American model, entrepreneur, and former adult film star Jenna Jameson. In addition to participating in about two hundred adult films, she has been featured in over four hundred magazine covers and over a thousand magazine articles. Jameson was born and reared in Nevada, USA, and had a challenging upbringing. At sixteen, she ran away from home to work as a stripper. She was a model as well. At twenty years old, she began acting in erotic films. She relocated to Los Angeles and carried on her career in adult entertainment. She rapidly gained popularity and fame as an adult performer after winning honors for her first significant adult film. Jameson and Jay Grdina launched “ClubJenna,” an adult website that quickly became well-known and profitable. She also made appearances on TV shows and in a few mainstream movies. For six weeks, her autobiography was listed as a best seller on “The New York Times Best Seller List.” In 2008, she left the adult film industry and is now a webcam model.
Early Life & Childhood of Jenna Jameson
On April 9, 1974, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jennifer Marie Massoli gave birth to Jenna Jameson. Laurence Henry Massoli, her father, worked as a police officer for the “Las Vegas Sheriff’s Department.” Judith Brooke Hunt, her mother, was a club dancer. When Jameson was just 2 years old, in February 1976, Judith passed away from skin cancer. They were forced to live in trailer houses when the cancer treatment left them impoverished. Alongside her older brother Tony, Jenna was raised by her paternal grandmother.
She took part in beauty pageants and studied ballet as a young girl. “Bonanza High School” was her school. In her memoirs, she later disclosed that she had been sexually assaulted twice while still in her teens—once by the uncle of her lover and once by a group of four boys in Montana. She moved out of her house to live with her tattoo artist boyfriend, Jack.
Career of Jenna Jameson
Jenna began her career as a Vegas showgirl, following in her mother’s footsteps. She left the position, nevertheless, because the pay was insufficient for the labor. Jack, her lover, talked her into becoming a stripper. Being underage, she utilized fictitious documents, and soon she was making $2,000 a night. She became Jenna Jameson and used the popular Irish whisky brand as her last name.
In 1991, with aspirations of becoming a “Penthouse” model, she appeared for photographer Suze Randall. She quickly discovered, though, that she was being taken advantage of. Tony, her brother, had already developed a heroin addiction. Jameson trailed him as well and became addicted to LSD, cocaine, and methamphetamine quickly. She was taken to her father and grandmother in Redding, California, for rehabilitation after suffering a significant weight loss.
She quickly made the decision to become an adult film artist. Her father disagreed with her choice. She made her screen debut in an adult film in 1993. There was an intimate scene with another woman during her first adult video production. Since these kinds of situations are more comfortable for them than working with male actors, this is how female adult film actors start out in their careers. She worked on two additional movies in 1994, “Up and Cummers 10” and “Up and Cummers 11.” When she was still in Las Vegas, she continued to work on pornographic films after becoming well-known.
In 1994, Jameson underwent her first breast implant procedure. After that, she relocated to Los Angeles to live with Nikki Tyler, her coworker and girlfriend. In 1995, she inked a contract with the adult film production company “Wicked Pictures,” working on “Blue Movie,” her first major project under their banner. She became the first adult star to win the three major industry awards for her first major adult film as a result of it, taking home three of them.
She started making a good living by 2001 because to her adult DVDs and strip club routines. She worked on about five movies a year and did two weeks of strip club work every month.
She and Jay Grdina created ClubJenna, an adult entertainment company, in 2000. It was a special website with photographs, movies, and relationship guidance. Later, as the company grew, they started creating X-rated films and running websites for other adult celebrities. Jameson had a role in the first few movies. “Briana Loves Jenna,” the debut “ClubJenna” movie, became the year’s top-grossing adult film and took home several accolades. After 2004, she stopped starring in their movies. She did, however, go on to direct the 2006 movie “Jenna’s Provocateur.” The company was valued at $30 million annually in 2005, with a profit of around $15 million.
She also tried her hand at video game promotion for “Virtually Jenna.” She and several partners bought Scottsdale, Arizona’s “Babes Cabaret,” a strip club, in 2005. When the “Scottsdale City Council” attempted to impose restrictions on their operations, Jameson organized a petition and was granted permission to carry on as before. In June 2006, “ClubJenna” was acquired by “Playboy Enterprises,” however Jameson continued in his role as executive.
She published her memoirs in 2004. It was written in collaboration with Neil Strauss and released by HarperCollins’ “ReganBooks” division. It went on to become a bestseller very quickly, spending six weeks on “The New York Times Best Seller” list. October 2013 saw the publication of her second book, the erotic fiction book Sugar.
In 2007, she underwent surgery to remove her double breast implants and ended her career as an adult star. She does, nevertheless, still work for “ClubJenna.” She attended the 2013 “Exxxotica New Jersey” convention after retiring, and later that year, she started a career as a webcam model. She served as the MC for the “2014 XBIZ Awards” in January 2014.
Jameson made appearances in popular shows and movies as well. She appeared in the 1997 film “Private Parts,” starring radio presenter Howard Stern. Appearances in other popular TV programs, such as those on “Extreme Championship Wrestling” (ECW) and “World Wrestling Entertainment” (WWE), came after this. She also had an appearance as a guest host on the travel program “Wild On!” on “E!” She appeared in the 2001 music video “Without Me” by Eminem. In the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Jameson voiced the character Candy Suxxx. She contributed to two horror films as well.
Following the publication of her memoirs, Jameson gave several TV appearances for interviews. In the 2015 season of the British reality series “Celebrity Big Brother,” she represented the United States.
Honors & Accomplishments of Jenna Jameson
Jameson’s contributions to the adult entertainment industry have garnered her over 35 honors.
Jameson took home three prestigious accolades from the adult film business in 1996: the “Fans of X-Rated Entertainment (FOXE) Video Vixen Award,” the “AVN Best New Starlet Award,” and the “XRCO Best New Starlet Award.” For “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” she received the 2003 “G-Phoria Best Live Action/Voice Performance Award – Female.”
She has the first wax figure of an adult star at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas.
Two “AVN Awards” were given to “Briana Loves Jenna,” Club Jenna’s debut film. Her autobiography and the television series “Family Business” tied for the 2004 “XRCO Award” for “Mainstream’s Adult Media Favorite.”
She received inductions into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fames.
Individual Life of Jenna Jameson
Jameson asserted in 2004 that she was bisexual and had had intercourse with thirty men and one hundred women. She shared a residence with Nikki Tyler, her coworker and girlfriend, throughout the early years of her career. She did, however, declare herself to be exclusively heterosexual in 2008.
In December 1996, she wed Brad Armstrong, the director of “Wicked Pictures” and co-star in adult films Rodney Hopkins. She was required by her contract to continue working with him even though she and he parted ways after just ten weeks. In March 2001, they got divorced.
From 1998 until her retirement, Jay Grdina, better known as Justin Sterling, was her sole male adult film co-star. December 2000 saw them become engaged, and June 2003 saw them tie the knot. Arizona’s Scottsdale was their home. Despite being conceived in 2004, Jameson was given a skin cancer diagnosis. After the cancer was surgically removed, she miscarried and was unable to conceive with Grdina. Their marriage was impacted by these things, and in 2006 they got divorced.
She began dating mixed martial artist Tito Ortiz that same year, and they eventually got married. In March 2009, she gave birth to their twin sons, Journey Jette and Jesse Jameson. Ortiz was taken into custody for domestic assault at their Huntington Beach residence the following year. He said she was abusing drugs. 2013 saw their split. Before that, Jameson was arrested in California in May 2012 for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and other narcotics.
November 2016 saw Jameson become an Orthodox Jew because Lior Bitton, her current partner, is Jewish. Los Angeles-based jeweler Lior has allegedly been detained for fraud. On April 6, 2017, she gave birth to their daughter, Batel Lu Bitton.
Net worth of Jenna Jameson
The estimated net worth of Jenna Jameson is about $1 million.