Industry Experts Say Stormy Daniels Is the New No. 1 Porn Star (AVN)

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When mainstream TV news anchors talk about Stormy Daniels, they no longer identify her as a “porn star.”

It’s assumed everyone already knows.

Thanks to the deluge of national media coverage of her alleged sexual liaison with President Trump in 2006 and the $130,000 payoff she received in 2016 to stay quiet, the AVN Hall of Fame performer has become a national figure and one of the most controversial women in the world.

While the extent of Stormy’s notoriety is hard to measure, one thing is certain, according to several seasoned adult industry observers: in the span of four months this year Stormy has become the most famous living porn star—and arguably the biggest of all time.

“Just off the top of my head I’d say that she absolutely is the most famous living porn star, and even more famous than dead ones like Linda Lovelace and John Holmes,” said Jared Rutter, the former chairman of the X-Rated Critics Organization, who has been in the adult industry since the early ’70s and remains a senior contributor to AVN magazine.

“People who never heard of Jenna [Jameson] or Ginger [Lynn] have heard about Stormy. The irony is that what they know is so limited: just the fact that she has sex for a living and once got banged by Trump.