As she reached her 40s, Gina Rodriguez wanted to get out of dirty movies, but she didn’t know exactly how.
Only after the extramarital affairs of golf champion Tiger Woods came to light in 2009 did she stumble into a new career.
Her new enterprise is a talent agency that began with one of Woods’ former mistresses, Joslyn James, and continued through last month’s Mistresses Makeover Day at the Newport Beach, Calif., offices of plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Niccole.
Rodriguez’s business is DD Entertainment, and it specializes in remaking the public image of people — especially the ex-mistresses of celebrities — who have had a brush with notoriety.
In the beginning, Rodriguez didn’t know she was starting a new business. She thought she was just helping a friend.
Before long though, she was working with a list of semi-celebrities that reads like a Who’s Who of recent tabloid journalism.
The list of past and present Rodriguez clients is long and complex. It includes alleged White House party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who appeared on “Real Housewives of D.C.”; Michael Lohan, father of actress Lindsey Lohan; Jeff Miranda, former boyfriend of Snooki from “Jersey Shore”; and Kate Major, the former Star magazine reporter who, Rodriguez said, was linked to Jon Gosselin and now is engaged to Michael Lohan.
That’s in addition to five reported mistresses of Woods, one mistress of actor Mel Gibson, and three of Jesse James’, the one-time cable TV staple and former bad-boy husband of Oscar winner Sandra Bullock.
The first, though, was James, a
porn actress and Rodriguez friend who was plunged into a media maelstrom in late 2009 because she reportedly had a three-year affair with Woods.
“Joslyn James lived in my home for three months to protect her from the media, and to help get her back on her feet,” Rodriguez said.
Then came other reported lovers of Woods (Jamie Jungers, Loredana Jolie, Holly Sampson and Devon James) plus other celebrities’ former flames, all seeking Rodriguez’s help.
“Thirteen mistresses later, I founded DD Entertainment,” she said.
The agency’s goal is to help its clients move — and earn — beyond their 15 minutes.
“I help them to use their notoriety to build them a platform to take them to the next level of their career,” Rodriguez said.
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