Steele was born in 1964 his father is Italian and was a restaurant and bar owner. He was raised
Catholic and has three sisters. He was the president of his fraternity while in college, where he first started
coming out as gay to his close friends before being "out in terms of lifestyle" by age 23 and coming out to his family by age 25. In the early 1990s, Steele was an
alcoholic and had a
cocaine addiction. During this time, he had received a
Juris Doctor degree and moved to
New York City to take the
bar examination in the hopes of becoming a criminal defense lawyer. However, both his alcohol and drug consumption led to complications and his almost being fired from his job, and he attended his first
twelve-step meeting in 1999. , he has stated that he has been sober since then. Prior to starting his pornographic career, Steele worked at a corporate job in retail in New York City, which he has said made him depressed. Heeding suggestions from friends, he became a gay pornographic film actor in 2014, when he filmed his first solo scene with gay porn producer Ray Dragon of pornographic production company Dragon Media at his studio in
Beacon, New York. Pirated videos of him quickly became popular on free pornographic websites in early 2015. By 2016, he was one of the most searched-for gay pornographic actors on
Pornhub. In August 2016, he launched an underwear company, 10Seven, which was named after his penis measurements. Originally only selling
boxer briefs, the company started selling other kinds of underwear, including
briefs and
jockstraps, by 2018. In 2016, he won the Grabby Awards for Best Duo, for his film
Daddy Issues with Casey Everett, and for Hottest Top, and the
XBIZ Award for Gay Performer of the Year. He won the Grabby Award for Best Actor for his role in
Secrets & Lies at the 2017 Grabby Awards. In July 2017, he launched My 10 Inches, a membership-based website for his
bareback videos. After directors Ray Dragon and
Joe Gage left Dragon Media, the company signed a deal with Steele for him to direct six films a year in the spring of 2018. He was nominated for the
Pornhub Award for Top Daddy Performer at the
2nd Pornhub Awards in 2019. He won the Squirt.org Fan Favorite Award at the 2019 Grabby Awards in May 2019. In September 2019, Steele fronted the Rocco
sex toy line for sex toy company Perfect Fit, which included the Rocco Jack Daddy Stroker, a silicone masturbation sleeve. As the face of Ride BodyWorx, a
personal lubricant company, his Ride Rocco lubricant was released in 2020. In January 2020, Steele sold nude photos of himself through direct messages on his
Twitter account to raise money to combat
wildfires in Australia. Steele won the
GayVN Award for Favorite Daddy in 2020 and 2021. He hosts
Just Oral, a
sex-positive podcast and
YouTube series for Ride BodyWorx, the first season of which premiered in March 2021. Its second season premiered in August 2021. ==Public image==