Jenna Jameson



Jenna Jameson, real name Jenna Marie Massoli, was born in Las Vegas, NV on April 9, 1974.  She's of Italian, English, German, and Irish descent.  Her father was a Vietnam veteran and worked as program director for KSNV-TV.  Jenna's dream as a child was to be a newscaster.  Her mother was a Las Vegas showgirl who danced in the Folies Bergere show at the Tropicana Resort and Casino.  Her mother died of melanoma two months before Jenna's second birthday.  The cancer treatments had bankrupted the family.  Her father joined the Las Vegas Sheriff's Department in order to fight corruption, but the mafia retaliated by trying to kidnap Jenna and her brother Tony.  The kids were put under police protection and the family eventually relocated several times in Nevada, Arizona, and Montana.  Jenna usually lived in trailers and sometimes lived with her grandmother.

Jenna participated in many beauty pageants as a child, and she took ballet classes, training in dance for 15 years.  

When Jenna was 16 years old and living on a cattle ranch in Fromberg, Montana, she was beaten with rocks and was gangraped by four boys after a football game at Fromberg High School.  She had gotten in their truck while hitchhiking, thinking they would drive her home.  They took her down a dirt road and kept knocking her unconscious while raping her.  She woke up later covered in insect bites, her clothing in tatters, and with her head in a pool of her own blood.  The boys had left her for dead.

  She also claims to have been raped again at the age of 16 by her boyfriend Jack's biker uncle, which he denies.  She moved in with Jack and, being a tattoo artist, he gave her the trademark tattoo of two hearts on her right buttock. 

Jenna tried to follow in her mother's footsteps and went back to Las Vegas to try to be a showgirl.  She was frequently rejected due to her lack of height, but was eventually hired by Disneyland Resort, but quit after two months because of pay issues.

Jack encouraged her to become a stripper, so she applied at Crazy Horse Too.  After being turned down because of her braces, she removed them with pliers and was then hired.  She was underage, but used a fake ID to work.  She was making $2000 a night before she even graduated from Bonanza High School.

Jenna had started taking drugs while in high school.  She was taking LSD, cocaine, and meth.  Her addiction worsened and by the time she was 20, she had lost so much weight, she weighed only 76 pounds, leaving her too thin to model.  Jack left her and a friend put her in a wheelchair and sent Jenna to Redding, CA to detox with her father.  Her father didn't recognize her when she got off the plane. 

She initially began working in porn in retaliation for Jack's infidelity.