Discussion: Where Did Laurence Fishburne Go Wrong?
The news about Laurence Fishburne’s daughter 19 year-old daughter Montana just gets worse and worse. The young woman revealed on her father’s birthday that she has aspirations to be famous like Kim Kardashian by making a sex tape. Now a video has been released showing an interview with a woman, NeNe who claims not only is Montana an emerging porn star, but she’s also a prostitute.
See videos 1, 2, and 3 here:
There are just so many questions. Where is Montana’s mother? And where did Laurence Fishburne go wrong?
This is obviously a cry for help. What daughter of a major Hollywood movie star has to take the sex tape route? If Kim Kardashian parents were superstars, it is less likely that she would have intentionally made a sex tape as she has been alleged of doing. If Paris Hilton had half a working brain, her billion dollar inheritance could have secured her a more reputable occupation. Seems Nicky Hilton got the hint.
And let’s be clear, Kim Kardashian can go from sex tape to reality star to a woman behind her own fragrance brand, if a Black woman takes that route, she is labeled a whore and met with nothing less than public abomination and ridicule.
Reports detail that Montana’s XXX movie will be pushed up to a August 10th release. The film will be released by Vivid Entertainment–the same company that distributed both Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton’s sex tape.
In the most recent statement from Montana, the misled girl says her father is less than thrilled. “I heard he’s mad at me, but I haven’t spoken to him yet.”
Surprisingly Montana is certain everything will work out with her father. “I feel pretty confident that I can work things out with him,” claims Montana. “I think he wants to support me in everything I do and though he sees this now as a negative, I believe in time he will view it as a positive.”
What do you think happened here? Is Laurence Fishburne at all responsible? Or did Montana simply fall into the wrong crowd?
44 Comments – Add Yours
Latest Articles
Most Popular This Week
Recent Comments
-
elaine on
Dear H&M: Thank You For Reminding Us Beauty Doesn’t Stop At Size 6
@rlizak While I find some of your reasoning flawed (who is running 5 miles without breating hard?!?) I agree with you. While it is...
-
H on
On Plate Fixing and Other Wifely Duties
When you're with a good guy and he's appreciative, it's fine. When a person expects you to do things simply because you're a woman and...
-
Andrea on
When You’re A White Straight Comic, Bigotry’s All About the Joke
My thoughts as well.
-
Crystal on
#PayYourBillsDiddy? Photographer Takes to Twitter to Get Diddy to Pay Up
I know a few people who have worked for Diddy and they did not get paid, or they got paid late. He is notorious for this. Some people,...
Girlfriend is going to get her “Nigger Wake-up Call”!!!!!!!!!! Only in America can a white woman get D-cup implants, pose for Playboy and become a major star on a hit TV series (Pam Anderson, Jenny McCarthy)and get endorsements. If a black woman goes the same route, she’s a whore and a slut! Kim K. is a white girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She whored herself in a video with Ray-J and next thing you know she’s on the cover of magazines, dating Reggie Bush (like he would date a sista if she were to have done the same thing), starting a line of ‘something’ ( I don’t care because I won’t be buying jack that she sells!!!!!!!!!!).
Miss Montana should realize that she already has entrée into the movie industry: her dad is Laurence Fishburn!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sure there are plenty of folks who think that KK and PH are whores, yet that hasn’t stop them from being targeted by companies for endorsements, etc. I need to stop…sh*t really makes me angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m doing the slow clap for this post. Absolutely right.
Are their famous black porn stars? If so do they ever achieve half the fame or income of someone like Jenna Jameson? Do they ever cross over? Um, no. She needs to get it together.
Chris Rock said it best, as a father of two girls his main goal was to keep his daughters off the pole. There comes a time when a child becomes an adult and they do make their own decisions. As a parent you set the foundation and it is up to the child to take it to the next level. I know you cant blame Laurence Fishburne but if this girl won a scholarship to an ivy league school we would all be saying what a great job he did. He and the mother went wrong somewhere because she is so young to be making such detrimental decisions.
This is true
Has anyone considered the possibility that she may have been a victim of sexual abuse, and this is how she copes/lashes out? Lets be honest here, the majority of porn stars and prostitutes are sexual abuse survivors, and promiscuity is one of the many self-destructive things they turn to to deal with the trauma. If Montana is nothing more than an exhibitionist, then why was she arrested last year for prostituting on a STREET CORNER?
Perhaps, what she needs is to be closely looked at, rather than be shunned and reviled. She’s only 19, there’s no way she can definitively know in her heart of hearts that this dangerous and potentially self-destructive path is the one she wants to follow. She is acting out against something, and someone needs to let her know that whatever pain she’s hiding inside, she needs to let it out rather than do this to herself. She will regret this career path if she goes through with it.
I think it’s difficult to answer that’s question not fully knowing everything about this young lady and her relationship with either parent. Kids can be rebellious and we have so many young people that want everything right now,but they don’t necessary want to work hard to get it. So it may be just her way of making a lot of money quickly and saying she grown and she can do whatever she wants.
We don’t know the relational dynamics between the young sister and her parents, so therefore we can’t ask the question where her father or her mother for that matter went wrong. Legally this young woman is an adult and she is of consent…doesn’t mean that she is going to make wise choices obviously. Unfortunately, for a lot of young women, the Kim’s and Khloe’s and Paris’s and Kat Stack’s of the universe are where it’s at right now. These women are famous for doing what? NOTHING…that’s what! The end result for young people right now is being famous and that is it and that is all. I can be as talented as a shoe lace, but dammit, I want to be famous. As you can see with Montana Fishburne….this is where wanting to be famous leads you! My heart and prayers go out to this young sister, because it is painfully apparent that either she doesn’t have wise counsel around her, or she simply doesn’t want to have wise counsel around her. I see this everyday in my line of work as a counselor in a shelter for mother’s with children and how they are so thirsty for affection, love, attention etc. Please have compassion for this young woman, don’t name call her but pray for her because she really needs it. She is going to look at this twenty years from now and realize her mistake.
Even though people say the cliche’ “children are the reflection of their parents” I’ve never thought that to be true. In the “end” children make their own decisions either resembling their upbringing or bursting out and down something completely different that what they were taught.
This does not make Laurence Fishburne a bad father, nor is it any reflection of his other children or his parenting skills.
Montana is an adult, and these are the choices she is choosing to make, without the thought of her parents. It is sad that a Black woman that takes this route is labeled a whore but vice versa all is forgiven and blah blah blah.
But that’s our problems since integration we’ve being trying to do what “they” do, and where does it get us? No where. It’s not even her route to take, but we’re never satisfied till we’re following someone else.
I feel so sad for her father, she has a brother (same mother) and a little sister that Laurence has with his current wife. She hasn’t thought about family…very selfish move.
When the moral of the woman is down (which it is in general) so goes the state of the nation (something like that…srry)
SMH. They will never let her live this video down. When she does come to her senses and may want to do something different, be it college or a career this will always follow her and I wish she’d thought of that.
His mistake might have been not giving her enough attention and buying her love, maybe. BTW that is a very good question, where the hell is the mother?
if shes happy, shes happy. why does being prostitute mean you are just a bad person.That is not the story, she is a human too and if this is something she likes doing then leave her alone. Prostitutes have been around for ages
Tutu, I agree completely. We really have to stop denigrating sex workers as if they were arms dealers or something. While sex work would not be for me (too much acting) I’ve met drug-free, happy sex workers, no pimps who are just living their lives. More power to them.
Are you SERIOUSLY condoning prostitution???!
Dang, guess the world is coming to an end.
And this was her best friend?
Ok…I read an interview she did recently and she said, and I quote “I’ve always wanted to do porn”. So there, this is something she wanted to do and now she’s at an age where she can do it.
“And let’s be clear…if a Black woman takes that route, she is labeled a whore and met with nothing less than public abomination and ridicule.”
******************************************************************************************************************
Why is it often so necessary to pull this “If a BW did XYZ” line?
This is defeatist, always expecting the worst, and sooo unattractive.
Who is the most successful and well-known Miss America ever? Vanessa Williams!
This is a woman who weathered extreme controversy and being ‘de-throned’ to came out on top; and, this happened way back in the day before I was born when things like nude pictures with another woman (lesbian) was considered way more scandalous and the end of a career.
Williams got the last laugh all the way to the bank because she went on to have #1 songs, a platinum album, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award nominations, successful appearances on Broadway, movie roles and spots on top TV shows like Ugly Betty.
I usually agree with your comments but I’ am on the fence with this one. I’ am a huge fan of Vanessa Williams but she is an exception to the rule due to the fact that after the pics she left the spotlight for awhile and she has raw talent making people drawn to her aside from the scandal so that was one of the many reasons she bounced back.
Plus, Vanessa Williams didn’t willingly go out to show her photos, so in her case they were in fact leaked. And yes, the media and some people went in on her at the time and tried to ruin her but she came back swinging and people noticed her for her voice, beauty and appeal as an actress. So due to her talent, people stuck by her which helped her transition. She was embarrassed and did everything to distance herself from scandal to make a name for herself on her own merit so people can know her, not Vanessa Williams with the nude pics, so that is why she is an exception. Montana Fishburn case is odd hence why she is being met with distaste because we really don’t know her for anything but her dad while Vanessa Williams have tons of credits to her name that overshadows the pics.
But if Vanessa Williams didn’t have that mega talent, I doubt she would have bounced back and survived the way she did in Hollywood.
I see where you’re coming from, Binky, and I think we might actually be agreeing for the most part. If selling @ss is all one has to offer then many will label that individual a ho whether they are black, white or brown!
Vanessa took her hits and was criticized, humiliated, name-called etc. but she had true talent and something to offer/put on the table and was given a chance (by the industry and public) to ultimately rise above and succeed. I once read that Hugh Heffner (Playboy) was first offered those pictures and turned them down as he respected that she was the first AA Miss America and didn’t want to ‘sully’ that…and I suppose I basically disagree with any notion that all whites are evil devils out to drag every BW down.
Sooo many women have overcome a lot of mess and I just don’t see any value in constant hyperbole, seeing the glass as ½ empty or always being defeatist and chalking everything up to race (instead of believing in one’s self, talent, hard work, sacrifice etc.) because it’s a cop-out that just doesn’t get anyone anywhere. I’m not the type that always looks for the worst and believes anything is possible.
Another thing that struck me was some people acting as if there are lots of Jenna Jamesons when there are not…as if all white porn chicks come out unscathed and go on to success and $10 million movie deals. Most porn ‘actresses’ of any and all races simply end up turned out, burned out and dug out at the end of the day. And, heck, even Jenna Jameson will never have a successful career as a serious actress and will probably always be seen as dysfunctional, low-class, nasty etc.
@Akai
You do have great points. Because I look at Jenna Jamison as someone who is an expectation to the rule as well and broke the mold of porn stars if you will because before her most people recognize and know male porn stars by their names as oppose to the women. Sure they may recognize the woman’s face or body but they rarely know them by name, Jenna Jamison broke the mold and flipped it the industry around (be it for better or worse the jury is still out on that point…lol) but their aren’t a lot of Jenna Jamison around in porn that made a lot of money and basically made a brand out of themselves whether they are white, brown or black. I watched her special on E! and she basically said she still gets death threats and nasty letters by the dozens from people so she didn’t get a pass either.
So I agree, you really can’t pigeonhole black women and say black women can’t do x,y and z in this situation because the favor isn’t really in white women’s corner either. Montana used Kim K as an example but the reason Kim K got away with it was because she had a different type of beauty and likeability that made her stand out from the Paris Hilton’s of the world and of course with a famous step dad and Ryan Seacreast in her corner she could turn it around. It basically comes down to whether the said individual has talent that they can raise above it, have a famous person in their corner or if the public is interested in them and that they have a certain appeal. However, their are a lot of people who don’t like Kim K at the end of the day so she didn’t raise above it either because her tape is brought back in her face.
But Vanessa Williams like other Hollywood famous women who have questionable past, like Cameron Diaz are famous and pushed their scandal aside because they distanced themselves from it, use their talent and worked hard so people see them just from them not the person with the shady past like Montana and other misguided women who try to use these incidents as a jumping stone for a career when most of the time it simply doesn’t work. But I get you because I’ am guilty of it myself, sometimes we focus on race instead of looking at the overall picture by a case by case basis.