SCOTTSDALE – Jenna Jameson, the international porn star who bought a small Scottsdale strip club and set the city’s sex laws on fire, reportedly has split with her husband and is dating rocker Dave Navarro.

Jameson also says her primary residence is now Los Angeles instead of Paradise Valley.

The news had leaders of a Scottsdale referendum on the Jameson-inspired sex biz ordinance scrambling to reassure supporters that the Sept. 12 election is still on track.

“This has nothing to do with the campaign,” said Lamar Whitmer, campaign consultant for the Scottsdale Small Business Alliance Political Committee Opposed to Proposition 401. “Jenna’s husband is not involved with the deal. This started when the mayor got on a morality crusade.”

But morality, Jenna and obscure celebrity gossip sites have become inextricably tangled in tourist-oriented Scottsdale.

The latest started Wednesday, when the Hollywood gossip site PerezHilton.com floated a photo of Jameson and rocker Dave Navarro, who separated recently from actress Carmen Electra. The two were being cozy while hosting the Erotica LA trade show at the Los Angeles Convention Center in June.

“That’s right,” the Web site oozed. “Sexy on their own and even hotter together, Jenna and Dave are enjoying each other and taking it slow, seeing as they are both still legally married to other people.”

The heavily tattooed Navarro co-hosts Rock Star: Supernova, airing this summer on CBS.

Jameson’s assistant did not immediately return repeated calls for comment.

William Asher, co-owner with Jameson of Babe’s Cabaret, described the situation as a “personal matter.”

Jameson put a note on her MySpace.com site, where she now lists Los Angeles as her home. “This is a very rough time for Jay and I. . . . We are working through things and remain best friends.”

In another twist Wednesday, Amanda Vasquez, the Babe’s Cabaret stripper who accused Jameson’s husband, Jay Grdina, of assault July 22 at the club, dropped her complaint, Scottsdale police said.

Normally, this would not be the hottest of news in Scottsdale.

But Jameson’s purchase of Babe’s last year and the city’s subsequent revision of its sexually oriented businesses ordinance set off a legal dispute that is now headed to the voters.

Last August, Jameson said she would rechristen the cabaret at 2011 N. Scottsdale Road as Club Jenna and give it a touch of her renowned style.

She and Grdina own a home in nearby Paradise Valley, making for an easy commute.

Business partners who co-own Babe’s with Jameson are Steven Hirsch, chief executive of L.A.-based Vivid Entertainment; Asher, president of the pornography behemoth; and Frank Koretsky, a New Jersey-based adult-film producer.

Trouble started when the Scottsdale City Council in December adopted a sexually oriented businesses ordinance that would effectively ban lap-dancing and require a 4-foot buffer between patrons and dancers. Jameson even attended the Scottsdale City Council meeting when the famous ordinance was adopted. She may have brightened up City Hall briefly, but she failed to change the city’s mind.

Jameson and Todd Borowsky, the owner of Scottsdale’s Skin Cabaret, cried foul over the ordinance. Within a month, they had more than 8,000 signatures from residents demanding the issue go to a public vote.

Asher, who is working on the campaign on behalf of Babe’s, reported via Whitmer that the news and rumors about Jameson’s personal life are just that: personal.

“It has nothing to do with business,” Asher told Whitmer. “It isn’t going to change anything to do with the campaign.”

Asher said that Jameson and her partners will continue to move ahead with plans to renovate Babe’s and turn it into Club Jenna. Jameson “absolutely” does not plan to change her ownership in the club, he added.

Supporters of Proposition 401, which would confirm the city’s strict new law, have talked for weeks about the “secondary effects” of strip clubs. They may now have a new topic for stumping.

Jamie Capobres, vice chairwoman of Yeson401.com, said that the news underscores one of the prime arguments wielded by the strip clubs: that Babe’s and Skin have been doing business in Scottsdale for nearly 30 years.

“One of the comments is that these businesses have been around a long time,” Capobres said. “That is true. However, the ownership seems to change often. There is this factor of a frequent changing of hands.”

The Jameson bombshell may be a firecracker in the election anyway, Capobres added.

“I’m amazed at the amount of people who don’t know what’s going on,” she said. “I don’t know if they’ll make that correlation.”