The changing of the guards in the adult film industry has already happened. After holding sway for a good number of years as the No. 1 porn star, Lisa Ann decided to finally hang-up her skimpy underwear again, not to do another shoot, but to retire for good in the business that has been good to her.
With Mia Khalifa’s meteoric rise to prominence since breaking into the business in October 2014, 42-year-old Lisa Ann has relinquished her reign to the 21-year-old Lebanese-American in December 2014 when she bade the business goodbye.
The latest retirement of Lisa Ann, who shot to prominence in the porn business for spoofing former Alaska governor and US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is her second in 12 years. She also retired in the porn industry in 1997 when there was an AIDS scare in the business only to return in 2005 with a vengeance, details CNBC.
Lisa Ann disclosed that she will be moving on to a series of business ventures including the establishment of her own production company.
As a sports enthusiast herself, she is looking forward to setting up some enterprise or arrangements with the major sports leagues.
She also plans to write and publish a book about herself.
A mentoring program for porn upstarts
Lisa Ann also said that she is also putting up a mentoring program or a boot camp for upstart porn stars.
The program will not be focusing on teaching the new porn stars with what to do when they enter the business because everyone knows how to do it most likely. Lisa Ann’s program seeks to give them managing life skills like saving for the future, paying the right taxes to the government, as well as effective techniques in promoting themselves.
Lisa Ann has also undergone breast reduction immediately after her retirement from the adult film business to show that she is serious to getting back to her normal life again. She said that the move is also important for her boot camp venture for porn stars because the young upstarts would not listen to her advices if they see her as their competition.
She also mentioned about the caveat or the downside of being a known figure in the adult film business. She says that those who are not popular in the porn industry are mostly liked by people. And when they become too popular, it is normally when the dislikes and the hating begin, especially with competitors in the business, she added.
Lisa Ann said that when she returned to the business for the second time in 2005, she laid out a 10-year plan for herself. It seems that she was on target all those times, given her numerous film assignments, endorsements from products, her own website, as well as other trickle businesses.
At 42 years and with the earnings she got in the business, Lisa Ann is really set for retirement.