Porn's latest overnight sensation was creating mainstream headlines well before filming her first scene—all thanks to the power of social media. What started off as a conscious marketing ploy for the 23-year-old finance intern formerly known as Paige A. Jennings catapulted her to instant notoriety. “Veronica Vain” is an ex-Wall Street neophyte and Fordham University graduate with a degree in finance that traded a potential career at the financial firm Lazard Asset Management for one in porn. And she has big plans for porn. Not just as a performer, either. Her end game is bigger than most up-and-coming XXX starlets.
Unlike the case of Belle Knox, the “Duke University freshman” who was forced to take ownership of her public outing by her classmates, Veronica Vain capitalized on outing herself, creating a precursor to the career she desired and tapping into a fan base even before she had a specific product to sell. She was a woman with a plan.
Vain boldly went where no finance intern had gone before, taking a series of racy selfies from her company's bathroom and posting them to her NSFW twitter account. (Said selfies have since been deleted). She knew she wasn't going to be in finance long and already had her sights set on porn, but before she left Vain created the perfect headline-grabbing scandal.