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Kelly Shibari

"I've been working towards that for the past couple of years. I do PR and marketing for clients within the industry. ... I do have money in an IRA, so it's more consolidated. ... I see a lot of girls and guys get into this industry and they work for a company but they never think 'Oh,maybe one day I should make a product that I own.' I think the people who have the most longevity in the industry are the ones who actually own their brand and work towards creating products, whether it's DVD or toys or a company. The ones who last beyond the performance stuff are the ones who find ways of investing in themselves."






Jules Jordan

"I prepared myself in the early to mid-2000s. That's when we were printing money. But I'm going to be running camera and shooting my movies until I physically can't do it anymore. I consider myself a bit of a workaholic. I collected a pretty good sum of money, dug a hole in my yard and stuck it in there. Not too many risks for me."





Nina Hartley

"Sex is my thing and as I get older, my focus may change and my presentation may change and what I do may change, but the subject of my work is still going to be sexuality. Like most middle-aged [people] I'm a boomer; I'll be 55 in March, and like most boomers, I do not have enough saved for retirement. ... So what am I doing? I'm strengthening my career. I'm branching out into other modalities. I'm doing some stand-up, some coaching, some teaching, a little bit of everything. I've learned a lot in 30 years and I know I can make it work to feed me when I'm old, because it's not going to be my 401(k), baby."





Joanna Angel

"I own my own company. It's going (to) live on whether I'm performing or not. I own all the images, and I have still images of me in my prime years that I can sell forever and ever. ... Whatever I invest my money in, I want it to carry my brand. I have no interest in investing in property or the stock market.

I would like to open up a Burning Angel strip club or a Burning Angel retail store or Burning Angel clothing. That's Hustler and that's Playboy. They invest their money in their own company and make different divisions of that company. ... I'm not treating this like a stripper who saves up a lot of money and buys a big house with it. I want to build the brand as big as it can possibly be."





Riley Steele

"I have my real estate license, so [I'm] selling properties and owning and also renting them out. That's something I've been working on. I've also been thinking of opening my own hair salon one day."

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