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Danni Ashe InnerView Continued... Danni: Yes, the club owner lied to me. So I went to jail and I spent the night in jail. No one ever made any attempt to bail me out. Not the club owner, not my agent, my husband was in L. A. and desperately trying to get to Jacksonville so that he could bail me out. And it was just this horrible, horrible situation! And they actually took my clothes and made me put this little prison jumper on and I had to fight really hard to keep my bra! They wanted to take my bra because it had an under wire and I could use it as a weapon. I said, "I'm not a violent person and I need my bra! I'll be so uncomfortable without my bra!" They did have mercy and let me keep my bra. So I spent the night in jail, and in jail the world changes. In jail all of a sudden you're not a person anymore, you have no rights, they keep moving you deeper and deeper in, and you start thinking, "I'm never gonna get out!" and you think, "Why am I here?" So by the time they put me in front of the judge I was ready to plead guilty to anything just to get out. So I plead guilty to prohibited conduct, time served and a $50 fine, and I was released. So at five o'clock the next day I'm waiting for my property to get my clothes back and someone had stolen my clothes. AINews: Someone STOLE your CLOTHES?? Danni: All the guards were asking me to sign magazines, they all knew who I was, so one of them stole my clothes. And so I had to leave the jail in borrowed clothes. Ratty stuff that they had lying around that hadn't been claimed and then that's when I lost it! I had a complete breakdown! I had been through the most humiliating experience of my life and I was in BORROWED CLOTHES. No one from the club came to pick me when I was released from jail and I had to find my way back to get my car, and get back to the hotel, to pack up my stuff. Then I go back to the club and asked to see the owner so I could get paid to get out of town. They made me wait there for an hour and the club owner finally came in and he looked at me and said, "Well, we both lost money last night! So I'm not going to be able to pay you for the shows that you missed while you were in jail." And I remember just being so disoriented after being up all night, and being through this whole experience, so I said, Well, will you please call my agent because I just don't know how to deal with this." So he calls up the agent and the agent says, "Oh, okay that's fine." I remember asking her a couple months later, "Why did you DO that to me? Why didn't anyone ever stand up for me during this whole thing?" And she said, "Oh, honey we just wanted to get you out of there." It was after that I realized I care too much for myself to be treated that way. I'm not about the keep throwing myself out into these situations. I'm not going to be a road dancer. I talk to so many girls who've been dancing on the road for years they'd say, Oh yeah; you just gotta get tougher! They'll fuck with you wherever they can." "You just have to get tougher", and I thought I don't WANT to be tougher! I'm not a tough girl! That's not what I'm about... AINews: Did your husband make it in time? Danni: Actually I was able to get out of jail before he was able to get there. AINews: What was the most difficult thing about building this business? Danni: Learning how to be an employer. I've been a dancer and a men's magazine model my whole adult life and been self-employed my whole life. I had never been an employee, let alone an employer. I had nothing to draw on about how you motivate your employees, how to keep them happy, how you get the most out of an employee, so I think I made a lot of mistakes with some of the early people that I hired. That's always been the toughest part. Also because I have a powerful vision about what it is that I want. It's not easy to instill that vision into someone else in a positive productive way. I'm getting better at it, but that was the hardest thing. AINews: How do girls go about featuring on your site for photo shoots and the live cam stuff? Danni: A number of different ways. In the beginning it was all just my friends. Girls I knew in the business. I said, "I'll put you up on my Web Site and you'll get a lot more guys coming to your shows, you'll get a lot more people writings to your fan club, and it was TRUE! I had girls calling me up who were saying, "You wouldn't believe it! I had some guys fly in 800 miles to see my show tonight because they saw me on your Web Site! So it was a real positive experience for them, and was good for me to add more depth to the Web Site. So I kept adding girls that I knew. And then as I started buying more content and getting more photographs, if I found a set of photographs I really, really liked but I didn't have a model page on the model I tried to contact the model and try to build a page for her. And then in more recent years a lot of then come to us. We have people come to us all the time who want to be on the Site. AINews: Do they call you or e-mail... Danni: Yes, they contact us and we generally direct them to our talent coordinator. [johnathan@danni.com - Johnathan Austin, DHD Talent Coordinator, handles all talent.] And really I'm pretty willing to have any model on the Site as long as she can lead us in the right direction with the content. Either she can provide us with photos or buy photos somewhere or if she's willing to come in and do some work for us.
Danni: I haven't shot any magazine layouts since September of 98. AINews: I remember when that October 92 Juggs came out. [Pointing to a framed magazine cover on the wall.] Danni: The Juggs? Oh, my God! You remember that? Holy cow! Is that the ugliest picture you've ever seen in your life? AINews: (Pause) No... (Laughs) Danni: I keep that there just because... I don't know. I liked it the back then. It's just such a hideous picture.
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AINews:
Are you still doing magazine work?
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