Jules Jordan

Jordan was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.^[3] An only child, he was raised by his mother 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.^[3]

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]

Jordan's entry into the adult film industry was through 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.^[3]

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.^[3]

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.^[3] 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.^[3]

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.^[3] 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.^[3] When Jordan left Evil Angel in 2006 to form his own production company (Jules Jordan Video), he was their top-selling director. Jordan said, "I wanted to control my own destiny, with where my product was headed."^[3]

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 two-year exclusive performance contract where she would perform in eight movies per year.^[7]

He voiced his support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.^[8]