For fans of Anna Bell Peaks, her latest announcement comes from the deepest, saddest valley. Peaks told AVN this week that she will cease shooting scenes at the end of this year (with the possibility that certain final bookings may extend into January). However, she will continue to cam and maintain her social media accounts, […]
The most famous star of Pirates is hanging up her sword. Jesse, better known as Jesse Jane, revealed yesterday that 2017’s AVN show will be her final hurrah in the adult industry. She announced the news of her retirement on The Morning After radio show in St. Louis. With 15 years and more than 100 […]
This week, Barack Obama bid farewell to the presidency with one final address to the nation. “The song is over; it’s all behind me,” as The Who sang in a memorable cut from their 1971 album Who’s Next. There’s something poetic about a sweet, sad farewell. Why else have there been so many songs, poems, […]
When Sean Connery quit the role of James Bond in 1971, he said he’d never return to the world of 007. While he did come back for a last turn 12 years later, in the appropriately titled Never Say Never Again, his second retirement was permanent. Similarly, pornstar Remy LaCroix first swore off the adult […]
Lexi Belle is making it official. Absent from boy/girl scenes for four years, the AVN winner announced her retirement from the industry in a series of tweets. Unlike the retirements of stars like Lisa Ann, who withdrew from shooting scenes largely in one fell swoop, Belle’s retirement came in phases. “Coloring my hair pink and […]
UPDATE (Spring 2016): Jensen changed her mind a few weeks after this post was published and is now an active pornstar again. Success came quickly for Peta Jensen, to the delight of her fans . . . and now, likely to the dismay of those same fans, so has retirement! The Florida-born pornstar announced the […]