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Lisa Ann lives with drama, featuring in dozens of magazine layouts, an exclusive contract [now torn up], video features [all with boxcover appearances], fist fights, personal appearances, interviews, and enough speculation and gossip to fill an entire issue of AVN. (AVN 1/96)

A talented and energetic stripper, with numerous exotic costumes, Lisa Ann comes across in person as bubbly and sweet. She's got a smile like Julia Roberts, though I think the porn star is more beautiful than the Hollywood actress.

Born May 9, 1972, the youngest of six kids (five older brothers), Lisa Ann grew up in the small East Coast town of Easton. Lisa Ann attended private school and by age 15 appeared in lingerie catalogues and bikini contests.

Lisa lost her virginity on her 13th birthday and by 16, she organized orgies. Her favorite position is doggy. She likes intercourse hard and fast.

Her life changed when she met go-go dancer Tanya. "She had it all - incredible sex appeal, a great life. Everything. I wanted to be Tanya."

Tanya took Lisa under her wing to New Jersey where Lisa began her dancing career.

"It was great starting there. I had to keep my clothes on, which taught me how to dance first."

Lisa took on the name Sunshine and began dancing nude in Reading, PA, at Al Diamonds Cabaret, which features a regular helping of porn stars.

Fan Ed Scott writes 6/98: "Lisa may have danced first in New Jersey, but the vast majority of her time was spent as Sunshine in the clubs around eastern Pa. 7th heaven, Baby Dolls, and Cloud Nine. She then won an amature contest at Als which is in Reading, PA and began to work there three weeks a month, continuing as "Sunshine". She returned to Als as a feature after her porn career was well underway. But to my knowledge has not performed in this area now for a couple of years."

She became close friends with the first adult star she worked with - Teri Weigel. Over the next six months, Lisa talked to other porn performers about getting into the business. The busty brunette sent nude pictures to adult video companies. Peter Davy invited her to LA and Lisa eventually signed an exclusive deal with Metro Home Video and first appeared, on July 4, 1994, in Flesh for Fantasy.

After completing eight more features, Lisa took her clothes off for Hustler, High Society, Swank, Cheri and Club.

She shot a free Christmas scene at the end of 1995 for members of her fan club.

"I read the interviews where someone says they care about their fans. But I REALLY care about my fans. I send them post cards, call 'em on the phone. I know when their birthdays are. I don't look at them as fans. They're my friends. Sure the money's cool, but knowing I can put sunshine in someone else's life is the biggest reward for me." (AVN)

Lisa did her first black man on camera in early 1996. Though raised to judge people on race, she's "realized over time that I have good friends who are white and good friends who are black. Race doesn't matter.

"I worked on a set called Little Red Riding Hood for four days. It was directed by an old senile man who uses the name Adelle Robbins. The first day was hell. I kept calling Metro to tell them they needed to check on me and see what was happening on their set. There was no food, my car got towed... No one would come and by the fourth day I was in tears. The director wasn't treating the talent with any respect... So I packed my things... and walked up to the cameraman and punched him in the head. I was throwing the lights everywhere, tearing things up." (HEVG)

Thus Lisa Ann broke out of her contract with Metro.

Lisa's favorite sex scenes are with Lynn LeMay in Tit's A Wonderful Life, with Ian Daniels in the orgy scene from CineSex 2, and everything she did in Gregory Dark's Flesh.

As of 2/97, Lisa had retired from porn and lived in a motel in central Florida. (Roger Tipe)

12/23/99

Lisa Ann Lives

Todd writes: Hey Lukey, A few days ago I read on Gene Ross's site that he CLAIMED that LISA ANN was dead, as in deceased, gone forever dead, D-E-A-D! A guy even wrote to Gene and told Gene that he had seen Lisa Ann dance just the previous night, Well, of course Gene being the Rocket Scientist that he is told the guy that he (the guy) was mistaken because Lisa Ann was DEAD. I e-mailed Lisa Ann and told her what he said on his site, She e-mailed me back and said that Gene was intentionally spreading rumors about her to try and get her to call him and give him a free interview, (You can scroll down to the e-mail she sent me back where she says this) If Gene Ross has to sink as low as this to get interviews and stories, Well, all I can say is what a f---ing LOW-LIFE COCKSUCKING SCHMUCK Gene Ross is!!!! I just thought since you and Gene are in the same occupation that you might like to know this. Gene Ross is the one who should be getting sued, Not you!

Lisa Ann writes to Todd: Hello & Thank You very much for your info. I have since then got in touch with Gene Ross, who is mainly continuing rumors to be tricky in getting me to call * give a free interview. They will continue to try to hurt me & my reputation until I do as they say. Too bad for me alot of my friends have been very worried. I am fine better than fine it is the holidays, & I am on vacation.. Have a good one keep in touch baby. love to get mail Lisa Ann xoxox

Goddess writes: Regarding Lisa Ann: a porno chick who DOESN'T want publicity? Damn, the end of the world MUST be coming!

MHJ writes: Lisa Ann is one of the most real, most beautiful, and genuinely sweetest, coolest women in this business that I've had the pleasure to meet. Besides movies, she's done layouts for something like 35 or 40 magazines ranging from Cheri to Puritan and inculding some foreign mags as well (she's appeared under different names in some of these -- the earliest I can recall was as "Sunshine" in a Euro hardcore mag. back in '94). In any case, she is also an extraordinary dancer (unlike many) and she has an amazing repertoire of acts and costumes. If you have the chance to see Lisa Ann dance, don't miss it! By the way, Lisa is MUCH better looking than Julia Roberts.

4/20/01

I talked Thursday to the bubbly Julia Roberts lookalike Lisa Ann, a porn star from 1994-96, and a regular feature dancer since then in strip clubs across North America. She sports a wide winning smile and an endlessly positive attitude.

Luke: Why did you get into video?

Lisa Ann: I started dancing as a teenager. I went to Al's, a big cabaret in Redding, Pennsylvania. Al's has a different feature every week. So I was introduced to [porn stars]. Because when you go to an adult bookstore, you really don't think about running into [porn stars]. That's why people read your site every day. I was fascinated. First girl I met was Teri Weigel, a big crazy porn girl.

I was there three years, talking to a different girl every week. Many of them encouraged me to get into the business. After I gathered enough information, I made a ton of phone calls and sent out photos to all the movie companies and Hustler and other magazines.

The person I got the closest with over the phone was with a company called LBO, Peter Davy. He is a wonderful person. He was my guardian angel. Peter Davy picked me up at the airport. He let me stay at house for a month. He took me from movie company to movie company. He put in my mind what I should look for. 'This is all good and fun, but you still have to have a business plan in every situation.'

I never worked for him and he never expected anything from me. So I feel like it is up to me now to be that kind of person to the new people I meet.

He was so comforting and real and nice. And I got out here [Los Angeles] and I realized that there were a lot more nice people in the business than people thought. Before I came out here, Peter got girls to call me at my house in Pennsylvania. Leena called me. She told me, 'You can definitely trust him. You can go out there and he will definitely help you out.'

I was under contract to Metro for two years and after that I did a few movies. One for Wicked, one for Ultimate, they were kind of strange, and one for Greg Dark (Flesh). He's bizarre.

I always had to be on the boxcover. Because when Peter Davy took me around, he said: "You're a pretty girl. You should demand to be on every box cover. Some girls will do 300 movies and only appear on three boxcovers. They lack the self confidence to ask. But it is so much more exciting to go into a bookstore and see yourself on the boxcover.

I made my last movie in October of 1996 for Sin City. It's called Erotica. I started feeling the yen to move on. I wasn't enjoying it as much as in the beginning. You will remember there was a big AIDS scare in October of 1996. Some people that doesn't affect.

You're dealing with some people in the business who are not doing the right thing for themselves healthwise. They might be reckless with their partying. They might take it so far that they are infringing on the other talent's life. If there were a common club of people who were more respectful towards each other, it would be different.

There are a lot of crazy people in the business but I couldn't have had more fun doing anything.

Luke says: Let me read you something from the January 1996 issue of AVN: "Lisa Ann lives with drama, featuring in dozens of magazine layouts, an exclusive contract [now torn up], video features [all with boxcover appearances], fist fights, personal appearances, interviews, and enough speculation and gossip to fill an entire issue of AVN."

Lisa Ann: Always. You've got to be in the middle of drama when you're in the business because that's what keeps your name afloat. Negative drama happens because I was a lot younger than I am now. I had a totally different outlook on what the big picture was. Then the big picture was me and nobody else mattered.

Now the big picture is, if we're all equal here, and we don't divide ourselves as the entertainer being someone more powerful than the writer, when really we're all completely the same and equal, then things work. But when you're new and you get in this and everybody's pumping your head up and it's your first time on the road, your ego takes you for a ride. But this slows down eventually.

I see all the new girls go through it. When clubs tell me, 'Oh, she didn't show up.' I say, 'Listen, she's just having her fun right now. She's got a little leverage and she's seeing what she can do with it. It'll work itself through and it will pass.' But oh, the drama was everywhere and all the time.

Luke: You got in a fist fight with someone?

Lisa Ann: A director over a ultimate fantasy movie. His name was Joel Roberts [Adelle Robbins?].

One person who was always side by side was Dominic [AVN photographer Dr. X.]. Dominic would see all the drama and laugh. It was just passing the time for him because he was bored at work. But it was getting me in trouble.

When I say I'm going to do something, I stick to it. When someone else says they're going to do something, and they don't, then I am offended and I am going to let them know. In this business, you're a slave to everyone who needs you and that you need. If they dick you over and don't show up, you're still going to have to work with them again.

I work for Danni's Hard Drive a lot. I can get my groove on and shoot a bit. I don't have to deal with any porn people. I work for the Playboy Channel occassionally. Last year I danced 44 weeks out of the year. I will probably give it two more years of working like that. It's so fun and so easy and I've been doing it long enough that I am really comfortable. I don't get nervous and scared anymore going to new places.

For Danni.com, I do live feeds for them. Where I do four or five hour live strips in the afternoon. I do photoshoots for them that are just like magazine layouts except that they use them on their site. I also write a video column for Danni. I take a camera on the road with me and shoot other girls and get crazy. I write a column and they put a five or ten minute clip up there for guys to watch.

Luke: What are you doing with your web site LisaAnn.net?

Lisa Ann: All my guys are asking me for new pictures. And if they want custom videos, ok. They've been asking me these same questions for four years now. I didn't want to do a pay site but I couldn't afford to do 500 photos and daily news if it was a free site. My free site was so huge that we decided to step up to the plate. We shot photos for a year straight and archived them all. I didn't want to get into a boat where two months down the road, I don't have enough photos. So we stocked up on content and got Danni to host it.

I used to only do custom videos for these ten to twenty guys in my fan club who've been in my club since 1995. I know these guys. I know every address they've had. But I wouldn't do videos for just anybody. I didn't know what guys were going to do with them. Were they going to mass produce them? Now that I have my camera, I can do it myself because I have a remote control. So, I've started doing them for other people. I sell them on my site and for people I meet on the road. Sometime a guy will be like, 'Ok, take home that outfit and wear it,' then I come in the next day and they buy it.

What sorts of things do they ask for? Well, start with foot fetish. Then I have the ass guys following me. I get a lot of, 'Can you do 20 minutes of your ass?' And I work my way up from there. Mostly it's brief. They don't know how to write down what they're thinking, so I am lucky.

Luke asks: Do you do scenes with your fiance?

Lisa Ann: No. He doesn't want to be on camera. But our life is like a scene. And I do keep my life just as spicy as when I was in the business. I keep him very active. But all that practice in the business helps me keep him.

I'm always in Las Vegas for CES. It's always fun to see everybody. But I like to keep it not too much. Because that was one thing I lost when I was in the business and around all the time. You're just another one of those girls. You lose that novelty.

But we've been looking for you. Two club owners at the Club Owner Expo told me for the first time about you. And I was so glad that you had missed my time in the business because people had so much s--- to write about me. Hustler Erotic Video Guide printed that I killed myself. And nobody even called and asked my agent. For about six months, clubs were calling me and going, 'Oh my God, I am so glad you're ok. We read that you killed yourself.'

I'm thinking to myself, nobody could've written to my fanclub or gotten a hold of anybody that I ever knew to make sure that I didn't really kill myself. How much did they really care? They didn't care at all. I think this was May of 1997 or 1998. It was so bizarre. It was a pretty harsh thing to not make sure you got your facts straight on.

Luke says: I emailed Hustler Erotic Video Guide editor Michael Louis Albo for a response to Lisa Ann's comments.

Mike writes back: "Since I'm on deadline and don't have the time to drop everything to look up some obscure fact for your lazy ass, to the best of my recollection, there was a RUMOR circulating among several people in the business that Lisa Ann had either died or disappeared, and a number of people appparently believed it. I received several phone calls asking to confirm her "death." THAT's what we wrote about in one of the news/gossip departments we had at the time. It was probably all of 75 words. And the next issue (or the one after that) we reported her to be alive and well. Happy now? (And please, don't bother me with trivial bulls--- like this in the future, you fag.)"

Lisa Ann says: Do they think that I am that crazy? I know the business can make you crazy. But come on. I was one of the most sane girls in the business. Wouldn't you say?

Luke: So nothing terribly bizarre or dangerous happened to you on the road?

Lisa Ann: Nothing. I don't know if somebody wrote that because they meant it. They thought it really happened. Or if they just wrote it to see if I would come back in and call somebody. I'm not sure. But it made exciting on the road for a while because everyone was so thrilled to see me. But a lot of people probably did not come around because they thought it wasn't me.

Luke: How many girls have you gotten into the video industry?

Lisa Ann: At least 25. Every girl I used to work with in Pennsylvania, one by one, came out here to work with me and I got them in the business. And a ton of girls that I met on the road. There's always one girl in every club that wants to do it. She doesn't have a boyfriend at the time and you know she wants to make the move and go. You can always talk her into it. It's a fun job.

Shelby Myne and I used to work out together. Next thing, she's in the business. My girlfriend Jennifer Worthington mainly does magazines and she's on the road. A girl named April Hunter does mostly magazines and she's on the road. I've given a lot of girls to Danni, like Sydney Lu. She's a Hustler contract girl.

I have a friend named Zana who came out here from Chicago. She's been doing a ton of movies. But she's not thrilled that there's not more action. She thinks there should be more f---ing. She thinks they're cutting everything too short and the directors are too fussy. She thinks there should be more sex and less talk. You'll really like her.

Luke: How are the other girls reacting to the industry?

Lisa Ann: It affects everybody differently. Some girls party that you didn't think would party. Some girls save their money and have a great life ahead. You don't know anybody well enough to know which road they're going to take. I tell them to have a financial goal and if they reach it, they can get out at any time. There's no man out there that's going to say that he thinks it's horrible that a girl saved her money and prospered from this business. He's going to say, 'Hey, I got what I wanted. I got to see her do this, that and the other thing.' And she got what she wanted. She had some fun and she's living ok now.

Luke: It seems to me that most of the girls in the industry do not save their money.

Lisa Ann: I would say that there was a larger percentage five years ago than now that didn't save their money. I think there are a lot of secret savers in the business. There are a lot of girls who are a lot smarter than people give them credit for. They show this public side of themselves, then when they get in the car alone and drive home, there's a different side. There are some girls out there with some cash. Girls who are savvy people. Like Christy Canyon. She can make her money make more money and be working at the same time.

There are a lot of kids in this business who've graduated college but aren't using their noggin. They're too busy partying. We've all spent too much money in Vegas or bought a pair of shoes that were too expensive. And if we had a regular job, we'd never buy those pair of shoes.

Porn is a fun enough environment that I don't think drugs should be necessary.

I'm lucky that I only know the type of girl who isn't involved heavily [with drugs]. She may have a good time here and there and may like to part on occassion but would never let it interfere with work, or would never have to do it to go to work. I stopped drinking when I moved out here in 1994.

Luke asks: Have you ever done escort work?

Lisa Ann: No. But I get these emails all the time from these companies and I laugh at how much money they say you can make.

I hear of girls doing escort work, but it is one of those things that I try to turn my ear away. I don't want to hear something like that because I don't want to have to place judgement on someone. What if it is my friend and that is something she chose to do. I would rather not know about it because then I'd have to judge it a little bit even though I don't want to be judgemental. I just want to be, 'Ok, this is your choice, not mine.' I'm just afraid for girls that they are going to get hurt. You see these movies where the hooker comes and the guy chops her up into pieces. It's not the money. It's not a moral issue. It's just safety.

We just got DSL. We've been using a phone modem all this time. It sucks. So now I can talk on the phone and be online and it's like a dream come true. I'm an internet freak. I go shopping online almost every night before I go to bed. I don't necessarily buy much. I just love to look at how they update their sites and how they change their graphics. I always steal different graphics from different sites that I want to use.

12/25/05

Lisa Ann Leaves LA Direct Models

Porn star Lexie Marie (who's repped by LA Direct) has a serious drug problem.

Though Derek denies this, I've been told that he demanded that Lisa move Lexie into her new house and keep an eye on her. Lisa said no. "My house is my sanctuary. I don't want a crackhead in my house. I don't want work affiliated with my home."

Derek is supposed to have insisted and Lisa Ann quit.

Lexie has proved highly unpopular with the people she's lived with over the past few months, including various LA Direct girls.

Over the past two years, Derek has built LADirectModels.com into the most powerful and organized talent agency in the business. Derek delivers his girls to sets on time. He's loved and respected by many photographers and producers. His detractors call him a tyrant.

Several porners have asked me, "Why don't you write anything bad about Derek? Are you afraid of him?"

Derek had an incident with Dylan Lauren a few weeks ago. I don't know if Derek hit her car and Dillan demanded his insurance information... Whatever happened, Derek told her to clear her stuff out of his house within five minutes and leave. She did.

It's Derek's way or the highway at LADirect.

12/28/05

Lisa Ann has returned to work as a booker (and talent at) LA Direct.

12/30/05

Gene Ross reports:

Wankus asked about the drama between her and LA Direct of a couple of weeks ago where she left the company. "I needed some time off for the holidays," was Lisa Ann's response. Wankus asked if LA Direct knew about her plans to do that. "It's just amazing," she replied. "I just moved- I'm reading all this- what's going on. Every story was a little bit different. There are some issues in the work place." With all of that said, Lisa Ann admitted she did leave the company. "But I'm trying to be polite." Wankus read that to mean there was a "fall out" but said there was nothing wrong in being mature and trying to work things out. "Things come up some times and things get really intense," said Lisa Ann. "And sometimes we all make decisions. The break was well needed for both parties to simmer things down and work it out. Derek is an amazing businessman."

8/14/06

Lisa Ann Works For Thomas Zupko

Lisa and Tom had a falling out a couple of months ago (I heard that Zupko was drunk and called her some derogatory names) and soon after Lisa Ann left LA Direct Models.

Lisa is now her own agent.

Lisa Ann posted on ADT June 10, 2006:

Lisa Ann here, with an announcement so exciting, so HOT and so unbelieveable! Are you ready to see ME Lisa Ann Defiled in a way only the Master Thomas zupko could Defile. Yes, me, the soft, sweet, nineties porn queen is going to put it all out there for you! zupko Style. The shoot will be June 17th. We have already shot the Box Cover, Brainstormed together numerous times, and yesterday I was given my homework. Some Thomas zupko DvD's to enjoy. The most incredible part of this project is, This will be Thomas zupko as he is, wants to be and can do because he is back where he belongs, with EXTREME. YOU Know what that means. Thomas zupko back with Extreme, being himself- an incredibly passionate, creative and wild man who I have a secret history with you would all really like to know about. Over time you will. What I ask of you from here is this- What do you want? What do you want me to do for you that you have never seen, but maybe dreamed? I will do it, just ask. I have one full week from today, I will be checkinhg on your suggestions every day waiting and prepairing to show you the strongest combination of three things you have ever seen- tohose threee magical things all pulled together to bring you the fantasy of all fantasies- 1. Thomas zupko 2. Extreme 3. Lisa Ann

She calls me at noon Monday.

Lisa: "I shot with Tom Zupko yesterday."

Luke: "I thought that was never going to happen."

Lisa: "We thought so too, but we did it behind everybody's back.

"He did one of his normal crazy religious whatever movies that I didn't want to be a part of. So I wore an angel costume that was my own and I did a blowjob scene with Brett Rockman. It was fantastic. I kept it Lisa Ann style. I fought Zupko every step of the way. Everyone was on set from 11 in the morning. I left about 1 a.m. The rest of the crew was on set until 4 a.m. for the last scene.

"Curiosity just killed the cat. He's so crazy I was drawn to doing it just to see what happens on his set. I wanted to take photos of the food and everything else because it was just so comical.

"Zupko was like, 'Spit in her face!' I said, 'Zupko, come on. Nobody spits in my face without dying. If you want this to be Brett's last scene ever, let him spit in my face. I'll murder him.'

"But I survived it, Luke, and I get to call and tell you about it.

"We've randomly talked since the fallout. Every time I gossip about him online, he calls me, 'Hey pain in the ass.' I'm trying to teach him that when you f--- with people, they f--- with you back.

"Last week he called me. 'I'm shooting this movie this weekend. Do you want to stop by? I'm screwed. One of the girls is flying in and I don't have anyone to pick her up.'

"I said, 'Where is she coming in? Burbank?' He goes yes. I said, 'I know her. Rebecca Steel. She's a sweetheart. Shy Love got her in the business. I will pick her up from the airport and bring her to your set. Then we'll just hang out and I'll leave.'

"He's like, 'Do you want to do a BJ for me?' I said, 'Sure, I'll do a BJ for you but here are the parameters of the BJ.' He goes, 'All right. No problem.'

"I picked up Rebecca, which was cool. It's always nice to pick up a girl from the airport and have a laugh with her on the way to the set rather than her being picked up by whoever...

"I got her to the set by 4 p.m. I kept joking around, 'Where's the call sheet? Where's the production schedule?' Zupko said, 'Don't worry. You're up next.'

"At 11 p.m., I'm sleeping in my car. I can't stand to be in the building any more because everybody's fighting. He just brings out the worst in everybody.

"What he doesn't realize is that laughing at religion is not funny because we don't like it when those religious people laugh at our porn. To draw attention to us in such a negative light is a bummer. That's what people view the whole industry as and the whole industry doesn't make fun of religion."

Porn in Protestant countries such as the United States rarely makes fun of religion (because religion in Protestant countries is less coercive and less monolithic than in Catholic countries) while porn in Catholic countries (such as Italy and Latin America) often makes fun of religion.

Lisa: "But you know him. He likes to push the envelope.

"I'm trying to show everybody in the industry that Lisa Ann is back with a vengeance. That I'm flexible and willing to work for different people but that I can still be myself. To teach the girls in the industry that you don't have to do what everyone tells you. Your fan base is because of you, not because the director made you do something you've never done before.

"Now I've got my Starbucks. I'm on my way to the gym to ride my 40 miles. I'm getting a 90-minute massage and some energy work done today to get Thomas Zupko out of my soul. I'll call him later and we'll yell at each other some more.

"I'm leaving for Cleveland tomorrow. I'll be dancing there till Saturday.

"Then I'm shooting my first anal for Zero Tolerance with little boy James Deen."