UPDATE: From EURWEB – SECOND Fishburne Porno Surfaces! Story HERE
UPDATE: From TMZ – Laurence Fishburne‘s daughter tells TMZ that the legendary actor is “very hurt” over her new XXX career path …
(Of course he’s hurt. It’s the only thing he could have been.)
TMZ story HERE.
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There are hundreds of jokes that could be made here but none of them would
really be funny. Montana Fishburne is the daughter of Hajna Moss-Fishburne and celebrated, world-famous actor Laurence Fishburne. Montana in her effort to launch her career in porn did her best to embarrass and hurt her father…and to that end, probably succeeded.
What she gained in the process, Mo’Kelly isn’t sure. What she lost, is too much for words to adequately express and convey.
Montana Fishburne is obviously angry at her father, in ways probably not easily understood by you, me or anyone else of the general public. Odds are, she’s been mad for quite some time. This clearly wasn’t an overnight decision. This was cold, calculated and meant to irreparably injure. There’s no other way to look at it. Some readers of The Mo’Kelly Report are likely jumping up and down right now, swearing Mo’Kelly has absolutely basis to make such a claim.
How wrong they would be…
Montana Fishburne’s new “career” as a porn “star” reeks of an untold level of contempt, disrespect and utter disregard for her father. Instead of going the Nicolas Cage route (who hid his relationship to uncle Francis Ford Coppola), Montana took the more unconventional approach of launching a “movie” career… in pornography, trumpeting her REAL name and famous “A-List actor” father…(as advertised on the very packaging).
(Yes, she goes by the stage name “Chippy D” but has conducted interviews, acknowledging her famous father and the box promotion of the video highlights the fact that she’s the daughter of an “A-List” celebrity.)
We can reasonably assume Laurence Fishburne has no interest in obliquely linking his name, career (and daughter) to the porn industry. There’s ONLY one emotional response to be had by Fishburne…Laurence that is.
Mo’Kelly has no children but I can imagine the untold sadness this would bring any father who loves his daughter. Anger? Of course. But the sadness must be tremendous.
It must be unspeakable.
Again, such decisions by Montana reek of an untold level of contempt, disrespect and utter disregard for her father. Who is to say how and why it came to this point? And honestly, with the exception of something ostensibly unforgivable/criminal on the part of the father, this is ALL on the daughter.
Every bit of it.
Montana has no “career” without throwing the family name and father’s celebrity under the bus. This was personal and premeditated…and it saddens Mo’Kelly to no end. I can’t even fathom how Montana’s father must feel.
If your first step to “celebrity” is a sex tape, promoted in part by a parent’s famous surname…you should be ashamed and it can’t be said any clearer. It is not mitigated by any starring role in a future reality TV show or any amount of royalties or residuals. It’s shameful…period.
(Yes, that means you too Kim Kardashian…just FYI. But Kimbo is a different discussion for a different day.)
But Mo’Kelly digresses…
Montana would have you and I believe that the “only” path available to movie stardom was on her back? Really? Honestly?! This was her “best” option available?
“Shame” is probably not a word in Montana’s vocabulary, given her latest behavior, but it should be at the top of her vocabulary study list in between her “movie scenes.”
Teenagers have been known to lash out at their parents since God created adolescence. In basic terms, this is nothing new. All of us know somebody who intentionally wrecked “Daddy’s car” or smashed “Mommy’s china set” in a fit of post-pubescent rage. Just because “Daddy” is a world-famous actor in this instance, it does not exempt the family from such misfortune.
The worst part is that in less than a decade from today, Montana AT BEST will be washed up, used up…and probably finally realizing that the only person she irrevocably damaged was herself. Yes, Montana Fishburne is an “adult” and free to live her life as she pleases, including disrespecting herself to the nth degree.
But…
If Montana is “adult” enough (pun intended) to star in pornography, then she should be “adult” enough to endure the rightfully-earned criticism that comes with defecating on her father in the process of launching her career. This genie can’t ever be put back in the bottle and no father deserves this.
No father…
I wish I could be there the exact moment Montana eventually realizes this truth.
25 responses to “No Father Deserves What Montana Fishburne Did…No Father”
I think it boils down to mental illness and drug use.
Mo,
In our non-stop 24 hour new cycle lives, I've become a bit jaded to things, but this story about Montana Fishburne broke my heart and literally brought tears to my eyes.
When I first read about it, I flat refused to believe that it could possibly be true. My 52 year old brain could not grasp how a 19 year old young lady who's father is a famous Hollywood A-list star, would do anything EXCEPT attend a well known or prestigious university, obtain a degree, maybe even two and then carve out a wonderful career for herself.
My brain could not comprehend how a 19 year old black woman could, would or even should identify more with Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, than Michelle Obama, our nation's first black First Lady, or the hundreds of successful, talented, educated, intelligent black women who did not resort to porn as a means to a rewarding, prosperous way of life.
My brain was screaming out, does Montana Fishburne not realize that the doors to even Z-list Hollywood are NAILED SHUT to porn stars?
And then my brain started to hurt, as I wondered why a young lady with so many possibilities in her life would instead decide to trade on her body in the most degrading way possible.
I can only assume that no one has sat Montana down and explained to her in cold hard terms that while she is a pretty but average looking young lady with a famous daddy, that unfortunately Montana herself simply does not have the looks or the cross over appeal to a white audience that her idol Kim Kardashian has.
I'll also venture a guess that Montana hasn't been told that there is a world of difference between starring in an amateur home made sex tape with someone's boyfriend, which is meant for private entertainment and then "mysteriously" {wink-wink} ends up being leaked to the public. As apposed to willingly starring in a hard core porno which is being marketed for public entertainment. Even in 2010, perceptions still carry a great deal of weight in our society.
Montana Fishborne is obviously so caught up in chasing the bright false lights of celebrity-dom, that she doesn't spend much time reading. If she did, then a quick read of Lawrence C. Ross Jr.'s book, "Money Shot: The Wild Nights and Lonely Days Inside the Black Porn Industry" ~ would very likely prevent this young lady from booking an advanced date with Oprah's couch in about 2 years time, where she will cry and share her sad tale of woe about her downward spiral into the horrors of the porn industry.
In modern American life, second, third and fourth acts are simply normal (Re: Britney Spears among others).
There is nothing to say that this young lady doesn't learn life lessons from this which she goes on to teach others through future acts.
This could all turn out just fine in the end.
Walt,
Nobody is saying her life is over. But I am saying that what she did here can't be undone in terms of harm to her father. Her father was not a willing participant in this and her father's reputation is the only one really being abused. Montana didn't have one at all. And that's the point. This is ONLY a story because of who her father is and his likely non-approval. Women go into porn every single day. But THIS particular woman went into porn to become a celeb socialite like Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton (other sex tape "celebrities"), when she already had a path to legitimate success by way of her father.
Think about what Will Smith has done for Jaden and Willow, just for starters. This is less about Montana and more about Laurence and that's the point. Montana clearly has no clue or care about who she's hurt in this and how. For her even to seem "surprised" that her father is hurt (per the TMZ article) is disingenuous to me. She's not an idiot. She knew. She had to know.
I'm just saying, this will follow her for a lifetime and dare I say she'll never receive the "acclaim" of Paris or KK…for whatever THAT is worth.
It boils down to self-esteem… of which Montana has zilch. If she had ANY, she would have used her family name to promote a legitimate (yes, I said it) acting career. The Fishburne name alone would have gotten her meetings. Of course, she would have had to bring more to the audition table than oohs, ahhs, a coy look, and a nice pair of fake ta-tas. Yes, Mo, it is intentionally hurtful and it REEKS of father-daughter relationship damage that is now evident for the world to see – literally and figuratively.
But she will hurt no one but herself in the long run. You don't get away with doing things like that to others. I would have been so ashamed to do something like this and I had NO resources near what this young girl has. KK and Paris should be ashamed of themselves because they brought this on too. White women are supposedly "cute" in their mess, but not others! Montana will learn soon enough.
Unless she mortally wounds him, she can undo this damage.
A hug and an I'm sorry, next week or five years from now, will melt it all away.
Actually she can't, the video and the internet stories never go away. I didn't say that the relationship couldn't be repaired either. I said that this damage can't be undone. In the way that you can't read a Chris Brown story without an allusion to Rihanna and his arrest, this too is on the permanent record.
Fair or unfair…that's just the way it is. Like I said, it's not the end of the world or her life…just something that can't be undone. You can't unmake the movie and you can't unmake the landslide of negative press. Will the story die down? Of course, but its imprint will always remain.
The damage can and will die down.
In this drive-by world in which we live, people will quickly move on to the next attraction.
And Daddy will always be waiting for the chance to restore the relationship.
Daddy's don't stop being Daddies because their daughter makes bad life choices.
Again Walt, you're talking about restoring the relationship. Nowhere did I say that the relationship was irretrievably broken.
Let me put it in a different set of terms. If it took Vanessa Williams more than 20 years to put some Hustler photos in the rear view mirror…what does it say for an "actress" who used her father's celebrity to launch a porn career?
Exactly.
This is about social stigma…not whether her father had stopped loving her. Clearly nobody thinks or is arguing such. Not unlike someone convicted of a felony…you're not in jail forever. But no doubt, that felony affects your future job prospects forever.
The metaphor applies here.
THIS is part of the lasting legacy…and mind you this is only a music video…
http://bossip.com/273077/new-brian-pumper-music-v…
No Mo, I'm talking about the whole thing.
In a year nobody on Planet Earth will care that she did this, except those closest to her, and they will either adapt or they will be ready when she is to leave it all behind.
These ain't the old days, and "stigma", for better or worse, is not as lasting as it once was.
There's just too much else going on.
Whether anyone “cares” is different from the damage done. Have you not realized, Montana has pretty much closed more doors than that have opened? You do know she loses most if not all of her opportunities to become a legitimate actress because of the inevitable association which comes along with her?
Blowing over in the media is not the same as undoing the damage.
Rev KJ. The answer to the question "why didn't she go to her father?" may be one people don't want to hear. Her parents divorced when she was young. Dad remarries soon after. Not sure what the relationship entailed. If he was a bad father, then it may make sense.
"A bad father?" Nothing short of something criminal explains or justifies this. She's an emancipated adult.
I had a bad relationship with both my parents. I NEVER thought about doing what this girl did. I moved on and made a new life for myself that didn't damage my reputation or theirs. In the end we reconciled and before they died we were on good terms. Let me be clear…..her father has garnered the sympathy of many people, she has garnered no respect and damaged her reputation. It will take her YEARS to put this behind her. Whenever her name is mentioned in the future, nothing good will follow. I pity her and feel for her father and mother. Also in the drug world the name "Chippie" is given to a woman who in her addiction will do ANYTHING to get what she needs…her next fix. She looks likes shes on something and it ain't aspirin!
Something else that hasn't been mentioned…if it was Montana's eventual goal to be a legitimate and credible mainstream star, she had to know that her father has more power to block that happening than she would have to make it happen going forward from this moment. Let's remember that Laurence Fishburne is a very powerful man in Hollywood.
This could never have been about becoming a legitimate star in Hollywood. In the end, if Laurence Fishburne "refused" to help with Montana's career prior to this moment, surely he wouldn't have after this moment.
And the idea that “Once a porn star, permanent A-List ban” is, respectfully, not true.
There are more than one example of women who were deeply in the profession, left it all behind and were permitted to claim entertainment legitimacy.
I won’t say “A list” but certainly “B list”.
Mo, this is sad. I don’t even know what to say. If she truly wanted to break into acting, why didn’t she go to her father? Why do this to herself?
Walt,
I have to respond to this comment that you made ~ "These ain’t the old days, and “stigma”, for better or worse, is not as lasting as it once was."
I beg to differ…
Despite Jenna Jameson's so-called mainstream celebrity status, she is still and always will be, referred to as a "former porn star". Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian may has the word "celebutante" attached to their names, but two other words "sex tape" is generally in the same or the next sentence.
We are a culture that defines people, either by their jobs or by some act that they have committed.
No matter what Montana Fishburne does after she moves on from making XXX adult movies, she will always have the tag "former porn star" following her name, make no mistake about that.
And Jenna Jameson is by no means a mainstream "actress"…Traci Lords at best became a C-list actress. There aren't really any examples of porn crossover success. Not the success that Montana Fishburne is hoping for. She could do C-level success simply by her father's nepotism. Clearly she didn't want to work for it and had an axe to grind.
The fact that this story broke on her father's birthday adds more credence to the idea that she deep issues with him.
Brian…I had no idea that this broke on his birthday. That's tremendous information.
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