Although Jenna Jameson generally prefers not to kiss and tell, she decided to dish just a little about a few of her celebrity encounters in her best-selling book, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Cindy Crawford was the one person mentioned in the book who was upset enough to demand a retraction.
Last week Jameson received a letter from Cindy Crawford’s trial lawyers demanding a retraction, removal of the offending passage from any future printings of the novel, and a handwritten letter acknowledging that Jameson was entirely incorrect in her assumption that Crawford was hitting on her.
ClubJenna’s lawyers are currently drafting a response, but Jay Grdina, Jameson’s husband and business partner, told AVN.com that it’s unlikely Crawford will be receiving a handwritten letter from Jameson any time soon. “Let me tell you when that’s going to happen: the twelfth of Never-uary.”
Grdina estimates that of the 579 pages in the book, perhaps ten deal with celebrities. “We put it in there because we knew it would be an easy way for a normal TV station to publicize the book. Instead of saying it’s a porno book, they say it’s a tell-all with some dish in it.”
Jameson met Crawford while covering the opening of the Bangkok Planet Hollywood for E! Entertainment. On page 449 of How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Crawford is alleged to have made a pass at Jameson.
“Once the lights and cameras switched off, the party began. I sat down with my new best friend Cindy Crawford and we talked. However, I kept getting a weird vibe from her,” wrote Jameson, who is openly bisexual. “I knew what it meant because I’d experienced it so many times before, but I kept dismissing it. It couldn’t be true: She was Cindy Crawford, after all.
“When I turned my back to her to talk with an E! crew member sitting on my left, Cindy reached over and rubbed the back of my neck,” Jameson writes. “ 'Ooh,' she cooed. 'Look at your beautiful tattoo!’”
Crawford’s lawyers noted that the video clip that E! ran of the event showed Sylvester Stallone lifting up Jameson’s hair and Cindy Crawford looking at Jameson’s tattoo, while Jameson interviewed Stallone.
Jameson admits that Crawford’s lawyers give an accurate description of the events that took place during her interview with Stallone – but the passage in her book took place after that interview, when Crawford and Jameson shared a booth for most of the night.
A few lines later, Jameson goes on: “[Crawford] touched my neck so softly and sensually. Was she making a pass at me? I froze. It was too much. She was so larger than life that I couldn't even imagine running my tongue along that trademark mole of hers. So I excused myself to get a drink.”
Given the salacious possibilities of Jameson and Crawford together, it’s no wonder Howard Stern fixated on that passage when Jameson appeared on his show to promote the book.
Grdina notes that even on the Stern show, Jameson attempted to give Crawford wiggle room for plausible deniability. “She was really nice about it and played it off, saying, ‘Maybe it was just me,’ trying to give Cindy Crawford a little buffer room.”
After Stern the tabloids began to cover it, adding fuel to rumors that that have been in circulation for over a decade that Crawford is a closet lesbian, or at least bisexual.
Crawford’s sexuality came into question when Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford were photographed kissing each other outside a New York nightclub in 1991. Her appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair alongside lesbian singer KD Lang, whom she was shaving, gave further fodder to the rumors.
Crawford and her ex-husband, actor Richard Gere, who was the subject of rumors of homosexuality, once took out a $30,000, full-page ad in a newspaper to proclaim their heterosexuality.
“If she likes girls, she likes girls. Big deal, move on,” Grdina said. “If they want to protect her, protect her. But don’t send us letters demanding things.”
Only a handful of celebrities were mentioned in Jameson’s book. In the same passage as Jameson’s account of her experience with Crawford, Wesley Snipes strikes out with Jameson by being too forward, as does Bruce Willis moments later.
A few pages earlier, readers learn that Marilyn Manson has a weird fixation on Corey Feldman and likes to cuddle.
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, written by Jameson with Neil Strauss, is currently number 18 on the New York Times best seller list.
