| Jules Jordan | |
| Birth Name: | Ashley Gasper[1] |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Jules Jordan (born May 25, 1972) is an American adult film actor, director, and producer known for his work in gonzo pornography.
Jordan entered the adult film industry as a clerk for a video store. While working in sales, he recruited models and began shooting amateur scenes. In 2006, he launched his production and distribution company Jules Jordan Video.[2] Jordan has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.
Jordan was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An only child, he was raised by his mother, “Hardcore Nancy” in Hershey; he never met his father.[3] As a teen, Jordan worked at an amusement park, a skateboard shop, an Italian restaurant, a pizza joint, and a Subway restaurant.[3] He attended Hershey High School, where he maintained a varsity position on the wrestling team all four years.
One of his first exposures to pornography was looking through his grandfather's explicit movie collection on 8 mm film.[3]
After trying out a semester of college, Jordan dropped out to work full-time.[3] He began working as a clerk for an adult video store he frequented as a customer.[4] [5]
One of Jordan's first big breaks in the adult film industry was meeting Frank Kay, owner of International Video Distributors (IVD). Kay initially hired Jordan for sales, and then gave him a chance to shoot movies under his established Pleasure and Rosebud labels.
In 1998, Jordan directed the first full-length movie of his career for Pleasure Productions, releasing Live Bait. One of the women he shot, Chastity, helped propel the tape to national notoriety because she was a pro wrestling valet for World Championship Wrestling (WCW).[3] Jordan sold several individual scenes prior to releasing Live Bait, selling early scenes to Odyssey Group and Elegant Angel. He produced more than 50 videos for Pleasure and Rosebud during a two-year span.
In 1999, Jordan moved to Los Angeles after finding it difficult to produce films on the East Coast.[4] He spent his first two months living in an Econo Lodge. After jobs with Vivid Entertainment and Elegant Angel failed to materialize, he started working for IVD again out of his apartment with just a fax machine.[3]
Jordan helped re-invigorate IVD's Rosebud line in 1999–2000, producing, directing and selling titles such as Bottom Feeders (1-4), Deep Cheeks (6-7), Anal Sluts & Sweethearts (4-5) and Heavy Metal (1-2). Jordan won the first AVN Award of his career in 2002 for Heavy Metal, which was honored as the Best Anal-Themed Release.
Jordan signed a DVD distribution deal with John Stagliano's studio Evil Angel in 2001, becoming their top-selling director in his first year on their roster. While working with Evil Angel, he launched signature titles such as Ass Worship, Flesh Hunter and Feeding Frenzy, all three of which would go on to become AVN award-winning series. When Jordan left Evil Angel in 2006 he was their top-selling director. Jordan said, "I wanted to control my own destiny, with where my product was headed."
In 2013, Jordan closed a distribution deal with Kink.com to bring their content to DVD for the first time.[6]
In 2015, Jordan signed Jesse Jane to an exclusive performance contract. Under the two-year deal, Jesse will perform in eight movies per year for Jules Jordan Video.[7]
Jordan was in a relationship with pornographic actress Jenna Haze.[8] [9] He voiced his support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[10]
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| 2007 | Best New Video Production Company for Jules Jordan Video | [11] | |||
| Best Oral-Themed Release | Feeding Frenzy 8 | [12] | |||
| Best Specialty Release - Big Bust | Breast Worship | ||||
| 2008 | Director of the Year (Body of Work) | [13] | |||
| Best Interracial Release | Black Owned 2 | ||||
| Best Oral-Themed Series | Feeding Frenzy | ||||
| Best Director, Ethnic Video | Lex the Impaler 3 | [14] | |||
| Best Anal-Themed Release | Jules Jordan's Weapons of Ass Destruction 6 | [15] | |||
| Best Big Bust Release | Big Tits at School | ||||
| Best Ethnic-Themed Release - Black | Black Ass Addiction 2 | ||||
| Black Ass Addiction | |||||
| Best Internal Release | All Internal 7 | ||||
| Best POV Series | Double Vision | ||||
| Best Young Girl Release | Jailbait 5 | ||||
| Best Director, Ethnic Video | Lex the Impaler 4 | style=text-align:center;" | [16] | ||
| 2011 | Lex the Impaler 5 | [17] | |||
| AVN Hall of Fame inductee | [18] | ||||
| 2017 | Best Director - Non-Feature | Face of an Angel Mind of a Devil | [19] |
| 2006 | Favorite Director | [20] | |
| 2010 | [21] |
| 2008 | Best Director (Editors' Choice) | [22] | |||
| 2017 | Best Non Feature Director | [23] |
| 2007 | Up-and-Coming Studio of the Year | [24] | |||
| 2008 | Gonzo Director of the Year | [25] | |||
| 2010 | Studio of the Year | [26] | |||
| 2011 | Ethnic Release of the Year | Black Ass Master 4 | [27] | ||
| 2012 | Gonzo/All-Sex Studio of the Year | [28] | |||
| 2013 | Gonzo Series of the Year | Ultimate Fuck Toy | [29] | ||
| 2014 | [30] | ||||
| All-Black Release of the Year | Black Heat | ||||
| 2015 | Latin-Themed Release of the Year | Latinas on Fire 2 | [31] | ||
| 2018 | Director of the Year - Body of Work | [32] |
| 2001 | Best Director | [33] | ||
| 2002 | Best Threeway Sex Scene | Trained Teens | ||
| 2003 | Director of the Year | [34] | ||
| 2006 | Best Director (Non-Features) | |||
| 2008 | ||||
| 2009 | XRCO Hall Of Fame Inductee (Film Creators) | |||
| 2017 | Best Director (Non-Features) | [35] |