When the Scott Janke story broke a couple of weeks ago and Janke was fired from his position as city manager of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, when it was revealed that his wife was porn star, Jazella Moore, AP was one of the media outlets on it.

In its coverage AP wrote: “Dan Miller, editor at the AVN Media Network, which covers the adult industry, said he had not heard of a similar case, but noted the adult film industry is ‘not necessarily widely accepted’ in mainstream American politics.”

Ah, Daneroo, come on. Without doing too much digging or research, have you forgotten Chef Jeff? Crystal Gunns or Kurt Wild?

Here’s what happened with Chef Jeff who used to do a show for KSEX back in the day:

www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=25141, the headline: NBC Now Wants to Interview Jeff; Chef Jeff Firing Story Picked Up By Mainstream Media

From the AdultFYI files November 7, 2007: The latest developments today in the Chef Jeff story are that NBC is coming to interview him at three this afternoon.

Last month we broke the story about how Jeff was fired from a job by the city of Surprise, Arizona when his porn past became known. www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=24683.

The mainstream has now picked up on the story.

Surprise, Arizona- A Surprise Tennis & Racquet Complex worker was recently fired after an anonymous letter sent to city staff outlined concerns over his previous career in the sex entertainment industry.

Buckeye resident Geoff Mena, the former employee of Surprise’s Community and Recreation Services Department, said he once worked in Web design, a minority portion of which included Web sites with sexual content, from June 2000 to December 2006.

Mena said he owned both adult and non-adult Web companies, designed pages, hosted an adult Web radio show and “very, very rarely” got in front of the camera in sex videos.

“There was some nudity” but the videos did not show his face, he said, and “I was not a porn star.”

Before 2000, Mena had a 12-year tennis career in California and worked as a tennis director at a country club near Palm Springs that employed his acquaintance, one-time Wimbledon doubles champion and current Surprise Tennis & Racquet Complex Director John Austin.

Mena moved to Arizona in 2005. He said two years passed before he reconnected with Austin, a Scottsdale resident.

After Austin was named director of Surprise’s new 25-court Tennis & Racquet Complex around August 2006, Mena said he spoke with him over lunch about jobs available at the center.

“I disclosed to (Austin) my entire involvement in the adult entertainment industry, we decided that it was OK and that people were allowed to have other jobs outside of that business,” Mena said.

Mena said he was chosen for the tennis center position from about 150 applicants. He started work Aug. 13, and said his duties involved coordinating adult tennis programs, making phone calls and working the tennis center’s front desk.

Mena asserted that at least some city management also knew about his previous career in adult entertainment. Austin and other city staff declined to comment on anything involving Mena, citing privacy laws.

“Late last year, I had a change of heart and wanted to get back into tennis,” Mena said. “It’s personally more rewarding and satisfying than sitting behind a desk or at a computer designing Web pages.”

However, a letter sent to Austin dated Aug. 30 and signed “A concerned parent and Surprise resident” read, “My friend and I were talking to the tennis pro, Geoff Mena, about lessons, tournaments, etc. for our families. Once we returned home, we decided to ‘google’ his name to check his teaching credentials. It was at this time that we discovered that he also is involved in the adult entertainment industry. As a former Marine, I am certainly not a prude, but, after some discussion, Mr. Mena’s other career made us wary of him teaching our wives, daughters and their teenage friends.”

Mena was terminated around Sept. 11. He said that he was not given a reason for his firing, but added that if it had anything to do with the anonymous letter concerning his previous career, he thought the firing was a violation of his freedom of speech and was discriminatory.

“It demonizes me in a way. I’m not a criminal, I’m not a sex offender – I was at one time employed in the entertainment industry,” Mena said. “I’m a law-abiding citizen.”

Mena said he is contemplating taking legal action as a result of his firing.

The six-month period after a new city employee is hired is considered that employee’s introductory period, and the city has the right to terminate that employee at any time during that period without providing a reason, said city spokeswoman Diane Arthur.

Mena said his lower-level job in the tennis center paid about $39,000 a year.

Since leaving the city, Mena said that he has returned to designing Web sites.

Mark Kernes, senior editor of the Adult Video Network, an industry trade magazine and Web site, said several former adult entertainers have gone on to other successful careers.

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Then we have the case of Kurt Wild, www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=30002 a gay porn star who was fired from his job at Subway when a customer recognized him and threatened a boycott:

From the AFY files, September 5, 2008: St. Louis- 22-year-old gay porn star Kurt Wild was fired from is day job at a Subway restaurant outside of St. Louis when a customer recognized him and threatened to boycott the fast food joint if Wild wasn’t fired.

Wild says in an email:

Hey everyone.

I just wanted to tell everyone that I was just fired from my work at subway because I have done gay porn. A customer said they wouldn’t even eat there at subway anymore because of my past work and said that if I wasn’t fired then they would boycott the store.

What I say is, if one person can try to ruin me everywhere I work… maybe I should take a stand and boycott their store too if they can’t let people’s privacy be treated right. I should have the right to work anywhere I can and it isn’t right or fair that people can keep me from working simply because of a “gay” issue. If a girl did what we do it would probably be ok.. and if a guy does straight porn.. he is bragged about. When I do gay porn, I feel a bit lynched for the rest of my life. Not right. Thanks for reading.

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Or how about Crystal Gunns: The headline: Crystal Gunns Resigns from School Position

From the AFY files, December 12, 2008: VINELAND, NJ — Louisa Tuck, the cafeteria and playground aide whose former career as an adult entertainer attracted intense media scrutiny last month, has offered her resignation to the Board of Education.

In a one-sentence letter to MaryAnn Greenfield, Vineland Public Schools’ executive director of personnel, Tuck said she is “resigning in good standing” from her position at D’Ippolito Elementary School.

The effective date of her resignation was Monday, Dec. 8, according to the letter.

Tuck had been performing for many years as Crystal Gunns, an adult film star who also posed for many nude-magazine photo shoots and performed stage shows. Tuck told The Daily Journal she left the adult entertainment industry five years ago, although the Web site bearing her name, Crystalgunns.com, is still active.

Vineland Public Schools officials hired Tuck in June for a $5,772-a-year part-time job as an aide. Shortly thereafter, her former career — and the pictures and videos of her performing still available on the Web — came to the attention of parents and school officials.

Parents complained to both D’Ippolito School and the district’s central administration office, according to e-mail exchanges, obtained under the state’s Open Public Records Act, between Principal Gail Curcio and district officials.

School Board President Frank Giordano openly called for her termination, but Superintendent Charles Ottinger said attorneys for the school district and New Jersey School Board Association advised the district against taking action.

On Thursday, Ottinger said Tuck’s resignation was not demanded by the school district.

“We did not ask for this. We did not require it. We did not force it,” Ottinger said.

Tuck’s letter to Greenfield does not indicate why she is leaving the district, and it is not clear if the attention paid to her former career played into her decision.

After The Daily Journal reported last month that parents were raising questions and Giordano suggested she be fired, hundreds of Web-based, print and television media outlets followed the story, filing reports about Louisa Tuck’s time as Crystal Gunns and the public interest that followed the initial story.

Tuck has limited her public comments on the issue and asked The Daily Journal not to contact her again.

Tuck’s attorney, Jeff DiLazzero, did not return repeated calls for comment on Thursday.

Tuck also works as a supervisor for children’s programs at the Vineland YMCA. Executive Director and CEO George Steinbronn said Thursday she is still employed there.

Ottinger said Thursday Tuck’s resignation is not official until the Board of Education approves it at the next regular meeting, scheduled for Jan. 21. However, he said, Tuck could rescind her resignation at any time before the vote.

If she does change her mind before then, Ottinger reasoned, the board would keep her on because they had not asked her to step down.