Jenna Jameson was born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Laurence Henry Massoli, a police officer and TV program director, and Judith Brooke Hunt, a showgirl who died of melanoma in 1976. Raised Catholic with an older brother after her mother's death bankrupted the family, she faced early trauma, including a gang rape at 16 and a second rape by her boyfriend's uncle, leading to drug addiction with cocaine, LSD, and methamphetamine in her teens. She began as a stripper in 1991 using a fake ID, earning up to $2,000 nightly, and transitioned to glamour modeling before entering erotic videos in 1993 and porn in 1994, starting with lesbian scenes for Wicked Pictures after breast implants in 1994.
Her career surged with over 35 awards, including AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame inductions, earning her "Queen of Porn" status; she retired from performing in 2008 at the AVN Awards but worked as a webcam model from 2013. Outside porn, she founded ClubJenna in 2000, expanding it into a production company that sold to Playboy in 2006, managed 150+ sites, and produced hits like *Briana Loves Jenna*. Achievements include her 2004 autobiography *How to Make Love Like a Porn Star*, a best-seller translated into multiple languages; mainstream roles in *Private Parts* (1997), *Grand Theft Auto: Vice City* (2002), and *Zombie Strippers* (2008); and business ventures like sex toys, a Times Square billboard, and directing *The Provocateur* (2005).
Personally, she married Brad Armstrong (1996-2001, div.), Jay Grdina (2003-2006, div.), and Jessi Lawless (2023, annulled 2024); partners included Tito Ortiz (2006-2013), with whom she had twin sons in 2009 (custody to Ortiz post-2013 split), and Lior Bitton (2015-2023), with whom she had daughter Batel in 2017. She converted to Judaism in 2015, then to Christianity in 2025. As of 2025, at age 51, she focuses on faith and family, no longer in porn.
