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LA Weekly Profiles Jenna Jameson: How to Turn 40 Like a Porn Star

Jenna Jameson earlier this year at the XBIZ Awards (Photo by Gustavo Turner)

Journalist Randi Newton paints a compelling, but not very pretty, picture with this LA Weekly profile —

In February, a random publicist, whom I’ll call Stacy, put me in touch with Jenna Jameson’s “manager,” Allen Meme. I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when I was told she had agreed to an interview with me. Jameson was on the verge on turning 40. This interview would help her in her promised comeback to the porn industry, which she’d left – and denounced – in 2008.

“She could definitely use some good press right now,” Stacey tells me. Jameson told TMZ last November that she was returning to porn to provide for her family, but she’d more recently cancelled all her media appearances after a questionable interview on a Fox New York morning news show. Her words were slurred and incomprehensible; naturally, the footage immediately went viral. She blamed her odd affect on staying up too late and being tired after appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live the night before.

This interview would help. It was not going to be live on camera. I’d be happy with a 15-minute phone call.

Then as quickly as she said yes, she went missing.

Jenna Jameson earlier this year at the XBIZ Awards in Los Angeles, California

“Jenna’s avoiding press right now.” Stacy, the very publicist who’d set up the interview, breaks the news to me.”She fired Allen, she doesn’t trust him, don’t talk to him.”

“I can probably get in touch with her myself.” 

“How is that?” she asks. 

“I’m a reporter, it’s what I do.”

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  • Sad, sad, sad. I first shot Jenna for Vivid when she was 19. She was smart, hot, charming and ambitious in a good way. I'm not sure how it all went bad, though I think poor choices of partners had a lot to do with it, but the thing to remember here is that Jenna wasn't a victim of the porn business any more than Phillip Seymour Hoffman was a victim of the movie business. The entertainment industry overall, and for that matter creative trades in general, are filled with complex, high-strung personalities they bring with them to the job. The job doesn't create these things, but the resources it provides to pursue a self-destructive path can enable whatever eats at those it anoints and the results can be dreadful, from Lenny Bruce to Amy Winehouse.

    I've always liked Jenna personally and wish her well. While you're still breathing it's never too late to start again somewhere at something, but first those inner demons have to be corralled.

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