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Tiny but surgically enhanced Jenna Jameson (Massoli) "rewrote the history of human masturbation" with much hyped performances in Silk Stockings, Babydoll, Cherry Pie, The Dinner Party, Elements of Desire, Cover to Cover and Blue Movie.

Jenna's mother was a stripper who died when Jenna was four. Her dad, a Las Vegas cop turned president of the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, raised Jenna and her brother.

Dad nicknamed her "heartbreaker." She did well in school and started stripping when she turned 18.

"My dad used to tell me ever since I was young, 'You're gonna be a star, Jenna. One way or another'."

That her road to fame cut through porn doesn't bother him. "He goes out with 22-year olds," Jenna told Howard Stern. "He was at the AVN Awards and on all my buddies."

Stern says about Jenna: "She's way too good looking for this [porn]. She had to be molested by 50 uncles."

Jenna appears naked in Howard's movie Private Parts and even delivers a couple of lines.

The blonde discovered masturbation and man manipulation as a girl and hasn't stopped either since.

Jameson entered stripping thinking she'd be the center of attention. "But in truth, you go through a lot of rejection. You ask the guy if you can dance and he says, 'No, you're too skinny for me.'

"You see the worst side of men. I hated them. They think they can treat girls like s---. A lot of guys are just obnoxious f---ing assholes."

Next she posed naked for magazines, appearing in over 100. Through her friend Nikki Tyler at Vivid, she appeared in a couple of porno films. "I'd like to burn every copy of every [early] movie."

Over a year later, Jenna returned to porn, signing an exclusive contract with Steve Orenstein's Wicked.

On her web site ClubJenna.com, her official bio reads: "After graduation from high school, Jenna danced as a showgirl on the Las Vegas and then moved on to the Las Vegas Crazy Horse II. Instantly recognized for her beauty and sex appeal, Jenna was encouraged to pursue a career in nude modeling. As a model, Jenna has appeared many times over in Penthouse, Hustler, Club, and every other leading men's sophisticate magazine. She has been named as Porn's #1 Girl by every adult magazine. Up to now, she has graced over 300 magazine covers and appeared in over 700 magazines. Her popularity has crossed over to numerous mainstream magazines including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Allure, Jane and FHM, where Jenna was listed as one of the 100 Most Beautiful Girls in the World for the year 2000.

"After encouragement from a friend to visit an adult movie set, Jenna appeared in her very first adult scene, for Andrew Blake's "Fantasy Woman". Shortly thereafter, Jenna signed a five-film contract with Vivid Video."

Jenna says: "More people are realizing what a good career this [porn] is and how much money we can make. It's a stepping stone because in the years to come, more girls are going to cross over to the straight stuff. I know I will.

"I want to prove to the public that the girls in this business aren't hookers… That we're talented. A lot of people have the wrong idea about the business and I'm the person who can prove to everybody that porn is good."

TV's Entertainment Tonight focused on Jenna in its 1997 piece on porn stars going mainstream. The show played a clip of Traci Lords from 1988: "You can't wash that [porn] off. That's the problem. If you could wash it off you'd be fine, but you can't."

Hollywood casting director Mike Fenton disagrees. "The person who has the chops is the person who's gonna get the part. And I don't think the director cares from whence they spring."

Jenna, who was married to porn director Dyana Lauren's ex-boyfriend Brad Armstrong, told E.T. "I'm destined for stardom."

Wicked's big budget porno Conquest gave Jenna a platform to audition for mainstream roles but she failed, say porn critics. Peers such as Ashlyn Gere, Hyapatia Lee and Asia Carrera exhibit greater acting ability.

"I put as much into my acting scenes as I do into my sex scenes," says Jameson. In the 5/20/01 NY Times, Frank Rich agrees: "In "Flashpoint," Jenna Jameson, cast as a female firefighter, sounds the same when sobbing over a colleague's death as she does in coital ecstasy."

The next best thing to having sex with Jenna may be playing her interactive CD-ROM from Digital Playground. "The disc is a one-on-one experience with the star - the interface will be invisible. Jenna will greet you and welcome you into her bed. From that point on you have control... Jenna has multiple personalities. You get to choose between Jenna the innocent getting f---ed for the first time, and Jenna the slut..." (AFW)

AVN gave Jameson the 1996 Best New Starlet Award even though she did her first movie in 1993.

Jenna's first big video, VR69, "rewrote the history of human masturbation" says critic Selwyn Harris. "That the tape is a crappy-looking, cast-of-seven cybersplooge piffle...only adds to its historic value. Worth viewing to see...[Jenna] outshine the obstacles of Planet-of-the-Apes-face Steven St. Croix as a co-star and archetypal limp hardcore hack Jim Enright in the director's chair." (Genesis 5/97)

Selwyn calls The Wicked One the "Jenna Jameson movie to end them all, a knockout production through-and-through that would have re-energized the entire skin industry at any other time, but is more-than-achievement enough in what it accomplishes one pleased penis at a time." (Ibid)

Jenna's success "turned her into a spoiled rotten bitch," says porn consumer Damon Hudac. "She has built herself up to be God's gift to men, and she can't handle anything that may indicate that she is not every guy's wet dream.

"She's arrogant...walking off the set because she thought Asia Carrera - a truly talented actress - was getting too much camera time...

"I went to see Jenna in Pittsburg. She interrupted a local dancer in the middle of a lap dance and ordered her to vacate the couch to give her own lap dance." (RAME)

In early 1997, Jasmine St. Clair got into a celebrated feud with Jenna. "Jasmine just wanted some publicity," says Jenna. "She knew that she could ride on Jenna Jameson's coattails."

In the summer of 1997, Jenna and her husband Brad Armstrong divorced.

AVN's Loose Lips section offered wrote this on Jenna in its 12/97 edition: "Seems that one of the really big name stars in the adult industry is having trouble finding a roadie, even though expressions like "$1500 per week" and "all expenses paid" are being liberally tossed out there. She has gone through three such employees over the past year [including AVN photographer Dr. X] and word has it that the verbal abuse is way too much for even that kind of offer."

"Everybody should think of themselves as the best person on earth," says Jenna. "If you don't, you have a self-esteem problem."

5/9/99 Porn star Jenna Jameson is in New York with her Hell on Heels dance partner Nikki Tyler. They're due to appear on the Howard Stern radio show Monday morning.

Luke received a barrage of calls Sunday afternoon aimed at discrediting the story on Jenna that ran on Friday. Luke received an email followed by a phone call Thursday night from a roadie who worked with Jenna between October of 1998 and April of 1999. The roadie's name was Richard Bonin but he insisted that I use a euphemism. He suggested the name "Spinney," which I used.

"Spinney" aka Richard said Jameson was an alcoholic and drug addict headed for death. During Friday, Luke received several emails supporting Richard's claims.

Sunday afternoon Luke got a call from an irate pornographer who ordered me to retract everything. "Do not f--- with Jenna. Period. That is the end," he kept repeating. "You retract everything, period. Do you understand me?"

Luke said he would be glad to retract anything that was factually incorrect, but he would need more than just this porner's order to do so. So the irate porner did a wise thing. He called a wise man in the industry who then called Luke and straightened things out. Angry porners who don't want to deal directly with me, or feel frustrated in their dealings with me would do well to look for advice from such people as Russ Hampshire, Paul Fishbein, Rob Spallone, and those porners with whom Luke has a cordial relationship. Threatening me or anyone with whom you are having troubles is usually not the best way to ameliorate your problems. It's wiser to seek out intermediaries.

Over the next couple of hours, Luke received numerous calls rebutting Richard's Thursday night accusations. And Sunday evening Richard emailed me this:

"dear luke,please print this,i eel everyone should read this.i called you the other day with nothing more than bad intentions. i knew i could say anything and it would be printd without any verification.. i could say anything and the public will take it as the truth...... although miss,jameson and i have ended a working relationship and a friendship what i did was wrong....... i let my head get clouded by industry people and others who wanted to see jenna get hurt by lies.they convinced me that she was out toget me and the paranoia became a bit much.95% of what was printed was false,i am ashamed of the fact that i let people coax me into something i am ashamed of now... the facts are jenna and i had a falling out.there was drinking on the road,but it was always social.i saw jenna take a vicodin once after a dental appointment.she definitely is no drug addict or alcoholic.she was never with more than her boyfriend.the only sex she had on the road was the pictures the fans wanted signed.her ex boyfriend "TED FINE" never asked her to change anything cosmetically... the times i was around ted he was always polite and well spoken.as far as her fans go,she appreciates them,as long as their polite..she only dislikes the rude ones... i would like to pubically retract mystatement and apologize to jenna for any embarrasment my tales caused..i would also like to apologize to mr.ted fine who never should have been dragged into this anyway......i also am sorry to wicked pictures,in particular,"joy king".she does a great job promoting jenna,so i feel badly making her have to do damage control for a sabotage piece... thank you"

Luke's next call came from Jenna Jameson in New York. She sounded deeply upset, and she choked back tears throughout our conversations. Nikki Tyler was in the background, supporting her. I've met Jenna only once, at the March, 1999 XRCO Awards when she came across as sweet. When I introduced myself to her after the show, she said, "You're not going to write anything bad about me, are you?" The big porn star seemed tiny and fragile. Sunday afternoon Jenna came across hurt and angry.

Jenna: "I don't want to do this. I don't like to talk bad about people, but I am going to have to here... Rich tried to blackmail me. He's been trying to blackmail me for a long time and I told him, 'listen, I'm your friend. Don't do this. There is no reason for you to blackmail me.'

"Three-quarters of these things [Richard's accusations] are lies but he says that everyone will believe him because everybody wants to believe that I am this big drug addict psychopath whatever because it has already been rumored for so long."

Luke: "What did he want from you?"

Jenna: "He wanted his job back. He loved his job because he gets to come on the road and party and meet all the girls. Because he parties so hard. It got to the point at the end of our time together [April, 1999] that he was partying so hard that he was incoherent and could not do his job."

Luke: "And so you fired him."

Jenna: "I fired him because he was doing so many drugs. I was finding a lot of money missing. I counted out how many Polaroids [it costs fans about $20 to get a Polaroid taken with Jenna] at one of these shows... Nikki [Tyler] is my witness because we are now duoing. We counted in our heads how many Polaroids we did, and there was about $758 missing out of one show. Usually, I trust him so much that I don't pay attention. But then it started getting so bad, and I'm thinking to myself, where is he getting all this money to do all the things he's doing [drugs, etc]? He buys girls drinks and stuff. I just couldn't take it anymore because he wasn't getting his job done. And it's very hectic working for me. I need things done quickly and efficiently.

"He was my friend, at least I thought he was my friend. And when I told him that I couldn't have that anymore, he was irate. And called me and left me messages saying that he was going to ruin me, and that he was going to call everybody and tell them that I was a drug addict and that I did heroin and that I was a painkiller freak... It's so far from the truth."

Luke: "Are you a heroin addict, Jenna?"

Jenna: "No, God. I'm on television all the time. If I was a heroin addict, don't you think you could tell? I'm not nodding off every five minutes. I do the hardest [dance] show in the business. Anyone who has ever seen my show will know that I am not a heroin addict. I'm one of the best dancers out there and I'm not tooting my own horn. I put my heart and soul into my shows."

Luke: "He said you regularly combine alcohol with the painkiller Vicodan?"

Jenna: "He was saying something about that. The only time I have ever done Vicodan was when I had slipped a disc in my neck dancing. And that was for one week. And that was prescribed by my doctor."

Luke: "So it's not something you usually mix with alcohol?"

Jenna: "No, I can't even function on Vicodan. Vicodan is such a strong pill that I had to stop before I was even done with my pills."

Luke: "When was the last time you used any Vicodan?"

Jenna: "I haven't done drugs in four years... My painkillers was three-and-a-half months ago and that was prescribed by my doctor and that really should be nobody's business, whether or not I hurt myself. I mean, it's nobody's business if I get a yeast infection and my doctor prescribes something. But all of a sudden, I have to take painkillers because I got hurt, and I'm a drug addict?

"I called him after I found out about this [interview Richard gave me], and said, 'how could you do this?' He says that I slept with Joe Montana? That I slept with all these people. This is crazy. I met Joe Montana for five minutes and I was so excited. And that was it and Joe left from the club. And I came home that night and told Rick, 'ohmigod, I met Joe Montana.'

"He must've sat down for a week and figured out this whole plan of attack because it is so crazy. I know that you're saying something about other people told you this also? Who?

"After that whole problem where I quit for a while because I was so sick and tired of the business, I totally cleaned my act up. I'm happy again. I'm out on the road and kicking ass. I haven't had a day off since January and I'm kicking ass. And anybody who's seen me out there knows that I am f---ing happy and sober... This is f---ing craziness."

Luke: "Have you had a problem with alcohol in the last year?"

Jenna: "Noooooo. No, never in my whole entire life had a problem with alcohol. Yes I drink socially but I don't regularly get drunk."

Luke: "Do you use cocaine?"

Jenna: "Absolutely not. Rick wasn't even there when I was with Joe Montana. Nikki was with me. I do not use drugs. I don't know how many times I have to say this to people. If I used drugs I'd be a lot f---ing skinnier. God damn."

Luke: "Do you drink vodka?"

Jenna. "If I do drink, I drink vodka. That's my drink of choice. If I f---ing ever drink, it's after I'm done with my shows. 'Cause if I drink and do my shows, I end up, like, I can't even perform."

Luke: "Richard says that he quit four times on you and each time you begged him to come back?"

Jenna incredulous: "What? I fired him. I have fired him four times and he begged his way back and he tried to beg his way back this time and I wouldn't let him. I said no, because he'd called me leaving me messages saying, calling me a f---ing cum slurping whore. [Jenna chokes up.] He was my friend and that broke my heart because my friends are my friends and I trusted him. And for him to call me and tell me these things just killed me. And I just couldn't be his friend again and let him back. And this is why this is happening."

Luke: "Would [Wicked PR gal] Joy King back you up on much of this stuff?"

Jenna: "I'm sure. Luke, to tell you the truth, I don't need anybody to f---ing back me up because you know what? Everybody will still be out there at my shows because they want to see Jenna Jameson. It's as simple as that. I wanted to talk to you because this motherf---er is a psycho. He is psychotic. And he has called me and told me that if he can't have his job back, he's going to ruin me. I don't know what else to do than to call you and tell you that it is f---ing crazy. The guy is a f---ing drug addict and I have a thousand people that will back that up, from bands that he has f---ing extorted money from.

"A new band that I did a CD cover for, called Wolfpack... Yeah, I told them that I would do it for free to be cool to them because they're an up and coming band... They told me that he called them up and said, 'yeah, I need $600, if you guys want to come out to Bermuda with me and Jenna.' And the guys were excited and wanted to come out and do whatever, and they sent him the $600. And now he won't call them back. I mean, it's one thing after another. He's extorted money from everyone. He told my accountant, 'I have a friend who can get Jenna flight cases for $2000.' And flight cases are very expensive. Flight cases are what bands take out on the road to pack all their stuff in and they're really nice, they have mirrors. So my accountant sent him $2000 but I have never seen my flight cases. Ever.

"He has stolen so much money from me, it would have to be over $25,000. Bad, bad, bad."

Luke: "When did you find out?"

Jenna: "I've never really paid attention. And my boyfriends were telling me, 'this doesn't seem right.' And I'd say, 'Rick wouldn't do that to me.' I'm trusting and he always told me, 'Jenna, I'm the only person who doesn't want to take from you. Everybody just wants to suck off you, Jenna. Everybody, but I'm not going to do that because I am your friend.' And that's why this hurts so bad. [Jenna starts crying.]

"He stole from me. He lies about me. And he's trying to ruin me."

Luke: "He says that you owe him about $3000."

Jenna: "I could show you the receipts from everything that he's stolen from me. All the money that I've written out for him. His $800 phone bill from Las Vegas when he was at CES and I was trusting enough to put my credit card down on and he jacked up the phone bill to $800. You can call me accountant."

Luke: "I would like to see some evidence for this."

Luke gets the name and phone number of Jenna's accountant.

Jenna: "My accountant will tell you how many times he [Richard] has promised him tickets to the Rolling Stones concert and my accountant goes to the concerts because he says the tickets are at Will Call. And he goes to the concerts and there are no tickets. So my poor accountant is standing outside for three or four hours thinking he was going to get tickets when Rick was really just blowing smoke up his ass.

"I have a thousand people to back me up over how awful a person Rick is. He [Rick] got into a fight with Bobby Vitale is my good friend and will always be my good friend, no matter what. And Rick was badmouthing me so bad that Bobby Vitale grabbed him by the neck, brought him up to my hotel room and made him get on his knees and apologize to me for calling me a white trash whore in front of 30 people. For no reason. I did nothing to him. Just because I couldn't get him into CES (Consumer Electronic Show)."

Luke: "When did you realize that this guy is no good? He worked for you until a month ago."

Jenna: "Everybody keeps telling me...for three or four months. My boyfriend at the time was telling me, 'Jenna, you have to get rid of him. He's in love with you. I can see that he's psychotically infatuated with you and it's going to get ugly. Everybody has been telling me that there's something weird about him. He's very aggressive and too hot tempered. He worked for me for free."

Luke: "He told me that you paid him $1500 a week."

Jenna: "Oh, he told you that? No, of course not. Nikki, he told him that he was getting paid $1500 a week."

Nikki laughs hysterically in the background.

Jenna: "I'm sorry Luke, but you can print this. I'm a cheap motherf---er. I'm a cheap motherf---er. He told me in the beginning, 'Jenna, I just want to come out on the road because I want a break. I want to hang out and do your stuff. And as long as you take care of my food and hotel, you don't have to pay me anything because I don't want anything from you because you're my friend. And I would try to give him money. I'd try to give him $300 here and there. 'Here you go.' He said, 'no, no, no, I've got it. I'll take care of that.'

"When I told my boyfriend that, he said, 'that's weird.' I said, 'if he wants to work for free, let him work for free.' Who in their right mind wouldn't? Maybe that's why he felt he had to steal from me, I don't know. That I offered him $1500 a week? That is a lie, anybody will back me up on that. You can call everybody and ask how cheap I am. I hoard my money. I put my money in the bank.

"He goes to the clubs before I go there and tells the managers that I need drugs. For me to perform that I need drugs. To give him drugs for me. I fired him that one time because he was using drugs in my dressing room with strippers... Doing f---ing coke on my f---ing table with my costumes everywhere. With f---ing girls from the club.

"I took so much s---. I overlooked so much s---. This is enough. Now I am coming clean. If he wants to air f---ing bulls---, then I'll air bulls---. And all he does is brag about how he was with Korn and all these bands. He's a liar. Saying he was their tour manager. He's a liar, call Korn and ask them."

Luke: "He says that he was working for a band in LA, and that you came to a show... and you pitched him the job"

Jenna: "I haven't been to a concert in LA. Ohmigod... I was dancing at Alex's in Boston where he lived. I was in between roadies. I had this girl roadie named Shannon who was really bad. Didn't know what to do. And Joy calls me up and says 'there is a guy who works for Korn who wants to come to your show and meet you.'

"And since I know some of the guys from Korn from the Halloween party, I said fine, I will leave his name at the door. He came back to my dressing room. It was October of 1998. And he says, 'this girl is really bad, do you want me to help you?' So I said, 'sure, you can help me.' So he hung up my costumes, whatever... And he picked the money off the stage and he was really trying hard to get in with me. And he's like, 'I'll quit the tour [of the band] and I'll come on the road with you for free.' I said ok because he did a great job in the beginning.

"He hid the drugs from me for a while but then he got delirious. He couldn't think or function. He'd take four ectasy's and he couldn't even count the money. His bar tabs would be outrageous."

Luke: "He said you ran up the bar tabs."

Jenna: "Ohmigod, you can call up the clubs... The clubs hate him. They were so happy when I fired him."

Nikki Tyler talks rapidly in the background to Jenna.

Jenna: "He used my name for everything. To get into clubs, to get drugs, to get free tattooos, first class tickets. He would even forge my name on 8x10s to bribe people to get stuff. He just wanted to be on the road and f--- all the girls because he'd tell the girls that he was the road manager for motley crue."

Nikki: "He'd wear Motley Crue gadgets."

Jenna: "He'd fake tour passes and make it like he was some big thing so that he could f--- all the strippers."

Nikki: "I can't deal with him anymore."

Jenna: "She couldn't stand all the derogatory messages he was leaving saying that he was...threatening me. Saying that he would ruin my life, ruin my boyfriends, saying that I was cheating on them. Horrible stuff. He didn't have the balls to call me, he'd call Nikki's machine. Nikki can't stand him."

Luke: "He said that Nikki could back up everything he said."

Jenna hands the phone to Nikki Tyler, former Vivid girl.

Nikki: "This has come at an interesting time because we didn't expect this. Actually we did because last week when we didn't call him back, I figured he'd flip out. This is the third or fourth time he's threatened to do something like this.

"I've known Jenna since she was 17 years old. She's like a sister to me. We live together and I love her more than anything in the world. I basically raised her and saved her and she's basically raised me and saved me at times when there has been no one else there. Jenna is absolutely not an alcoholic. Jenna is absolutely not a drug addict. The reason that I like her is that she is one of the few girls I know who doesn't do drugs.

"I met Rich last November in Las Vegas. She was doing a big show at the Riviera Hotel and he was her new manager. He liked to go out and party a lot. He liked to go drinking. He liked to go out to the casinos. He liked to be seen with me and Jenna, especially Jenna. So we'd go out and have a couple of drinks.

"My ex-boyfriend Bobby Vitale is still a great friend and thinks of Jenna like a sister. I was with Bobby for three years. Bobby has a bad drug problem, that's why I am not with him anymore. But Bobby and Rick went f---ing searching for cocaine, for crack, in f---ing Las Vegas. And I find this out and I say to Rick, 'if you f---ing find cocaine, don't you get that near him. He's trying to be sober, don't you dare let him know that you've got it. And Rick ended up getting him cocaine which pissed me off because I was trying to work on my relationship. We were going to counseling and everything. And Bobby's had a drug problem since he was 18 years old and he's 33 now. Rick made it clear to us that he had some big eight ball [1/8th of an ounce of cocaine] in his safe and he was up all night doing it with one of the girls that he met. Part of this scandalous duo that was in the show with this."

Luke: "How much is an eight ball?"

Jenna: "I don't know."

Nikki: "I don't even know that these things are. We don't do drugs. We don't even smoke pot. She's the only girl I know that doesn't smoke pot."

Jenna yells in the background: "I don't even smoke cigarettes."

Nikki: "She doesn't even smoke cigarettes. There have been rumors about me that I did drugs. My ex-boyfriend tried to say that I did drugs too."

Jenna accidentally sits on the phone and cuts us off. Nikki and Jenna phone back. I resume talking to Nikki.

Nikki: "He even stole the money we gave him for the Polaroid film. This was the Gossip club in Long Island."

Luke: "What do Jenna's peers think of her?"

Nikki: "About 99% of the girls in this business are jealous of Jenna. She makes five times as much money as anyone else does, including me. But she's not rude or mean...

"Rick got mad because Jenna and I went to the China Club in New York. We met a couple of these baseball players (Florida Marlins) that I was interested in, so I wanted to stay. They wouldn't let Rick in because he wasn't dressed appropriately. We talked to Joe Montana in five minutes. We did not take home and f--- his brains out. Talk about the f---ing arthiritis foundation. He's an old man. It's ridiculous. I wanted to go home with the f---ing Florida Marlin. I did go home with him the next night. Then Rick was mad because I called him and Jenna didn't call him, when we got home. Because she was so tired. We were drinking and having a great time. We were exhausted when we got home. We also had Paige Summers with us, who was Penthouse Pet of the Year three years ago. All three of us, Jenna, Paige and I were sleeping in the bed.

"I called Rick. I said Jenna is right here but she's not feeling good because she drank a little too much because we hardly ever go out. And we thought, let's go having a great time.

"When I talked to him after he left all these messages, he said, 'I can't believe that Jenna left me out there and didn't even call me in the morning. You called me. And all she wanted was for me to get her a hotdog.' Well, he's her f---ing road manager worker, that's what he's f---ing supposed to do.

"Jenna did not pay him anything. We had told Rick, in Long Island about four weeks ago, that we were missing $900 in Polaroid money. 'We don't know if you lost it... We're not blaming you, we just need to get organized.' So I gave him money to guy Polaroid film. Next thing I know, I got three messages on my machine. 'f--- you, you f---ing cunt. We just took this money because I think that I deserved this money. Because you've never paid me.' He never wanted to be paid."

Luke: "Did you guys ever have sex with him?"

Nikki: "Oh God no, but I heard that he was telling people that he was having sex with me. And I heard that he was telling people that he was having sex with Lexus Locklear and with Devon and that he kissed Jenna."

Jenna screams out in protest.

Nikki: "I think he's infatuated with Jenna and likes to be seen with her. He likes to use her name to get things. Me and one of Jenna's ex-boyfriends was discussing this. He would talk bad about me to him, and talk bad about Jenna's boyfriend to me, trying to get everybody to go away so that he could be with just her. He'd say to me, 'oh, I don't like this guy. He's an asshole. He's so bad for her...' And then he'd go to her boyfriend, 'Nikki's the bad influence. She likes to drink a lot. She's terrible for Jenna, I don't even like being around her when they're together.' We figured this out when we were in Long Island [April, 1999] and putting all this together.

"There was a time in Las Vegas when he said that his sister died. My ex Bobby Vitale used his frequent flier miles to fly Rich home, because Bobby had such a big heart because his sister died when he was young... Rick won't return his calls for a week and we find out that his sister never even died.

"Rick would wear these old Motley Crue and Metallic VIP badges around his neck from a year ago from some concert... Or he'd have pictures of him and Tommy Lee that he'd have laminated and hang around his neck. And everybody would wonder 'what's the thing with the things around his neck?'

"Well, he would get these 18-year old girls, take them to the bathroom, and take Polaroids of himself f---ing her. And he'd put them in his photo album to show everybody. He'd take pictures of me and Jenna at home and put them in his little photo albums.

"I always thought it was like stalkery. I had a roadie a couple of years ago who started taking pictures of my baby book. He was always getting pictures of himself with Jenna, even that night at the China Club. 'Oh Bill, could you get a picture of me and my girls in New York City.'

"Bobby always thought there was something wrong with him. Bobby and I broke up in January. Rick has never lived with us. He'd stay with us for two days here and there when we were getting ready to go on the road. We [Jenna and Nikki] just moved in in February."

Luke: "Is Jenna having an affair with Tommy Lee?"

Nikki: "Jenna is not having an affair with Tommy Lee. Yes, she f---ed Tommy Lee. And yes, she was in Vancouver with him. Then she told Rick, 'Tommy should go f--- himself because he was f---ing around with Carmen Electra and Jenna wasn't really that interested... ' And Rick got upset because Rick would use Jenna to get in with these bands. He'd tell these guys in bands that he knew us and could get them hooked up with us... He wanted to be the big guy who got everybody...

"He called up the China Club and got me and Jenna on the list, and then they wouldn't even let him in. Because he was dressed inappropriately."

Luke: "Does Jenna have boyfriends in different cities?"

Nikki: "Jenna does not have boyfriends in different cities."

Jenna: "I wish."

Nikki: "She was in a relationship with Rob in Miami for two years. They parted ways. She was completely faithful to Rob. She has 'Rob's crazy girl' tattood on her ankle. She was going to marry Rob. But it didn't work out. Jenna started seeing Teddy Fine. They were together almost six months. Jenna stayed out with Teddy in Arizona... She wasn't speaking to Rob at this time. Then Teddy had something personal things he had to go through. So we decided to move in together. Neither of us had even been single. They're real jealous in this industry. It's hard to be in this business and have a boyfriend. "But we don't go around f---ing guys. We might say we do on Playboy or something. For promotion. 'Every now and then we find guys and take them home.' Sometimes I'd say to Jenna, 'Ok, I'm going to say that sometimes we find guys and take them home, so back me up here so that we look cool.' Because that's supposed to be our reputation."

Then Luke got a call from Jenna's current road manager William Spinney (Massachusetts resident) who was annoyed to find out that his name had been used as Richard's alias.

Spinney: "Jenna, just a few seconds ago, called me on my cell phone freaking out, saying, 'he's [Rich] started problems.'

"I've known Jenna since October. Jenna will have a social drink but she's not an alcoholic. Jenna does not do drugs. Jenna is not allowed to do drugs because I won't allow it. I grew up in a strict home so I don't allow that around me. "Jenna is a sweetheart. She's one of the nicer people out there in the adult industry. This morning, the transmission went out on my car. Jenna told me that she would take care of that for me.

"I get paid a good chunk of change. It's not a $1000 [a week]. Rich was paid nothing. He's infatuated with her. He's getting back with his ex-wife. They used to fight all the time over Jenna because he would watch Jenna's movies. He would want her to watch Jenna's movies. He is in a huge pile of s--- right now. He owes me $1200. I lent him money because he said we were going to be working with these artists, including Jennifer Love Huwett. I found out that was never going to happen.

Bill Spinney: "A Pennsylvania band Wolfpack lent him $1600... He stole over $6000 from Jenna. He's just starting problems. He has called my other employer and posed as a Los Angeles entertainment bigwig saying that I was forcing my ways through shows... He has a rap sheet a mile long. He's on probation in Massachusetts which might be pulled. He was involved in an assault and battery in Pittsburg, and his drug using. His probation officer wants a hearing to determine if he belongs out. She says that when she first met him, she knew that he was not rehabilitated.

"Jenna did not sleep with Joe Montana. I was there. Joe introduced himself, hung out... She slept with Tommy Lee.

"Jenna tells the truth and sometimes she doesn't hold back. She was on Howard Stern the other day and she told the honest-to-god truth on camera about me. Jenna tells the truth because she doesn't like to dick around.

"Jenna has plenty of friends in the industry and plenty of enemies."

5/7/99

After six months of shepherding Jenna Jameson around North American strip clubs, "Rich" has called it quits.

"God knows how I lasted that long," said Rich by phone around 6:30 PST, Thursday evening. "I was working for a club band in LA and she came out to the show," says the experienced male bodyguard.

"I met her and she pitched the same thing that I saw on your website. Great job, great pay."

Rich: "She seemed cool and I took the job. Two days later, our first gig was in Toronto. I should've known that something was up then because one of the house bouncers at Whiskey A Go Go... She started f---ing him in Toronto at the hotel. She requested that this particular bouncer, Dominic, help us out all week.

"By the second night, she's taking her Vicodan and drinking her wine. And he's in the room with her. And she's had a longtime boyfriend Rob who's she's dated while also dating Teddy Fine aka Justin Sterling [porn shooter]. And the whole time she's seeing Tommy Lee behind everyone's back. He was just up in Vancouver with her, a month ago."

Luke: "Isn't Vicodan a painkiller, and isn't it dangerous to take with alcohol?"

Rich: "Absolutely. And that became my primary mission while working for her. To find it [Vicodan] in each city.

"And just to let you know, everything I'm telling you is fact. I'm not just an angry bitter employee. I want people to know the truth. She's just a cunt and she can't do it.

"She treated me great at first, then started playing games with money, telling me that she could pay me some this week and get me the rest next time out. She still owes me several thousand dollars. She was supposed to pay me $1500 a week, which made me feel stupid when I saw that on your website too. She'd bring her dog (a teacup Pomeranian named Stinky) on the road and expect that I'd be its caretaker.

"My job assignment was to do her set list (her music for the DJs, her wardrobe) and her security."

Luke: "Did you get to bang her?"

Rich: "No. Apparently, I'm the only person who hasn't.

"She never tips out. She never tips the DJs. She's notorious for being cheap. She has an attitude with everybody. She treated me progressively worse. You have to constantly cater to her and let her know what a superstar she is. She's extremely insecure. She can't stand to be alone for more than ten seconds. She's got six boyfriends and is two-timing all of them.

"She's rude. She screams a lot. She wants it her way or everyone's an asshole."

Luke: "How did you last a year?"

Rich: "That's what everyone asks me. I don't know. I bit my tongue a lot. I did quit four times and she'd always call me and beg me to come back."

Luke: "What was the attraction in working for her?"

Rich: "The free drugs, money. Being in the clubs. Lots of travelling. We spent about eight months on the road and I stayed a lot with her at her house in the Valley."

Luke: "Did you score with lots of girls while you were on the road?"

Rich: "Yes, lots. Constantly."

Luke: "Is Jenna good dancer?"

Rich: "Not really. She claims she's Miss Classically Trained This, Miss Ballet That... I don't think so. She'd earn $30,000 a week from dancing.

"I just got tired of covering all her lies with all the men... She'd tell me, 'if so-and-so calls, say we've missed our flight. Run and change the name we're under quickly before so-and-so calls... That was my biggest chore, covering her lies."

Luke: "She had men in different cities?"

Rich: "Absolutely. Absolutely doormen that she could walk over. No threat at all financially or otherwise."

Luke: "Is she a nymphomaniac or does she just need attention?"

Rich: "Co-dependent. She can't bare to be alone. When there are no guys around, she has Nikki Tyler on the road with her. Nikki lives with her. Nikki is awesome. I feel bad that she's with Jenna because Jenna is just white trash. Nikki keeps herself at a distance. Nikki knows how Jenna is, just like everyone else.

"Jenna is two-faced to everyone in the industry. About three months ago, Jenna had a whole shoot set up with Karl Walker [Penthouse photographer]. And Karl called, I was staying at Jenna's house, looking for her. She'd been drinking the night before and didn't feel like doing the shoot, yet she's telling the world that she's getting the cover and centerfold of Penthouse, just because she shot with Karl six months ago. And I've talked to people like Dottie Meyer who've said it is never going to happen. So I had to sit there and lie to Karl on the phone. I had to tell him that I had no idea where she was, when she was sitting right next to me.

"You'd be surprised how many shows we've cancelled because she's been hung over. About ten. There are three lawsuits against her right now. Caligula in Dallas, Alex's in Boston... She's not welcomed back in many clubs after she goes there."

Luke: "What's her favorite type of alcohol?"

Rich: "Without a doubt, it's vodka. Constantly. "I quit for good two weeks ago. We all went partying, me, her and Nikki Tyler. We went to the China Club. We all took Ecstasy before we went over. I had sweats on so I couldn't get in. We were all f---ed up. Jenna said, 'I'm going to go up for a minute to see how it is.' It's one of those Studio 54 dress clubs. So she went up... After an hour, I realized that she was not coming back. So the door guy let me go up there just so I could find her. And I found her and she's all drunk and hanging out with some Florida Marlin baseball players.

"She says, 'I'm glad you got in. Awesome.' I said, 'No, I can't stay. What are we doing?' She said, 'Oh, let me just have this drink. I'll be outside in five minutes.' "Needless to say, she was gone until the next morning. I found out that she was out all night doing blow [snorting cocaine] and she had shacked up with Joe Montana [former NFL quarterback]. He wasn't doing it, she was. He's about taking care of himself, unlike her. Three weeks earlier, she hooked up with the actor Damon Wayans in Las Vegas. She's a star f---er."

Luke: "How many sex partners do you estimate she's had over the past year?"

Rich: "Twenty, twenty five. She drinks daily, a lot. She's a raging alcoholic. She can't function without it. Every club she goes to, she runs up an astronomical bar tab. Because I'm usually the one who has to settle at the end of the week."

Luke: "Do a lot of strippers have to get drunk before they do their act?"

Rich: "Yeah, but not to the extent she does. She just gets herself good and numb. She's very unhappy. She can't even look in the mirror straight. She hates her life. She knows her whole life is based on lies and deception. She's not liked by anyone in the business though they will pretend to her face that she is the queen.

"She's not typical of girls in this business. Most girls would appreciate the success and she motherf---s everyone who has put her there. She commits to things like photo shoots and never shows. She was supposed to do a movie for Orenstein a few months ago [Wicked Pictures]. She flaked on the AIDS test because she was hung over and didn't feel like going. It's just a f---ing gigantic circle of lies with her."

Luke: "Why did you quit because she spent the night with Joe Montana?"

Rich: "That was the final straw, leaving me outside the club all night. I had no money on me. I had to walk back to the hotel. She never paid me when she was supposed to. She owes me $3-4,000 which I know I will never see, which is part of my reason for talking to you. Various people told me a long time ago to talk to you. "I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. And I was having lots of fun on the road, partying every night. It just wasn't worth it. The fun didn't outweigh the headaches.

"On a typical gig... First thing, get a vodka ready and then I've got to find Vicodan. That gets her nice and fuzzy and high. She can't bear to dance if she's straight. She'll flip out if she has to go a night without Vicodan [a prescription painkiller]. She has friends who will get it for her, or you can get it on the street. And Ecstasy. Then you worry about the show."

Luke: "Who are the people closest to her?"

Rich: "Just Nikki Tyler, her only friend, and Joy King [Wicked PR gal]. And even they just tolerate her. I feel bad for Nikki because Jenna is constantly talking s--- about her behind her back. Jenna keeps bragging how she loaned Nikki $5000 to get her out of a hole so she can get this apartment. I've heard her talk about her own family."

Luke: "Why has she been so successful?"

Rich: "Her theory is that she's just the All-American Girl, the girl next door, just better looking. I see everyone in the business tolerating her, but her 15 minutes [of fame] is about up. She doesn't appreciate s---. She badmouths Howard Stern behind his back and he's done so much for her career."

Luke: "She sounds a lot like Savannah."

Rich: "Thank you. That's who Jenna wants to play. She heard that they're making a movie about Savannah's life and Jenna says she's perfect for that. That is one of the names that Jenna stays under in hotels, Savannah. It's scarey but for real. A road sign for her future. I told her that she's going to end up on an E! True Hollywood Story [cable TV show about famous dead people].

"She's f---ed a lot of people on business deals. She's committed to things, had people spend money, then backed out for no reason."

Luke: "Does Jenna have someone managing her career?"

Rich: "She has Joy King, who is nothing more than a publicist."

Luke: "And a good one."

Rich: "Absolutely, but even Joy keeps Jenna at arms length. Jenna's burned Joy on a lot of things, committed to things and then pulled no-shows. She still owes Wicked five more movies. She's just finished one with Nikki."

Luke: "How is Jenna with the fans?"

Rich: "She's great to their face and rips them behind their back. They're all perverts and whackos."

Luke: "Is she proud of her porn career?"

Rich: "Oh yeah, she thinks she's it. She has no problem telling you that."

Luke: "Do you think Jenna will become a big mainstream actress?"

Rich: "Absolutely not. Never. Even her one mainstream role [Private Parts], she had to get naked. She's kidding herself."

Luke: "Why did she get her breasts enlarged again?"

Rich: "Not sure. Her last boyfriend (Teddy Fine) had her get a bunch of stuff surgically enhanced so he would like her better.

"I was friends with Lexus until Jenna forbade from hanging out with her because she was the enemy. She flipped out at Club Utopia in Vegas because I showed up to the party with Lexus. Jenna went insane. She starts screaming, then storms off in a huff."

Luke: "Isn't there anybody who cares about her enough to insist that she get therapy?"

Rich: "Yeah, her one boyfriend Rob, and he's the poor bastard she keeps cheating on. He's a great guy, he puts up with a lot of s--- because he loves her. He'll come to me sometimes saying, 'I don't know what I'm doing, because I know that she don't love me. I should get on with my life.' But he stays around."

Luke: "It says a lot about the men who hang around with her, and who feed her delusions."

Rich: "No question. I'm returning to the rock n'roll world. I can't take that s--- anymore."

Johnny Denim writes Luke: "This sounds like a lot of things I have written in a major article I had planned after Jenna pulled the plug on her comeback a few months ago. All I was missing was one big source to go on the record and tie it all together. I am absolutely shocked that Jenna's problems are at this level. I am among the big 3 Jenna fans on the net and am among the last active Savannah fans out there and I myself am seeing parallels between Jenna and Savannah. I can't believe I was right that Jenna was lying through her teeth on the Tommy Lee business! (Although I did predict that they would get married!) I am very worried and hope Jenna can clean herself up before it's too late. She ruined her face for some fling, that's how bad her problems seem to be."

JL writes: "Luke, true s--- from Rich... every word. I guess that he wasn't with her during her last trip to Toronto, about 6 or 8 weeks ago at DejaVu Toronto. Spent the whole week on V and V....vicodan and vodka...treated the other dancers like s---, including my girlfriend, so I have a bit of an axe to grind myself, didn't tip out, and ran her mouth the whole week, turning off everyone. She would be sweet as pie to the fans, then the second they were out of sight, she would make some remark about them being ugly, fat, small dicked, bald....you name it.

"Had a threesome one night with one of the girls and a doorman (she really likes doormen) then the very next day told the dancer (a really gorgeous young thing) that she would never make it as anything but a housedancer because she was ugly. "Nice, eh??,...then on the other side of the coin you get the true class acts like Victoria Paris and Christy Canyon who always take time to talk with club staff, fans, whoever, and genuinely enjoy because they realize that without these people, they would be nothing. When these two visited here recently, they hung out around the club, treated the girls like friends, not employees....in fact Victoria had to usually get hauled from the place after her shows, she would be on her way out, and stop at table after table, just chatting, until one of her guys had to carry her out of the place.

"Young Ms J could, and should, take some lessons from these two. Rich, you have my undying respect for living in hell for a whole year....best of luck, brother!"

Lynne L-patin writes: Congratulations on eliciting that wonderful interview with Jenna Jameson's former employee. It lifted my self esteem tremendously, and left me feeling very superior to the renowned Ms. Jameson. I don't mean to be flippant for more than just a moment, because the situation sounds like a tragedy about to happen. It's just that I get so envious of Jenna and Savannah and the other unreal women who populate men's dreams these days. Glamour magazine did a survey in which they learned that over sixty percent of men cared more about what a woman looked like than how she felt about them (only about 35% of the guys, if I recollect, cared about that). How does a average woman compete with something like Jenna? Sometimes, when I'm lonely, it makes me wish I could trade being smart for cute, and specifically mainstream, blonde, white-bread cute. Maybe if I were cuter I'd have a better life, like Savannah... Seeing Jenna's tragedy is a great reminder that just being cute can have its price, so I shall be content with a good brain and my own individual beauty and the ability to dance sober. Your PFTS theory may well apply here, Dr. Luke. I would love to see a follow-up to this piece, and learn that Jenna has checked into rehab and is getting sober.

Jew born turned Pentacostal preacher turned 'official magician' of porn, Tommy Nugent, writes: I'm a performer (magician/comedian) who's played some industry parties and I formerly ran a topless club which brought in a lot of feature acts. A little knowledge, but not much of an insider. Anyway, Jameson reputation for being a pain in the ass procedes her to clubs. But I found this: money is her priority (of course) and she will fight to get (and keep) as much as she can. When not needing to fight for her cash she is genuinely nice. Eg., she will not allow house dancers to take pictures with her for free, but she is friendly and treats the girls fine. She'll be tough as balls with club managers about the cut of her money they take - but is pretty easy to get along with personally. Nice, up front to fans, though will occassionally do the 'eye roll' as the weird ones walk away. And has been known to flip off a crowd if they don't cheer loudly enough. She parties a little more than she lets on in the phone interview with you, but I would bet against her being an addict (of drugs or alc.). Basically the things she gets s--- for (standing up for herself and running her own show) or the things that more porn girls should do. She'll be fine.

Cameron Chase of Sinurgy Films writes about Jenna: I have a friend named Jimmy"O," he has 'Lou Gerrigs'disease and is limited to a wheel chair. Jimmy has always been a huge Jenna fan, and I found out that she would be doing a signing at Blowout Video Store down in San Diego. This was around the end of October beginning of September. I contacted the manager, Noleen, and she in turn contacted I believe Joy King at Wicked Pictures. We where trying to get her to meet with Jimmy but, unfortunately her schedule was not accommodating.

Eventually we came up with a plan that worked for everyone, she would meet Jimmy before they opened the doors to the public. Luke, let me tell you she was great, not only did she look fabulous but, she absolutely made Jimmy's day. Jenna sat on his lap in his wheelchair and posed for pictures and signed every one of his videos and Polaroid's, she even gave him an 8x10 and picked out her favorite movie for him. Keep in mind that earlier that week she had been a judge at "Showgirl of the year" contest in Vegas (I was their) and then went to feature out in Arizona. She had just arrived from Arizona earlier that day I believe. Further more, she had just finished a radio interview out in front of Blowout video moments earlier.

Luke, I don't know if you're aware of the demands on someone of Jenna's caliber but, it is very hectic. I know, I used to be a male dancer and I have also helped out a friend of mine named Harlee, when she goes out on the road to feature dance. I was just out at the "Miss Nude Florida" contest in Tampa. I can tell you that there is no way these women are doing drugs and performing on stage at the levels I have witnessed. I know, I have been there and it would be impossible to do what "Spinney" says Jenna was doing with Vicodine and Vodka and then performing on stage. Jenna is very petite and the girl would be comatose if that was the case. I can say that "Spinney" was very rude with the management and owner of Blowout Video and I did hear him talking about formerly being with Motley Crue and how well he was connected in that industry. We felt that he was doing far to much damage to Jenna's business. If you're going to be in this industry know your place, stars are stars and management is just that, stay in the background and be professional or go home. Luke, after what I witnessed first hand I find it hard to believe that "Spinney" is telling the truth, has to be more to the story.

Malcom responds to Luke's 5/9/99 comment about the Jenna debacle: >Luke may have been terribly wrong in recklessly publishing Rich's >charges, but he doesn't yet apologize. If the charges are totally >baseless as now alleged, then in a few days Jenna and company will be >able to laugh them off. >If the charges have truth to them, then they might spur inner change. >Let porners realize that Luke seeks out those who mistreat others and >he delights in humiliating them on his site. I wish to comfort the >afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Malcom: This is the first statement on your website that really bothers me due to its lack of regard for the truth. It seems more than "seek(ing) out those who mistreat others and delight(ing) in humiliating them on his site" you're seeking out those who mistreat others and printing their venom verbatim- No fact checking involved. "Afflicting the comfortable" is a pretty poor reason for this shoddy journalism. I'm not defending Jenna J. and other porners as much as attacking your half-assed article. I've seen you write better than this and expect it of you. Hoping that someone will "laugh off" charges of being a drugged-out, lying drunk slut (and cheap to boot) is a really poor excuse for not fact checking. Looks like you're jumping to the top of the list of those that mistreat others and you're humiliating only yourself in the process.

5/11/99 Porner tells Luke: "Jenna definitely does drugs. I have witnessed it. She is known for being a flake. If she is so into her money how come she blows off so many appearances? Many clubs don't want her cuz she f---ed em

"Also, Dominic aka DR X, AVN photographer, used to be her roadie. He told me all the same s--- your original guy did. She abused hell out of him....f---ed around all over the place...drugs and stuff and wanted Dominic to cover for her. She called him her little nigger."

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