Mr. Cabernet

According to Pornhub, Lisa Ann was the most searched adult actress on the site when she retired. Ten months later, she hosted two fantasy football shows on Sirius XM. She explains how she kept the money: "The only time you get residuals in our business is if you own the content. I own about 80% of my library." She says she paid for her own movies. "I would invest anywhere from 25 to $30,000 per movie, which was four scenes." A distributor sold them for her. The lesson came at a trade show. She says a company owner had reused one of her movies in compilations and changed her outfit color on the covers. She told him it was like they barely paid her. His answer: "We're allowed to do that." So she changed the deal. She says she took a lower rate in exchange for her internet rights. When companies folded, she says, "I bought back my scenes and my paperwork." Then she left. "It's hard to walk away from 99.9% of your income," she says. "I did save." In 2015, Fox Sports found her in a condo in Los Angeles, with a second apartment in Manhattan. On the wall hung a signed Michael Jordan jersey. In her divorce, she says, her husband claimed it. "He didn't say which Jordan jersey, so I bought him a cheap replica and kept the signed one." Her new job was two weekly fantasy shows on Sirius XM, in a sport she barely knew. A caller asked: "What makes you think you know anything about this?" She won the network's fantasy football league the year before the article. So which was the bigger move: owning 80% of her library, or leaving before the business left her?