Claire pushed herself to new extremes by becoming a pro-wrestler. She never made an adult film again, though compilations of old footage re-released under new titles continued to be sold through the 2000s. Claire only spent three years in the adult business and made just over two dozen films. She also served as inspiration for Chuck Palahniuk's novel Snuff, in which she appears as a character.įor all the controversy she engendered, St. Claire was the subject of critical essays by David Foster Wallace and Evan Wright. Claire was among the first adult performers to be merchandised as an action figure and to star in an adult comic book series. She was inducted in AVN's "Hall of Fame" as one of the greatest porn stars of all time. She polarized the industry by calling porn films "by and large, disgusting and brainless." But she quickly dethroned Jenna Jameson as America's top-selling porn star, and became the first Latina to surpass traditional blond porn star archetypes when her films achieved number one sales position in 1998. Claire's flare for theater and controversy marked her ascent in the adult film world. Claire invented her larger-than-life "Jasmin St. Invited on the Jerry Springer Show for a scripted role as antagonistic stripper, St. Claire entered the adult industry on a dare. Claire later outed in an interview with Howard Stern), she began a secret life as a topless dancer at Manhattan's infamous KitKat Club, then at Flashdancers. But while in a physically abusive relationship with a prominent Manhattan lawyer (whom St. Warburg (then, a division of Swiss Bank.). Upon graduation from Columbia University, St, Claire became a financial consultant at S. Claire graduated from Brooklyn Friends School at age 16, with honors for her work in the pioneering "Art without Walls" tutoring program for inner city youth. Claire grew up on Manhattan's Upper west side and attended the Lycee Francais and McBurney School, whose alumni include Henry Winkler and J.D. Her mother was a U.S.-educated lawyer, originally from Brazil. Her father, from Holland, operated a food distribution company. Claire's background is almost entirely at odds with her early adult-film career. Claire is often cast in ethnically ambiguous roles, or as Italian or Middle Eastern, but she identifies as a Latina due to her mixed Northern European and Brazilian ancestry.
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Claire has turned to dramatic roles in thrillers like Angel of Reckoning and the talked about sci-fi drama Trial Run. More recently, while studying in Bill O'Leary's Acting Workshop, St. Claire's first mainstream appearances were in significant comic roles in Communication Breakdown and in National Lampoon Dorm Daze 2. Her acerbic humor and willingness to mock her own porn stardom made her one of the highest rated guests on Howard Stern's radio show and related broadcasts for E! Entertainment. She created an outlaw rock star image that at times scandalized the adult industry. Claire shot to fame as "America's Most Controversial Sex Symbol" after appearing in the top-selling adult films of the late 1990s.
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