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She showed up to Howard Stern wearing another man’s engagement ring, with Dennis Rodman sitting next to her. By the end of the interview she had called him “incredible” in bed and sworn she’d never slept with him. Her real name was Jenna Massoli, but the world knew her as Jenna Jameson, the biggest star in adult film. In late 2001 she was engaged to her boyfriend Jay, and she said the engagement was open. Rodman was out of the NBA, divorced from Carmen Electra after a Vegas wedding, and making a living throwing naked parties across the country. That fall the two of them went on tour with a show called the Strippers Ball, and they came on Stern to promote the video. In the video below, Stern brings up the rumor that Rodman can practically break a woman in half. “Yeah, I broke my penis,” Rodman says, looking straight into the camera. Twice. Stern turns to Jenna and asks how long she’s been his lover. She says they met in Vegas in July and “it became a very late night,” and that she even brings other girls for him. “You look smitten,” Robin tells her. “Either that or he’s got you on roofies.” Then Stern points at the ring and asks who has the bigger penis, Rodman or her fiancé. Rodman just holds up his hands. When Stern asks if the lovemaking is fabulous, Jenna doesn’t hesitate: “He’s incredible.” Stern jumps on it, and suddenly she gets vague. He asks her one last time if she’s sleeping with Rodman. She laughs: “No, I am not.” Stern got them to kiss on air before they left anyway. A year and a half later, Jenna married Jay. Rodman never played another NBA game. So who was really lying that morning: the porn star who said he was incredible and then denied it, or the man who came with her and just held up his hands?

Hugh Grant paid her $100 for 10 minutes in his BMW. She made $1.6 million telling the world he needed a baby condom. Her name was Estella Marie Thompson, but the world knew her as Divine Brown. On June 27, 1995, police found her in Grant’s white BMW on the Sunset Strip and arrested them both for lewd conduct. Grant was dating Elizabeth Hurley at the time, one of the most photographed women on the planet. His mugshot ran on front pages everywhere. Brown went from a street corner to the tabloids, Penthouse, a Brazilian lingerie commercial and her own adult film. In the video below, Stern asks how she knew Grant wasn’t a cop. “Because he showed me that big whopper,” she says. Cops aren’t allowed to do that. Stern lines up a cucumber, an eggplant and a hot dog and asks which one was closest. She refuses to insult him, so they hand her four drawings. She picks the smallest, about an inch. “You couldn’t even put the condom on,” Stern says. “You needed a baby condom.” Then she describes the arrest. When the police shone a flashlight through the window, Grant’s pants were still down. Instead of denying anything, he started talking right away and told them who he was and that he’d paid her. “What a fool,” she says. Grant went on Jay Leno a week later and said, “I did a bad thing.” Hurley stayed with him for five more years. Brown bought a house in Beverly Hills and said the money put her daughters through private school. In 2006 she published a memoir and called it Million Dollar Hooker. So who actually got screwed that night: the movie star who paid $100, or the woman who walked away with a million?

On October 19, 1987, The Morton Downey Jr. Show aired its very first episode, and before the hour was over, its first guest had walked off the set. The show went on to practically invent trash TV, and the woman who couldn’t sit through it was Seka, the biggest porn star in America. Seka was 33 and had been working in the industry for 10 years. She was known in the industry as the ‘Platinum Princess,’ and was later named as the inspiration behind Amber Waves in Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson. She had already owned 10 adult bookstores by the age of 25. The host was Morton Downey Jr., a chain smoking ex-lounge singer who smoked in peoples faces and had the audience shouting for blood. In the video below, Seka is calm. Porn is no more exploitative than Brooke Shields selling jeans, she says. Downey cuts in. “She doesn’t have every orifice of her body filled with something during her movies.” “I don’t either, Mort.” It only gets worse from there. As he won’t let her finish her sentence she threatens to leave, to which he replies “You’re threatening me?” He asks if the mob paid for her bookstores to which she replies that they were bought with money from a factory production line. He tells the audience he would rather trust the Justice Department than someone who has lain down with everyone she can find in a porn film. After the break, Seka’s chair was empty. Downey does not apologise. “I don’t know how anyone who can lie in bed with a number of people, accepting every penetration in the world, can be insulted by me.” The show became a national hit but ended in 1989 when Downey claimed that he had been attacked in an airport toilet by neo-Nazis and had a swastika drawn on his face, something police did not believe. He died in 2001 with lung cancer having campaigned against smoking in his final years. Seka left filming in 1992 due to the AIDS crisis. She became a radio host talking about sex in Chicago and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Who do you think won that night? The porn star who stood up for herself or the host who made a career out of embarrassing people like her?

Marilyn Chambers signed up for a porn film by misreading a form and thinking balling was a word, rather than bowling. She then married the man Linda Lovelace said pointed a gun at, ran for Vice President and died aged 56 in her home. During the same week her first porn movie was released, Marilyn’s face was in every supermarket in America, as the 99 44/100% pure mother holding a baby in Ivory Snow. In the video below Marilyn tells us how she walked into an open casting call in San Francisco. Raised in Connecticut, Marilyn became a model in New York. After a minor role in a Barbra Streisand film, Marilyn was sure stardom was just around the corner. She moved to San Francisco in 1970 and became a hostess, dental assistant and topless dancer. One day she saw an advert in the paper saying ’Now casting for a major motion picture’. On the form she was asked ’Do you want to do a balling or non-balling role?’ She thought it was a typo for bowling. When she realised it was a sex film she began to leave but the two brothers who were producing the film told her to come back upstairs. Marilyn asked if there was any sex involved. “Oh yeah, this is definitely sex.” To get rid of them she said she wanted to be paid a certain amount and asked for a percentage of the gross. An hour later they were at her door with the contract. However she suddenly remembered she had modelled for a soap box when she was 17. “the mom on the box holding the baby.” The new boxes had just come out. The brothers rushed down to the supermarket and found the box on the shelf. They then called all their contacts in the press. "It was a PR man’s dream." Behind the Green Door became one of the most famous adult films ever made. Procter & Gamble discreetly replaced Marilyn with another model. She married Chuck Traynor, acted in a horror film by David Cronenberg and in 2004 she ran for Vice President and received 946 votes in Utah. In April 2009 Marilyn was found dead in her home in Santa Clarita. She was 56 years old. Was Marilyn Chambers the purest face in America or the greatest marketing ploy in Porn history?

Linda Lovelace starred in a porn film so famous that the Watergate source who brought down Nixon was named after it. Deep Throat earned somewhere up to $600 million, while she says she got $1,250 and her husband pocketed all of it. She later went on TV and told America that every time someone watched that movie, they were watching her being raped. Then, at 52, she posed for a fetish magazine. In the video below, she sits down on Late Night America in the 1980s and describes what her life looked like before Deep Throat was ever filmed. Her real name was Linda Boreman, and she grew up in a strict Catholic family where, as she puts it, she didn’t even know what a prostitute was at 21. That changed when she met Chuck Traynor, who became first her manager and then her husband. When the host asks her directly whether she was gang raped, she doesn’t hesitate. Her “first situation,” she says, was being thrown into a hotel room with five men. She was crying and refused to go along with it, and when one of the men asked for a refund, Traynor pulled out a gun and said he would shoot her. She told him he couldn’t do that in front of five witnesses, and he told her they wouldn’t care, because “you’ll just end up being another prostitute that had a bad time.” After that, she says, he beat her daily, but the mental abuse was worse: constant criticism of her hair, her weight, the way she washed her hands. She wasn’t even allowed to use the bathroom alone, because it had a window she might climb out of. “I had to have permission.” Deep Throat came out in 1972 and turned into a national phenomenon, with lines around theaters across the country. When she finally escaped Traynor, she wrote a book about it called Ordeal and testified against the porn industry before a US government commission. In 2001 she posed for Leg Show magazine, and a year later she died after a car crash in Denver at 53. So was Linda Lovelace porn’s first real victim, or a woman who never stopped being sold?

Abella Danger says she used to aim her squirt at porn directors on purpose, and once drenched one from head to toe. She shot anal “every single day” and loved it. Before each scene she lived on pizza, pasta and Metamucil. Asked about anal orgasms, she answers one word: “Yes.” This January, ESPN put her on live TV at the national championship, the clip went viral, and she publicly apologized just for showing up to the game. In the video below, one of the biggest porn stars of the decade goes straight from anal orgasms to her Dean’s List grades without missing a beat. She was born in Miami in 1995. In July 2014 she shot her first scene for Bang Bros. At first, she says, she wasn’t doing well and everyone complained about her. Then a top director emailed her agent to say she had “so much potential.” She set herself a goal: win Best New Starlet. “I was shooting anal like every single day and I loved it.” She explains her routine before anal scenes. Pizza and pasta the day before. Metamucil to stay regular. Nothing the day of. Asked if she actually enjoys it, she doesn’t hesitate. Anal orgasms? “Yes.” And no, she says, nobody pushed her into it. “I always just really wanted to try it.” It worked. She won AVN awards for Best Double Penetration and Most Epic Ass. Pornhub named her Top Squirting Performer. She starred in Bella Thorne’s porn directing debut. In 2023 she was the most-watched performer on Pornhub, with 1.89 billion views. The host jokes that if she ever got paralyzed, she could just do phone sex with that voice. She has a better backup plan. “Thankfully I am working towards a career that is reliant on my brain and not my body.” She went back to school at Miami Dade College. A 4.0 GPA. The Dean’s List two semesters in a row. Winning debate tournaments. Tutoring other students in philosophy. Then she wrote her essays and got into the University of Miami. “In 2 years I intend on applying to law school. And then in 3 years after that I intend on being an attorney.” She became a Hurricanes superfan. In January 2026, Miami lost the national championship to Indiana, 27-21. ESPN’s cameras found her in the stands, worried, for several seconds. She later said she would “give anything in the world to not have had ESPN film me.” “I wish I could be any other student supporting my team.” So can a porn star ever become just another student, or will the internet never let her?

Stormy Daniels spanked Donald Trump with a magazine that had his own face on the cover. Hours later, she says, he was in his underwear doing “the world’s worst Burt Reynolds impression,” and she ended up in his bed. Five years after that, a stranger walked up to her in a Las Vegas parking lot, looked at her baby daughter and said, “It’d be a shame if something happened to her mom.” She would go on to be arrested in a strip club, get robbed by her own lawyer and owe the man she slept with more than $600,000. In the video below, she sits down with Piers Morgan and lays out what that night cost her. She was at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006 because her porn company had sponsored a hole. Trump’s bodyguard asked for her number. When she showed up to his penthouse for dinner, he was in his pajamas. She mocked him until he changed. There was no dinner. He talked about himself for hours, so she grabbed the magazine. “Somebody should spank you.” Later came the bed. “I know I didn’t say no,” she says, “but I also know I didn’t say yes.” That same night he’d shown her photos of his wife and their newborn son. Three years later, she flirted with a run for the US Senate in Louisiana, against a senator whose name had come up in a prostitution scandal. Her campaign manager’s car exploded outside his home. That same summer, she was arrested for hitting her husband in an argument over laundry. In 2011, she agreed to sell the story to a tabloid for $15,000. It never ran. A few weeks later came the parking lot. Days before the 2016 election, she was paid $130,000 to stay quiet. When it all came out, Trump called her “Horseface.” She replied, “Game on, Tiny.” Months later, police arrested her mid-performance at an Ohio strip club. The charges were dropped and the city paid her $450,000. Her own lawyer stole around $300,000 of her book money and went to prison for it. Then Piers asks what it’s been like being a mother through all of it, and the jokes stop. “That’s the one thing that was taken from me that can never be given back. Time lost with my daughter.” “I’ll get emotional and cry,” she says, “because she didn’t ask for this.” To keep her safe, Stormy made sure the press always knew she was in another city. When her first book arrived, dedicated to her daughter, the little girl opened it and started crying. Her seven-year-old told her, “That’s okay, Mommy. I understand there’s other little girls out there that need your help more than I do.” In May 2024, Stormy testified at his trial, down to the satin pajamas. The jury convicted him on all 34 counts. In January 2025, he was sworn in as president again. She sold her silence for $130,000. Her daughter paid for it with years of her mother. So who paid the real price for that night in Tahoe: the man who became president twice, or the little girl who grew up without her mom around?

Riley Reid’s own mother allegedly used her porn fame to fund a luxury lifestyle, and Riley says she “doesn’t have a mom anymore.” Her religious father stopped speaking to her. A boyfriend refused to kiss her when she came home from set, and she says he made her feel “like a disgusting person.” She shot gang bang scenes, made up to $600,000 a month on OnlyFans, dated Lil Pump, and later sold subscribers an AI clone of herself. When she had a baby, strangers went after the child. In the video below, one of the most famous porn stars on the planet explains what anal scenes did to her relationship, and how a boyfriend’s jealousy took her apart one scene at a time. Her real name is Ashley Mathews. She grew up in Florida, and her family moved from city to city. She wanted to be a teacher and lasted one semester of college. At 19 she was stripping. In 2010 she shot her first scene under the name Paige Riley. At first her mother supported her. Then, Riley says, her mom started living off her money. When Riley set boundaries and cut her off, the relationship fell apart. She tried to fix it. It didn’t work. Today she says she no longer talks to her family at all. “You have to be okay with being shamed every day of your life.” For years, she says, she was a “super tame porn star,” just a regular girl who happened to be successful. Then she got into a relationship with a man she calls “the EDM guy.” At first he was fine with her job. Then her career “started to pop off in the anal department.” That’s when it started to cost them at home. Before certain scenes, she couldn’t eat certain foods. He started reading her dinner like a schedule. “When she’s not eating normal, that means she has anal the next day.” So she made a deal. She quit gang bangs for him. It wasn’t enough. Next he asked her to stop shooting with men. Then he asked her to quit her job altogether. All she could ask back was: if I quit, can I move in with you? How am I going to pay my rent? “I ended up quitting doing gang bangs for him… I think that was already a mistake, because I keep giving up control.” She says she almost quit porn because she thought she hated it. Then she realized she just hated him. She left him. For her next birthday she threw a party where she said she just wanted to be surrounded by hot women, and then went through what she calls a four-year phase of random guys, including Lil Pump. She won AVN’s Female Performer of the Year. In 2021 she married Latvian parkour star Pasha Petkuns. A year later they had a daughter, and the comments about her baby got so cruel she had to beg people: “Stop being mean to a baby.” In 2025 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. The man who wanted her to quit everything is now just “the EDM guy.” The mother who lived off her money is no longer in her life. So was the boyfriend wrong to ask her to quit, or was she wrong to say yes?

Chanté was 20, covered in a client’s blood, and facing 25 years to life for attempted murder. Her pimp had been hiding in the bathroom with a gun while she robbed the man. They fought, the gun went off, and a bullet grazed his face. Her first ever plane ride was in custody, with six detectives flying her back to LA. Years later, one client paid her $20,000. She spent it on new breasts and a flight to Jamaica for her pimp’s birthday. She was born in Las Vegas. Her father has spent most of his life in juvie and prison. Her mother had already lost custody of three kids, so as a baby Chanté was adopted by her great-aunt in Washington. By her teens she was on molly, coke and ecstasy. Her biological mother died when she was 17. Her adopted brother lost an arm and a leg, and paid her in his painkillers for taking care of him. She tried stripping and cried in the dressing room because she didn’t want to be naked on stage. So she went to the public library, posted her first ad online and made $200 on her first date. At 18, a pimp called her to a hotel. “The second I stepped into that hotel room, I never left. I’m still in that hotel room.” In the video below, she tells the worst night of her life, from the moment she walked into that LA hotel room to the moment she was alone in it. “I’m in the room, like, covered in blood.” Weeks later, she was arrested for prostitution. Her fingerprints matched that hotel room. She did four months in LA County jail. The case fell apart only because the victim was locked up in New Mexico on cocaine charges. Today she’s 28, ten years in. Her car costs $1,000 a month “just parked.” She’s working on her GED and wants to get into real estate. “This game definitely broke my heart a lot of times.” So what keeps her in that hotel room: the money, or the fact that nobody ever came to get her out?