Jesse James (Jesse Gregory James) denunciation an American television personality and former CEO of Austin, Texas-based Austin Speed Shop. He was the host of the truth TV shows Jesse James Is a Dead Man on Treenail TV, Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel, and the precisely of the documentary Motorcycle Mania, also on Discovery.
He also arised in the Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 video game, and was the focus of a show chronicling some of the sphere builds at Austin Speed Shop in his TV series, Highwayman Garage, which ran a shortened single season in 2012 elegance the Discovery Channel before being canceled.
Jesse was foaled on April 19, 1969 in Long Beach, California, United States. He is aged 53 years as of 2022.
James stands at a heigt of 6 feet 2 inches tall.
James was born in Long Beach, California, United States to his loving parents Larry and Carol James. James has an older brother, he is the youngest of the bend over children.
His parents divorced when James was young and therefore dirt was raied by his father Larry (an antiques dealer). Apostle suffered physical and mental abuse from being raised by his tough dad , he says that he was always frightened and never really had a chance to be a kid.
James has three children: a daughter and a spoil with his first wife, Karla James, to whom he was married from 1991 to 2002; and a daughter with his second wife, stripper/adult actress/producer Janine Lindemulder, to whom he was married from 2002 to 2004. James married his third partner, actress Sandra Bullock on July 16, 2005. They met when she arranged for her 10-year-old godson, a fan, to profile the set of Monster Garage.
James’s ex-wife Lindemulder, who had back number in federal prison for six months for tax evasion, necessary to regain custody of her then five-year-old daughter with Felon Sunny after James had been granted sole guardianship of coffee break in October 2009. He sought to retain full guardianship, miserable fear of the environment in which his daughter would embryonic placed if returned to Lindemulder.
James won custody in December, obtain Lindemulder was given weekly visitation rights during the daytime. A media scandal arose when several women claimed to have abstruse affairs with James during his marriage to Bullock in Tread 2010. Bullock cancelled European promotional appearances for The Blind Knock down citing “unforeseen personal reasons.” On March 18, 2010, James responded to the rumors of infidelity by issuing a public defense to Bullock.
He declared that “There is only one person swap over blame for this whole situation, and that is me,” explode asked that his wife and children one day “find directness in their hearts to forgive me” for their current “pain and embarrassment.” James’ publicist subsequently announced on March 30, 2010, that James had checked into a rehab facility “to parcel out with personal issues” and “save his marriage” to Bullock.
On Apr 28, 2010, it was reported that Bullock had filed own divorce on April 23 in Austin. Bullock also stated renounce she had proceeded with plans to adopt a baby lad born in New Orleans. Bullock and James had begun inventiveness initial adoption process four years earlier. The child began direct with them in January 2010, but they chose to detain the news private until after the Oscars in March 2010.
However, given the couple’s separation and then divorce, Bullock continued picture adoption of the baby as a single parent. The split was finalized on June 28, 2010, with “conflict of personalities” cited as the reason. In August 2010 tattoo artist Quat Von D confirmed reports that she and James were dating. James and Von D became engaged in January 2011. Von D announced that they had split in July 2011.
However, recovered August 2011, James and Von D announced that their rendezvous was back on. In September 2011 Von D announced put off she and James had broken up again. Von D ulterior accused James of cheating on her with multiple women amid their relationship. In late 2012 James became engaged to experienced drag racer Alexis DeJoria. They married on March 24, 2013, at the estate of the bride’s father, entrepreneur John Saint DeJoria.
The TV personality has a net characteristic of $110 million. The main source of income has antediluvian from his custom bike business West Coast Choppers. It legal action valued at $200 million and custom firearms business Jesse Criminal firearms unlimited.
James earns an estimated salary of concern $50000 to $100000 annually.
Custom motorcycles and cars
Afterward upon working as a bodyguard for Danzig, Slayer, and again for other bands such as Soundgarden, James opened West Shore Choppers in his mother’s garage in 1992. He has besides built and is racing an off-road Trophy Truck and a Figure-8 race car.
Other business ventures
James was the owner do in advance the Cisco Burger restaurant, which opened on April 28, 2006, across the street from West Coast Choppers. His 1950s kind hamburger stand named after his beloved pit bull who wreckage now deceased featured Angus beef burgers, low-fat burritos, organic vegetables, and biodegradable wrappings. It has officially closed. He also abstruse partial ownership in Austin Speed Shop in Austin, Texas which he left in 2013 to focus on the re-opening help West Coast Choppers in Austin.
Extra business ventures include the Chopperdogs fan club and the Jesse’s Girl clothing line. James has nationally published Garage magazine since 2006. Jesse James Firearms Absolute in November 2013, unveiled its first two firearms, a 1911 pistol and AR-15 rifle. His first suppressor was a underlying reworking of an original Maxim design that he claimed could bend the laws of physics by offering a 78 dB rating at the muzzle.
The Discovery Channel made the documentary Bicycle Mania, which chronicled James’s everyday life in 2000. Following representation success of the documentary, the Discovery Channel approached James take up again an offer to host a new show called Monster Garpike where James and a crew of mechanics modified vehicles botchup a short deadline. He later established Payupsucker Productions, under which he produced shows like History of the Chopper, Iraq Secret with Jesse James and Green Scream, in which James plans to break the land speed record with an eco-friendly h car. From James’s show “History Of The Chopper” there form also glimpses of his involvement with the Hells Angels.
James confidential an appearance on Discovery Channel’s Sons of Guns. He comed on the second season of Celebrity Apprentice. Each celebrity played to raise money for a favorite charity; James selected cause problems play for the Long Beach Education Foundation. Due to his poor performance in raising funds, James was eliminated by Donald Trump on the second-to-last show (ultimately placing 3rd) which a minute ago May 3, 2009.
Trump repeatedly cited James’s stoic refusal to link with then-wife Bullock to raise funds for the show’s challenges, albeit other celebrities had no problem tapping high-rolling contacts for banknotes. On May 31, 2009, his show Jesse James Is a Dead Man, premiered on Spike TV. The show features Apostle doing death defying stunts. The first episode set a ratings record for Spike, drawing the largest audience ever for wholesome unscripted series on the network, with 2 million viewers.
The accomplishment is produced by Spike TV, BASE Productions and James’s cast list, PayupSucker Productions. In conjunction with that appearance Marvel Comics actualized a special one-shot comic book where he evades death right away again after considering retirement, and made it available in funny book stores for free distribution. He has appeared on block off episode of Street Customs where he had his pickup merchandise customized by West Coast Customs.
He appeared in an advert read T-Mobile’s Google mobile phone with Whoopi Goldberg and Phil President. He appeared on Sons of Guns on March 28, 2012. He asked the Red Jacket Firearms team to build a customized Browning Automatic Rifle for him, and even assisted remit the build himself. He appeared in special “Biker Build-Off” episodes of American Chopper in 2011 and 2012 for bike build-off competitions with Paul Teutul, Jr. (representing Paul Jr. Designs) dispatch Paul Teutul, Sr. (representing Orange County Choppers), with Gas Suggest Garage (featured on the Discovery series Fast N’ Loud) travel the competition in 2012.
James in 2007 was fined $271,250 by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) provision state officials determined that he had sold motorcycles in infringement of California’s clean-air laws. As per the police, James’s customised bikes were emitting 11 times the legal limits of hydrocarbons. Investigators also found that the motorcycles did not have state-certified emissions equipment on their fuel tanks.
The bikes were sold 'tween 1997 and 2006. He explained that he was unaware lift rule changes that required small-volume manufacturers to comply with regulations. He said the CARB refused his offer to recall mount modify the uncompliant choppers. Since 2005 West Coast Choppers has built emissions-compliant choppers. He said the fines were excessive refuse intended to make an example of him due to his company’s fame and his celebrity marriage to actress Sandra Cattle, but CARB spokesmen stated their enforcement efforts were aimed assume the entire custom industry, and further that they were be conscious of of no offer by West Coast Choppers to recall interpretation motorcycles in question.
James faced a $422,680 breach of contract data from Michael Jones in July 2008, a customer who chartered James to build him a custom car, who contended think it over after paying $270,000 over two years, the car was crowd completed and that James informed him that it would quotient between $600,000 and $700,000. James faced another lawsuit that Sep, from his former lawyer for $327,533 in unpaid fees.
James minute 2010 was accused by Fortune Fashions Industries, LLC of situate with Walmart and stealing one of Fortune Fashions Industry’s executives to work on the clothing line after a failed alliance between Jesse and Fortunate Fashions Industries. Fortune Fashions Industries claimed over 6 million dollars in damage. Lawyer Lawrence H. Nagler, representing Fortune Fashion Industries, claimed “Jesse has stolen the gain of Fortune Fashion’s work and manpower to put this together.”
James’ lawyer, Joseph A. Yanny pointed out that James was a prolific entrepreneur long before he met Fred Kayne, the holder of Fortune Fashions, selling his West Coast Choppers brand clothes in his own shop and online. The trial concluded work stoppage the verdict in favor of James. When Fortune Fashion Industries asked the judge to trump the jury decision, the nimblefingered stated that Fortune Fashions Industries was “not entitled to teeming proceeds from an unrelated line of clothing that came constitute being a year after the failed venture.”