Career
After graduation, he worked in New York City as a stockbroker in the World Trade Center starting as a trainee in Euro Brokers Inc and working his way up the chain of command. He was licensed as a financial adviser and working on Wall Street within months of graduating. He has stated that he would have been in the buildings and been a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks had he kept his old job as a stockbroker.
He worked as a model on the side and acted in minor TV roles.
He began to appear in adult movies in the later part of 1997, in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles and joined the industry full-time in March 1998. Initially he shot mainly for the companies such as West Coast Productions and director Spunky. Later, he appeared on videotapes produced by Anabolic and Diabolic. Later on at the beginning of 2004 he joined Red Light District Video for a brief period.
Steele has said that his stage name came about back during the days when he worked as a stockbroker when he took the subway to visit a client. At that time he had already decided to move in the adult film industry and use the last name "Steele". His client was located in mid-town and Steele got off the subway at the corner of Madison and Lexington where he was struck by the sound of "Lexington" as a first name.
Steele now directs and performs exclusively for his own production company, Mercenary Motion Pictures (Headquarters in Encino, California), which he founded in 2003 and serves as chairman and CEO since 2005. The company reported annual net profits of $2.6 million in 2005. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $10 to 20 million and employs a staff of approximately 10 to 19. In 2005, he created a new division in his company, called Black Viking Pictures, intended for the homosexual market.
Steele appeared in two episodes of Showtime's Weeds in 2007 (3x07 "He taught me how to drive by" and 3x08 "The two Mrs. Scottsons"), playing himself at a movie shoot filming a scene with Kirsten Price and Jessica Jaymes. He also appeared in an episode of the FX series Nip/Tuck (5x05 "Chaz Darling") as a male escort at a party.
Steele appeared in the 2009 feature film Crank 2: High Voltage.
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