Oriana Small, known professionally as Ashley Blue,[1][2][3] is an American pornographic actress. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame, has hosted her own Vivid Radio show and written for Hustler magazine.[4]
In 2011, she published a memoir of her career in the adult entertainment industry, titled Girlvert: A Porno Memoir.[2]
She has co-hosted Playboy TV’s Night Calls Hotline,[1] hosted her own Vivid Radio show, and written for Hustler magazine.[4]
She was featured in Inside the Porn Actors Studio: Ashley Blue (2006), an episode of Howard Stern's TV series Howard Stern on Demand.[6] She also did voice acting for the cartoon Three Thug Mice.[7]
In 2011, Blue and other pornographic film actresses modeled for a series of paintings by Swedish artist Karl Backman.[8]
She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2013[9] and XRCO Hall of Fame in 2021.[10]
Also in 2011, Blue published her memoir of nearly ten years working in the adult entertainment industry (using her JM Productions moniker "Girlvert"). Publishers Weekly called the book "fiercely honest," writing that Small "quickly became known for her gung-ho attitude and amazing endurance" and that despite pitfalls of the industry and "degradations too numerous to name", she "remains proud of her work, going so far as to call some of it 'performance art.'"[2]
Personal life
In 2003, Blue sued ex-boyfriend and fellow former adult film star Trent Tesoro on an episode of Judge Mathis.[11]
As of 2015[update], she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, photographer Dave Naz.[1]
Publications
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir. Los Angeles: A Barnacle Book. 2011. ISBN978-0-9825056-3-2.
"Liabilities and My Mother". (2015). In Lee, Jiz (ed.). Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy. Berkeley, Calif.: ThreeL Media. pp. 260–269. ISBN978-0-9905571-6-6.
