Celebrity Disaster

Janine Lindenmulder

Lifestyle has a way of impacting how you get custody:

Porn star Janine Lindemulder, who has been fighting a custody battle with her ex-husband, reality television star Jesse James, and his current wife, Sandra Bullock, lost another round Monday when a California court denied her request for "expanded visitation rights," according to the Los Angeles Times.

James has had sole guardianship of the 5-year-old girl since the adult actress and director was jailed for tax evasion. Federal prosecutors on August 22, 2008 said Lindemulder, 39, of Huntington Beach, Calif., failed to pay more than $200,000 in taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service.

As part of her plea agreement, Lindemulder admitted making a down payment on a $647,000 house in Eugene, Calif. and purchasing a new Jeep and recreational vehicle while knowing she owed the taxes.

She served six months behind bars and was released in July.

I don't think she should be judged on the basis of her porn career. I think it is fine to judge her on her legal issues, and her alleged use of drugs. The media are all over this story because it pits Lindenmulder against Bulluck as a "porn star" up against a "good girl." Well, I'm sorry, but both have used sex or sex appeal to sell their products or movies, to a degree, and that does not make one woman better than the other. Bullock herself has not done anything approaching the kind of porn that Lindenmulder has done, but she has done nude scenes. albeit, very tame and mainstream ones. How they have conducted their lives, that's a different story.