Janet Romano

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Janet Romano-Zicari, better known as Lizzy Borden, (born December 20, 1977 in Huntington Beach, California) is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet. Together with her husband, porn producer Rob Zicari (aka Rob Black), she runs the porn company Extreme Associates; she has directed several violent porn movies and in 2003 was indicted for distributing obscenity.

Early life

In an interview in 2002, she described a childhood characterized by beatings by her mother (who was herself regularly beaten by Romano's alcoholic stepfather).Fact|date=October 2007 At the age of 12 she moved in with her grandparents. When she turned 18, she entered a local community college, started to use drugs and became a stripper. She also worked for Disneyland for a while and while working as a stripper, fell for porn actress Jill Kelly with whom she had her first kiss.Fact|date=October 2007

Career

Pornography

Janet Romano started out as a porn star in 1998, initially under the name "Mia Mikels". She was criticized on the Internet about her looks and weight, and later confronted one of these critics.Fact|date=October 2007 She soon signed with Extreme Associates despite being advised never to work for the companyFact|date=October 2007 and adopted the name "Lizzy Borden", which refers to notorious Lizzie Borden who was accused (and acquitted) of murdering her parents in the late-19th century. The name was given to her by Extreme Associates owner Rob Black who later became her husband. She toned up her body and got breast implants and after making just a few movies with the company, began to come up with ideas for movies herself.

She battled and overcame a drug problem and in 1999 and began directing adult movies herself. She became known for the extreme content of her films, directing movies like "Cocktails" (2000) in which women drink vomit and other bodily fluids, "Fossil Fucker" (2001) in which old women have sex with young men, "Cannibalism" (2002), and "Forced Entry" (2002) which shows simulated rape. Lizzy often worked with Veronica Caine, such as in "Cocktails" and "Forced Entry", and in wrestling.

Indictment

The filming of "Forced Entry" was covered in the PBS Frontline documentary "American Porn" (2002). The makers of the documentary filmed themselves walking off the set ostensibly in repulsion; the move was criticised by the adult industry as a contrived, sensationalistic stunt.Fact|date=October 2007 This scene possibly led to the undercover operation that resulted in Black's and Romano's 2003 grand jury indictment for distributing obscene materials via the U.S. Postal Service and the Internet in the Pittsburgh area; one of the cited movies was "Forced Entry".

Professional wrestling

In 1999, Romano and Black formed Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW), which hired various porn stars as valets or wrestlers. She played the role of the evil, snobbish owner or "The Boss's Wife". She had Chastity as her assistant and feuded with Kristi Myst. She repeatedly humiliated Kristi by making her do stripteases for her, and then shoving her around. She was valet of The Messiah and led him to the XPW Championship as part of The Black Army. When The Messiah walked out of XPW, rumors emerged on the Internet about an alleged affair between him and Lizzy, although this is unfounded.

Lizzy often feuded with any female in XPW, usually getting her allies of The Black Army to attack them for her. She feuded with Veronica Caine, Lucy, Tammy Lynn Sytch, Nicole Bass, and Major Gunns and managed Johnny Webb for a time once The Messiah was gone. She briefly aligned with Lady Victoria, who had turned heel and left the side of the tag team "Mexico's Most Wanted"; Lizzy made Victoria dye her hair blonde to be like her. In her feud with Lucy, she and Shane Douglas battled Lucy and her "husband" Vic Grimes in mixed tag matches. In late-2002, she and Douglas took over the company and ran shows out of Pennsylvania. XPW ended soon afterwards.

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves
**Stunner

*Wrestlers managed
**Shane Douglas
**Rob Black
**Johnny Webb
**The Messiah

Music

Romano is now signed with Crash Music, Inc. as the label's official spokesmodel. [cite web|title=LoveLizzyBorden.com|url=http://www.lovelizzyborden.com/|accessdate=2007-10-28] She has also produced her own music.

References

External links

* [http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/06/20/lizzy_borden/ "Porn provocateur"] , Profile and interview by Janelle Brown, Salon.com, June 20, 2002. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
* [http://www.rogreviews.com/interviews/Lizzy_Borden.asp Interview at rogreviews.com] , March 2001
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/ American Porn] Report by Frontline (PBS TV series) (first aired in 2002, updated in 2004), watchable online.
* [http://www.BordensBlogs.com BordensBlogs.com] , her blog.