2010, Valentine lived in California, working as a director and she previously held the same job title working from Florida. As of 2015, she was working for Penthouse, with the professional title West Coast Creative Director. In the late-1990s, Valentine spent two years filming as the subject of a 1999 documentary called The Girl Next Door, by director Christine Fugate, with her platinum hair, fat-injected lips, breast implants and body planed by liposuction, Ms. Valentine doesnt look entirely real. Of course, thats probably the way her fans like it. her readiness to bare all emotionally as well as physically reveals a streak of grandiosity, is it really an act of courage in this era of free-for-all confession for her to reveal so much. Or is it simply exhibitionism posing as truth-telling,1997 XRCO Award winner – Best New Starlet 1997 Editors Choice – Best New Starlet 1998 F. O. X. E. Award – Female Fan Favorite 1998 Hot DOr Award winner – Best American Starlet 1999 XRCO Award winner – Female Performer of the Year 1999 F. O. X. E
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Alexandra Silk
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Alexandra Silk is an American pornographic actress, pornographic director and adult model. A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, during this time she met porn star Jenna Jameson, who advised her on how to enter the pornographic industry. Silk made her way to Hollywood, where she met Ron Jeremy, during the course of her career she married porn star Luc Wylder. By February 2010, Silk had completed her internship to become a sex surrogate with the International Professional Surrogate Association
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Kobe Tai
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Kobe Tai is the stage name of a Taiwanese-born American former pornographic actress and adult model. She entered the film industry at the age of 24. She was a performer with Vivid Entertainment. Her stage name was initially spelled Coby Ty, but Steven Hirsch modified it to make it more ethnic for marketing purposes. In 2011, Complex ranked her first on its list of The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time and she married fellow pornographic actor Steven Scott, who performs under the stage name Mark Davis in 1997. Tais biological mother was Chinese and her father was a Japanese soldier. She was adopted in Taiwan by American parents when she was five months old and she moved to the United States when her adoptive father, who was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy, was transferred to Del Mar, California. In high school, Tai was captain of the squad, a member of the drill team, and played softball, basketball. Tai started out doing mainstream modeling, working for Fresh Jive clothing and she did a hair commercial for a European shampoo before getting into porn. In addition to her roles in films, Tai appeared in the mainstream movie Very Bad Things. She has appeared on The Man Show and The Helmetcam Show and she did background vocals for Marilyn Mansons song, New Model No. 15, on the album Mechanical Animals and she self-identifies as bisexual and she plays the piano. Official website Kobe Tai at the Internet Movie Database Kobe Tai at the Internet Adult Film Database Kobe Tai at the Adult Film Database
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Buck Adams
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Buck Backhand Adams, born Charles Stephen Allen was an American pornographic film actor-director. Adams was a boxer and bouncer before entering the film industry in the early 1980s. He made his debut with the 1988 movie Squirt. He performed in over 600 movies and directed about 80, Adams died on October 28,2008 due to complications from heart failure. He died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with his daughter Christa, his sister Amber Lynn, Adams had survived several heart attacks during the 1990s. Just before his death he built a studio where he intended to produce Internet videos
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