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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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The Venetian Las Vegas
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The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a five-diamond luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. Designed by KlingStubbins, the tower contains 36 stories and rises 475 feet. The Venetian is owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands, the Venetian also serves as the seat of the corporate headquarters for its parent company. The Venetian resort complex is the worlds second-largest hotel, with 4,049 rooms,3,068 suites ranging in price from $169 to $10,000 per night and a 120, 000-square-foot casino. Since its opening, The Venetian Macao is the largest casino in the world, trumping The Venetian, in April 1996, Sheldon Adelson announced plans to create on the property the largest resort on the Strip. This project would be situated on the former Sands property, groundbreaking for the hotel began on April 14,1997. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion, it was one of the most expensive resorts of its kind when it opened, on June 27,2003, the 1, 013-room Venezia Tower opened. It was built on top of the parking lot. In 2010, it was announced that it will be affiliated with InterContinental Hotels Group, in October 2011, the Cantor Race & Sportsbook opened, which was the only Las Vegas sportsbook that was open for 24 hours a day. On June 11,2012, the Venetian opened Carnevale, a festival that is anchored by a nightly 3-D projection show on the clock tower. In September 2012, The Blue Man Group show closed and relocated to the Monte Carlo, the design architects for this project were The Stubbins Associates and WAT&G. Interior design was provided by Wilson Associates, And Dougall Associates for the casino. In October 2001, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum opened within the resort, on June 27,2003, the Venezia tower opened, adding 1,013 suites and a new wedding chapel. In October 2005, Blue Man Group officially opened at the Blue Man Theatre, on June 24,2006, the show, Phantom, The Las Vegas Spectacular, opened at a new Paris Opera House styled theatre at The Venetian. The show concluded on September 2,2012, tim McGraw and Faith Hill headlined their Soul2Soul concert series which began in December 2012 and ended in April 2014. In 2010, TAO Nightclub was second only to the XS Club at The Wynn in revenue, with over $60 million, TAO Beach, located on top of TAO Nightclub, is the Venetians day club and pool party. It offers seven cabanas, each with television, DVD player, Xbox 360, a stocked mini-fridge, in 2004, the Venetian agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle a 12-count Gaming Control Board complaint. One of the 12 complaints alleged the hotel had held a drawing for a Mercedes-Benz that was rigged to be won by a high roller who had lost an amount in the casino. In 2013, the Venetian agreed to pay the U. S. Department of Justice $47.4 million to settle charges over alleged money laundering activities, the exterior of the Venetian is portrayed in the 2007 movie, Resident Evil, Extinction
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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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Jenna Jameson
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Jenna Jameson is an American entrepreneur, webcam model and former pornographic film actress, who has been called the worlds most famous adult entertainment performer and The Queen of Porn. She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper, by 1996, she had won the top newcomer award from each of the three major adult-movie organizations. She has since won more than 35 adult-video awards, and has been inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization, Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially a single website, this expanded into managing similar websites of other stars. The first such movie, Briana Loves Jenna, was named at the 2003 AVN Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title for 2002, by 2005, ClubJenna had revenues of US$30 million with profits estimated at half that. Advertisements for her site and films, often bearing her picture, have towered on a 48-foot-tall billboard in New York Citys Times Square, Jameson has also crossed over into mainstream pop culture, starting with a minor role in Howard Sterns 1997 film Private Parts. Her mainstream appearances continued with several guest-hosting and guest-starring on various television programs, Playboy TV hosted her Jennas American Sex Star reality show, in which aspiring porn stars competed for a ClubJenna contract. Her 2004 autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, A Cautionary Tale, Jameson announced her retirement from pornography at the 2008 AVN Awards, stating that she would never return to the industry. Although she no longer performs in films, she has been working as a webcam model since 2013. Jenna Marie Massoli was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and her father, Laurence Henry Massoli, was a police officer at the Las Vegas Sheriffs Department and program director for KSNV-DT. Her mother, Judith Brooke Hunt, was a Las Vegas showgirl who danced in the Folies Bergère show at the Tropicana Resort & Casino and her mother died of melanoma on February 20,1976, two months prior to her daughters second birthday. The cancer treatments bankrupted the family and they relocated in Nevada, Arizona and Montana and she and her older brother Tony were raised Catholic, though they were essentially left to parent each other. Jameson was a frequent entrant in beauty pageants as a child, in a featurette on the Zombie Strippers DVD, Jameson indicates she trained in dance for fifteen years. The incident began after she attempted to hitchhike home and that she entered the car of the four boys while believing that she would be driven to her home and she reported being raped a second time while still 16 by Preacher, her boyfriend Jacks biker uncle. Preacher has denied the rape ever occurred, rather than tell her father, she left home and moved in with Jack in her first serious relationship. Jack was a tattoo artist and gave her the first of a series of tattoos, one of which would become her trademark tattoo, according to E. her brother Tony, who later owned a tattoo parlor himself, added the inscription Heart Breaker. She tried to follow in her mothers career as a Las Vegas showgirl and she was hired at Disneyland Resort, but left after two months stating concerns over the schedule and salary. Her boyfriend Jack encouraged her to apply for jobs as a dancer, after she was rejected from the Crazy Horse Too strip club because of her orthodontia, she removed her braces with pliers and was accepted
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Chi Chi LaRue
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Larry David Paciotti is an American gay pornographic film director. He appears as the drag-diva persona Chi Chi LaRue, which is also the directorial credit name of Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson, who direct bisexual, gay, and heterosexual porn films. Chi Chi LaRue began when Paciotti moved to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area and began performing in drag as one-half of The Weather Gals, a hag drag revue. He and a friend moved to California and was hired by Catalina Video as an assistant and publicist because of his knowledge of porn. LaRue has directed hundreds of gay porn films since 1988, mainly for Falcon Studios and he now owns Catalina Video, a label under his umbrella company Channel 1 Releasing. In 2003, he began to divide his time between, Vivid Video, where he gets along with much of the female talent, particularly Jenna Jameson. In March 2004, was preparing to leave to travel to London, to direct Taking Flight, instead of abandoning the production, Falcon hired Chris Steele, the scripts author to direct. In 2005, LaRue shot his last film for Falcon, called Heaven to Hell and it was the only movie to ever to be cast of Falcon exclusives. LaRue then divided his attention between Vivid Video, and his own Rascal Video, in 2006, LaRue announced that he would no longer produce films for Vivid Video because they were featuring actors and actresses having sex without condoms. In 2007, LaRue was chosen as one of Out magazines Top 50 most influential people in the LGBT community, in August 2008, he directed the controversial bisexual film titled Shifting Gears. LaRue coined the term straight-for-pay, to describe performer Blake Rileys first encounter with a woman, in 2012, LaRue directed the music video for Trouble by RuPauls Drag Race contestant Willam Belli, which premiered on Logo TV. In 2015, LaRue admitted himself into drug and alcohol treatment in Minnesota, feeling he was near death, a GoFundMe account was set up for him on July 23,2015. 1990 Dave Awards winner of Best Video and Best Director for More of a Man,1991 AVN award Best Director – The Rise, Catalina Video. 1991 AVN Award Best Non-Sexual Performance–Bi, Gay, or Trans Video – More of a Man,1992 Gay Erotic Video Awards Best Director – Songs in the Key of Sex, HIS Video. 1993 AVN Award Best Director – Songs in the Key of Sex,1993 Gay Erotic Video Award Best Special Interest Video – Chi Chi LaRues Hardbody Video Magazine, Odyssey Men. 1993 Gay Erotic Video Award Best Gender Bender – Valley of the Bi Dolls,1994 Gay Erotic Video Award Best Non-Sexual Role – Revenge of the Bi-Dolls, Catalina Video. 1995 Gay Erotic Video Award Best Director – Idol Country, HIS Video,2000 Grabby Award winner of Best Director and Best Video. 2001 GayVN Award Best Director – Echoes, Men of Odyssey,2002 GayVN Award Best Director – Mile Bi Club, All Worlds Video
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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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Tera Patrick
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Tera Patrick is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and model. Patrick is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for February 2000 and is an inductee for the NightMoves, AVN, Tera Patrick was born Linda Ann Hopkins and was raised near San Francisco. Her mother is Thai and her father is of English, Irish, when she was just ten, her mother left her and she grew up with her father David Hopkins, a carefree hippie. After taking weekend classes at the Barbizon School of Modeling for two years, she was hired by a Japanese modeling agency and moved to Tokyo at the age of fourteen. At one of her first photo shoots, she lost her virginity to the photographer and she spent two years in Tokyo, where she became addicted to Valium and alcohol and spent her paychecks on shopping sprees. When her father learned she had become active, he complained to her agency. It sent her back to the United States, sixteen years old, at eighteen, she obtained a GED, briefly studied nursing at Boise State University, then received EMT certification from a local vocational school. Patrick started her career in 1999 and, in 2003. She retired from shooting scenes in the industry in 2008 but continues to operate her website, production company. She licenses her movie catalog worldwide, Patrick has appeared in Playboy and Penthouse, where she was the Pet of the Month for February 2000 and was selected as Pet of the Year runner-up. In 2003, Patrick became the publisher of Genesis. In November 2006, Patrick starred in a Vivid/Teravision production titled Tera Patricks Fashion Underground where she performed with Jean Val Jean, in the same film her husband, under the name Spyder Jonez, performed with Lanny Barby. In an interview, Tera Patrick says shes OK with him doing scenes with other girls, the two made five movies for Vivid and ten for Teravision. com. In 2008, Patrick began hosting the Playboy TV erotic instructional show and she was also the host for 25th AVN Awards ceremony. In January 2013, Patrick hosted the annual XBIZ Awards, Patrick appeared and voiced herself in episode 63 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force animated series, which first aired November 19,2006. Her television appearances include Chelsea Lately, Last Call with Carson Daly, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC, FOX News, Patrick was on the cover of the July 2006 American edition of FHM. Patrick was made into a character in the video game Backyard Wrestling 2. Patrick was also in the video for I Cant Move by Everlast
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Evan Stone
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Evan Stone is a former American pornographic actor. In 2002 he married Jessica Drake, whom he has since divorced, in February 2005, Stone hosted cable television program Spice Hotel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings on Spice Live, which focused on porn star couples. A short 30-second clip of Stone and Tristan Kingsley in an Evan Stone film was broadcast to some Comcast cable subscribers in Tucson, Arizona during Super Bowl XLIII on February 1,2009. In 2011, he was named by CNBC as one of the 12 most popular stars in porn, being the only man on the list. A. M. E. A. M. E. A. M. E
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Jewel De'Nyle
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Jewel DeNyle is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress and director. She is a member of the NightMoves, AVN, and XRCO Halls of Fame, DeNyle was introduced to the adult film industry by Selena Steele. New Sensations signed DeNyle to an exclusive two-year contract within her first month in the industry and she did her first scene with Peter North. In 2000, she made her debut with XXXtreme Fantasies of Jewel DeNyle for New Sensations before parting ways with the studio. Later that year, she co-wrote and co-produced Bound by Blood for Extreme Associates, DeNyle has directed over 80 films. Her mother was also an actress going by the name DeBella. She was involved in a dispute with her mother as to her proceedings on camera, in January 2003, she became a founding part-owner of the porn studio Platinum X Pictures, located in the San Fernando Valley of California. DeNyle left Platinum X in June 2006 and she was born to Debbie Schwarz, who had her when she was 19. DeNyle was later adopted by Larry Jack Schwarz, a former Republican Colorado state legislator, DeNyle was the co-owner of Platinum X Productions while her mother Debbie was the sales director. She started a long relationship with colleague Peter North in 1998. She married Michael Stefano in 2002, in September 2005, she was reported to be newly married in New York. She identifies as a pagan and does not believe in God, Jewel Denyle Bio Jewel DeNyle at the Internet Movie Database Jewel DeNyle at the Internet Adult Film Database Jewel DeNyle at the Adult Film Database Jewel DeNyle. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011
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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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Taylor Hayes (actress)
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Taylor Hayes is the stage name of an American retired pornographic actress. She took her pseudonym from Taylor Hayes, the character played by Hunter Tylo on the The Bold and the Beautiful. In 1995, Taylor moved to Los Angeles and began working for adult studio VCA Pictures, after a couple of adult film productions with VCA, she left to become one of the feature girls of gonzo pornographer Adam Glasser. In 2007, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame
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Raylene
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Raylene is a retired American pornographic actress. Raylene was born and raised in Glendora, California and she is of Italian and Mexican descent on her mothers side. Her father is Jewish of Polish and Austrian descent, as a child, Raylene chose to attend Christian schools. She was a student in high school and graduated at age 16. She wanted to pursue Christian studies at Azusa Pacific University and become a Christian high school teacher, Raylene began acting when she was 5 years old. With help from her uncle, who is a producer, she appeared on Hunter and 21 Jump Street, Raylene entered the adult film industry in 1996 and did her first scene with Mark Davis in Shane’s World #4. She was a performer for Vivid Entertainment between May 1998 and November 2001. Raylene has retired from the film industry several times - first in 2001 to become a real estate agent. As documented in the movie After Porn Ends, in response to financial hardship in 2009, in January 2014, she announced via her Twitter account that she had retired from the industry. At the 2000 Grammy Awards, Raylene was featured cage dancing with Kobe Tai during a performance by Kid Rock, Raylene was briefly married to Brad Hirsch and later divorced
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Michael Raven
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Michael Raven is an American pornographic film director. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, while he was working as a car salesman, Raven met Sydnee Steele to whom he sold a new Miata. They married, finding a common interest in pornography and swinging and their marriage lasted for ten years. He was married to pornographic actress Julia Ann, they divorced in 2007 and he has one brother, named Thomas Priest
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Jessica Drake
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Jessica Drake is an American pornographic actress and sex educator. She began her entertainment career by posing for magazines and appearing on Playboy TV. In 1999, she made the decision to become a film actress. She spent two years as a performer for the studio Sin City until May 31,2002 when her contract expired. She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning Best Tease Performance for her role in VCA Pictures Shaylas Web, in 2003, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures, after turning down offers from other companies. Her performance in Fluff and Fold, a comedy set around a laundromat, earned her the 2005 AVN Award for Best Actress, Video. Along with comedian Jim Norton, Drake was chosen to co-host the 2007 AVN Awards, at the awards, she won Best Actress, Film for her role in Manhunters, for which Drake trained as a bounty hunter during pre-production. Her directorial debut came in the 2008 film What Girls Like and she began writing screenplays during her tenure with Sin City, and has since penned films including Dating 101, Love Always and Just Between Us. In January 2009, she won her third Best Actress AVN Award, this time for her performance in Fallen, in the film, she plays an angel trapped on Earth after the death of a woman she was sent to protect. Around the time of the awards, she suffered a fracture to her left foot. With porn actress Kayden Kross, Drake co-hosted the 2009 XRCO Awards, at which her role in Fallen won the award for Single Performance and she and Sunny Leone co-hosted the F. A. M. E. Drake was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2010, Jessica Drakes Guide to Wicked Sex, Anal Edition was named Specialty Release of the Year at the 2012 XBIZ Awards. On October 21,2016 Drake opened a store selling adult videos. In November 2007, Drake was among several actors to be guests on The Tyra Banks Show episode. In 2008, Drake, Kaylani Lei, and Mikayla Mendez shot a scene for the comedy movie, Barry Munday. Drake appears in the video for the 2010 single Telephone by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé. In 2014, Drake was on CNBCs list of The Dirty Dozen, later in the year a documentary series began airing on The Movie Network and Movie Central titled Love, Jessica, directed by Kai Soremekun. Drake, along with her husband actor Brad Armstrong, were interviewed for a 2014 story in Cosmopolitan magazine about costume design in adult films, in April 2014, Drake was part of discussion panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts titled The Piracy of Sex
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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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Erik Everhard
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Erik Everhard is the stage name of Mitchell Hartwell, a Canadian pornographic actor and director, known for gonzo pornography films. Everhard is a Canadian national of Ukrainian ancestry, in 1995, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to attend university, at which time, he made his first forays into adult films. Everhards adult film career began in Canada, performing for web sites, at the urging of friends and colleagues, he moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to pursue his career. His first shoot in the United States was for director Jules Jordan, after securing himself as a performer, Everhard began directing videos for Anabolic and Diabolic Video in 2001. In 2003, he landed a deal with Redlight District. In 2005 Everhard left Redlight, suing the company for breach of contract, conversion, claim and delivery and he was then hired by Evil Angel Video. After shooting several films with Evil Angel, Everhard returned to work with Jules Jordan, podcast Interview at Adult DVD Talk Erik Everhard at the Internet Movie Database Erik Everhard at the Internet Adult Film Database Erik Everhard at the Adult Film Database
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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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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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Rocco Siffredi
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Rocco Siffredi is an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies who is known for his rough sex scenes. He took his name from the character Roch Siffredi played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino. Known as the Italian Stallion, Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films, in 1987, in which he performed anal sex. Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and gonzo-style pornography, with styles of sex ranging from ordinary to extreme. Rocco has far more power in industry than any actress. Siffredi has credited Stagliano with being his mentor through all 30 years of his career, in June 2004, Siffredi declared that he would retire from performing in porn for the sake of his children, and instead focus on direction and production. My children are growing up, he said, and I can no longer just say Dad is going to work to make money for the family. Regarding Siffredis long career, Axel Braun commented, The problem is that hes been trying for years to find an heir to the throne and he thought he found him in Nacho Vidal, but then Nacho went his own way. Siffredi, while continuing to direct, was absent as an on-screen performer for nearly five years. However, sexual frustration and disappointment as a director with his male talent and he was reported to have told a friend, I never felt so naked as I did then. I was all alone and it gave me a lot of time to think about what is important, and I realised I dont want to lose my wife. He later told the press, ore than a year ago I started to get uncomfortable in the front of the camera, omething inside of me has changed. However, he he has continued performing sex in such as Rocco One on One. Actress Bobbi Starr noted of Siffredi, ny girl in the industry who has been with him, will tell you that they have done things with him that they never do with anyone else. Speaking of his partners, Siffredi says, I want to see emotion. The eyes going up from being surprised, Siffredi is one of a few porn actors to enjoy crossover appeal and success with respect to other segments of the adult film industry, as well as some in mainstream media. In 1999, he appeared in the controversial Catherine Breillat film Romance, both films featured unsimulated sexual scenes involving Siffredi, although it is disputed whether he actually had intercourse with co-star Caroline Ducey in Romance. In 2012, he made a cameo as himself in the successful French comedy Porn in the Hood, Italian band Elio e Le Storie Tese dedicated in 1997 to Siffredi a song and a video, Rocco e Le Storie Tese
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Randy Spears
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Randy Spears, sometimes credited as Greg Ory, is a former American pornographic actor and director who has appeared in numerous adult feature films. Spears is noted among porn actors for his acting talent. Spears left Kankakee for California during the early 1980s, to pursue a career in acting and he landed small roles in the mainstream films Trading Places and Blow Out. Spears was seen in three films under the name Gregory Patrick. In the 1988 comedy Sexpot he played the role of Damon, a year later, Spears starred, along with Georgina Spelvin and Linda Blair, in Bad Blood, a gothic thriller also known as A Woman Obsessed. He also acted in commercials and in a stint on Ryans Hope in 1989 where he played a bartender. Spears recalls this time as being fun, in 2009, Spears provided the voice of a character called John Q. Mind in the episode In Country. Club, the premiere of American Dad. Spears was introduced to the industry in 1987 by Ona Zee, in a 2016 interview, he said he was an aspiring actor who, after a few years in show business, fell on hard times due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. He said he turned to modeling when a make-up artist handed him her card, Spears said he felt conflicted after his first shoot, for which he earned $400. Still, he fielded and accepted more offers, which came in, he said, initially, he kept his mother uninformed about his new profession. Spears first billing was as detective Hank Smith in The Case of the Sensuous Sinners, in 1990, Spears and Tom Byron traveled to Australia and made the films Singles Holiday, Lost in Paradise, Dial a Sailor, Sexual Healer and Outback Assignment. The same year, he won the Adult Video News Best Actor Award for his performance in The Masseuse with Hyapatia Lee, Spears also played Captain Jim Quirk in the Sex Trek series, which was a sex-parody of Star Trek. He has since been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, in 2011, he shot his last film in the pornography film industry, having broken down in tears as he left the set. He publicly announced in 2015 that he had left the industry and he was best friends with the late Jon Dough, with whom he entered the business at around the same time. Spears expressed that Dough was like a brother to him, following Doughs suicide in 2006, Spears and his wife set up a memorial fund on MySpace to help pay for the funeral costs. So I’d go to work, and do the porn, so I could buy the drugs, and around and around it went. Spears also claimed that the business changed his view of women, perceiving them as sexual objects, I thought I was still able
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Nacho Vidal
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Nacho Vidal, is a Spanish pornographic actor, director, producer, writer, and camera operator. Ignacio Jordà González was born in Mataró, Province of Barcelona in Catalonia, when he was very young, González moved with his family to Valencia, where part of his family originated. His family was wealthy, but ended up losing all their money in the 1987 stock market crash and his nickname, Nacho, is the common nickname for Ignacio. At age 14, Vidal quit school to start working to help his family, as a young teenager, he used to have a punk band. He also was a boxer and enlisted in the Spanish Legion in Melilla, later, he started working at the age of 21 in the live porn club Bagdad of Barcelona, where he performed live sexual acts in front of an audience with his girlfriend Jazmine. There, he met the director of the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, José María Ponce, Vidal is a protégé of Rocco Siffredi, who brought him to Hollywood in 1998. In his prolific career he has starred in more than 1500 movies, although self-stated as heterosexual, he has directed some gay porn films. On October 16,2012, Vidal and his sister María José Jordá González were arrested in Barcelona, suspected of involvement in money laundering, hundreds of police were involved in serving warrants to search 120 properties belonging to those suspected of laundering money from prostitution and extortion. Upon his no-bail release, Vidal announced, Thanks to everyone for their support, on 31 May 2005, Vidal announced his retirement from pornography and married Colombian pornographic actress Franceska Jaimes. They moved to a previously owned by his family, located in the small town of Enguera, in Valencia. He and his wife started a family there, however, the couple divorced six weeks later, and Vidal returned to porn only a few months after announcing his retirement. He also has a daughter from a relationship with Venezuelan Rosa Castro. Vidal has stated that he is very open-minded, but is heterosexual in his personal life
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Bridgette Kerkove
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Bridgette Kerkove is an American former pornographic actress and director. Kerkove was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, United States, Kerkove entered the adult film industry in January 1999 at the urging of her future husband, Skeeter Kerkove. She has also appeared with Skeeter in a variety of videos and she started directing in 2001, working for companies such as Metro Studios and No Boundaries. Her first feature movie as a director was Babes Illustrated 15, Kerkove has made appearances on several cable television shows such as the Howard Stern Show and The Tera Patrick Show. Kerkove married adult film director Skeeter Kerkove in 1999 and she had a child while on hiatus from performing between October 2001 and October 2002
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Kristi Myst
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Kristi Myst is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress. Myst was working as a assistant in Los Angeles when she decided to get into the adult entertainment industry. She did a shoot for Hustler magazine and layouts for High Society. Mysts best known include the Buffy the Vampire Layer series of horror parodies. Buffy Down Under, from series, produced by David Haines, was the highest selling Australian produced adult film of all time. She won the 2001 AVN Award for Best Anal Sex Scene – Video for a gang bang scene with urophagia in the film In The Days of Whore. Myst had broken down on the set and wanted to walk off the film and she made a move into professional wrestling by joining Xtreme Pro Wrestling in 1999 and feuded with Lizzy Borden. She was present for an incident which took place at Extreme Championship Wrestlings HeatWave 2000 PPV, several XPW wrestlers attended the ECW event and an altercation ensued between XPW and ECW performers. Much of ECWs locker room ran to ringside to escort their XPW counterparts out of the building, Myst went on to become part of the Wrestling Vixxxens website with Tammy Lynn Sytch and Missy Hyatt in 2001. In January 2001, she left the industry to raise a child, in a 2005 interview, she described herself as a full time mom, and a fan of X-Men comic books. Kristi Myst at the Internet Movie Database Kristi Myst at the Internet Adult Film Database Kristi Myst at the Adult Film Database
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Alexandra Quinn
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Alexandra Quinn is a Canadian former pornographic actress. Quinn was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and she was a gymnast and jazz singer as a teenager. Quinn emigrated from Canada with a passport and entered the adult entertainment industry in the late 1980s. She began stripping in Canada when she was 14, two years later she met pornographic actress Erica Boyer and moved to Los Angeles with her. Quinn began performing in films at the age of 16 after Boyer introduced her to agent Jim South. Quinn misrepresented her birth year as 1968, which would have made her 22 at the time of her film debut. Her first scene was in the film Space Virgins, and it was a group sex scene with two men and two other women, besides Quinn. She won the 1991 AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene - Video alongside Sunny McKay & Rocco Siffredi for their performance in Buttmans Ultimate Workout, by November 1991 she had appeared in approximately 100 adult films,60 of which were shot while she was still a minor. Quinn forgot to bring her fake ID to a film shoot once and decided to use her real one instead. She had been working in the film industry for over a year but had only turned 18 seven months earlier. This discrepancy on her identification card revealed that she was underage in her adult film appearances. On October 31,1991, the film industry began to destroy the dozens of films she was featured in while she was still a minor. She had a breast augmentation surgery on the day of her 18th birthday, which made it easier to distinguish which films were shot while she was still underage, the Quinn case is mentioned often, usually together with the Traci Lords underage porn case, in sociological studies. These cases triggered a debate which ended with the passing of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. Quinn was unwelcome in the film industry after her real age was revealed. She later had a $3, 500/week contract with the Centerfold strip club in Memphis, in 1996 she contacted several adult-film production companies in an attempt to resume her career. It took her eight years, after her age was discovered. During her eight-year hiatus she only appeared in five pornographic films, nearing age 30, she began getting cast in the MILF genre in 2000
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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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Sydnee Steele
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Sydnee Steele is an American pornographic actress, free speech activist, sex counselor and author. She appeared in over 300 films before her retirement in 2005 and she is of Greek American descent. Steele was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of a college professor. She has described herself as having been a shy and introverted child, relating in a 2001 interview with AVN. Before entering pornography, she held a position as an officer at a yacht company in Texas. In the early 1990s, while working as a saleswoman in a Dallas shopping mall, Steele met Michael Raven. They married, finding a common interest in pornography and swinging and their marriage lasted for ten years, during which Raven became a well-known pornographic film director. The marriage did not produce any children, as per their decision not to have any and she has a French Bulldog named Shanti. Steele was introduced to the industry through a friend, A. J, crowell, who at the time was publisher and owner of Sundown, a Texas adult entertainment listings guide. Her debut performance in the entertainment industry involved being painted like a zebra in a three-girl scene in The Queens Challenge, with Anna Malle. Her first big film was Flashpoint, directed by pornographic actor and director Brad Armstrong. In 2001 she signed a contract with Wicked Pictures, becoming a Wicked Girl. After that she performed in mostly plot-based pornographic films and began winning awards and she was awarded the 2002 AVN Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. She was again nominated for Best Actress in 2003 for Falling From Grace, after her Wicked contract she says she received media coverage in nationally distributed publications, including The New York Times, Time and Premiere. She was featured in The Learning Channels Public and Private, where she explains her ideas on the differences between sex in her life and sex on camera. In 2004, while filming Pillow Talk, directed by Devinn Lane, she told Adult Video News that she had fallen in love with a man from outside the industry and it would turn out to be her last pornographic film. Steele left the industry in April 2005, in 2007, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. She also starred in a movie titled Cougar School in 2009, from 2002-04 Steele wrote The Steele Factor, a monthly column discussing pornography, sexuality and free speech for AVN
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Inari Vachs
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Inari Vachs is an American pornographic actress. Before entering the industry, Inari worked in several different industries on the corporate level. Starting in office management then moving into sales and marketing in life insurance and finance and she entered the industry in November 1997 at age 23 and has since appeared in over 380 films. Her first scene was an anal sex shoot for Max Hardcore and her stage name refers to the Japanese god Inari, who is depicted in paintings as a woman with long, flowing hair, and to her favorite author Andrew Vachss. In 2000 she signed a contract with XXXGeneration Video and became a music reporter for XXXGeneration magazine. In 2002, she began a hiatus from performing on camera. In 2003 she established the production company IV Multimedia, as of 2005, she co-hosted Playboy TV’s Naughty Amateur Home Videos. In 2010 Vachs returned to performing with a role in Harder by skinworXXX. On her return to performing she commented, Porn is so much more accepted now than it was. The hardest part of doing porn was how society viewed you and it made it tough sometimes, but now it’s different. My mom didn’t even know I did porn until I stopped performing, in 2011 she was the co-host for the 2011 XRCO Awards with Tom Byron. Vachs had a daughter during her hiatus from porn
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Ava Vincent
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Ava Vincent, formerly known as Jewel Valmont, is an American former pornographic actress. Vincent is from Marin County in Northern California and she graduated from San Joaquin Delta College with a theatre arts degree. She was a manager at a bookstore called Suzys in Stockton. Vincent entered the film industry in 1998. She initially used the stage name Jewel Valmont until 2000 when she changed it to Ava Vincent, later that year, she filmed a couple of B movies titled Illicit Temptations and Hollywood Fantasies and was reportedly signed to do another one titled Sexual Intentions. She also had a role in Fast Sofa in which she has simulated sex with Jennifer Tilly. While working at Suzys, Ava met Samantha Style, who was a customer, Samantha introduced Ava to Seymore Butts, who directed Avas first scene. Vincent was among the adult industry workers interviewed in 2001 for Fluffy Cumsalot, Porn Star, Vincent was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for August 2001. That same month, she signed an exclusive agreement with Topco Sales to endorse. Vincent married pornographic actor John Decker in Las Vegas on July 2,2001, Ava Vincent at the Internet Movie Database Ava Vincent at the Internet Adult Film Database Ava Vincent at the Adult Film Database
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Herschel Savage
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Herschel Savage is an American pornographic film actor and pornographic film director. Savage was born to Russian Jewish parents in New York City, after graduating from high school, at age 18, Savage entered the military in 1969, the United States Navy Branch, where he attended Navy SEALS training in Coronado, California. He was then deployed to Vietnam where he worked in a platoon in SEAL TEAM2 and his team SEAL platoons carried out day and night ambushes, hit-and-run raids, reconnaissance patrols, and special intelligence collection operations. Savage was part of an elite force, calling them the “men with green faces” because of the face camouflage they used, the VC feared SEALs and often put bounties on their heads. During a nighttime raid, Savage and his team encountered a Viet Cong ambush, where several SEALs were wounded, after an intense nighttime battle, the SEALS along with their Marine counterparts killed 22 VC, and disabled a number of bunkers and tunnels hidden in the jungle. Savage took a bullet to his buttock and was hospitalized where infection set in, doctors worked feverishly over a number of weeks to control the infection and eventually Savage was sent home, and was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his actions during the firefight. He returned to New York city, discharged from the Navy and began to look for work in acting, which was his passion. He spoke little of his Navy SEAL experience, as the discontent for the war in the United States was palpable at the time, Savage began to study acting under Broadway actress Uta Hagen and renowned acting teacher Stella Adler. Savage initially sought a stage and screen career. However, he became disillusioned by the constant auditioning and competition for roles. Savage was introduced to the film industry via the actor R. Bolla in 1976. He appeared in the 1978 classic Debbie Does Dallas, for which he was paid about $150 a day, some of the other films he has appeared in include Expose Me Now, Bodies in Heat, and Rambone Does Hollywood. He left pornography in 1988 and worked in sales and video distribution and he then returned to the industry in 1997. The name Herschel Savage was created with Jamie Gillis in an attempt to combine a nerdy Jewish identity with that of a stud, Savage also launched a fledgling career as a stand up comedian and appeared frequently on the reality TV series Family Business. He appeared as a guest during the season of the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me. In 2006, he starred in Neil Simons play The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue, under the stage name Max Cohen, Herschel is a member of the XRCO, and AVN Halls of Fame, and he has appeared in more than 1000 films
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Nina Hartley
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Nina Hartley is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, sex-positive feminist, and author. Marie Louise Hartman was born in Berkeley, California, to a Lutheran father and she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the youngest of four children, with an older sister and her parents were communists who converted to Buddhism when she was young. After graduating from Berkeley High School in 1977, she attended San Francisco State Universitys undergraduate nursing school and she was a registered nurse per the California Board of Registered Nursing until her license expired in 1986. In 1982, during her year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at the Sutter Cinema. She made her foray into the world of movies during her junior year in 1984. Her debut performance was in the film Educating Nina, making her a protégée of Juliet Anderson, Hartley considers herself a liberal and an outspoken sex-positive feminist, although for a time she was a socialist activist. Addressing other women, she said, Sex isnt something men do to you and it isnt something men get out of you. Sex is something you dive into with gusto and like it every bit as much as he does, the two came under hard scrutiny from the mostly female audience, but they refused to back down and were outspoken in their support of the industry. She and Ona Zee spoke out strongly against illegal drugs in the industry, Hartley had a role in the 1997 film Boogie Nights, playing William H. Macys serially unfaithful wife, and she appeared in the 1996 Canadian film Bubbles Galore. Hartley also appeared in the late rapper Tupac Shakurs music video for his 1996 single, as of 2015, Hartley remained active in the industry. In 2006 she published her first book Nina Hartleys Guide to Total Sex and she would later co-author the book series How to be Kinkier beginning in 2012. In 2010, she quipped, Now I work with women who are younger than my breast implants, Hartley played the part of Hillary Clinton in the film Whos Nailin Paylin. This was a parody of then Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Hartley was also featured in the 2010 documentary After Porn Ends, Hartley is openly bisexual in her private life. She has described herself as an atheist, but when she was asked about this in an interview, she corrected it to a neo-pagan. Hartley serves on the Board of Directors of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, from 1981–2000, Hartley was involved in a threesome with a man and a woman. She married her partner in 1986, their divorce was finalized in 2003
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Julie Meadows
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Julie Meadows is an American writer, web designer and former pornographic actress, who became a documentarian after retiring from the profession. She was active in the industry from 1998–2004 and is said to resemble the actress Julia Stiles. Born on February 3,1974 in Texarkana, Texas, Meadows has three sisters and she married at the age of 17 and gave birth to a son just after their first anniversary. Meadows met the film director Michael Raven while dancing in Dallas and she moved to Los Angeles, California six months later, where she began working in adult films in 1998. Her first film was Ed Powers Dirty Debutantes 94, Meadows was a contract performer for VCA for two years, before leaving in January 2003. She retired from the industry in 2004, she later stated her reason for retiring was that she was no longer interested in making movies. In March 2010, Meadows appeared in a Public Service Announcement for the Free Speech Coalition on the topic of Internet infringement of adult content and she backed out of working on later episodes though. Official website Julie Meadows at the Internet Movie Database Julie Meadows at the Internet Adult Film Database Julie Meadows at the Adult Film Database Michael Varhola, Texas Confidential, Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State. 2002 interview at Adultdvdtalk. com January 2000 interview at RogReviews. com January 2003 interview at RogReviews. com
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Mike Horner (actor)
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Mike Horner is an American pornographic film actor. He is sometimes credited as Don Hart, Don Horner, Dan Sir or Johnny Wilson, Horner began acting in small sex films, at the time referred to as loops, in January 1978. His first feature movie was 1979s Tangerine and he has been in over 1500 feature films and videos, and he has performed in over 500 additional all sex videos, with approximately 1800 actresses. A frequent and popular costar in the 1980s was legend Hyapatia Lee, Horner attended San Francisco State University and UCLA, and graduated from Sonoma State University. He pursued acting, theater and dance prior to his porn career, mike started out making only around $40–100 a movie. While only a job at first, hardcore finally became Mikes primary income in 1983. He made the move to Southern California in 1991 to make porn his primary objective and he started directing movies in 1993, but he found mixed success, as porn had made the move to gonzo type movies, different from his artistic tastes. He has directed Tangled, Dreams of Desires, Taoist Sexuality and he is a member of the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. He has won Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor and non-sex acting awards from the AVN eight times and his AVN Best Actor award winning films include, Sexually Altered States, Justine, Nothing to Hide, Seduction of Mary, Lessons in Love and Euphoria. He continues to act and produce adult films periodically, in 2009, he co-starred in the spoof Celebrity Pornhab with Dr. Screw
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Jonathan Morgan (director)
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Jonathan Morgan is a former actor and current director of pornographic films. He has directed for studios including Wicked Pictures, where he made such as Inside Porn. 2000 AVN Award – Best Video Editing – Double Feature, Jonathan Morgan at the Internet Movie Database Jonathan Morgan at the Adult Film Database Jonathan Morgan at the Internet Adult Film Database Jonathan Morgan on Twitter
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Lexington Steele
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Clifton Britt, better known as Lexington Steele, is an American pornographic actor, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. He is the first actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times, clifton Britt was born in New Jersey. After graduating from Syracuse, Steele became a broker trainee at the brokerage firm of M S Farrell in 1993. Once he earned his Series 7 trading license he moved to Oppenheimer Financial in the World Trade Center and he has stated that he would have been in the buildings and been a victim of the September 11,2001 attacks had he kept his old job as a stockbroker. In a 2015 interview in AVN magazine, Steele commented about his transition into the industry, Once I was licensed. The guy who trained me invited me to a party in a hotel suite and it wasnt long before a bigger director from Los Angeles gave me a job and suggested I attend the annual porn industry convention in Las Vegas. I was working 12 to 14 hours six days a week, I made six figures, but my quality of life wasnt commensurate. Steele has said that his name came about back during the days when he worked as a stockbroker when he took the subway to visit a client. At that time he had decided to move in the adult film industry. His client was located in Midtown Manhattan and, Steele said, on the corner of Madison and Lexington Avenues, where he was struck by the sound of Lexington as a first name. He started appearing in movies in April 1996, in New York City. He got his earliest exposure appearing in the amateur productions of Lynn Carroll. He moved to Los Angeles and joined the industry full-time in March 1998, initially he shot mainly for the companies such as West Coast Productions and director Spunky. Later, he appeared on videotapes produced by Anabolic and Diabolic, at the beginning of 2004 he joined Red Light District Video for a brief period. Steele directs and performs exclusively for his own company, Mercenary Motion Pictures. The company reported net profits of $2.6 million in 2005. In 2013 he joined the Evil Angel roster of directors, Steele has worked as a model on the side and acted in minor TV roles. He appeared in two episodes of Showtimes Weeds in 2007, playing himself at a movie shoot filming a scene with Kirsten Price and Jessica Jaymes
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Tony Tedeschi
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Tony Tedeschi is an American pornographic film actor and AVN Hall of Fame inductee. Before his pornography career, he worked as a deejay at the Foxy Lady strip club in Providence and he was spotted by Britt Morgan, who was performing there at the time, and later shot his first scenes with her in 1990. Tedeschi has appeared in nearly 1,300 films between 1990 and 2012, and co-directed one, Late Night Sessions With Tony Tedeschi, with Bud Lee and he appeared in the 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson film Boogie Nights. He was also a contestant on Win Ben Steins Money, in 2003, Tedeschi was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Croix for The Show 1999 Best Anal Sex Scene - Film with Chloe, peter North Randy Spears Hall of Fame - Class of 2003, Tony Tedeschi December 2003 Adult Video News article about the actor. Tony Tedeschi at the Internet Movie Database Tony Tedeschi at the Internet Adult Film Database Tony Tedeschi at the Adult Film Database
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Asia Carrera
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Asia Carrera Lemmon is an American former pornographic actress. Asia Carrera was born Jessica Steinhauser in New York City to a German mother and Japanese father and she was raised on Lippincott Road in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little Silver School District and Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15, at the age of 16, she taught English at Tsuruga College in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan. Carrera won a National Merit Scholarship for scoring over 1440 on the SAT and she attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, where she majored in Japanese and business, but did not graduate. Carrera is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156, carreras adult film career ran from 1993 to 2003 and included over 400 films and video features. According to interviews, she chose her stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, Carrera was the first Asian performer ever to win the award AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. Carrera retired from the industry in 2003, following her marriage to Don Lemmon. Carrera lent her voice to several erotic hentai OVAs for publisher Pink Pineapple, such as Inmu and Shusaku. In October 2001, Carrera attended the Big Apple Anime Fest in New York City for her voice roles, Carrera was also in the 2010 documentary After Porn Ends, which is about life after being a porn actor. A sequel to the documentary was released in 2017, it featured interviews with actors as did the first film. In 1998, she appeared in a cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie Logjammin within the film. Carrera was a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine, as of November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah drivers license photograph. She is one of about a dozen Pastafarian Utahns who have worn a colander in their official state ID photos, in September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, but remain good friends and she married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19,2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah, where she gave birth to a daughter and son and she later gave birth to a boy she gave up for adoption. On April 14,2010, She confessed on her blog that she became an alcoholic after her husbands death, that she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous and she emphasized that she still did not believe in God, as such a belief is actually not mandatory for joining AA. She identified investor Warren Buffett as her hero on her website, Big Money Shot, Asia Carrera Interview at Giant Robot,1999 Pollard, Nate. Interview, Asia Carrera Interview at Verbicide Magazine,2011
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Kylie Ireland
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Kylie Ireland is an American pornographic actress, film director, producer, publicist, and Satellite radio show host. She is an inductee into the AVN, XRCO, and NightMoves Halls of Fame, Ireland was born on May 26,1970, in Longmont, Colorado, a small community outside Denver. She grew up a student until her parents divorced when she was 13. At 15 she became rebellious and started taking drugs, until her father sent her to live with her mother. In San Diego, Ireland returned to getting good grades, graduated high school, while going to high school and college, Ireland worked part-time ordering videos for a chain of video stores, which she credits for learning a lot about pornographic films. Ireland returned to Colorado to continue college partially in Boulder, Colorado, partially in Fort Collins, Colorado, one of her first female lovers was a waitress at the same club who would become the pornographic actress Juli Ashton. She entered the film industry in 1994, through an acquaintance with glamour photographer Warren Tang. Her first films were Lil Ms. Behaved, where she performed with Randy West, Ireland moved to Los Angeles after her first five films, and performed in a total of 80 films her first year, before returning to Colorado intending to slow down her film work. From 1995 to 2000, Ireland performed in exclusive contracts, starring in a few films per year, while traveling across America and Europe, strip tease dancing and promoting her films. Her first contract, with Sin City Entertainment, was brief and that was followed by a five-year contract with VCA Pictures. Ireland served as VCAs Director of Publicity from 1999 to 2000, demonstrating that no hard feelings remained about the lawsuit, she had a one-month stint as Director of Publicity for Sin City in April 2003. In 1996, during her time at VCA, Ireland returned to her red hair. In January 1995 Ireland was awarded AVN Best New Starlet by Adult Video News Magazine and this would be the first of many adult film awards. Fans of X-Rated Entertainment awarded her the Vixen award in 1995 and she was named by Playboy Magazine as one of their Top 10 Porn Stars for 1997. In 2001, AVN listed her among the Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time, when her contract with VCA expired, Ireland directed her first movie, The Whore Next Door. Ireland continued to direct, first for Jewel DeNyle at Platinum X Pictures, in April 2006, she founded her own adult film company, SlutWerkz, which features women directors and Cross as head of production, producing and starring in hardcore gonzo pornography. SlutWerkz launch was delayed from its planned fall 2007 to sometime in 2008 after replacing the original intended distributors, the company originally planned to release one film per month. Ireland started her website, http, //www. kylieireland. com, in 1996, becoming one of the first pornographic actresses on the Web
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Devinn Lane
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Devinn Lane is a former adult model, pornographic actress, writer, director and producer. She is sometimes credited as Devin Lane or Devon Lane and she was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month October 1999. Lane became pregnant at 16 and began stripping to support herself, in 1996, while still dancing, she was offered work posing in hard-core mens magazines. She made her film debut in 1999, performing in only lesbian or girl/girl scenes. She signed a contract for the production company Wicked Pictures in December 1999. She has directed films, notably all five installments of The Devinn Lane Show. In 2003, she performing with men, starting with the final scene in The Devinn Lane Show 5. Over the next two years she performed scenes with men in Kink, Lovestruck, Space Nuts, Improper Conduct, Wicked Sex Party 6, Beautiful, Stiletto, Tuff Chick, two Road Trixx movies, and Lovers Lane. As of 2005, she went on hiatus from on-screen work. Her first producer credit is on the film Beautiful/Nasty which was nominated for the AVN Award Best All-Girl Feature in 2002, in February 2009, she dismissed her claims against most of the companies she was suing, leaving only Privacy Protect and Pixel named in the suit. Her attorney declined comment at the time on why she was dropping those firms and she stated I think the hardest time was coming to terms with my bisexuality. That was probably the hardest thing, I was brought up that I was going to burn for it. It just seemed like the right thing
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Ginger Lynn
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Ginger Lynn Allen is an American pornographic actress and model who came to prominence in 1980s videos. She also had roles in various B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest porn stars of all time, after ending her adult-entertainment career, she began using her full name, Ginger Lynn Allen, and found work in a variety of B-movies. She had a late return to the adult industry and made a brief series of movies. Allen is a member of AVN, NightMoves Adult Entertainment, over her four-decade career, Allens credits include a variety of roles and jobs. These include actress/performer, director, writer, producer, and assistant director, born in Rockford, Illinois, Ginger Lynn Allen moved to California in 1982 after hearing about her grandfathers heart attack. Following her grandfathers death, a friend came to live with her. Allen was the major supporter in the relationship and needed to find a higher-paying job. Allen began as a model and then began performing in hardcore sex films as Ginger Lynn by December 1983. Her first pornographic video role was in Surrender in Paradise, in which she starred with Jerry Butler, Allens girl next door good looks led to a quick rise in her popularity and eventually she became one of the most popular female performers in adult-entertainment history. She had her own line of videos through Vivid Entertainment with director Bruce Seven, Allen received the Best New Starlet award in 1985 and is an inductee to the X-Rated Critics Organization and Adult Video News halls of fame. Allen signed a contract with Vivid Entertainment foundrer, Steven Hirsch, making her the first Vivid Girl and beating out the then-underaged Traci Lords. She was later called to testify on Lords behalf against porn producers, she refused, in February 1986, Allen decided to stop making adult videos and establish a career in mainstream films using her full name. She appeared in several films, television shows and even interactive movie segments of the Wing Commander computer games. She started her career in features with a small part in the western Young Guns II. Allen was the subject of an episode of the documentary series E, Allen appeared in another episode about her relationship with actor Charlie Sheen in 2010. In December 2005, she appeared in American Pie, Band Camp playing the role of Nurse Sanders. In the same year, she portrayed Fanny in Rob Zombies thriller film The Devils Rejects, Allen returned to the adult-entertainment industry in 1999 for three movies, Torn, White Lightning, and New Wave Hookers 6
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Brad Armstrong (director)
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Brad Armstrong is a Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and costume designer. He is currently under contract with Wicked Pictures and he has been known as one of the most popular leading men in the sex industry, as well as The King of Porn and The Spielberg of Skin Directors. Among the films he has directed is Octomom Home Alone, Armstrong attended college for commercial art and advertising. Armstrong worked as a stripper in Canada for 10 years. He began dancing at age 17 by borrowing a friends ID and he was introduced to the porn industry by pornographic actress Erica Boyer. His first scene was a sixway with Boyer, Randy Spears, Eric Price, Armstrong was once married to Jenna Jameson, but divorced in 2001. Since 2006, Armstrong is married to Jessica Drake, Interview with Brad Armstrong Interview at RogReviews. com Brad Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database Brad Armstrong at the Internet Adult Film Database Brad Armstrong at the Adult Film Database
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