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by DANMILLER
Jules Jordan’s Porn Distribution Empire Hits 10-Year Mark
company Evil Angel that had been selling his porn since 2001.
doing.
become the July 2016 cover of AVN magazine. J
ules Jordan admits he wasn’t looking too far ahead when he took what at the time was the biggest risk of his career.
Armed with the confidence that his product could stand alone, he began distributing his own movies in January 2006, leaving the pioneering
The former number one-selling director in John Stagliano’s Evil Empire stable did not have a long-range business plan, just belief in what he was
“I take it day by day,” Jordan says. “There’s so many challenges. You don’t know what format there’s going to be in 10 years. You don’t know what
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the user experience is going to be.”
No matter the delivery system or how the complicated the industry climate, Jordan did what he’s always done—adapt and innovate. Employees
and distribution partners came and went, but the heart of his operation—his singular vision—has always been intact. Now a decade later on a balmy
Monday evening in mid-June, he stands in an immaculate warehouse in the San Fernando Valley, buttoning up his black tuxedo for the photo that will
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