Editing Jenna Jameson (section)

== Early life ==
Jenna Marie Massoli was born on April 9, 1974, in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]].{{r|Brennan|ETHS-Bio}} Her father, Laurence Henry Massoli, was a police officer at the [[Las Vegas Sheriff's Department]] and program director for [[KSNV-DT]]. Her mother, Judith Brooke Hunt, was a Las Vegas showgirl who danced in the [[Folies Bergère]] show at the [[Tropicana Resort & Casino]].<ref name="Smith Apr 2004"/><ref name="ReviewJournal"/> Her mother died of [[melanoma]] on February 20, 1976, two months before her daughter's second birthday.<ref name="Profit"/> The cancer treatments bankrupted the family and they relocated in Nevada, Arizona and Montana, usually living in a trailer home or with her paternal grandmother. She and her older brother Tony were raised [[Catholic]],<ref name="Higginbotham"/><ref name=OraTV>{{cite web |url=http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/jenna-jameson-0_0bkkl6pa |title=Jenna Jameson |work=Larry King Now |via=Ora TV |date=October 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030084135/http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/jenna-jameson-0_0bkkl6pa |archive-date=October 30, 2014 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all |type=video}}{{Time needed|date=January 2022}}</ref> though they were essentially left to parent each other.<ref name="Biography.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/performer/jenna-jameson |title=Jenna Jameson |website=Biography.com |date=2 April 2014 |publisher=A&E Television Networks |access-date=10 January 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110095825/https://www.biography.com/performer/jenna-jameson |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jameson was a frequent entrant in [[Beauty contest|beauty pageants]] as a child and enrolled in ballet classes throughout her childhood.<ref name="AskMen"/> In a featurette on the ''[[Zombie Strippers]]'' DVD, Jameson indicates she trained in dance for 15 years.{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Jameson wrote in her autobiography that in October 1990, when she was 16 years old and while the family was living on a cattle ranch in [[Fromberg, Montana]], she was beaten with rocks and gang raped by four boys after a [[American football|football]] game at Fromberg High School. The incident began after she attempted to [[Hitchhiking|hitchhike]] home and she entered the car of the four boys while believing that she would be driven to her home. She reported being raped a second time while still 16 by "Preacher", her boyfriend Jack's biker uncle.<ref name="Higginbotham"/> Preacher has denied the rape ever occurred.<ref name="CNN"/> Rather than tell her father, she left home and moved in with Jack in her first serious relationship.<ref name="Profit"/><ref name="January"/>

According to [[E!]], her brother Tony, who later owned a tattoo parlor himself,<ref name="Smith Apr 2004"/> added the inscription "Heart Breaker".<ref name="Smith Apr 2004"/><ref name="Profit"/>