Greg Lansky

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Greg Lansky
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Born (1982-12-12) December 12, 1982 (age 41)
Paris, France
CitizenshipAmerican
Occupation(s)Artist, entrepreneur, investor
Years active2005–present
Known forFounder of Vixen Media Group
AwardsAVN Director of the Year
XRCO Best Web Director
Website greglansky.com

Greg Lansky (born December 12, 1982) is a French artist, entrepreneur and investor based in the United States. He has directed and produced a number of adult films he describes as art. [1] Lansky was a founder of Vixen Media Group in 2014, one of the largest companies in the adult entertainment business, and was its chief executive officer until January 2020 when he sold his full stake in the business. [2] [3] [4] In 2022, Lansky released the sculpture "Algorithmic Beauty". [5]

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Biography

Lansky was born on December 12, 1982, in Paris, France. [3] [1] He was raised Jewish with paternal Algerian-Jewish heritage, although his mother is Christian, therefore his community didn't fully consider him to be officially Jewish. He considers himself to be Jewish despite this. [6] Lansky attended marketing school in Paris and worked for various TV networks. [1] After dropping out of school, he briefly worked in television production in Paris and interned with a production company that produced reality TV shows. Shortly after he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career. [7]

Business ventures

In 2005, Lansky moved from Paris to Los Angeles and started working in adult entertainment industry. In 2006, Lansky was given a directorial contract. Lansky went on to direct many titles for New Sensations/Digital Sin until 2007. Lansky opened his production company and began directing and producing for the web-based adult network Reality Kings. Lansky stopped working for Reality Kings in 2014 to concentrate on creating his own company.

In 2014, Lansky founded Vixen Media Group and established its suite of award-winning studios: Vixen, Blacked, and Tushy. [8] In 2018, Lansky transitioned into running his company and producing rather than directing. [8]

Rolling Stone profiled Lansky and his "adult entertainment empire," and Ad Age called him "a master of SFW marketing." [9] [10] Kanye West revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that his favorite porn website was Lansky's Blacked. Lansky offered West the opportunity to direct an adult film, and the pair were photographed together backstage at the 2018 Pornhub Awards. [11] Several hip hop artists have showed association with Lansky and his brands including Post Malone, Lil Pump and Trippie Redd. [12] [13]

He sold his stake in Vixen Media Group in January 2020 to pursue other business ventures. [4]

In 2022, Lansky began releasing artwork online. In an ode to the Venus de Milo, "Algorithmic Beauty" is a six-foot eight-inch marble sculpture of a nude woman "covered in plastic-surgery scars, cellulite ripples across her posterior" holding up a mobile phone. His works have been considered divisive with some critics recognizing the insight into modern culture and the dark side of technology, while others dismiss it as superficial, crass and failing to make any substantial contribution to the discourse. [5] [14]

Recognition

Greg Lansky at the 2016 AVN Awards in Las Vegas, NV Greg Lansky at the 2016 AVN Awards in Las Vegas, NV.JPG
Greg Lansky at the 2016 AVN Awards in Las Vegas, NV

Lansky has been compared to Hugh Hefner and is credited with having "elevated the [adult] business as a whole." [12] He was called "the most-pirated man in porn," and the movies his company produced are "some of the most-watched adult film content in the world." [15] Lansky has been referred to as "The Spielberg of Porn" and his Instagram was called "the most NSFW" profile of all time by GQ France. [16] [17] [18]

Awards

During the 2018 AVN Awards, Lansky became the second man in history to ever win AVN Director of the Year three consecutive times. [19] [20]

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