Janice Griffith

About Janice Griffith

Janice is a Berlin, Germany-based adult model, pornstar, internet personality, and entrepreneur.

Samantha Schimmel was born to parents with a history in law enforcement and was raised by them in Queens, New York. In her younger years, she attended a private Catholic school and went to high school in Queens as well as in Long Island, New York, where her biological father was staying at the time. Her mother is a Muslim and she has stated that she considers herself “culturally Muslim”, even despite facing constant online harassments for her work from Muslims.

Her father is of German, Italian, and Irish descent. Ethnically/racially, she has described herself as Multiracial and half-Indian; her mother was from Guyana, but she says her "ethnicity is a gray area, for anyone who doesn't know me." She has declared on multiple occasions, "I'm not Latina, guys! I'm Indo-Caribbean!" A popular video clip of hers described her with the tagline, "Egyptian Cutie with a Tight Little Booty."

Janice Griffith entered the adult industry in 2013 after she had just turned eighteen with the intention of doing just a single scene with James Dean. However, she decided to stay in the industry owing to the pay that it offers and owing to the fact that it involves sex, which she has stated that she loves.

Janice was featured in a photoshoot with Dan Bilzerian for Hustler magazine in April 2014, which involved Bilzerian throwing her off the roof of a house and into a pool. She fell short of the pool, hitting the edge, and broke her foot. The 18-year-old asked Bilzerian for $85,000 for her injuries, which was rejected. In December 2014 she filed a lawsuit against both Hustler and Bilzerian. Bilzerian's attorney responded that she was under contract for the event by Hustler, that Hustler hired Bilzerian for the event, and that Bilzerian was not at fault. In January 2015, Hustler's attorney claimed that the toss was an "act of God" and stated that it was not the publisher's fault that she suffered injuries as a result.

In 2017, Janice, together with several other individuals, founded SpankChain, a blockchain-based website and online payment system specializing in offering payment solutions to sex workers in the adult industry.

Janice has posed for 304 covers, 103 photosets, and 201 videos.