NL- According to GFF’s they gave Elexis over $10,000 toward her expenses. I think that is quite extraordinary.
Here’s GFF’s reply on the forum
As soon as we heard about the severity of Elexis’ health situation we wasted no time in figuring a way how everybody could get involved in helping her out. However, there have been some recent Tweets regarding the benefit movie that we did in order to help her with her personal and medical expenses.
To hear today, via social networking, that some people feel like we haven’t held up our end of the deal, feels like a low blow, and a much undeserved one at that. It leaves me sad and frustrated that after all of our efforts and contributions, our charity donation and benefit wasn’t what some had in mind.
I have combed through all of our press releases and the media coverage eliciting support for Elexis, and I don’t see where the proceeds or profits from the movie sales were included in the drive. I left the recruitment of the performers to Elexis, so it’s difficult to figure how Girlfriends Films could have misrepresented the mission to them.
In truth, we put in a ton of man hours to organize the charity and the promotion surrounding it. If I had to quantify the labor it would exceed $10,000 on its own. Additionally, we gave Elexis our $1000 December charity donation, plus we matched all of the performers’ donations and provided them a scene in which to have funds to donate. When one of the performers in the movie cancelled at the last moment, Girlfriends Films paid her replacement her full fee and covered what would have been her part of the donation ourselves. We also solicited support from Elexis fans and friends, and provided an address and handling of these funds. Our direct monetary support exceeded $10,000.
With the dwindling DVD market, our combined contributions of over $20,000 cut in to any profit on the DVD we may have experienced.
Nobody else stepped forward like we did. And now to be the subject of a public bashing…well, it’s very painful and disappointing. We always try to promote the best public image when it comes to our company, our performers, and the industry at large. Each step forward takes work, planning, energy and, most often, money. Giving us an undeserved public bashing on social network is like suddenly getting sent back ten steps.
Anyway, our continued wishes to Elexis for a speedy recovery.
Dan
Sounds to me that GFF are covering their asses & Elexis is getting screwed over big time. Looks like the actresses who contributed their time & fees were duped by Mr. O’Connell. Very disheartening 🙁 !
Dan , as I pointed out you did a nice thing, you didn’t deserve this…next time instead of giving these dumb sponges cash might I suggest just buying them the insurance they should be buying for themselves.
Anyway kudos to you for stepping up…and proving that no good deed goes unpunished
Too many porn girls seem to be buying expensive shoes and handbags and not getting health (or dental) insurance. Someone needs to wise them up to what financial responsibility is all about.
All women buy expensive shoes and handbags, its an addiction. And a lot of porn girls get the handbags as “gifts”.
It may interest you to know Mr. South & Mr. Karmafan that Ms. Monroe has a young daughter and all of her income goes into taking care of her. That’s why she can’t afford to purchase health insurance for herself. Also she wasn’t “whining” about not getting any profits of the sale of dvd. Other actresses who appear on dvd mentioned the fact & complained on Twitter not her. The said dvd has “Elexis Monroe Benefit Movie” on the cover which is very rather misleading. You need to do better research and think before you post your rhetoric in the future!
I tell my girl, “You only got two feet. How many shoes you need?”