April 15, 2005
Jenna Hot for Lawsuit
SOURCE: E! Online by Josh Grossberg
Maybe she should've called her book How To Sue Like a Porn Star.
X-rated queen Jenna Jameson is going hard-core on her publisher, launching a federal lawsuit against Regan Media claiming the company has no right to money from a proposed A&E reality series.
The 30-year-old porn star, whose real name is Jennifer Massoli, is miffed that publisher Judith Regan tried to claim a cut of the profits from a deal Jameson says she negotiated herself with the cable network for a show focusing on her everyday life.
The lawsuit asks a judge to make a ruling on a 2004 contract she signed with Regan to publish her bestselling memoir, How To Make Love Like a Porn Star. Jameson says the publisher does not have exclusive rights to the TV project because she claims she sealed the A&E deal before inking the Regan contract.
Regan is taking the charges, um, lying down. She has countersued, accusing Jameson of breaching their contract by talking to A&E. Regan says her contract with Jameson was airtight and didn't give the porn star any say in arranging TV development deals on her own.
ReganBooks published How To Make Love Like a Porn Star, cowritten by journalist Neil Strauss, last August, and the tome about Jameson's experiences in the adult film world rocketed up the charts.
Regan's countersuit comes the same week she announced plans to move her publishing empire from New York to Los Angeles to expand various properties for TV and film.
Regan's imprint rose to prominence publishing works by the likes of Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore and Jameson. Regan also served as an executive producer on A&E's Growing Up Gotti, as well as Jenna Jameson's Confessions, a documentary that aired on VH1 last year.
David Bodney, a lawyer for Regan Media, did not return phone calls seeking comment. Jameson's attorney was also unavailable.
While Jameson gets busy on the legal front, she is also overseeing the gargantuan growth of her sex-film empire, Club Jenna. Earlier this week, porn powerhouse Vivid Entertainment announced a seven-year exclusive pact with Jameson to distribute all skin flicks produced by Club Jenna.
All that and she's also starring in VirtuallyJenna, a sex-simulation videogame in which players try to bring a digital version of Jameson to climax.
Posted by MK Magazine at April 15, 2005 04:50 PM