Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969) is an American television personality and CEO of West Coast Choppers, a manufacturer of custom-made motorcycles. James is the host of Motorcycle Mania and the former series Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel.
Biography
Early life
Jesse Gregory James was born in Lynwood, California to Larry and Carol James, the younger of two children. Jesse James is related to "the outlaw Jesse James" from his great grandfather's cousin. James states he grew up in Long Beach, California, but that he did not spend his entire childhood there. James' parents divorced while he was still in grade school in South Gate, CA and he and sister Julie moved to Riverside with their father, Larry James and attended La Sierra High School.
Career
In 1998 Jesse opened West Coast Choppers in his moms garage, the company grew fast and soon moved to a larger facility. In 2000 the Discovery Channel made the documentary "Motorcycle Mania" which chronicled Jesse's everyday life and was to became one of the highest rated shows in the history of the network . Following the succes of the documentary the Discovery Channel soon aproached Jesse with an offer to host a new show called "Monster Garage" were James and a crew of mecanics modified vechiles under a short deadline. Jesse later established "Payupsucker Productions" under which he produced shows like "History of the Chopper", "Iraq Confidential with Jesse James" and currently "Green Scream" in which Jessee plan to break the land speed record with an eco freindy hydrogen car.
Today West Coast Choppers employes 50 workers in an 18,000-square foot facility and produces 12 to 14 custombikes each year for select customers and companies, to this date about 200 bikes have been built at West Cosat Choppers. Lately West Coast Choppers have started modifying cars aswell with about 15 cars constantly being in their shop in diffrent stages of modification. Besides build custom vechiles a wide line up of parts including frames, fenders, gas tanks, wheels,
Other activities
One of James' latest venture is the Cisco Burger restaurant, which opened on April 28, 2006, just down the street from West Coast Choppers. The '50s-style burger stand - named after his beloved pit bull - features Kobe beef burgers, low-fat burritos, organic vegetables, and biodegradable wrappings. Other branches of the "West Coast Family" include the Chopperdogs fan club and Jesse's Girl clothing line. From 2006 an onwards James also publishes Garage magazine.[1] James has also built and is racing an off road Trophy Truck and an Figure-8 race car. West Coast Choppers is also sponsoring race teams in Top Fuel Drags, Super Late Model NASCAR. James recently bought Austin Speed Shop which builds custom cars including a Mercury (automobile) for Jesse himself.
Personal life
James has two children - a daughter, Chandler, and a son, Jesse James, Jr. - by his first wife, Karla. He also has a daughter, Sunny, by his second wife, Janine Lindemulder, an adult film star/producer, and a former Penthouse model,[2]; however, he had no participation in her life until early 2007. Sunny was born January 2004.
On July 16, 2005 James married actress Sandra Bullock; they met when Bullock arranged for her eight-year-old godson, who was a fan, to tour the set of Monster Garage.[3]
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