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Speaker 1: Savannah performer.

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Speaker 2: My dad subscribed to the Playboy channel, and when I

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Speaker 3: Jenna Jamison, Welcome to Jenna World. Welcome back to Jenna World.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Mollie Lambert. This is episode five Savannah.

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Speaker 3: The San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, nineteen eighty seven, porn

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Speaker 3: is fully legal in America for the first time. It

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Speaker 3: ruled art protected by First Amendment free speech laws. So

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Speaker 3: the porn business continues to boom unstoppably, raking in an

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Speaker 3: alleged seven hundred and fifty million dollars a year. There

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Speaker 3: are thirty seven production companies, major and minor, across the

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Speaker 3: demand for new product, the Reagan era crackdown still has

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Speaker 3: some instant cooling effects. In nineteen eighty eight, a company

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Speaker 3: called Essex Video is busted by FEDS using these report

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Speaker 3: tactics that focus on interstate distribution of pornographic materials. Essex

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Speaker 3: Video has been bringing in ten million dollars a year,

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Speaker 3: but it's the EO. Jeff Steinmann has been constantly harassed

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Speaker 3: by the FEDS for shipping porn movies like Flesh Dance

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Speaker 3: and I Want to Be Teased across state lines from

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Speaker 3: defending themselves against me's influenced obscenity suits have drained their

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Speaker 3: coffers and essex Video goes bankrupt. Jeff Steinmann keeps emphasizing

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Speaker 4: I don't make movies.

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Speaker 5: Essex Video was never a production company.

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Speaker 6: Jeff Steinmann Essex Video.

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Speaker 3: Jeff Steinman has also just bought a five bedroom, five

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Speaker 3: up within the adult industry, folks start to worry that

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Speaker 3: the porn market is becoming oversaturated with content. Adult videotapes

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Speaker 3: making them cheaply. Now there are also people making pornography

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Speaker 3: at all. They are just trying to constantly flood the

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Speaker 3: market with new product. Meet Mark Curtis of Video Exclusives.

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Speaker 4: My mother used to tell me all women are whores

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Speaker 3: Mark Curtis aka Mark Carrier is a guy from Alabama

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Speaker 4: I came up with the idea that instead of shooting

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Speaker 3: By nineteen ninety one, Curtis's sales figures have risen from

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Speaker 3: When the technology is brand new, porn videotapes go for

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Speaker 3: Mark Curtis is also obsessed with building the perfect girl

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Speaker 4: We make the stars instead of waiting on them to

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Speaker 3: The IRS starts keeping an eye on Mark Curtis, and

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Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety one they bust him for misreporting his

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Speaker 7: Right now, isn't a real good time for these people,

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Speaker 7: Sergeant Donald Smith LAPD.

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Speaker 3: By the late eighties, thirty of the San Fernando Valley's

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Speaker 3: in California, a practice called venue shopping. Hoping to rile

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Speaker 3: up a fake video store in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The

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Speaker 3: Feds order porn tapes for the fake video store from

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Speaker 3: Calvista Video and Van Nis. They receive four films on

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Speaker 3: vhs Backdoor, Lust, Awesome, Sorority Pink, and Sorority Pink Too.

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Speaker 3: Then they try the pornographers on obscenity charges in Oklahoma,

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Speaker 3: by legal fees. The Mese reports suggested tactics are working.

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Speaker 3: Golden Age porn stars like Nina Hartley and Ron Jeremy

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Speaker 8: It's a lot safer than a woman who abstains a

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Speaker 8: Nina Hartley, performer.

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Speaker 5: Part of my defense is it's a very honest business.

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Speaker 5: It's exactly what it is. I don't have a problem

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Speaker 5: with the Lord above, who do I hurt. I do

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Speaker 5: Ron Jeremy, performer.

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Speaker 3: As the Reagan era tries to put porn back in

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Speaker 3: After several HIV scares, the porn industry starts to require

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Speaker 3: Because of the free love aspect of communes, group BESTD

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Speaker 3: pro war in the Vietnam era, the adult industry comes

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Speaker 3: together to debate mandatory condom use. Some think requiring condoms

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Speaker 3: Others think it's not worth the risk of shooting without them.

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Speaker 7: I'm hoping that the talent will band together and look

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Speaker 9: I don't think we've ever had a better.

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Speaker 7: Idea Shane performer and a head of Shane Enterprises.

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Speaker 10: By incorporating these things, we're making a statement to the public, like, hey,

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Speaker 10: Deanna Lauren Vivid Video Contract Girl.

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Speaker 3: While adult tapes led the way into the video rental revolution,

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Speaker 3: Between nineteen eighty eight and nineteen eighty nine, porn tape

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Speaker 3: rental numbers start dropping. In nineteen ninety eight, Ginger Lin

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Speaker 3: Charlie Sheen and his father, Martin Sheen, write a letter

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Speaker 3: she's making thirty thousand dollars a year stripping and a

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Speaker 3: much less than she got paid to perform for Vivid.

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Speaker 3: She stars in Vice Academy three and asks for ten

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Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety two, she fails a court ordered drug

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Speaker 1: I love sex, and I love sex with rockets is

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Speaker 3: But even with dark clouds gathering over the San Fernando Valley,

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Speaker 3: She's a rocker bad girl for the new decade. The

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Speaker 3: and comedians. She has dark clouds inside of herself too,

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Speaker 3: and the media loves to watch a beautiful woman self destruct.

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Speaker 3: Her stage name is Savannah the Future. Savannah is born

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Speaker 3: as Shannon Michelle Wilseie in Hawthorne, California, in nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: I don't want ugly bitches like this. In a scene

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Speaker 1: If that god Nampa doesn't get me my coffee in

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Speaker 3: It makes other performers crazy that Savannah works so much

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Speaker 3: but she's a dead fish on screen. During sex, she

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00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 3: refuses to pretend to enjoy it. She just lays there

431
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 3: and waits for it to be over with One time,

432
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 3: she gets so bored while getting pounded doggie style that

433
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: she starts playing with a houseplantl.

434
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 4: Come on, Savannah, say fuck me or something, suck.

435
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Me or something.

436
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 9: I'll get right away.

437
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 3: Once she becomes Savannah, she flips out if she's addressed

438
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 3: as Shannon, She saves tabloid articles that mention her, but

439
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: crosses out any mention of Shannon Wilseie and them with

440
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 3: a pen. Savannah lives hard and fast on screen and off.

441
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 3: She allegedly dates the string of eighties rock stars, including

442
00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 3: Billie Idol, David Lee Roth, and Vince Neil from Motley Crue,

443
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 3: all riding out the last dregs of MTV eras success

444
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 3: before Grunge destroys hair Metal. She is also spotted with

445
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberg, Axel Rose, and Slash, not all at the

446
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 3: same time. She spills to a tabloid that she fucked

447
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 3: both Axel and Slash, and Slash was better. Slash gives

448
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: her the pet name Savvy, like Charlie Sheen with Ginger

449
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: Lynn Allen, the A listers that Savannah goes out with

450
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 3: dangle the possibility of mainstream fame before her, or at

451
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 3: least her dream of being a rock star's wife. Savannah

452
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 3: lives up to her wild girl image by having public

453
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: sexit bars with rock stars and slipping off with them

454
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 3: into their limousines. Mark Marky, Mark Wahlberg takes her to

455
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: the Grammys as his date. People Magazine alleges that Savannah

456
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 3: got caught quote engaged in full hilt whoopee with Slash

457
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 3: from Guns N' Roses at a New York club called

458
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 3: the Scrap Bar. Star Tabloid reports that she's engaged to

459
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 3: Slash and wearing a three carrot diamond engagement ring he

460
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 3: gave her, but Slash won't publicly claim Savannah as his girlfriend.

461
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Speaker 14: If she was carrying a torch for Slash, it was

462
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 14: completely one sided.

463
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what Rose even knew her.

464
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 3: It's rumored the engagement ring Savannah wears is a gift

465
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 3: from one of her rich old sugar daddies. Savannah dates

466
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 3: her way through la married strip club owners, noncommittal Hollywood guys,

467
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 3: and a dude from the glam metal band Rat. She

468
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 3: moves in with one boyfriend, only to have him stolen

469
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 3: by her best friend. The rock stars and rich guys

470
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 3: only want Savannah for public sex and as red carpet

471
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: arm candy. They aren't interested in getting to know her deeply.

472
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: She finds the real emotional connection she's been looking for

473
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: with a woman she meets at an adult film convention

474
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety one, another porn star named Gina Fine.

475
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 14: I was totally completely in love with her.

476
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 11: Gena Fine performer performer.

477
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: Born Jennifer Payson in New York City, Gena Fine is

478
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 3: a five foot nine libra who starts doing porn at

479
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: age twenty one. An eighties punk rock girl with a

480
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 3: bleach blonde, spiked up mullet, she stars in movies like

481
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 3: Dream Genes and a Fatal Attraction parody called Fatal Erection.

482
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 3: Gena Fine is known for her rough, aggressive sex scenes,

483
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 3: part of an influx of punk performers that will become

484
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: the genre Nona's alternative porn. In nineteen ninety, she rebrands

485
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 3: into a raven haired pin up wearing latex body con

486
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 3: fetish dresses. She does sex work on the side, charging

487
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 3: one thousand dollars for out calls as a dominatrix. Savannah

488
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 3: and Gena Fine meet on a set and click instantly.

489
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: They become the Glimmer twins of porn, partying together NonStop

490
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 3: and showing up to work fucked up and late or

491
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 3: not at all, jeopardizing both of their hot careers. They

492
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 3: have a long on and off romantic relationship and do

493
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 3: a lot of heroin together. Gina Fine knows how to

494
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: handle Savannah and her ever changing moods, how to treat

495
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 3: her like a full human being as a fellow woman

496
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 3: in the industry. Gina clocks immediately that Savannah's whole hot

497
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: diva bitch persona is masking a traumatized girl who's insecure

498
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 3: about her appearance and just wants to be truly loved.

499
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 3: Gina fine lets Savannah confide in her and validates her feelings.

500
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 3: Gina sees that Savannah is a wounded soul she sees

501
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 3: Shannon wilseye. Gina takes care of her. She makes Savannah

502
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 3: feel comfy and safe, providing her things she really wants,

503
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: like pink lace, flowered fabrics, and fuzzy bedroom slipper. She

504
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 3: makes her her favorite meal, Kraft mac and cheese. Gina

505
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 3: sees that Savannah gets fucked and fed. Savannah can be

506
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: whiny and moody and irritable, but Gina loves taking care

507
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 3: of her.

508
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: Anny I'm getting pissy. Oh feed me, do me buy me?

509
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 14: Savannah National Anthem.

510
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 3: Gina and Savannah are each other's red carpet dates for

511
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: the ninth annual nineteen ninety two Adult Video News Awards

512
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 3: in Las Vegas on Trial One in Defense of Savannah

513
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 3: is nominated for five awards, including Best Feature. Savannah is

514
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 3: nominated for Best New Starlet.

515
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 8: As usual, the parade of stars attracted every hot body

516
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 8: in Vegas, much to the approval of a horny audience.

517
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 11: Hot videos illustrated.

518
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 3: At Bally's Hotel and Casino where the Avens are taking place.

519
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 3: The mood is tense. Everyone knows Savannah is the favorite

520
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 3: in her categories, including Best New Starlet, but there's a

521
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 3: general feeling among those in the industry that she should

522
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 3: not be rewarded for her bad behavior. It's one thing

523
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 3: to have a bad girl image on screen. It's another

524
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 3: to show up late to a shoot and waste a

525
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 3: film cruise, time in studio, money on stage. Drag Queen

526
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 3: porn director Chee Chi LaRue breaks the tension in the room.

527
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 11: Where's that bitch, Savannah?

528
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 2: She needs a spanking.

529
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: Chee Chee LaRue.

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00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: Director Gina Fine wins Best Actress. On Trial sweeps its categories,

531
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Speaker 3: and Savannah wins the most coveted award for a girl

532
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 3: role that recently debuted in the industry, Best News Starlet.

533
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 3: Taking to the podium, Savannah addresses her critics and haters

534
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: head on.

535
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you don't like me, but

536
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: that's tough. I got mine award.

537
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: At the Avian Awards. Savannah spots Gina making conversation with

538
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 3: a performer named Amberlin. Amberlin is a blonde from Orange,

539
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 3: California who survived a very hard childhood and moved to

540
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 3: LA where she became part of the bikini modeling scene

541
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: on the Sunset Strip. She is a pioneer in the

542
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 3: practice of feature dancing, where porn stars double their money

543
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 3: by touring strip clubs nationally as headlining exotic dancers. Amberlynn

544
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 3: was also one of the performers who unknowingly worked with

545
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 3: John Holmes when he was HIV positive. She tested negative

546
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 3: afterwards and got involved with the Youth Aids Foundation of

547
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, which provides social services to teenagers with HIV.

548
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety two, Amberlin holds the porn industry's first

549
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 3: official humanitarian fundraiser.

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00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 11: All of us could take a moment and look within

551
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 11: ourselves and reach out and do anything that we can,

552
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 11: regardless of who we are or what our occupation is.

553
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 11: Not only can we raise awareness, we could make people responsible. Amberlin,

554
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 11: performer for.

555
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 3: Her twenty eighth birthday. Amberlin hosts the benefit at the

556
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 3: Bellage Hotel in West Hollywood to raise money for the

557
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 3: Youth Aids Foundation, whose board members include Tory Spelling. In

558
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: a black fishnet catsuit, Amberlin hosts a seventy five dollars

559
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: a plate benefit dinner with prominent adult industry figures, including

560
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: Larry Flint. The birthday benefit gets press coverage in the

561
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 3: New York and LA Times. Amberlin uses her porn stardom

562
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 3: to draw attention to LA's desperate need for free social services,

563
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 3: particularly for those who are already living on the fringes

564
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: of society for various reasons. In nineteen ninety two, LA's

565
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 3: deep issues around class and racism are elevated to an

566
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 3: international media stage because of the LA Riots, also known

567
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 3: as the LA Uprisings. LA's housing crisis and related homelessness

568
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 3: issues have been escalating NonStop since the Reagan presidency. The

569
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 3: coverage of Amberlin's birthday party might be the first time

570
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: the mainstream media ever gives the porn industry any positive press.

571
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 3: It's a story that doesn't focus on anyone dying or

572
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 3: suggests that they're being exploited somehow. It's a little shady

573
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 3: in the way of The New York Times writing about

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00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 3: anything deeply Californian, but it focuses on the reality that

575
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 3: women who have fantasy sex on camera for work are

576
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 3: real people who have interests outside of that. But Savannah

577
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 3: doesn't care for Amberlin.

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00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to hang out with amber This is

579
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: my night.

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00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 11: What's your name, Shannon, Savannah? Come over here, sit down,

581
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 11: let me talk to you a minute.

582
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Speaker 1: Good NINETEENA.

583
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 3: Savannah storms off and goes upstairs to her room at

584
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 3: the Valley's Hotel. She snorts some coke, drinks some whiskey,

585
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: and sprawls out on the King Size bad alone.

586
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 6: She became Savannah. She became her character who was into

587
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 6: drugs and needed reassurance all the time. She forgot who

588
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 6: Shannon was. That's the main thing in this business. Don't

589
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 6: become your character. Polly Shore comedian.

590
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety two, Savannah gets into a serious relationship

591
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: with comedian Polly Shore. Much like Charlie Sheen, Polly Shore

592
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: is a privileged, second generation showbiz kid. His mother, Mitzi Shore,

593
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: runs the Comedy Store club on the Sunset Strip, and

594
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 3: he grows up in outrageous comfort. In Beverly Hills. His

595
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 3: stand up persona The Weasel, where he emulates the drawling

596
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 3: surfer dudes from Malibu you meet growing up in la

597
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 3: helps him land a hosting gig on MTV. Polly Shore

598
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 3: is smitten with Savannah as his star briefly rises high.

599
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 3: He takes her on a vacation to Hawaii, to the

600
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: MTV Music Video Awards, and to the premiere of Catherine

601
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 3: Bigelow's Point Break As his date. They allegedly make private

602
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: sex tapes and discuss marriage. Polly Shore says Savannah used

603
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: heroin throughout their relationship and her porn career. He says

604
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: he gave her an ultimatum that he would marry her

605
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 3: if she stopped using heroin. While she allegedly did stop

606
00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 3: using heroin, she couldn't curb her coke problem. When Jennal

607
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: World returns, Savannah goes off the rails. Oh my God,

608
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 3: Welcome back to General World. Polly Shore and Savannah break

609
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 3: up at the end of nineteen ninety two. The same year,

610
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 3: he co stars An Encino Man, a weed free stoner

611
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 3: comedy about unfrozen caveman hunk Brendan Fraser set in the

612
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 3: same valley. Suburbs, where Savannah makes porn. Encino Man is

613
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 3: a surprise hit and helps make Polly Shore a box

614
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 3: office draw for a short stretch in the nineties and

615
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 3: a critical punchline for years after that. While Polly Shore

616
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 3: blames Savannah's drug use for the relationship deteriorating, he also

617
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 3: says he didn't want to commit, especially at the moment

618
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 3: when his career is taking off and he can suddenly

619
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 3: pick up random girls all over the country at his

620
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 3: comedy shows.

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Speaker 6: It just gets to a point where they either move

622
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 6: in or you break up. I didn't want to get

623
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 6: any deeper into quicksand.

624
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 3: Savannah collects her fan letters and personally answers her hate mail.

625
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: Sticks You don't know me, and you never will. All

626
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: you know is what you see on my movies, which

627
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: you have obviously taken this time to see in your pathetic,

628
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 1: terrible life. You know you could never be with someone

629
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: like me. I am the best, classiest woman to ever

630
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: be in this business. You should feel lucky just to

631
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: have seen me fuck on film. Get a fucking life, asshole.

632
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: Save your hand for jerking off, not writing stupid letters.

633
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: You worthless piece of shit, Savannah.

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00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: She sends presents home to her mom in Texas. She

635
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 3: told her mother once about her heroin addiction, but her

636
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 3: mom just dismissed it. Her father writes her letters and prays.

637
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 13: Please don't think I don't care. I do very much.

638
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 13: I hope you can talk to me more. I'd like

639
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 13: to have your phone number. Mike Woolsey, Savannah's father.

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00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety two, Savannah is dropped by Vivid Video

641
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: for her erratic behavior, lack of professionalism, and drug use.

642
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 3: Two years into her contract as a Vivid girl, she

643
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 3: often leaves big budget Vivid film shoots halfway through the

644
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 3: day to meet up with her rock and roll boyfriends

645
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 3: and never returns. Savannah's ongoing on and off relationship with

646
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 3: Gina Fine ends once and for all during a disastrous

647
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 3: trip with a rich benefactor where they get in a

648
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 3: huge fight over the thirty bags of heroin and Savannah's possession.

649
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 3: Savannah refuses to give Gina any of the heroin, while

650
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 3: Gina with Savannah sadistically parades another woman past her in

651
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 3: the lobby of their Palm Springs hotel. Gina Fine breaks

652
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 3: up with Savannah because she knows they're toxic and codependent.

653
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 3: She can't let Savannah's self destructive streak destroy them both.

654
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 3: Savannah gets new thirty four double deep breast implants. She

655
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 3: thinks they're botched, they hang weird. She goes back to

656
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 3: Mark Curtis's company Video Exclusives and signs a new contract

657
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 3: with them to do twenty five sex scenes at four

658
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a pop. In nineteen ninety three, Savannah decides

659
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 3: she wants to get off heroin. She goes cold turkey

660
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 3: on heroin, but takes bike it in volume second Hall

661
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: in Xanax with a bottle of whiskey. She spends a

662
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 3: week with drawing on the floor and re emerges staying

663
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 3: clean of all substances for the next few months. She

664
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 3: books a feature dancing tour and gets out on the

665
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 3: road again, where she breaks sobriety Cain to get hyped up,

666
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 3: volumed to sleep, and whiskey to loosen her up enough

667
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 3: to strip. She gets offered nine thousand dollars to do

668
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 3: a gang bang scene for Fantastic Pictures in a movie

669
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 3: called Starbangers one without the haze of Heroine. Savannah shows

670
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 3: up on time, is polite to the cast and crew,

671
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: and finally turns in a great performance on screen. The

672
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 3: girl who always just laid their complaining is now at

673
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 3: last emotionally present, acting passionately in a movie, and being

674
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 3: kind to the other cast members and film crew, showing

675
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 3: that she does care.

676
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: Really.

677
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 3: She goes to a tattoo parlor to get a cover

678
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 3: up for the Greg Allman Greg tattoo she's had on

679
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 3: her right ankle since she was sixteen. She gets a

680
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 3: new tattoo done over it, an angel.

681
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to shock people because I know people would

682
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: never ever think that I would do anything like that. Next,

683
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my first anal.

684
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 3: In January of nineteen ninety four, Savannah appears on the

685
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 3: cover of Adult Video News touting her comeback, but it

686
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 3: is short lived. She doesn't make good on her promise

687
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: to do an anal scene. Instead, she tours strip clubs

688
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: for five thousand dollars a week and spends the money

689
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 3: as fast as she gets it. She blows it all

690
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 3: on a new two thousand dollars camquarder, thousands of dollars

691
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 3: worth of new stripper costumes, and cocaine, mostly cocaine. She's

692
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: also months behind on rent. Savannah is deeply depressed about

693
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 3: her various breakups and in debt from her lavish overspending,

694
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 3: she owes the irs eleven thousand dollars. Two years after

695
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,479
Speaker 3: her Vivid Girl contract ended, she's been reduced to mud

696
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 3: wrestling at the Tropicana nightclub in Hollywood for a measly

697
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 3: nine hundred dollars. She punches a guy in the face

698
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 3: at a prize fight for calling her a porno bitch.

699
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 3: She is twenty four years old.

700
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 7: Just hold on, You'll do the next gig and you'll

701
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 7: have money again. Nancy Nemo para Savanna's manager.

702
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 3: She has one friend left in the industry, a woman

703
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 3: named Nancy Para, who directs porn films under the name

704
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 3: Nancy Nemo. She also directs under Nancy Fellini, Nancy Scorsese,

705
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 3: and Nancy Animo. I am taking a shot in the

706
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 3: dark hair that she might be Italian. Nancy Nemo is

707
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 3: in her fifties when she meets Savannah, and like many

708
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: before her, she feels compelled to both take care of

709
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 3: Savannah and maybe profit a little off of being involved

710
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 3: with her. Nancy Nemo becomes Savannah's new personal handler. She

711
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: is willing to take the chance to cash in on

712
00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 3: Savannah's name brand, despite her terrible reputation. She calls Savannaanna Savvy,

713
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 3: the same pet name that Slash had for her. Nancy

714
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 3: makes sure Savannah eats and hangs out with her when

715
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 3: she's too depressed to get out of bed. She also

716
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 3: helps her score drugs whenever Savannah needs more money, which

717
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 3: is always. Nancy books a set to shoot with one

718
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 3: of the few male performers who will still shoot with Savannah.

719
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 3: Nancy nemo directs and edits the scenes herself and personally

720
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 3: makes sure Savannah doesn't flake out. Savannah thinks that she

721
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 3: has a stalker. She claims a watch and a hair

722
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 3: brush have disappeared. She finds flowers trampled by her sliding

723
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 3: glass doors. One night, she comes home to find all

724
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 3: the electronics on it full blast. Her cat's Winnie and

725
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,280
Speaker 3: Willie didn't help, so she gets a Rottweiler and names

726
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: it Daisy May and a Beretta gun that she also

727
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 3: names Daisy and keeps by her bed. Even though she

728
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 3: can still rack up five thousand dollars a night doing

729
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 3: feature dancing, Savannah blows off herd gigs to party in

730
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 3: La Instead. She feels isolated and paranoid in her Universal

731
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 3: City apartment, decorated with all the pictures of herself. Nancy

732
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 3: Nemo is her only friend. Savannah constantly looks for reasons

733
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 3: to go out and party. On the night she's booked

734
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 3: to start doing a week of feature dancing shows at

735
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 3: a strip club called Lace in Nyack, New York, she

736
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 3: goes out partying in Los Angeles instead with a member

737
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 3: of the entourage for the Irish American Pride rap group

738
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 3: House of Pain. House of Pain are confusingly not from

739
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 3: Boston but from LA's West Valley. Savannah's latest crush is

740
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: Danny Boy from House of Pain. She has moved on

741
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 3: from rock stars to rappers. She met the rap group

742
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 3: at a music video shoot. Danny Boy, also writing the

743
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 3: peak of his House of Pain fame, is not interested

744
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 3: in commitment either, but Savannah is already so him, and

745
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 3: so she keeps chasing, calling, and coming around. She lurks

746
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 3: him at a club called Hell's Gate, which is allegedly

747
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 3: co owned by Danny Boy and Mickey Rourke. Danny Boy

748
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 3: has a personal assistant named Jason Swing, who answers the

749
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 3: black cordless phone for his bosses and takes messages at

750
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 3: the literal House of Pain, their party house in the valley.

751
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 3: Jason Swing is a twenty two year old club promoter

752
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 3: from Encino. He is part of what Savannah's explaing Mark

753
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 3: Wahlberg's famous television show Entourage will immortalize with the titular Entourage,

754
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 3: a bunch of guys who hang out with famous guys

755
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 3: and get runoff sex. But Jason Swing doesn't need his

756
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 3: famous friends to pick up girls. Girls swoon over him

757
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 3: naturally because he is a rich, six foot tall, dark

758
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: haired nineties babe from Encino with sideburns, a goatee, and

759
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 3: a backwards baseball cap. His father is an interior designer

760
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 3: who decorated the Spielberg's house, and his mother is an agent.

761
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 3: He is by all accounts, hot, nice, and well connected,

762
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 3: with a rap obsessed suburban white kid's love of using

763
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 3: black vernacular. Monday Night in Los Angeles on July eleventh,

764
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety four, Savannah is feeling lonely and bored. She

765
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 3: calls around fishing for invitations, but everyone says they're busy

766
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 3: or staying home because it's Monday night. Danny Boy is

767
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 3: her fourth phone call of the night, but the phone

768
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 3: is picked up by Jason Swing.

769
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: Hello, it's me.

770
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 4: Was up.

771
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: Is Danny there?

772
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 9: He's on tour of Europe.

773
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: He's gone already.

774
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, he left like a week ago.

775
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: Oh what are you doing tonight?

776
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 3: Jason Swing is going to an actor's birthday party and

777
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 3: says Savannah can come with him a party.

778
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: Really.

779
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 3: Savannah shows up to the House of Pain in overalls

780
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 3: and tennis shoes, with her gigantic dog, Daisy May, and

781
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 3: a bunch of her porn merchandise, which she gives to him.

782
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: What are these a little present? It's me.

783
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 3: Jason Swing didn't know Savannah was a porn star. He

784
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 3: just thought she was another one of the many beautiful

785
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 3: women with fake breasts who go out clubbing in Los

786
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 3: Angeles and want a date rich and famous guys.

787
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 9: I guess we should roll.

788
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: I need to take my dog home first. Want a

789
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 1: cruise with me? Jason.

790
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 3: She takes him back to her place and shows him

791
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 3: around the gallery of glamour photos of herself.

792
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: My boots look pretty good here. I just had my

793
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: second operation. That's when I shave for a film. You're

794
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: so cute, You're blessing.

795
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 3: They end up chilling in her living room talking until

796
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 3: four am, when she tells him she's not actually trying

797
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 3: to seduce him, at least not yet. She's also still

798
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 3: trying to date his friend Danny Boy.

799
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,959
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind you sleeping over, but it's like our

800
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: first night we've actually hung out. I don't think it

801
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,720
Speaker 1: would be a good idea. People get the wrong idea.

802
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: That's cool, I'll drive you home.

803
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,879
Speaker 3: Savannah rings Jason's swing up again on a Sunday night.

804
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 3: He and his friends are getting a stretch limo to

805
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 3: go out clubbing. She shows up drunk on white wine

806
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 3: in a black leather mini skirt, a crop top and heels.

807
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 3: The club is dead that night, so they end up

808
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 3: just going back to the House of Painhouse for a

809
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 3: kickback to listen to music and talk. Savanna really likes Jason.

810
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 3: He's hot and nice, he listens to her. He doesn't

811
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 3: act like he expects sex from her.

812
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: SELI guys I go out with, you know, friends of people.

813
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: They always try to get on me and stuff. It's

814
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: cool that you're a gentleman. You don't treat me like

815
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: a pornostar.

816
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 3: She asks Jason if he wants to come back to

817
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 3: her place again for a nightcap, he is down. At

818
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 3: twelve thirty am, Savannah is driving herself and Jason Swing

819
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 3: to her Universal City Hills palace. She is whipping around

820
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 3: the winding canyon curves insanely fast in her white Corvette.

821
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 9: Slow down, Slow down, slow down.

822
00:54:51,800 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 3: I'm fine, kids out, crashing into a picket fence and

823
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 3: hitting a tree. She goes through the windshield. The car

824
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 3: is all fucked up, so is her face. Her head

825
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 3: is bleeding. Jason tries to calm her down, but she's

826
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 3: completely flipping out over the lacerations to her face.

827
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 2: Oh god, oh god, hold on, Oh I think my

828
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 2: nose is broken.

829
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: She sees herself in the mirror, covered in blood and tears, unrecognizable,

830
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 3: and nearly faints.

831
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 15: My face it's ruined.

832
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 3: How am I gonna do my show?

833
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 9: Come on, get up? Why don't you take it to Kuzzie.

834
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: I have to call Nancy. Can you please go and

835
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: take Daisy out and check the accident. I've just had

836
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 1: a horrible car accident. I wrung my nose, it's bleeding

837
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: really bad, and I've been my ass. You have to

838
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: think mean it as but.

839
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 3: All Nancy Nemo says she'll come over and help take

840
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 3: care of Savannah. Jason returns from walking Daisy May. The

841
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 3: jacuzzie tub is bubbling, surrounded by candlelight, but Savannah didn't

842
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 3: get in. He finds her crouched on the concrete in

843
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 3: the garage. It is two thirty in the morning at this.

844
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 9: Point, Shannon, Savannah, can you hear me? My car?

845
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: My car is ruined.

846
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 9: Don't worry. You have insurance. You can get another one.

847
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: I was gonna go look at vipers with Danny. Boy.

848
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 9: Listen, I'm gonna go turn off the jacuzzie so it

849
00:56:50,840 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 9: doesn't flood. I'll be right back. Okay, everything, okay, I'm

850
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 9: so sorry. Oh she did not just do that. Dude.

851
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 9: This isn't happening. This isn't happening. This isn't happening.

852
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 3: By the time Nancy gets there, it's too late. She

853
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 3: finds a traumatized Jason Swing out front, throwing up on

854
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 3: the lawn, and Savannah's body lying in a pool of

855
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 3: blood in the garage.

856
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 7: It looked like she had a big flower on the

857
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 7: side of her head.

858
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 3: Nancy calls nine to one one. When the cops show up,

859
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 3: Jason Swing freaks out and lies at first that he

860
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 3: was still out walking the dog when Savannah shot herself.

861
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,959
Speaker 3: He feels incredible guilt for being there and not being

862
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 3: able to stop her. He also doesn't want to implicate himself.

863
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 3: Nancy knew Savannah had bought the gun three weeks earlier

864
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 3: and that she'd been sleeping with it under her pillow.

865
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 3: Savannah survives the gunshot wound to her head somehow, but

866
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 3: falls into a coma. Her dad, Mike Wilsey, sees her

867
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 3: at the Burbank Hospital for the first time in four years.

868
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 3: After eleven hours with no improvement, he's told there's no

869
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 3: chance of recovery and takes her off of life support.

870
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 7: This hard wild veneer was constructed to cover a very

871
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 7: vulnerable and lonely young woman who never felt pretty.

872
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 3: The La Times, tabloids, and True Crime TV jump on

873
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 3: Savannah's death to narrativise it into a trend story about

874
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 3: adult stars committing suicide. They bring up Shanna Grant, another

875
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 3: porn star who lived fast and died young after her

876
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 3: drug issues got in the way of her ability to

877
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 3: show up to work, and a performer named Megan Lee,

878
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 3: who committed suicide with a gun at age twenty six

879
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety, mainstream media still mainly reported on porn

880
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 3: whenever something really bad happened, in order to villainize pornographers

881
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 3: and portray performers as victims. A vivid girl named Tory

882
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 3: Wells gives comment to the press about how the media

883
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 3: only spotlights porn when bad things happen and never talks

884
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 3: about the more mundane reality of the industry's day to

885
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 3: day operations.

886
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 15: You know, I get pissed off at these talk shows.

887
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 15: Victim victim, victim, abuse, abuse, abuse. They use it to

888
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 15: explain away everything. The real abuse comes when you let

889
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 15: it rule your life. You just have to work through it.

890
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 15: You have to help yourself however you can. Tory Wells.

891
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 3: Performer Al Goldstein's Screw magazine runs a genuinely offensive story

892
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: about Savannah's death with a picture of her with exes

893
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 3: drawn over her eyes.

894
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: Dang dong, the bitch is dead.

895
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 11: Everyone knew that she was an airhead, and now she's

896
00:59:59,160 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 11: got a hole in her.

897
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 4: Down to prove it.

898
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 13: Al Goldstein Screw Magazine.

899
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 3: Another performer says the industry bears no culpability for turning

900
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 3: Savannah into a diva.

901
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 16: I don't blame the industry for mistreating her. If anything,

902
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 16: they spoiled her rotten. They put us on such a

903
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 16: high pedestal, the limos are sent out. Anything I want

904
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 16: is pretty much done for me. Sometimes it makes the

905
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 16: real world hard to deal with. Danielle Cheeks performer.

906
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 3: But it's clear that star treatment doesn't affect everyone the

907
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 3: same way. Savannah's ex girlfriend Gina Fine, is clear headed

908
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 3: about what one needs to survive in porn.

909
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 14: The advice I give to any girl getting in this

910
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 14: business is you better have a real strong family network

911
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 14: around you and have some idea of who you are

912
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 14: before you get involved. You get built up to be

913
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 14: a big star here, but out in the real world

914
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 14: you're a prostitute. And when you get out there and

915
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 14: try to mingle with the regular public and be a start,

916
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 14: they'll shut you down pretty quick. It can be an

917
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 14: overwhelming feeling, so you better have your family and real

918
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 14: friends there for you.

919
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 3: After the brief flashbang of porn chic in the nineteen seventies,

920
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 3: mainstream media turns its back on the adult industry again

921
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 3: in the eighties and early nineties, portraying it as sleazy

922
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 3: and morally corrupt. Critical coverage of porn also allows publications

923
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 3: to run pictures of the sexy young women whose deaths

924
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 3: they are making an exploitative buck off of, while claiming

925
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 3: porn exploited them. The moral panic over porn is on

926
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 3: some level a panic overgiving young women money. It insists

927
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 3: they don't deserve any money at all, which you see

928
01:01:55,600 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 3: recycled in recent panics over OnlyFans. Doing porn is portrayed

929
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 3: as a stupid idea for stupid women that can only

930
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 3: lead to their ruin. The posthumous Savannah narratives drive people

931
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 3: in the industry crazy because Savannah had been blacklisted out

932
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 3: of porn for her lack of professionalism. The industry may

933
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 3: attract some wild, impulsive girls, but it's hard, mostly dull work,

934
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 3: and requires a high level work ethic. You can never

935
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 3: start thinking you're bigger than the apparatus of the porn industry.

936
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 3: You cannot start becoming the fantasy image that they are

937
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 3: selling of you, because it is not real. Don't become

938
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 3: your character. In the early nineties, the media is still

939
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 3: trying to make doing porn out to be a career

940
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 3: that is only for people with serious personality disorders. What

941
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 3: line of work doesn't contain people with serious personality disorders.

942
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 3: Have you met surgeons? There are survivors of rape and

943
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 3: abuse in every line of work. There are people with

944
01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 3: addiction issues and mental illness in every industry street especially entertainment.

945
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 3: There are plenty of alcoholics, addicts, and mentally ill people

946
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 3: in comedy, but nobody ever says we have to ban comedy,

947
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 3: Except for me ban comedy. Painting all sex workers as

948
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 3: victims deprives them of agency for their choices. It enforces

949
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 3: a strict narrative that women who have been sexually abused

950
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 3: are damaged in some way, and that only someone damaged

951
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 3: would show strangers their naked body for money. Women get

952
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 3: into the adult industry for all kinds of reasons, to

953
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 3: explore personal fantasies, to process trauma, to make movies, but

954
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 3: also often just to make good money. It's certainly better

955
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 3: than working minimum wage at the mall like ginger Lan Allen,

956
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 3: or having a lung collapse working in a meat freezer

957
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 3: like John Holmes. Putting the blame and focus entirely on

958
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 3: porn conveniently allows no further questions to be asked about

959
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 3: why the material can conditions of American life suck so

960
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 3: fucking bad. The mental health risks associated with being a

961
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 3: human being living in the USA are staggering, and everybody

962
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 3: should get free psychological counseling for trying to put up

963
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 3: with it. The media shamed Savannah for openly courting sexual attention,

964
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 3: and then shamed her for being affected by their constant

965
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 3: shaming of her. When she takes her own life, she

966
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 3: is fulfilling a narrative they've already written for her that

967
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 3: women who profit off their sexuality must die.

968
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 13: Of course, people ask me if pornography is wrong, I say,

969
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 13: you can judge a tree bites fruit.

970
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 4: Porne didn't do this. Paul Fishbeine Adult video News.

971
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 7: She was very discriminated against because she was so big.

972
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 7: She made big money. She knew her value.

973
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 5: She was a real bitch, a selfish, selfish bitch.

974
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 9: She reveled in putting people down.

975
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 11: She didn't like giving of herself in any way, shape

976
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 11: or form.

977
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: She was irresponsible and flaky and selfish and stupid.

978
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 3: While he blames porn first, even Shannon Savannah Wilsey's father,

979
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 3: Mike Wilsey, understands on some level that the real villain

980
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 3: here isn't porn. Her family are the ones who let

981
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,919
Speaker 3: her drop out of school and get on that tour

982
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,760
Speaker 3: bus with Groom and Greg Alman.

983
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 13: Where was I when she was dating Greg Almon when

984
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 13: he was twenty five years older than she was. Where

985
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 13: was I when she was doing Heroin? Where was I

986
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 13: when she started doing porno movies?

987
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 3: Now, Savannah was a troubled, traumatized person. All she really

988
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 3: wanted was to feel special and be loved. She was

989
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 3: self destructive because she was concers nsumed with self hatred

990
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 3: about her appearance in a culture that makes women feel

991
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 3: worthless unless they fit certain strict beauty ideals, and then

992
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 3: makes them feel worthless for aging out of the youthful

993
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 3: beauty ideal. She had people who cared for her unconditionally,

994
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 3: like Gina Fine, and she pushed them away because her

995
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 3: self hatred was so deep and her self destructiveness so

996
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 3: out of control. Gina Fine calls out all the famous

997
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 3: men who dated her friend and talk down on her profession,

998
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 3: all the rock stars who talked trash about the porn industry,

999
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 3: as if the music business isn't actually the most disgusting,

1000
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 3: exploitative business.

1001
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 17: In the world.

1002
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 3: All the men who treated her misunderstood, beautiful, sensitive girlfriend

1003
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 3: like a disposable blow up sex doll.

1004
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 14: Her famous friends always trash the porn industry, but the

1005
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 14: whole reason they were with her was because she was

1006
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:56,439
Speaker 14: a porn star.

1007
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 3: Savannah's funeral is held two days later for friends and family.

1008
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 3: The only one of her famous ex boyfriends to attend

1009
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 3: the funeral is Polly Shore.

1010
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 6: You know it just went down, don't you. My ex girlfriend,

1011
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:18,440
Speaker 6: the porn star, just killed herself. She was the nicest,

1012
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 6: most beautiful girl I ever met. It was a very

1013
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 6: dramatic thing for me.

1014
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 3: Savannah's body is cremated and her ashes handed out to family.

1015
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 3: Her father places the jar of ashes in his home

1016
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 3: on a table surrounded by pictures of her, a makeshift

1017
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 3: altar to his daughter.

1018
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 7: Savvy would have wanted a Marilyn Monroe funeral. Zillions of

1019
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 7: flowers riding in the sky lying in state at Forest Lawn.

1020
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 3: Adult industry spokespeople agree that performers need a mental health

1021
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 3: support network that understands the specific challenges of the job.

1022
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 3: They know that the main stream media will jump on

1023
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 3: any opportunity to condemn the porn industry and attempt to

1024
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 3: shut it down again.

1025
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 17: We recognize the need for a twenty four hour crisis

1026
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 17: hotline for performers. So it's going to happen in the

1027
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 17: name of Savannah and Shawna and the others. William margled

1028
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 17: Free Speech Coalition. The helpline is still in the formative stages,

1029
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 17: but it's happening.

1030
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:41,080
Speaker 3: Whatever progress performers like ginger linn Allen, and Amberlin might

1031
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 3: have made for the idea that porn stars could be

1032
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 3: content with their lot in life has been backpedaled by

1033
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 3: the tabloid true crime reporting around Savannah's fast life and

1034
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 3: sudden death. But the porn industry isn't shutting down no

1035
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 3: matter how loud its critics get. There's too much money

1036
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 3: being made in the sand Fernando Valley, and it's all legal.

1037
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 3: As the media is once again writing off the whole

1038
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 3: porn industry as a cesspool, a new starlet is entering

1039
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 3: the valley who's a disciple of Savannah's work. She will

1040
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 3: change the trajectory of media narratives about porn stars forever,

1041
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 3: make more money than any contract girl who came before her,

1042
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 3: help invent Egirls with her website, and become bigger in

1043
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 3: the American cultural mainstream than any porn star in history.

1044
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 3: Even John Holmes, her name is Jenna Jamison. Next time

1045
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 3: on Jenna World, episode six, Jenna Jamison goes on Howard

1046
01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 3: Stern and her adult film career, Rockets Sky High. Jenna

1047
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 3: World is an iHeartRadio production executive produced by Anna Hosnier

1048
01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 3: and Becca Ramos, supervising, produced by by Wang, produced by

1049
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 3: Victor Wright, script editing by Jonathan Mill, engineered by Graham Gibson,

1050
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 3: and edited by Rory Gagan. Today's episode of Jenna World

1051
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 3: featured Jesse Mourner Ritt as Savannah, Laurens ser Video as

1052
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 3: Jenna Jamison, Hayes Davenport as Jeff Steinman, Whitmer Thomas as

1053
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 3: Mark Curtis, Andrew T as Sergeant Donald Smith, and Billy

1054
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:44,560
Speaker 3: Sheehan Coriina Longworth as Nina Hartley, and Hot Videos Illustrated,

1055
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:50,759
Speaker 3: Victor Wright as Ron Jeremy Sriah Subgadia, Shane Dylan Rupert

1056
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 3: as Diana Lauren, Anna Hostnier as Pam Wilsey, Rax Will

1057
01:10:56,120 --> 01:11:00,560
Speaker 3: as Mike Winnett, Jason Walliner as Paul Thomas, know Me

1058
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 3: Fry as Brynn bridenthal And as Sarah, Gina as Gina

1059
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 3: Fine Raft as chie Chi LaRue Kyle Mazzono as Amber, Lynn,

1060
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 3: brad Evans as Polly Shore, James Kim as Mike Wilsei

1061
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 3: Sarasapsi as Nancy Nemo Para, Chris Thayer as Jason Swing,

1062
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 3: Aiden Arrata as Tory Wells, Bethy Squires as Danielle Cheeks,

1063
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 3: and John Levenstein as Al Goldstein.

1064
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 9: Oh my god,