Danni Ashe
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| Birthday: | January 16, 1968 |
| Astrological Sign: | Capricorn |
| Birth location: | Beaufort, SC |
| Years Active: | 1992-2005 (Started around 24 years old) |
| Measurements: | 38FF-23-35 |
| Height: | 5 feet, 2 inches (158 cm) |
| Weight: | 114 lbs (52 kg) |
| Hair color: | Blonde |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian |
| Alias(es): | Danniele Ashe |
| No. of films: | 77 |
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Danni Ashe is the pseudonym of an American nude model and former stripper, founder and former CEO of Danni's Hard Drive, a pioneering adult web site.
Biography
Ashe was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. Her large breasts (cup size 32FF) contributed to her popularity as an adult performer. She began modeling for men's magazines and soft-core pornographic videos in 1991.
Ashe began working as a stripper in Seattle, in 1985 and eventually worked as an exotic dancer in various strip clubs throughout the United States as a featured performer. This resulted in an incident in a technically non-nude club in Jacksonville, Florida. In interviews, Ashe alleged that the club’s owner and its manager persuaded her to perform a topless dance, and encouraged her to sell softcore videos of herself at the club. Ashe was subsequently arrested. Ashe pled guilty to “prohibited conduct” and was fined $50. Neither the club nor her agent helped her through this incident. This unpleasant experience marked a turning point in her career; Ashe never again performed as a stripper, seeking instead to work in an area where she would have more control.
Ashe read The HTML Manual of Style and Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital during a vacation. On her return to the U.S., she created the Danni.com website in two weeks. The site was launched in July 1995 and contained content exclusive to her. Ashe announced the website to her friends prior to travelling to New York with her husband. News of the site spread rapidly. When she reached the hotel in Manhattan, Ashe had a message from her ISP stating that the volume of traffic her site received had overloaded their servers and caused their system to shut down. Danni.com was moved to its own server, which became famous for having a "working" light that never went out. Ashe jokingly described her server as a "hot box", and when she started charging a fee for access to the site, she named the members' area "The HotBox".
During its first two years online, Danni’s Hard Drive was one of the busiest websites in the world, using more bandwidth than all of Central America. Ashe's business grew, allowing her to hire staff and models. By 2003, she had 50 full-time employees, a studio in Los Angeles (16,000 square feet (1,500 m²), and an archive containing hundreds of thousands of photos, and thousands of hours of video. Ashe was making millions of dollars a year.
Danni's Hard Drive was sold in 2004 to John Morisano who put Layne Thrasher in charge of it. In 2006, Penthouse Media Group Inc bought Danni.com and Video Bliss Inc. (owners of the website) for $3 million.
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Awards
- On December 5, 2000, Guinness World Records awarded Ashe the title "Most downloaded woman on the Internet", when they confirmed her image had been downloaded over a billion times. The download record had previously been claimed by bikini model Cindy Margolis, who claimed seven million total downloads at the time of Ashe’s challenge.
Danni Ashe Filmography (as director)
Actors Directed by Danni Ashe
Danni Ashe Filmography (as performer)
Online Reviews
“Danni.com is the newest incarnation of Danni Ashe's official site. It brings you a ton of nude pornstars in solo and lesbian shoots. Not only is the name simple, but the navigation is quite easy too. Updates are close to daily with only a day skipped here and there. There is also a members' forum, so that - along with the live webcam shows - makes this site very interactive. Danni is a premier destination for solo and lesbian pornstar action.” (Rabbits Reviews.)- Rabbit’s Reviews (90/100)
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