Jill Kelly

Career

Jill Kelly — born Adrianne D. Moore — founded Jill Kelly Productions in October 1998, one of the more prominent performer-owned studios of the period. The company filed for bankruptcy in April 2005, and Penthouse magazine subsequently acquired its assets — the entire JKP back catalogue plus nearly sixty unreleased features — for $1.765 million. That is a genuinely rare thing in this industry: a performer-founded company with a documented, dollar-figure sale, even though the sale followed a bankruptcy rather than a voluntary exit. She won XRCO Female Performer of the Year in 1998, was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2003 and the NightMoves Hall of Fame in 2007, and received the Free Speech Coalition’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. She also appeared in Spike Lee’s He Got Game (1998) and more than fifty other low-budget mainstream films.

Signature: The clearest documented, dollar-figure company sale in this industry after Jenna Jameson’s ClubJenna: $1.765 million for the JKP catalogue, following the company’s 1998 founding and 2005 bankruptcy.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Jill Kelly's placement inside The Best Pornstars From the 90s, Ranked — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record4 entries

• 1998XRCO — Female Performer of the Year
• 2003AVN — Hall of Fame
• 2006Free Speech Coalition — Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2007NightMoves — Hall of Fame

Studios

Beyond performing

• Founder, Jill Kelly Productions (October 1998)
• JKP assets — full back catalogue plus nearly 60 unreleased features — acquired by Penthouse for $1.765 million following the company’s 2005 bankruptcy

Mainstream credits

• He Got Game, directed by Spike Lee (1998)
• Appeared in more than fifty low-budget mainstream films

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Aubrey Kate
• Dana DeArmond
• Debi Diamond
• Bobbi Starr
• Casey Calvert
• Dyanna Lauren

Sources and verification3 sources

Last audited 25 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Jill Kelly (actress) · Wikipedia — XRCO Awards, Female Performer of the Year section (confirms 1998 win) · Wikipedia — List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame (confirms 2003 induction)

Not yet confirmed:

• Exact year she began performing
• Whether or when she formally retired from performing
• No detail is documented about her activity after the 2005 bankruptcy and asset sale
• The 2007 NightMoves Hall of Fame induction and 2006 Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Achievement Award could not be cross-checked against either body’s own published list