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“I just broke down the other night. I was like, ‘This
is what I do now and I’m fucking killing it.’”
Gianna Dior likes to joke that she has “a vagina of steel.”
“I literally want to work seven days a week,” Dior says.
“I’m telling myself I need to take one day off a week but I don’t know if I can. Mentally and
physically it might drive me insane that I’m not working every single day.”
This is the mindset that fueled her run to the AVN Awards stage, where she won the 2020 Best
New Starlet trophy on January 25 inside The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Dior received the adult industry’s highest honor for a new girl on the strength of more than
200 performing credits since her debut in May 2018—to go with several monthly accolades that
kept the buzz going for her from the moment she arrived in Porn Valley.
The 22-year-old star—who is the 2019 Penthouse Pet of the Year—also received another
major award at the 37th annual ceremony, accepting the Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene statuette for
her electric tryst with Mick Blue in “Unlocked” for Deeper.com.
“I was hoping for like Best Blowbang or Best Showcase. … Those are important, but these
two—especially to get them in the same year—I’m very proud of myself and very honored to
have done that. Like holy shit,” Dior says.
Wearing a royal blue Dodgers baseball cap turned backward, a casual black dress and a
grey jacket, Dior is keeping a low profile on this sunny, 65-degree afternoon as we chat in the
back of a coffee shop in the San Fernando Valley. Just three weeks removed from her crowning
moment, she says her accomplishment is giving her even more motivation to go forward.
“Here we go again,” Dior says. “I’m already thinking about 2021. I’m going to work even
harder this year. I’m really excited for the projects that I have already planned. It’s going to be
insane and hopefully I’ll add a couple more to that. We’ll see.”
Dior says it took a while for what happened in Vegas to finally hit her. “I can’t even just give
myself all the credit. It’s everybody that’s helped me. It’s been insane. Yeah I just broke down
the other night. I was like, ‘This is what I do now and I’m fucking killing it.’”
Just ask Colin Allerton, the vice president of Adult Empire. His Pennsylvania-based firm tracks
performers to create the weekly Most Popular Performers list. Dior at press time was tracking in
the Top 5. “Our customers absolutely love her,” Allerton tells AVN.
It took Dior only about six months to crack the Top 100 on Adult Empire, which cited her
as a newbie to watch in its 2019 year-in-porn preview. “She’s a classic beauty, no tattoos. She
definitely has that appeal to a lot of different people,” Allerton says.
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