John G "Jay" Grdina _116485--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" target="_blank">"Club Jenna, Inc." Hoover's coverage by Joe Bramhall (born October 11, 1967) is an _American businessman, pornographic actor, director, and producer who usually works with his former wife Jenna Jameson. He is often credited under the stage name Justin Sterling. forbes/2005/0704/124.html" target="_blank">"The (Porn) Player", by Matthew Miller, Forbes magazine, July 4, _2005
Grdina was born in Ohio blank">Brand Access Forum May 8 2006 _Los Angeles, California speaker profile. Archived from blank">http://www.brandaccessforum.com/speakers.htm on 2006-05-08 by the _Internet Archive to a wealthy cattle ranching family. He attended (but did not graduate) jennas_playboy-_jay_grdina_on_relationships,_religion_and_celebrity_sex_tapes.html" target="_blank">"Club Jenna’s Playboy: Jay Grdina on Relationships, Religion and Celebrity Sex Tapes", Sex Herald, Volume 4-Issue 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-27. the _University of San Diego majoring in business and psychology. After school he pursued a variety of careers and business ventures until 1992 when he began investing in adult films directed by Michael Ninn. From 1995 to 1999 he wrote and directed several pornographic films in Ninn's style, often under the name Michael Santangelo. sterling.html" target="_blank">"Justin Sterling" page about the director at lukeford.com
Grdina met _Jenna Jameson, already a famous porn star, in 1998; they married in a Roman Catholic-style ceremony on June 22, 2003. Grdina considers himself a practicing Catholic. The couple resided in Scottsdale, Arizona in a 6700 square foot Spanish style palace bought for $2 million in 2002. blank">"At Home with Jenna Jameson: Off Camera, Cashmere and Crosses" by Dinitia Smith, _The New York Times, April 15 2004
In 2000 Grdina and Jameson founded Club Jenna Inc, first as an Internet pornography company then expanding it into a multimedia adult entertainment business company bringing in an estimated $30 million per year. Club Jenna was run as a family business with Grdina's sister Kris as Vice President in charge of merchandising. On June 22 2006 Playboy Enterprises announced the acquisition of Club Jenna in conjunction with personal service agreements by both Jameson and Grdina. blank">"Playboy gets more hardcore with new acquisition", by William Spain, _MarketWatch, June 22 2006
He produced, directed, and wrote best selling and adult industry award winning Club Jenna films including Brianna Loves Jenna, The Masseuse, I Dream of Jenna, and Krystal Method. series/americansexstar/judges.html" target="_blank">"American Sex Star Judges", Playboy TV He also acted in many of these films, as the only man that Jameson would have intercourse with on screen. He won the 2005 _AVN Award for Best Actor for his role in The Masseuse, using the stage name Justin Sterling.
In 2004 he was named by Details magazine as one of the 10 most successful men under the age of 37 in America.
He was a judge on the second, 2006, season of Playboy TV's Jenna's American Sex Star, where prospective porn stars compete in sexual performances for a contract with Club Jenna.
In August 2006, Star magazine and TMZ.com confirmed with Jameson's publicist that she and Grdina separated. news_gossip/star/9395" target="_blank">"Exclusive: Dave and Jenna Dating", by David Caplan, Star Magazine, August 8, 2006 "Confirmed: Dave & Jenna Are a Couple!", by Jeff Davidson, TMZ.com, August 8, 2006 On December 12, 2006, Jameson filed for divorce. "Jenna Jameson files for divorce", _United Press International, December 12, 2006
