Pension benefits will have to be scaled back for existing workers and eliminated for new hires. “When you get used to a certain lifestyle, it’s really hard to cut back and realize this may not be forever.” “I wish I would have never gotten into it,” Stern said of her career in porn. As for that Mercedes? She’s replacing it with a used Chevy Trailblazer - from her parents.
Now she’s aggressively reaching out for jobs and making closer to $50,000 a year. Less than two years ago, adult entertainment actress Savannah Stern earned close to $150,000 annually, sometimes turned down work and drove a Mercedes-Benz CLK 350. “Instead of paying you $800 to do one, they’ll pay you $1,200 for both,” she explained. “It’s the free stuff that’s killing us, and that’s not going away,” said Dion Jurasso, owner of porn production company Combat Zone, which has seen its business fall about 50% in the last three years.Ĭaroline Pierce, an adult film performer who lives in Las Vegas but flies to Los Angeles for work, said many companies have pressured her to do more scenes for less money. “We’ve gone through recessions before, but we’ve never been hit from every side like this,” said Mark Spiegler, head of the Spiegler Girls talent agency, who has worked in porn since 1995. The LA Times is talking about Tough times in the porn industry.
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