Jenna Jameson
Biography
She was born in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father was Lawrence
Massoli, program director for an NBC affiliate,
and a police officer, of Italian descent. Her
mother was Judith Brooke Hunt Massoli, a Las
Vegas showgirl, who danced at the Tropicana and
the Folies-Bergère. Her mother died of skin
cancer February 20, 1976, when Jenna was two
years old, after which she became very close to
her brother, Tony Massoli. During her childhood,
she took ballet classes, which helped her future
career as a stripper, and was a frequent entrant
in beauty pageants.
In 1990, at age 16, Jenna ran away from home and
moved in with her boyfriend, a tattoo artist, her
first serious relationship. Her boyfriend gave
her what would become her trademark tattoo,
double hearts, on her right buttock, which her
brother, who would become a tattoo artist
himself, later enscribed "HEART
BREAKER". She applied for jobs as a dancer
in Las Vegas, and in 1991, she began dancing in
strip clubs with the help of a fake I.D.
Initially rejected from dancing at the Crazy
Horse Too strip club because of her braces, they
quickly relented when she removed them with the
aid of her brother and a pair of needle-nosed
pliers. She was soon earning $2000 per night,
before finishing high school.
Later in 1991, she chose the name "Jenna
Jameson" from scrolling through the phone
book for a last name that matched her first name,
and finally deciding on Jameson for Jameson
Whiskey, which she drinks.
In the early 1990s, after going through some
tough times, Jenna became addicted to
methamphetamine thanks to her ex-boyfriend known
as Jack. He soon left her alone in their Vegas
apartment. Jenna, with all her might called a
friend of Jack who took her to the airport and
sent her home to her father and brother who were
then living in California. Six months later,
Jenna recovered from her addiction and was ready
to leave, this time she moved to Los Angeles.
By age 20, with her father's blessing, she posed
nude in such magazines as Hustler, Penthouse and
Chéri, and entered adult films in 1993. After a
bidding war, Wicked Pictures, a pornographic film
production company, signed Jameson to an
exclusive contract in 1994. After only a few
films, she quickly achieved notice and critical
success, and, in 1996, won top awards from three
major industry organizations, the XRCO Best New
Starlet, the AVN Best New Starlet and the
F.O.X.E. Video Vixen awards. She was the first
entertainer to have won all three awards.
Jameson has also made cameo appearances in some
mainstream movies, including Howard Stern's 1997
film Private Parts.
In 1997, she made an appearance for an Extreme
Championship Wrestling PPV as the valet for the
Dudley Boyz, followed by a few months where she
was the ECW interviewer. She also filmed a
vignette with Val Venis, a character in the WWE,
in the late-1990s.
In 2001, Jameson debated the merits of porn
against a panel of anti-porn activists at the
Oxford Union. The debate was won by her at 204 to
27.
In 2002, she voiced Candy Suxxx in the video game
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, one of the most
recognizable characters in the popular video
game.
In October 2005, production began on The
Provocateur, in which Jameson made her
directorial debut. The film is expected to be
released in late 2006.
She is currently the host of Playboy channel's
Jenna Jameson's American Sex Star. The
re-appearance of Jenna on "American Sex
Star" was grouped with reports of massive
facial plastic surgery.
On February 3, 2006, Jameson, Savanna Samson, and
several other Vivid Girls hosted the first ever
Vivid Club Jenna Super Bowl Party at the Zoo Club
in Detroit, Michigan for a $1,000 ticket price,
that featured a lingerie show. When first
announced, the party caused controversy with the
NFL, which did not sanction this as an official
Super Bowl event. In the January 19, 2006 edition
of The Detroit Free Press, Jameson attempted to
end some of the controversy by assuring that
there will be no nudity or sex acts at the party,
although the February 6, 2006 edition of The
Detroit News reported Jameson did have one
planned "wardrobe malfunction" at the
party.
Jameson will star in the motion picture, Sin-Jin
Smyth, which is due for release in October 2006.
Info about her character in the film has been
kept classified by the writer and director, Ethan
Dettenmaier
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