Page 53 - AVN April 2018

THE
BOSS
IS BACK
NO MATTER WHERE HER CAREER TAKES HER, LISA ANN
REMEMBERS THE ADULT INDUSTRY WAS BUILT BY THE
RETAILERS SELLING MOVIES IN SMALL TOWNS ACROSS
AMERICA.
It’s why the AVN Hall of Fame superstar is
making a commitment to seeing her fans in person
at the brick-and-mortar retail level this year during
her return to performing and producing after a
three-year retirement.
“I will be doing a ton of store signings and
events,” Lisa Ann tells AVN.
Twenty-four years after she made her adult
entertainment debut, the most famous active porn
star in the world wants to get back to basics as
she teams with legendary studio Evil Angel on an
exclusive distribution deal in what already is the
biggest porn comeback of the past 20 years.
“Because what brought me to this is in 2017
I decided to one step at a time do some events
as Lisa Ann again,” says the energetic native of
Pennsylvania, who retired with a hand-written letter
to her fans in December 2014. “Because I completely
pulled back and I was enjoying my sports radio,
which I’m still doing now.
“When I went out I got that taste of it again
with the fan interaction—even at a small store in
Lincoln, Nebraska—meeting the people at the old
brick-and-mortar store, where it’s still family-run
and it’s neighbors that come in and they know all of
their customers and you see this engagement when
someone comes through the door.”
Lisa Ann says now it’s more important than ever
for today’s stars to support the old-school, mom-
and-pop operations that have been the lifeblood for
almost four decades.
“What’s inspired me was this year of traveling
and meeting all these lovely people,” she continues.
“I will have to say I’ll give Australia credit. I went
there twice last year and the mindset in Australia is
very different from America. They’re positive, happy
people. They’re real easygoing. I have never had
better conversations with fans about how much my
scenes are missed.
“I got hand-written letters about how people felt
the day they heard I was retiring. And they really
treat me like a sexual superhero, like, ‘Wow, I’m
Lisa Ann
‘Back 4 More’
With Evil Angel
meeting the Green Lantern!’ And it gave me this feeling like, ‘Wait a minute, this is so exciting. There’s still
this need.’ And through that companies started to reach out to me and ask me if I wanted to shoot again.
And through that my rate was established. And through that my brain kicked in and said if these people are
willing to give me this much money I should probably do this on my own.”
Indeed Lisa Ann is orchestrating this comeback on her terms, producing and performing for her namesake
studio, The Real Lisa Ann Productions. The first movie, Lisa Ann: Back 4 More, features her in scenes with
Johnny Sins, Isiah Maxwell, Prince Yahshua and reigning AVN Male Performer of the Year Markus Dupree. It
is hitting the streets from Evil Angel in the coming weeks.
A seasoned producer/director who has helmed more than 50 movies and performed in 600-plus, there is
not much that Lisa Ann hasn’t already done or seen in porn. Already an established A-lister, she reached a
whole new level of notoriety in 2008, when she began starring in a series of parodies for Hustler Video as
“Sarah Paylin” due to her resemblance to feisty Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. She played
the character a total of six times en route to international headlines, expanding her fanbase tenfold in the
process.
As her popularity exploded, the 2009 AVN MILF Performer of the Year became the first MILF to get her
own Fleshlight. By April 2017, the still retired Lisa Ann became the first performer to surpass one billion
views on Pornhub—one of the most highly trafficked sites on the internet.
She released her first book in 2015, titled The Life: Playin’ Palin, My Love of Sports and Living to the Fullest on My
Own Terms, as she continued to build her credibility in the fantasy sports business. Now she does something
that is unprecedented for a porn star—every week as a matter of routine. She hosts two Sirius radio shows—
Fantasy Sports Tonight with Howard Bender on Sunday nights and Lisa Ann Does Fantasy on Monday nights with
Adam Ronis.
Lisa Ann plans to continue hosting both shows as she releases one new movie a month through Evil Angel,
doing it this time around purely for the love of the game. She’ll roll out all her upcoming scenes on
EvilAngel.com first and then after 60 days she’ll have the option to add them to the newly revamped
TheLisaAnn.com. In addition, Lisa Ann indicated she would be donating a percentage of her movie proceeds
each month to different charities.
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