Nacho Vidal

Ignacio Jordà González was born in Mataró (Barcelona) in Catalonia. His nickname Nacho is the common nickname for Ignacio.{{cite web|url=http://www.zonalibre.org/blog/hombremaquina/archives/024674.html |title=Interview with Nacho Vidal by Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia |access-date=2007-06-17 |author=Victor M. Amela |author-link=Víctor Amela |date=2004-03-10 |publisher=La Vanguardia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610044040/http://www.zonalibre.org/blog/hombremaquina/archives/024674.html |archive-date=2007-06-10 |url-status=dead }}

When he was young, Jordà moved with his family to Valencia, where part of his family originated.{{cite web |url=http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2004/02/979/ |title= encuentro digital con Nacho Vidal |publisher=www.elmundo.es |access-date=2010-01-26|date= 2004-02-26|language= es}}{{cite web |url=http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/diario/noticia/famosos/espectaculos/el_pornstar_nacho_vidal_sacara_su_libro_sexografias/278732 |title=» El pornstar Nacho Vidal sacará su libro Sexografías |publisher=www.vanguardia.com.mx |access-date=2010-01-26 |date=2008-12-29 |language=es |archive-date=2009-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302111709/http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/diario/noticia/famosos/espectaculos/el_pornstar_nacho_vidal_sacara_su_libro_sexografias/278732 |url-status=dead }} According to Nacho Vidal, his family was wealthy, had textile factories and extensive real estate assets, but ended up losing their wealth due to 1970s energy crisis, and at 14, he quit school to work and help his family.

As a teenager, he was in a punk band. He also was a boxer and enlisted in the Spanish Legion in Melilla.

In 1994, Vidal started his porn career doing live sex shows with his girlfriend, Sara Bernat (born 1976), at the Sala Bagdad in Barcelona. There, he met the director of the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, José María Ponce, who introduced him to porn films. Vidal became a protégé of Rocco Siffredi, who brought him to Hollywood in 1998.

Vidal has starred in over 1,500 movies; he has also produced and/or directed many others (since 2000, including gay titles for the Evil Angel video company). Although self-stated as heterosexual, he has directed gay porn films.{{cite web|url=http://www.nachovidal.com|title=Nacho Vidal official website|access-date=2005-12-10|author=Nacho Vidal|date=2004-10-10|publisher=NachoVidal.com}}

Vidal has starred in Spanish mainstream movies and TV shows, including the Spanish TV series Los Simuladores{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0896380|title=Nacho Vidal IMDB page|access-date=2007-06-17|author=IMDB|publisher=IMDB}} and the Spanish movies Va a ser que nadie es perfecto, El Alquimista Impaciente and Impávido.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film513494.html |title=Impávido (2012) |publisher=FilmAffinity |date=2012-07-26 |access-date=2014-04-20}}

The 8-part Spanish-language TV series Nacho describes Vidal's life and was released in Spain and Latin America in March 2023, with Vidal being portrayed by Martiño Rivas.{{Cite web |last=Fuente |first=Anna Marie de la |date=2023-01-25 |title=Lionsgate+ Unveils International Trailer, Premiere Date for Spanish-Language Original Series, 'Nacho' (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/nacho-vidal-lionsgate-bambu-atresplayer-premium-1235501813/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

Recently Nacho has moved into the director's chair, helming his own shot-in-Europe line called "Killer Pussy". He directs and stars in the flicks, bringing audiences the cream of the crop of current European sex stars. The series has already won accolades, as Nacho's ravenous romp with Czech beauty Helen in Killer Pussy (2000), which garnered an AVN nomination for Best Sex Scene in a Foreign Release.https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0896380/bio/

File:Nacho Vidal en el FICEB 2007.jpg

Vidal has stated that he is "open-minded", but is heterosexual in his personal life.{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2004/02/979/|title=Interview with Nacho Vidal by Spanish newspaper El Mundo|access-date=2005-12-10|date=2004-02-26|publisher=El Mundo}} He had his first daughter with Venezuelan Rosa Castro Camacho.{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/257612/0/nacho/vidal/amenaza/|title=Rosa Castro: "Si nos pasa algo, a mí o a mi hija, ha sido Nacho Vidal"|date=July 10, 2007|website=www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias}}

On 31 May 2005, Vidal announced his retirement from pornography and married Colombian model Franceska Jaimes.{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/05/31/cultura/1117494856.html|title=Nacho Vidal article on Spain newspaper El Mundo|access-date=2007-06-17|author=EFE|date=2005-05-31|publisher=El Mundo}} They moved to a mansion previously owned by his family, located in the small town of Enguera, in Valencia, recovering it after his family's financial losses. He and his wife decided to start a family there.{{cite web|url=http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/video.html?view=alta&xref=20061114ctoultnot_1.Ves|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219030639/http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/video.html?view=alta&xref=20061114ctoultnot_1.Ves|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-02-19|title=Video interview with Nacho Vidal by Spain TV show Cuatrosfera|access-date=2007-06-17|author=Sandra Uve|date=2006-11-13|publisher=Cuatrosfera}} However, the couple separated six weeks later, and Vidal returned to porn only a few months after announcing his retirement. They have two children, and divorced in 2015.

In February 2019, a Spanish newspaper stated that Nacho Vidal is HIV-positive.{{cite web|url=https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/nacho-vidal-hiv-porn-europe-suspended_355017_102.html|title=Nacho Vidal has HIV, all porn filming in Europe suspended|access-date=2019-02-20|date=2019-02-14|publisher=El Nacional}} Later that year, in a 12-minute YouTube video, he clarified that his test was a false positive. He found after visits to a series of doctors that he has reactive arthritis, a highly painful, sometimes chronic or lifelong condition. This inflammatory syndrome is often triggered by a prior, treatable infection which may itself resolve (be healed). In Vidal's case, he explains, it was repeated infections by the STDs chlamydia and gonorrhea contracted during his sex work, each instance having been quickly treated and cured. Because of the disease he cannot work and is seeking disability benefits.{{cite journal

|title=Nacho Vidal habla de su falso positivo en VIH y de que ha solicitado la invalidez. [Nacho Vidal talks about his HIV false positive and says he has requested disability benefits.]

|newspaper=El Mundo

|date=September 5, 2019

|url=https://www.elmundo.es/loc/famosos/2019/09/05/5d70dfb921efa023548b45ea.html}}

In 2019, Vidal, Jaimes, and their trans-daughter Violeta were portrayed in the documentary Me llamo Violeta.{{Cite web |date=2019-05-31 |title=Violeta, la hija de Nacho Vidal: "Da igual lo que digan, yo sé muy bien lo que soy" |url=https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2019/06/01/5cf10918fc6c83f4148b460c.html |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=ELMUNDO |language=es}}

On 16 October 2012, Vidal and his sister María José Jordá González were arrested in Barcelona, suspected of involvement in money laundering and tax evasion on behalf of Chinese organized crime.{{cite web|title=Sesenta personas fueron capturadas en operación contra lavado de activos y fraude fiscal en España.|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/actor-porno-nacho-vidal-detenido-en-operativo-contra-mafia-china_12307361-4|publisher=El Tiempo|access-date=20 July 2013|date=16 October 2012}}

When Spanish police raided over 100 businesses in Madrid and Barcelona suspected of running money-laundering and tax evasion rackets in connection with the Chinese mob, Vidal and his sister were among the approximately 80 detained.{{cite web|last=Ayala|first=Nelson|title=Porn Star Nacho Vidal Charged With Tax Evasion|url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/155518|publisher=XBiz.com|access-date=20 July 2013|date=19 Oct 2012}} Hundreds of police were involved in serving "warrants to search 120 properties belonging to those suspected of laundering money from prostitution and extortion."{{cite web|title=Nacho Vidal Released on Bail|url=http://news.avn.com/articles/Nacho-Vidal-Released-on-Bail-491901.html|publisher=AVN Media Network|access-date=20 July 2013|date=19 Oct 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131042455/http://news.avn.com/articles/Nacho-Vidal-Released-on-Bail-491901.html|archive-date=31 January 2013}}

While prosecutors sought to hold Vidal in jail during the investigation and subsequent trial, on 19 October 2012, National Court Judge Fernando Andreu accepted the defense's contention that, "Vidal is not a flight risk because he signed a contract to participate in a reality show for the next three months." Upon his no-bail release, Vidal announced, "Thanks to everyone for their support. I've gone without any charge."

Vidal's movie studio Nacho Vidal Productions was implicated in the Spanish National Court-led sting, and charged with counts of flight of capital and tax evasion. The newspaper El País described Vidal as "one of the high[est]-profile suspects arrested" and explained that he was accused along with his sister of helping the ring "by issuing false invoices from his movie production company."{{cite web|title=Alleged "Emperor" money-laundering kingpin imprisoned without bail|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/10/21/inenglish/1350835018_102226.html|publisher=ElPais|access-date=20 July 2013|date=21 October 2012}}

On 4 June 2020, Vidal was arrested on manslaughter charges in relation to the death of a fashion photographer, José Luis Abad, in July 2019.{{Cite news|last=Jones|first=Sam|date=2020-06-03|title=Spanish porn actor arrested over fatal toad venom ceremony|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/spanish-porn-actor-arrested-over-fatal-toad-venom-ceremony|access-date=2020-06-03|issn=0261-3077}} Abad died as a result of inhaling vapors from the venom of a Colorado River toad in Vidal's home in Enguera,{{cite news|title=Spanish porn star charged with reckless homicide after toad venom death|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/europe/spanish-porn-star-toad-venom-death-scli-intl/index.html|first1=Eoin|last1=McSweeney|first2=George|last2=Engels|publisher=CNN|date=19 March 2021|access-date=27 March 2021}} in a traditional Amazonian ritual in which Vidal is alleged to have acted as shaman. Vidal was arrested together with two other unnamed individuals, a member of his family and an employee.{{Cite web|title=Espagne : un acteur porno arrêté pour la mort d'un photographe dans un rite chamanique|url=https://www.lindependant.fr/2020/06/03/espagne-un-acteur-porno-arrete-pour-la-mort-dun-photographe-dans-un-rite-chamanique,8915477.php|access-date=2020-06-03|website=lindependant.fr|language=fr}} A different news story says the death was from heart attack; the crime was not promptly calling in medical assistance.{{cite news

|title=El actor porno Nacho Vidal, detenido por la muerte de un fotógrafo en un rito con veneno de sapo|date=June 3, 2020|first=Enrique|last=Recio|newspaper=El Español|url=https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20200603/actor-nacho-vidal-detenido-muerte-fotografo-veneno/494950962_0.html}}

In March 2021, Spanish authorities officially charged Vidal with reckless homicide in the death of Abad following an 11-month investigation. According to court statements, Vidal acted as "the director" of the ritual and had previous experience in taking the toxin. Vidal allegedly supplied the toxin and failed to properly control the amount the victim inhaled during the ceremony. The charges were dismissed in 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://torontosun.com/news/world/porn-star-nacho-vidal-cleared-in-bizarre-toad-venom-ritual-death|title=Porn star Nacho Vidal cleared in bizarre 'toad venom ritual' death | Toronto Sun}}

File:Jewel De'Nyle Nacho Vidal.jpg holding their XRCO Award trophies for Best Male-Female Sex Scene in 2001]]

• 2013 XBIZ Award winner - Best Scene - Gonzo/Non-Feature Release (Nacho Invades America 2 - Nacho Vidal/Evil Angel) with Chanel Preston[http://xbizawards.xbiz.com/winners.php XBIZ Award Winners 2013], XBIZ, January, 2013
• 2012 XBIZ Award winner – Foreign Male Performer of the Year[http://www.xbizawards.com/winners.php XBIZ Award Winners], XBIZ, January, 2012
• 2012 AVN Hall of Fame inductee{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}
• 2009 Hot d'Or Award winner - Best European Male Performer{{cite web|url=http://hot-dor.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=4 |title=Hot d'Or archives presse x, articles sur les Hot d'or |publisher=Hot-dor.fr |access-date=2014-05-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316035017/http://hot-dor.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=2&Itemid=4 |archive-date=16 March 2014}}Paul Fishbein, [http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Pirates-II-Evil-Angel-Big-Winners-at-2009-Hot-d-Or-Awards-366881.html "Pirates II, Evil Angel Big Winners at 2009 Hot d’Or Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106060751/http://business.avn.com/articles/video/Pirates-II-Evil-Angel-Big-Winners-at-2009-Hot-d-Or-Awards-366881.html |date=2016-01-06 }}, AVN.com. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
• 2008 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor (Public) and Most Original Sex Scene (The Fashionistas Safado Berlin 1 with Katsuni & Melissa Lauren){{cite web|url=http://www.xstarsnews.com/ninfa-awards-2973.html|title=X Stars aux Ninfa Awards 2008: Les Gagnants!|date=27 June 2008|access-date=23 April 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/06/26/madrid/1214475630.html |title=Programación del Ficeb: más gorda que los miembros de sus actores |publisher=elmundo.es |date=2008-06-26 |access-date=2014-05-30}}
• 2006 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor{{cite web|url=http://www.ficeb.com/english/awards.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031432/http://www.ficeb.com/english/awards.htm|archive-date=2007-06-09|title=The FICEB Ninfa, Tacón de Aguja and HeatGay Awards|date=2007-06-09|url-status=usurped|access-date=2014-04-20}}
• 2004 Ninfa Award winner - Best Transvestite Film (Travestís dominados por Nacho - International film grup){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20041011221734/http://ficeb.com/ing/ninfai.htm 2004 Award winners & nominees]}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001052/2004/1|title=Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival (2004)|website=IMDb}}
• 2004 AVN Award - Best Couples Sex Scene - Video{{cite web | title=Winners of 2004 AVN Awards | website=AIWARDS | date=10 January 2004 | url=https://aiwards.com/avn/2004 | access-date=31 July 2024}}
• 2004 AVN Award - Best Group Sex Scene - Video
• 2003 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor (Back 2 Evil - International Film Grup){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050210190417/http://www.ficeb.com/ing/winners_ficeb_2003.htm 2003 FICEB Award winners & nominees]}}
• 2002 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor (Public){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031435/http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2002.htm 2002 FICEB Award Winners & Nominees]}}
• 2002 AVN Award - Best Actor (Video){{cite magazine |author= |title=2002 and it's all about...Girls! Girls! Girls! |magazine=The 2002 AVN Awards Show Program |location=Chatsworth, California |publisher=AVN Publications, Inc. |date=January 11, 2002 }}
• 2002 AVN Award - Male Performer of the Year
• 2001 AVN Award - Best Sex Scene in a Foreign Release{{cite web | title=Winners of 2001 AVN Awards | website=AIWARDS | date=8 January 2001 | url=https://aiwards.com/avn/2001 | access-date=31 July 2024}}
• 2001 AVN Award - Male Foreign Performer of the Year{{cite web |url=http://www.avnawards.com/nominees.html |title=2001 AVN Awards Nominations List |date=November 2000 |archive-date=March 9, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010309213908/http://www.avnawards.com/nominees.html|access-date=February 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}
• 2001 XRCO Award - Best Threeway Sex Scene{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}
• 2001 XRCO Award – Best Male-Female Sex Scene (Xxxtreme Fantasies Of Jewel De'Nyle) with Jewel De'Nyle
• 2001 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor (Face Dance Obsession){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031433/http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2001.htm 2001 FICEB Award Nominees & Winners]}}
• 2000 AVN Award - Best Sex Scene in a Foreign Release{{cite web | title=Winners of 2000 AVN Awards | website=AIWARDS | date=8 January 2000 | url=https://aiwards.com/avn/2000 | access-date=31 July 2024}}
• 2000 Ninfa Award winner - Best Sex Scene (Brazilian Butt Fest - International Film Grup) with Cassandra & Jazmine{{cite web|url=http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2000.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609031438/http://www.ficeb.com/english/premiados_2000.htm |archive-date=2007-06-09 |title=FICEB 2000 Awards |date=2007-06-09 |url-status=usurped |access-date=2014-05-04}}
• 2000 Ninfa Award winner - Best Actor (Buttman's Anal Divas - International Film Grup)

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