Lizzy Borden

Career

Janet Romano performed and directed for Extreme Associates, the company she ran with her then-husband Rob Zicari. The pair and the company were indicted in the Western District of Pennsylvania in 2003 over films sold by mail and online, and the case ran for six years, including a dismissal that the Third Circuit reversed. Both pleaded guilty in March 2009 to one count of conspiracy to distribute obscene material. On 1 July 2009 each was sentenced to one year and one day in prison plus two years of supervised release; CBS News reported her telling the court at sentencing that she had not known making pornography would destroy her life. She began the sentence in September 2009 and was released in May 2010.

Signature: One of very few performers ever imprisoned in the United States over the content of a film rather than over anything that happened on a set.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Studios

Beyond performing

• Director, Extreme Associates

Official links

No official accounts confirmed. We only list handles we have verified on an authoritative page — a guessed handle in this industry usually belongs to an impersonator.

Ranked alongside

• Kendra Sunderland
• Harry Reems
• Austin Wolf
• Douglas Wiederhold
• Ira Isaacs
• Jarec Wentworth

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · CBS News — “Extreme” Porn Couple Gets Prison Time for Violent Videos (1 July 2009) · Wikipedia — United States v. Extreme Associates, Inc.

Not yet confirmed:

• Date of birth not documented
• No reliable published credit total