What happened to Jan B.?

Jab B ( Janet Barley) kicked off her website around the end of 1994 or early 1995. I am unsure of the exact date because the WWW was still very new and only about 14% of the internet users had even seen it yet. She had already recorded some videos starting in 1992. (Google Early Jan B). There are about a half dozen of her earliest videos online. She was married at a very young age. I heard she was only 15. Later on in her marriage her and Mike started swinging. Mike was very supportive of Jan in the open lifestyle. They even joined a few sex clubs in the 80s. She released at least 400 titles. Perhaps more but according to IAFD it was 398. I did notice a lot of titles not shown on their database so the number is higher. Her site closed shortly after her husband Mike passed away in 2010. He died after a long battle with throat cancer at the age of 59. 6 years later their offspring Mike Jr. passed away at the age of 46. Only a few videos were released in 2010. She was now 57 at this time and it was time for her to leave the scene. I heard she is alive and well, living near Indianapolis. She is now 70 and does not reply to anyone. I believe she just wants to be left alone.
 
Every body says they have this and that version, why not post them? You can post the site you got them from if it is still operattional or are you just lonesome and want some one to talk to. I've posted every site I've been able to find Jan B clips on. Share with us.
 
Every body says they have this and that version, why not post them? You can post the site you got them from if it is still operattional or are you just lonesome and want some one to talk to. I've posted every site I've been able to find Jan B clips on. Share with us.
The sad reallity is, some people on this site sell them ...
 
She made hundreds of movies, over 15 years, only a fraction of which are online. As near as I can tell, they were all on VHS, which explains the crappy quality, and it takes a lot of time and effort to digitize them. My fear is that since she is no longer curating her stuff, and the tapes out in the wild are aging, and degrading, that we will eventually lose all her work. Our only hope is that some where, someone will digitize her collection and archive it for us.

Further back in this thread I posted a link to an archive of her old web site, and you can see the vids, with names and episode numbers. But the links to them no longer work, and emails to the site go unanswered.
If she has indeed found god after losing her husband and her ******* in the same year, its entirely possible she destroyed, or has just ignored her collection to the point where is it unusable.

Finding her VHS tapes online seems impossible, I guess they may occasionally come up in garage sales, but honestly, I'm guessing most people would just throw out grandpas old porn tapes rather than the embarrassment of selling them.

One thing that could kick start a digital archive is if AVN awards her a lifetime achievement, presented by Nina Hartly or something. If she actually showed to accept the award, it might show her and others that there are people out here who want all her old stuff.
I do believe all her VHS videos were transferred to DVD. Her Husband Mike did all the production work and it was pretty shoddy to say the least. The DVD releases were not much better because nothing was transferred higher than a 640x480 format. On old TVs it didn't matter much because older TVs were only 600x600 screens. I do see a lot of posts online where the videos are widescreen but VHS did not have widescreen capabilities and I usually restore them back to the 640x480 format. I am also in the process of Upscaling here videos to 1280x720p fixing the audio and fixing the color on them but finding good sources is hard.
 
I also wonder how many girls she got to go black on film but was never released.
Although her videos claim a lot of the women were first timers that may not be entirely true. Jan recruited many of these women from the sex club she and her husband co-owned. I believe a few of the real young ones were first timers but it was clear to me that Holly Wetlove had been doing BBC for a long time before she met Jan. Same goes for Tonya. She were a BBC whore long before Jan introduced her
 
That is like the holy grail of Jan B movies. If it exists, Im sure Nina Hartlys production company has control of it, and there may be some legal and royalty issues with it.
It was a JanB production but I agree Nina probably got royalties from it. I saw it way back when Jan's site was up and running. Wish I would of purchased it but I was never really into too many lesbian flicks. Just not my cup of tea. Nina often worked with amateurs because she was a swinger with her husband (her husband specializes in BDSM) even though she was also a professional porn star. Many porn stars start out as amateurs and are known swingers so it wasn't unusual to see Nina with so many of them. I am glad I have the HD version of Nina with Rachel Steele. It is a keeper.
 
I believe Laura’s husband appears in B-255 which is her train vid
Yes Laura's real life husband sits and talks with Laura between each stud coming to screw her. Jan had a good idea with these Train movies rather than have all the men on the bed at the same time. Those gangbang videos are hard to shoot, especially for an amateur Videographer like Jan's husband Mike was. The men block the camera 90% of the time and thus a train video made much more sense.
 
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