AVN Media Network is pleased to announce this year’s inductees into the AVN Hall of Fame.

The Class of 2021 features a stellar group of performers, producers, directors and executives who each have impacted the worldwide adult entertainment industry in their own distinctive ways.

The honorees will be officially inducted at the 38th annual AVN Awards Show, presented by MyFreeCams, at 8 p.m. PST this Saturday in a live-streamed broadcast on AVNStars.com.

Co-hosted by Kira Noir and Skyler Lo, the first-ever all-digital AVN Awards ceremony will reveal the winners in more than 120 categories and is free to view for anyone with an AVN Stars account.

AVN Hall of Fame – Class of 2021

Chanel

Chanel, a petite brunette, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and first took her baby steps into the adult entertainment business in 1986, performing as a submissive in the BDSM video Deep and Dark for Prestige Video. Her first hardcore video was Balling Instinct(1992) for Factory Home Video, in which she essayed two scenes, a girl/girl with top star P.J. Sparxx and a boy/girl with T.T. Boy, though it’s unclear in which of those she performed her first on-camera squirt. In fact, Chanel’s second biggest year in XXX was 1992 when she acted in 28 productions—her biggest was 1994, with 32 appearances—and throughout her career, she generally divided her on-screen time roughly equally between hardcore videos, which included plenty of girl/girl action as well as anal, and bondage fare. In 1994, Chanel found a partner both on- and off-screen, actor Steve Hatcher, who was often billed under his real name, and the pair did scenes together for most of her career, though the two weren’t exclusive on-camera. Reviews of Chanel’s work were mixed. For instance, for Moonlight Entertainment’s Jack the Stripper (1992), AVN’s reviewer wrote, “We first see Jack [Jonathan Morgan] in merry olde England as he gets a rather nice blow-job from a street walker (Chanel)—who is later arrested by a bobby for ‘bad acting’. No comment there.” On the other hand, in The Three Musketeers 2 (1992), AVN’s reviewer stated, “Musketeer Marc Wallice finds himself imprisoned with ‘lost’ Musketeer Robert Sacchi… They escape and rescue Chanel, who rewards Wallice in a barn with, yup, a roll in the hay. Their tender, gentle sex amid the bristles and oats is as nomination-worthy as the [Nina] Hartley/[Diedre] Holland opus.” And then there’s 1-900-SPANKME (1993), where the reviewer raved, “If there’s a Best Performance award given out for a spanking video it belongs to Chanel in this segment.” Of interest: Chanel appeared in the first “issue” of Moonlight Entertainment’s Radical Affairs Video Magazine, a series that featured interviews with the stars and even an editorial or two between its hardcore scenes. Radical Affairs was one of the series that inspired AVN to create a new category of adult video: “Gonzo.” Chanel’s hardcore swan song occurred in 1999, when she appeared in two instructional tapes of the Alexander Institute. After that, she reportedly moved to Arizona, married and got into the real estate business.

David Perry

David Perry has been one of the most in-demand European performers since his debut in the early 1990s, and a creator of top-selling porn since 2005. His work as a director now appears exclusively on the Evil Angel label. A native of Rambouillet, France, he was a mainstay stud for Private Video in the 1990s and a frequent male talent for Marc Dorcel, Videorama, Ben Dover, Diabolic’s Debauchery series, Private Castings, and Anabolic’s French import Assman. His body of work includes more than 2,000 titles. As an actor he worked a great deal with Christoph Clark, appearing in every volume of his long running Euro Angels. He also worked for Rocco Siffredi (Rocco’s Initiations, True Anal Stories) and Raul Cristian’s Cruel Media. According to Evil Angel owner John Stagliano, Perry has directed for the company “as an owner of his own content since 2011. His ability to show off the best looking European girls made his content highly desirable for [us]…He has the ability to make the most high-class porn as well as hot gonzo.” Perry’s early work as a director was released in large part by Zero Tolerance and Diabolic Video. After joining the Evil Empire, with added more than 50 titles to their catalog, including such series as Big and Real, Watch Me Bitch, Ass-Fucked MILFs, Perry’s DPs. His most recent release, Anal Virtue, was nommed for Best Foreign-Shot Anal Sex Scene (Cherry kiss, Vince Karter). Perry has been a frequent AVN Awards nominee for Foreign Male Performer of the Year. Though a strong individual performer he has frequently lent his skills to group work. In 2012 he was nominated in two American-made group sex scenes: Evil Angel’s Voracious and Elegant Angel’s Wasteland. This year he was honored again for group scene, in Dorcel’s Mariska: Desires of Submission.

Dee

Dee, a native of Puerto Rico, became one of porn’s most popular Latina stars during the late 1990s and early 2000s, appearing in almost 600 adult films. Slender, 5-foot-5, with a 34B top, her beauty was greeted with such encomiums as “ravishing” (Adam Film World) and “achingly beautiful” (Hustler). Dee’s wide-ranging body of work included multiple performances for VCA Pictures, Metro Studios, Sin City, Evil Angel and Vivid Entertainment Group. Luc Wylder, who shot her several times for Fallen Angel, said she had “a perfectly sculpted body, warm spirit, with an intense proclivity to lust.” Her first appearance, at age 19, was in 1997 in a scene with T.T. Boy and Cappuccino for Devil’s Film. A career milestone came when the late Video Team founder Christian Mann cast her in Vol. 12 of his iconic series My Baby Got Back, after which she went right into Vol. 13. No Man’s Land 21 marked her debut in that studio’s long-running all-girl line. She did not shy away from anal sex, taking on fellow future Hall of Fame star Sean Michaels in Rocks That Ass 23: Return of Sean Bond. Randy Spears and Julian were among her most frequent partners in the later stages of her performing career. Dee also did a great deal of girl/girl work. She segued into directing in 2005. For Video Team she helmed No Man’s Land Latin Edition 3 & 6, 7, Sista 21 and Mamacitas 6 & 7. Her 17 director credits include four titles released by Wicked Pictures. Her appearances and directorial work began to taper off around 2007. Dee currently shares her thoughts and experiences, mind and body, on her website Dee’s Club.

Derek Dozer

Growing up in Ohio, Derek Dozer always had a passion for football and sports. So when he injured his knee during football practice, effectively ending his dreams of sports stardom, he dropped out of college to find himself. But football’s loss was porn’s gain when he got a warehouse job at a major porn company nearly 20 years ago. Soon, his energetic and easygoing style impressed his boss so much that he gave him a chance to direct a video. He would go on to direct for Extreme Associates, West Coast Productions, Antigua Pictures, AllRealityPass.com and ultimately landing at The Erotic Network, where he honed his craft working with the industry’s top performers. But it all abruptly ended when the company was acquired and Dozer and the rest of the staff were summarily laid off. For a year, he struggled to find work in an industry wracked by a changing economic landscape, before deciding to learn welding and take on a new career and a new challenge. But he was soon coaxed back to direct a new movie where he seemingly got his mojo back. He went on to work for such companies as Elegant Angel Productions, Hard X and others, and his vision and energy were never more apparent than in Elegant’s 2018 release Squirtwoman: Wasteland, starring Kleio Valentien and Angela White, which earned six 2019 AVN nominations, including Best Director – Feature for Dozer. His ability to connect with performers and audiences has earned him the respect of industry members and fans alike. With a dedication to creating compelling content that resonates with audiences, Dozer has taken his talents to another level in Tushy’s recent blockbuster feature Influence, a big-budget showcase of adult superstar Elsa Jean, who handpicked him to direct the movie, which features her first anal scene and once again racked up six nominations in the 2021 AVN Awards race. Having recently signed as Tushy parent company Vixen Media Group’s newest contract director, Dozer has plenty of big plans yet in store.

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