Thursday,
February 1st, 2001
f---PaulFishbein.com Emails
Bob writes: Observe the text in the attached photo, taken from the bottom of the e-mails printed and scanned onto the f---paulfishbein.com site. So, the operative question is, who has an employee named Mike who uses an Apple Mac 8500? Since the probably source of the site is either someone within AVN or someone within Extreme, both of which have talkative employees, this one should not take too long to figure out.
Luke says: I understand that the above information links at least some of the emails on f---PaulFishbein.com to Ken Wood's computer. He's the former AVN managing editor who left in June, shortly before Gene Ross's departure to Extreme Associates.
If those emails are traced to Wood's computer, that means that some of the emails are legitimate.
Wawo writes Luke: why not ask captain esad if he is willing to take a lie detector test on whether or not he is gene ross or afflilated with extreme in any fashion? It appears to me that Gene Ross is very upset that you continue to post the original and much funnier esad's postings on a regular basis. I enjoy that sarcastic asshole! It sure beats reading the depressing comments of your friend Chaim on a daily basis.
Luke's Esad writes: i would appreciate it if you would always refer to me as Luke F-rd's esad or my esad as to somehow differentiate me from the Captain Bob Esad. This imposter is committing slander on a daily basis and I don't want to be confused with him for both legal and moral reasons. I will always say something is a joke when I am kidding or playing around. That is why I limit my postings to your column for the exception of emailing gene as rob black, which i clearly announced as a joke, in order to make a point.
Stupid Web Sites - What Men Want
Lynne writes: If I were to have a website called lynneadoresluke.com or l-kefordismytrueloveforever.com or even lukeisadonisreincarnated.com people would laugh at me and call me childish and obsessed. But should some man have a site called f---paulfishbein.com or paulfishbeinisanidiot.com or whatever, it somehow becomes an item of interest? All this does is to prove your point, Luke, that these men are ALL IDIOTS. If porn is stupid, it is because they fancy themselves "in charge" of it.
Actually, I always wondered why a heterosexual man would posit knowing anything about what sexually pleases other heterosexual men, whereas most of us women know a great deal about it if only from personal experience. In porn, it isn't "What Women Want," it is what MEN want... MEN, mind you, not overaged teenagers who are still whining about the girls who rejected them in high school... In my experience, most MEN prefer women who know how to f--- 'em back!
Felicia Punches Obnoxious Customer
Steve Seidman writes: South Florida: This is one for the records, one of the local Gentleman's Clubs, Tootsie's has feature entertainer Felicia working at the club. A customer decided he would try and get into the act, so he decided that a tongue on her clit would be a great idea. This also shows the brilliants of some customers. After being warned that this was not proper the gentleman decided to go and do it again. As Felicia was bending to spread for another patron this gentleman went down for the dive, all of a sudden Felicia lifted his head a landed a punch squarely on his face. This punch would have made Evander Hollyfield proud. This only goes to prove just because these ladies are in the adult business, it doesn't give the patron the right to take advantage, the girls are there to entertain you and aren't there for your amusement.
Luke Gets Mail
Adam writes: IF I WANTED TO RUN A FREE SITE JUST RUNNING PORNSTAR CONTESTSAND GIVEAWAYSTO GET PEOPLE TO COME TO THE SITE..LIKE WEEKLY GIVEAWAYS RON JEREMY s--- OR LIKE CASSIDEY s--- FROM VIVID CAUSE IM FRIENDS WITH A FEW PORNSTARWHORES HOW DO I GO ABOUT GETTING VIVID OR WICKED SOME OF THE GOOD COMAPANYS NOT THE s--- ONES TO TAKE A BANNER WHO DO I TALK TO I LIKE YOUR SITE AND THE WAY ITS SET UP AND I COULD USE ALL THE HELP I CAN GET...
Gite writes: hey luke, that you made only $100 from vivid is not a surprise. i was one of vivid's 1st affiliates. the 1st half of last year was fine, averaging about one signup per day. they sent me bunches of compilation tapes as bonuses. then starting in june signups plunged and i started to get charge backs. some months ran a negative balance. other webmaster i spoke to told the same story. now, i'm not sophisticated enough to know the reason why.
i just know that a banner position is worth a certain amount of money, depending upon it's location. and if a banner is not performing in that location, i change it. needles to say vivid is now only on minor pages. i keep these up because if things improve, i am in a position to be aware of it. rjb telecom, maxcash, on the other hand, has always been my most consistent revenue source, even though i've never given them my prime locations. i've always received a steady $35 per trial signup. and now that they seem to have gotten their house in order, i'm glad i didn't back away during the recent difficulties.
i've written to you b4 about advertising my membership site http://pornstarplace.com with you. i went in pretty deep developing it so i am not now in a position to prepay ads (when i can i will). but you just might want to check out my affiliate program at http://pornstarplace.com/partners/. sign on and i will pay you a net 55% of the gross recurring. ccbill does all of the tracking and paying.
Ian writes: Hi Luke, You say: "Prager saw in his college years how leftist students were obsessed with taking moral sounding positions. While leading personally dissolute lives, they felt driven to take political positions that sound very moral." I suspect that most 'leftist students' are indeed taking what they consider to be moral positions, and don't find that incompatible with 'personally dissolute lives'. In my opinion it's 'junk morality' to attribute immorality to personal sexual behaviour which hurts no one and only gives pleasure.
Apu says: Jenna, since you're so concerned about people using your likeness and movies without your permission and all that s--- I'd like to be serious for a minute and draw your attention to eBay item #'s 551869182 & 552986936. And be sure to click on the "View Seller's Other Auctions" link.
The adult-entertainment industry is estimated to bring in US$8 billion (S$14 billion) to US$10 billion a year - with Internet sites contributing US$2 billion. But the fortunes of adult magazines are falling. Penthouse, for example, fell from a total paid circulation of 1.1 million in June 1996 to 851,000 last June (down from a high of 4.7 million in 1979). Playboy's circulation slipped from 3.3 million in December 1995 to 3 million last June. Single-copy sales for both publications also declined steeply in the past few years. Another sign of the times: Al Goldstein, porn pioneer and editor-publisher of Screw magazine, is considering selling his publication assets, an assistant in his New York office said. ''The idea has been tossed around,'' she said, partly because Goldstein wants to retire.
Dan Capell, editor of Capell's Circulation Report, says the decline in adult magazines began even before the Internet was born. ''I would point more to cable television than the Internet,'' he said. Also, it's tough for men's titles, with the exception of Maxim and Men's Health, to grow because it's primarily a female marketplace. ''It's tough to succeed at the news-stand,'' Capell explained. This is particularly true at a time when all magazines are facing difficult times, with news-stand sales down 30 per cent, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Increasing costs, including postage and paper, are also responsible for this trend. One gauge of the decline of so-called skin magazines is the number of new titles launched each year. Samir Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi and the creator of www.mrmagazine.com , said they've dropped from a high of 110 new titles in 1997 to 48 in 1999. Of all the magazine-launch categories he surveys, Husni said, the sex category, although still in the top five, is the only one that's dropping. ''I think it's the one category that the Internet has affected,'' he said. ''People who are the readers of such magazines feel more secure and more at ease if they're watching their Internet screen'' than going to the store and asking for a copy of Hustler.
Secret Extreme Memo To All Employees
Rob Black writes: DEAR STAFF, AFTER MUCH SOUL SEARCHING I MUST ADMIT TO YOU THAT I AM NOTHING BUT A f---ING FRAUD! I AM A SPOILED, INSECURE, OVERSEXED, MOMMIES BOY WHO HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO MAKE AN HONEST DIME ON MY OWN. HIRING GENE ROSS WAS A MAJOR MISTAKE AND I HAVE FIRED HIM THIS MORNING! GENE HAS TAKEN HIS OFFICE FULL OF HAIR PRODUCTS AND LEFT THE BUILDING! AFTER TOM BRYON GOT DONE BLOWING ME THIS MORNING I TOLD HIM THAT HE MUST MOVE OUT IMMEDIATELY. I CALLED PAUL FISHBEIN AND APOLOGIZED FOR EVERYTHING. I AM SENDING HIM A CHECK FOR $50,000.00 PLUS AN ADDITONAL $10,000.00 FOR HIS AGGRAVATION. IN ORDER TO PAY PAUL I HAVE CUT OFF TOM ZUPKO'S BEER MONEY FOR A MONTH AND I AM GOING TO BUY CHEAPER TOILET SEATS FOR NEXT MONTHS NEW RELEASES. I HAVE ALSO DISCONTINUED OUR FAKE WEBSITE f---PAULFISHBEIN.COM. I NOW REALISE THAT GENE ROSS CAN NEVER BE Luke F-rd IF HE INSISTS ON WISHING THAT HE WAS PAUL FISHBEIN OR THAT MOTHERf---ER ESAD WHO WRITES LUKE ALL THE TIME! THANK YOU FOR ALL SUPPORT AND I LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU,
Luke says: Actually, the above email was written by my Esad, in his new incancatation as RobBlack@RunBox.com. My Esad has also started up the site f---GeneRoss.com.
Esad writes: dear luke,, did you enjoy my emails to you as rob black? how easy is to make up fake emails! So now i own a piece of rob black (robblack@runbox.com, and the website f---geneross.com. maybe tommorow i will buy a little piece of fishidiot? these guys are out of their league playing with me and ripping my name off. imagine what would happen if i didn't think the whole thing was so funny and i got mad! In a few days gene and rob will have much bigger things to worry about than all of this nonsense.
Newsflash-fishbein goes a full day without speaking to one of his lawyers. tension is so high at avn that the lunch hour for the editorial staff has been cut to 60 minutes. ken michaels and mark kernes were caught fighting over the extra pudding left in the frig! Darren roberts finally realizes that gene ross and scott stein no longer work for avn. due to rumors about his love life fishbein now requires all future female avn hires to weigh at least 200 pounds ! a mentally drained paul fishbein is almost too tired to go to the bankto make his daily deposit!
meanwhile over at extreme associate headquarters- rob black and tom bryon nap in the back office while gene ross bangs away from his remote hideout in alaska! a drunk tom zupko finger f---s himself while editing extremes newest feature- **rape fantasies of the attorney general". The bookeeper receives a pile of mail all with pink past due stickers attached to them. Rob yells out from under "the icon's ass- "gene you better make up more s--- up about fishbein, stat!!!!!! Gene fondly remembers a simplier time wondering how he was going to fit high series, high game on to one bowling trophy engraving plate before calling it a day!!! gene unzips his fly and dials the outcall service number hoping that traffic in west chester, pa isn't bad today.
New Star Mag
Brian writes: Luke: Pick up the new STAR newspaper. Has an aricle and pictures. Evidently Robin Leech (lifestyles) paid a few grand for a pornstar to get a boob job. Evidently he's her sugardaddy. Forget her name.
Miami Herald Says Former Playmate, Hubby Jailed On Cocaine Charges
From the January 31st Miami Herald:
Maria Luisa Gil, 23, of Miami, who appeared in her birthday suit in the magazine's June 1998 issue, is being held at the Miami Federal Detention Center, accused of taking part in her husband's cocaine trafficking business, according to a federal affidavit.
Her husband, Pedro Pajes, 45, is charged along with his wife with trying to buy 11 kilograms of cocaine from an undercover federal agent. The asking price was $19,000 per kilo, according to the affidavit signed by DEA special agent Vance Durham. Both were arrested Sunday.
Gene Ross, Gene Ross, Where is my interview? You were going to run my interview today, Gene Ross. Where is it?
the great esad's brilliant scheme of the day- A Lie Detector Challenge- loser leaves the adult business forever The great esad states - Why haven't i thought of this before? Paul Fishbein and Gene Ross in a lie detector challenge. first one to get caught in a whopper is outta here. the event must be held in front of neutral witnesses. of course fishbein would be out in the first round as soon as the subject of czechoslovakia came up.
Sushimi writes: "Don't you feel bad that Gene Ross is taking the heat for what you're writing?"
No. because ross is a puppet. in part, this is my way of getting Luke F-rd out of the picture. if ford starts reporting about f---geneross.com, there's sure to be some slander. bang, in come the lawyers. ford, if you'll pardon the pun, can't afford another lawsuit, and avn will run from him like the jackals they are. Captain Bob Sits here at his palatial state amused at the thought that those little s---bags at AVN actually think this site is run by extreme or Gene Ross. Wrrrroooong. So Very Wrrrroooong. meanwhile, amuse yourself, my darlings, with this little communique between paul fishbein and dick miller aka califilm dated August 19, 1999:
Luke says: It has come to my attention that not all of the facts in the foregoing story may be accurate. I therefore retract all errors and profusely apologize to the hurt parties. I hope that this sincere apology and retraction will undo any damage to your reputations.
Montana Gunn New And Improved
XXX says: "Montana Gunn signed for Seymore Butts at CES. It's a whole new Montana Gunn. She's lost weight, got a new boob job, had her lips done, lipo, had her eyes done. She doesn't wear the wigs anymore. She's got her own hair now. She looks fantastic."
Dave Marshlack Responds To Seth Warshavsky
Dave tells Luke Wednesday evening: "That totally pisses me off that they're threatening you like that.
"The stuff he told you about VoyeurDorm.com is a complete lie. He's made statements in articles that his credit card processing [woes] was because of Voyeur Dorm. That is the reason that I forced him out of the business. I've got copies of those contracts. I've got a confidentiality clause in it so I'll sue him for talking to you about it. The reason we did it is that he went around telling the news reporters that the reason he's having credit card problems is because of Voyeur Dorm.
"Voyeur Dorm has the lowest charge backs. We have no problems with credit cards. Because people get hooked on the girls. It upset me when he said that. So I called him up and said, 'I'm not shutting it down because it's doing bad. You have an option. You either sell to me or I'm closing Voyeur Dorm because I don't want to be associated with you. I no longer want to be your partner because of your reputation. We were also having a lot of people thinking that he owns Candid Cam and our company.
"And about our feeds. We have all kinds of different pricing on our feeds. It goes by how big your company is... And that is all predetermined. And if he is that big of an idiot that he didn't check his billing for six months, then the guy deserves to be out of business. Everything he's saying is a complete and utter lie.
"He was even writing my PR firm to please help because he was going to jail."
I talked to "Fred," an employee of Dave's.
Fred: "Seth gave me a call Thursday, January 25. He said that he'd received a message from the Seattle Police to report to the King County Jail when he got back to Seattle. He didn't say anything about a warrant."
Dave: "Seth has been calling us nonstop."
Fred: "You can see from Seth's emails that he was dealing with the Seattle police."
Dave: "The police were investigating him and they did tell him to turn himself in. When I talked to the police last, he told me that there was probable cause to arrest him. They'd book him into county jail, he'll get out and then it's up to the county prosecutors to take it from there."
Galileo Was A Whore
Ian writes: Hi Luke. I agree with your correspondent Beavis, who said that pornstars should get more respect than they do. I think it's extraordinary that people who regularly read your column, and therefore, virtually by definition, are drawn to porn, should look down on the very people who give them their pleasure, or meet their needs, or whatever you'd like to call it. Apart from those porn performers for whom their job is a vocation, the main reason they have for entering the industry is similar, I guess, to yours for running a porn-related website - that they find they can make a living out of it, because they're good at it. As for it being dreadfully immoral that they prostitute their bodies, which is worse - selling their bodies or selling their minds? Most salesmen and public relations officers, and a great many lawyers, journalists and politicians would find it difficult to deny that they do the latter. I can't deny that porn performers tend to be looked down by society, but that doesn't reflect any eternal truth about morals - it's just how things are for the time being. It wasn't all that long ago that courtesans (high class prostitutes) were highly esteemed in Parisian society, and I don't see geishas much criticised in Japan. The time of the respected porn star will come, almost inevitably, with greater education, wisdom and tolerance. In the U.S.A it will come as soon as porn stars become too rich to be looked down on.
Devoto writes: Luke, I could NOT agree MORE with the post by Ian, who agrees with your previous posting of Beavis' insightful and progressive attitude. Let us not be BLINDED by the FACT that REASON and LOGIC are what separates us from other animals here on earth. His poignant question "which is worse - selling their bodies or selling their minds?" is beautiful in its simplicity. Martin Luther, in posting his 95 theses on the door of a church, and subsequently changing religion and history and affecting the lives of MILLIONS is no better than the woman in ASS BLASTERS VOL. 3 (because she gives good head, and provided masturbatory release for thousands).
Let us NOT place the mental prowess of thinkers like Descartes (responsible for the scientific method) and Galileo (provided confirmation on the Copernican model of the universe) above the sexual skills of Linda Lovelace, or EVEN Monica Lewinsky. ALL animals f---, but do not let that HINDER us from accepting and praising those that f--- WELL!
I long for the day when I can read an elementary school text book and find the exploits and contributions to modern society of thinkers like Thomas Jefferson, Soren Kirkegaard, Immanuel Kant. While in the very next page see the detailed description of how Jenna Jameson gives a blow job, or takes it in the ass. I cannot WAIT for our society to evolve beyond this pitiful stage of placing MORE importance on intellect than on the number of chopsticks one can insert in their HOO HAW. I also agree with his closing remark, where he states that porn stars will soon be too rich to be looked down upon. Money can purchase morality, in essence, or social acceptance and THAT is what it is all about!! HEY, wait, didn't the selling of Papal Indulgences become outlawed after the Reformation?? Awwww, who cares, tell me more about the blow jobs!
Ian writes: Hi Luke. Your correspondent Devoto, in a rather ponderously sarcastic criticism of my question as to whether it is worse to sell one's mind than to sell one's body, writes...
I don't think I was suggesting that Martin Luther, Descartes or Galileo were prostituting their opinions, though, if they had, then my original question WOULD have been applicable to them. (Incidentally, I think Francis Bacon preceded Descartes on scientific method, and I'd be interested to hear how Galileo provided confirmation for the Copernican model - spotting Jupiter's moons, though interesting, was hardly relevant).
But to return to my thesis - In my opinion, a lawyer who sells his forensic skills to the highest bidder, irrespective of the merits of the case in question, is prostituting his intellect, and so is a salesman who uses all his efforts to persuade you to buy something of the merits of which he is doubtful, just to please his employer and to further his own economic interest. They are no better than the politician who sells his opinion - ie his vote - though the politician has to be specially careful, since if those who elect him find out what he is doing he probably won't get re-elected. I find the sale by a prostitute of the services she can supply with her body a rather more innocent activity, probably because I do value the mind more highly than the body, though that may just be a prejudice on my part. Moreover, the amount of harm that the prostitute does by her activity is a pale shadow of the harm often done by intellectual prostitutes (harmful laws, unjust convictions), while the prostitute's services almost always give pleasure - a good in itself.
On another matter - I implied that geishas were prostitutes in a recent email to you, and more than one of your correspondents have commented in detail that that is not the case. I bow to their superior knowledge, and apologize to geishas who may have been offended. The point I was trying to make, however, is that looking down on prostitutes is a matter of time and place, and not one of timeless morality. In the 17th centuries actresses in England were assumed in society to be prostitutes - and many of them may have been. Actresses today, however, if they are sufficiently well-known, may be highly respected 'superstars', and their sexual activities mere material for newspaper gossip.
Educating The Simple Man
Devoto writes: Luke, I wish to respond to Ian's post, in which he attempts to defend himself. I find it ironic that all of his logical flaws can be summed up in one statement: he lacks DEPTH. First, I feel as if ONCE AGAIN I must educate and help the less fortunate. SO, a "brief" history lesson is in order to set the record straight for Ian. Galileo did indeed discover a moon of Jupiter's, but, when you get to your upper level college courses ( I am assuming here that you are indeed a college student based on your previous post) or perhaps simply read beyond the Cliff Note Version of Galileo's biography you will LEARN that he was called to Rome to defend his teachings of a COPERNICAN model of the universe. He based these assumptions on what he had observed in the ORBITAL patterns of Jupiter's moon. TAKE my word for it, as I do not wish to deprive you or your soon to be professors of the JOY of the educational experience. IRONICALLY, Galileo used DEDUCTION to prove his thesis, as put by forth by the OTHER topic of today's lesson, DESCARTES. Descartes wrote MANY essays, and was not a simply a philosopher. A collection of his essays entitled Optics, Meterology, Geometry included a "Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences". This particular discourse explained the benefits of DEDUCTION to science and the subsequent scientific method. REALIZE that this contribution to science led to many notable discoveries (reread ABOVE lesson on Galileo).
During THEIR time, Luther, Galileo, EVEN Descartes ALL faced the persecution of their social contemporaries for their ideas, and YES, they did "prostitute" their minds to the HIGHEST bidder(truth) at the cost of RESPECT. Simply because we ACCEPT their theories as TRUTH today, does not by ANY means that they were ALWAYS popular.
As for your statement regarding the fact that prostitution is simply two people having sex and enjoying each other, once again, you FAIL to look beyond the surface. Do you know how many prostitutes there are in the world? Do you know how many have an ENJOYABLE life? Do you know how many do it WILLINGLY? You may not UNDERSTAND what I mean by willingly, so let's take up the case of prostitution in Thailand (as that was mentioned in a Luke F-rd post yesterday, and I assume you saw it). Thailand is surrounded by areas of great poverty that are largely based in an agrarian economy. For this reason, males are desired over females as offspring (the idea being based in the notion that men are more ABLE to perform tasks that are related to the success of farming). The Green Revolution of the late sixties, and early seventies did not provide the acceleration of crop growth to the extent that many had hoped it would. This FACT, coupled with the inability of small family farms to compete with large agricultural conglomerates as well as lack of training and education in these areas have led to conditions of EXTREME poverty. There exists, however, a strong code of honor in families as well as an even stronger idea of familial OBLIGATION. ALL of these "surface" issues combine to create an environment in which young women are OBLIGATED to move to Thailand and sell the ONLY "commodity" they have, their body. They ARE the victims of a world in which middle aged business men desire "young pussy". They are the girls (some even under the age of 10) that fall prey to a system that sees them ONLY as a receptacle for men to "masturbate" in ( I would hardly call it sex, as it doesn't REALLY seem consensual, nor does it have the PASSION normally associated with sex as the girl often LAYS there simply doing her DUTY to her family).
For you to GLORIFY prostitution as a PURE Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman experience shows either your lack of compassion or your lack of knowledge about the world. For every ONE "Pretty Woman" high classed prostitute that is somewhat educated and actually DESIRES to do her job, and has OTHER options that she declines pursuing, because she is CONTENT with her job, there are THOUSANDS on the street sucking COCK for FIVE dollars a "POP". No discussion of drug addiction, past sexual abuse, mental illness will take place HERE, as I would be able to FILL the WHOLE page, not leaving room for people like you who say simply, IT IS OK BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD! ******DING****** Class dismissed!
Bianca Trump Seeks Male Models For Soft And Hardcore Web Work
Bianca Trump posts on this AVN message board: Seeking male models for soft and hardcore web work. Please see my bio [BiancaTrump.com] for site for more info about me. The photos would be shot with me. At this time I am in need of YOUNG, WHITE,MUSCULAR, pretty boy types. Please email a head shot, full body, and nude. Anyone not fitting this description will be deleted from my email and will never be considered for future work when I need other types of models. Time is money please don't waste mine. Models must be available in the South Florida Area.
BrandyAlx1: Well, that reporter who was on the fence about her honesty, has been introduced to, and likes looking at your site. He'll see what she's up to and how he was duped and used. I wouldn't actually put money on there not being an update...
BrandyAlx1: Who needs drugs when there's Starbucks? I like coffee, but don't drink it because of the enhanced effect it has on me. When you're not "immune," one cup is a whopper. I just had a tall with a shot. I could run a marathon.
Bianca Trump responds: uhhhhhhhhhh. can you say photos? Photos are NOT live sex shows......gees buy a clue brandy...oops forgot...you have no job. Bum a clue. Photos are LEGAL in Florida. Along with web..."the laws have not caught up with technology".Did she not read the articles. Did that lasik surgery go as badly as your nose job?
Linda Lovelace
Jenny writes on Bianca.com: Often people ask about Linda Lovelace and her films with dogs. Here is a link that has her life story. There is also a range of her pictures(non porn),her family and associates i.e Chuck Trynor etc. Linda Lovelace.
Does anyone know if there is anything similar for Bodil Jensen??
Hamlet responds: I just read all of the pages you have posted. My, my, my, Linda Lovelace f---ed a dog at the Playboy Mansion! From what was written, even Linda admits she f---ed and sucked "a dog" but was "forced". I would love to get Linda Lovelace on a polygraph and see what the results would be! I bet Linda Lovelace was f---ing and sucking the dog(s), because she wanted to do so. Amazing information thank you for posting it.
Luke says: It has come to my attention that not all of the facts in the foregoing story may be accurate. I therefore retract all errors and profusely apologize to the hurt parties. I hope that this sincere apology and retraction will undo any damage to your reputations.
Brandy Alexandre Talks To Harry Reems
BrandyAlx1: Rumor no more, Harry Reems is alive and well and selling real estate. I talked to him for about a half hour this afternoon and he asked that I convey his well wishes, especially to Brittany Stryker.
BrandyAlx1: He's married, active in his church, and has been sober for over 10 years now.
Jeremy Steele Negogiating To Get Full Creative Control In New Distribution Deal With Randy Detroit
Jeremy Steele (JeremySteeleXX@hotmail.com) says he's negotiating to shoot his own series for Randy Detroit. Jeremy says he'll get full creative control of his product.
Wednesday morning Jeremy appeared for ten minutes on the nationally syndicated Mancow radio show.
Steele played the opening segment of his song "Just A Porno Star," until Mancow rudely cut him off.
Mancow: "I've got news for you sir. I feel like a certain gatekeeper to the music industry. Four words my friend. Keep Your Porno Job."
Jeremy: "It's that bad, huh?"
Jeremy tells me Wednesday afternoon: "At this point I got cut off and didn't even realize it. That was brutal at the end. I've been self critical about the song. I guess that's his thing. We're all a bunch of idiots.
"The song is available off MP3.com. I wanted it to be a rocking song with drums but I just basically did it with an acoustic guitar at a studio and the guy added a little compression to it and a little effects.
"I wanted the opportunity to plug that I have my own line in the making but I didn't have that chance. I've been dealing with Randy Detroit. He's ultra low budget. But at least I'll have some hands on control. I'm in the process of negotiation with him and a friend of mine who's done independent movies is on my side and is helping to work out the arrangement."
Listen to Jeremy's appearance here.
Luke F-rd Apologizes To Seth Warshavsky
It has come to our attention that the there is no absolutely no truth to the claim that a warrant has been issued for Seth W's arrest. A complaint has been made to the Seattle Police Department but no decision has been made as to whether or not a formal charge will be filed. Just goes to show that you can't believe everything that you hear.
Luke Interviews Seth Warshavsky
I talked to IEG owner Seth Warshavsky Wednesday afternoon by telephone.
He spoke from Seattle on his cell phone. It was a conference call with a prominent Seattle pornographer Ian Eisenberg on the line as well.
Seth: "Luke, I don't mind if you publish things about me as long as they are accurate and true. With the incident several weeks ago when an employee attacked me, the person there who witnessed it, sent you an email saying that your story was untrue, and you never published that email."
Luke: "I promise you that I published that email. I know which one it was."
Seth: "I think that you should, in the future, investigate... The warrant thing. You could've called the Seattle Police to see if there was a warrant for my arrest. For statements like that, they could be really damaging. I know that my reputation is not the greatest right now but statements like that could really damage me in the future."
Ian: "I told him that I wouldn't hang out with him anymore. He's not my friend anymore."
Luke: "You're right. I was wrong. I apologize."
Seth: "I'm actually moving in with Ian.
"I met Ian at the very beginning... In 1991, I was running my 800 phone line through his brother in law's long distance carrier."
Luke: "What's going on with Seth Warshavsky these days?"
Seth: "I've got a lot of things that I am working on. IEG is having some serious cashflow problems because we've had a tremendous amount of trouble processing our credit cards. We've found several different processors who were going to process for us. And one or two of them stole our money. We have proof and we've contacted the federal government about it. The other two just haven't come through.
"We were on top. We were getting a lot of positive publicity. I had three employees. One of them was Evan Wright. They left me to start a competing business. We found in my office documents about the contacts they had with these other competing companies. I fired them and I sued them.
"Their response was to go to the Washington Post and make allegations that I was double and triple billing customers. They attacked me with completely erroneous statements because they thought it would get them out of it [the suit]. And it did. We settled. We dropped it. We showed the Washington Post VISA and Mastercard statement substantiating our revenue and completely eliminating the possibility of their story being true...
"That's where everything got affected. Our credit card processing got affected and we sporadically processed after that. And then Evan Wright wrote some article for Rolling Stone... Some of it is true. But 80% is fabricated. I'm not saying that I haven't made mistakes in my business and personal life... That furthered our processing problems. I still have four or five people in the office. We're still trying to secure merchant processing relationships. We've had no cash flow for four months. Obviously we've been very slow paying our vendors."
Luke: "I talked today to Dave Marshlak from Voyeur Dorm."
Seth: "Dave was my partner in Voyeur Dorm. We started Voyeur Dorm with him four years ago and then sold it to him because he told us it was going out of business. We were having problems with his reporting to us. We thought that he was charging us for his other business's bandwidth and his other business's costs. We had auditors go down there. We got into a debate about it and he told us that he was just going to shut it down after we sold it to him.
"We figured it was better to sell it to him to get what we could. Part of the deal was that he would provide us with feeds for ten months for free and then after that, he was supposed to charge us market price. He was charging us $16,000 a month for the same feeds he was selling to other people for $2-3,000 a month that have higher bandwidth usage than us.
"We got taken to the cleaners... We owe him a lot of money. I'm not a very detailed oriented guy. Our problem is that when stuff like that happens, nobody catches it for six or seven months because employees don't give a s---. The Evan Wright story is the prime example. The employees are just out to get whatever they can however they can. Ian and everybody knows that 90% of employees don't care. And unless you're extremely detail oriented, or have someone who is extremely detail oriented, s--- like that happens.
"There is no warrant out for my arrest. Dave contacted the Seattle Police over a bounced check. My lawyers contacted the Seattle Police. There's no warrant for my arrest. There are no criminal charges. You can call the Seattle Police. They'll tell you if there's a warrant out for somebody."
Luke: "It seems that the Seattle Police have a detective on your trail?"
Seth: "We've had no dealings with the Seattle Police at all. Other than Marshlak calling them and saying that we wrote him a bad check. But we've gotten so much negative press, and 90% of it is not true, there's got to be agencies that are looking at that. They wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't."
Luke: "What about the FTC?"
Seth: "We have no FTC problem. We're dealing with some other people investigating allegations made in that [Rolling Stone] article. And we believe that we have evidence substantiating that none of it is true. I'm not worried about it. I know that we did not do anything illegal. We may have made mistakes. We just have a lot of stress and a lot of lawyers fees.
"I haven't left the country. I haven't moved to whereever..."
Ian: "I hear that you are fleeing the country."
Seth: "I'm fleeing the country with your wife. We're going to Japan.
"You've got to understand that a lot of people don't like me. I got a lot of positive attention. I'm not a very people oriented guy. I'm very quick to make decisions. The reason I get so much done is because I push people to their absolute limits. I don't think about how I talk to people. I just say what is on my mind. And I offend a lot of people. And when I go overseas to work on something, people say that I fled the country.
"When the James Brown incident [ex-Warshavsky employee beat him] happened, it got greatly exaggerated. That's inevitable. In some senses, I wish that we didn't get all that positive press because then I wouldn't be getting all this negative press."
Luke: "Dave Warshlak says that even though you owe people a lot of money, you're still driving a Jaguar and a Porsche and own a million dollar condo."
Seth: "I don't think that my personal life is anybody's business."
Luke: "Ian, why have you chosen to stay by Seth?"
Ian: "I already told you. I think he's a very sharp dresser."
Seth giggles: "He doesn't really like me. We have this abusive relationship where we beat each other."
Ian: "But only in a playful way."
Seth and I then talked about various porn stars that we'd seduced. Seth denied seducing any. Ian did not believe him. Ian wants to be set up with some porn stars to pursue intimacy and depth.
Luke says that this is not the true road towards lasting happiness.
Seth Warshavsky Correction
Dear Mr. Ford:
I am attorney representing Seth Warshavsky. On your website on January 31, 2001, you posted the following: "XXX writes: I heard that there was a warrant out for Seth W's arrest in Seattle. He was supposed to be paying off Dave Marshlak of Candid Cam & voyeur Dorm $10,000 per month but his first Check Bounced and Marshalck filed charges with a Seattle detective and when they found out it was Mr. W. they immediatley issued a warrant."
Specifically, I represent Seth in regard to the matter referred to in this paragraph. The quotation contains information which is absolutely false. While there is a police investigation pending, no decision has been made by the prosecuting authority in this County to file a charge against Mr. Warshavsky and no warrant has been issued. As you are no doubt aware, citizens are frequently investigated for crimes that they haven't committed and the pendency of an investigation is something quite different than the statement implied on your website that a charge has been filed and a warrant issued.
Mr. Warshavsky has asked me to investigate the possibility of a defamation action against your company. In Washington, issuance of a warrant is a matter of public record and could have been easily ascertained by you prior to publication. While I do not wish to prejudge the outcome of my investigation, it would obviously be to your advantage to set the record straight as soon as possible. I respectully urge you to publish a retraction at once.
Sincerely, Gilbert H. Levy Attorney at Law
Suite 200 Market Place Two 2001
Western Avenue
Seattle WA 98121 (206) 443-0670
Seth Warshavsky Wanted
XXX writes: "[Seth Warshavsky] was supposed to be paying off Dave Marshlack of Candid Cam & Voyeur Dorm $10,000.00 per month but his first Check Bounced and Marshlack filed charges with a Seattle detective and when they found out it was Mr W. they imediately went to work..."
I interviewed Dave Marshlack Wednesday afternoon.
Dave: "I'm not in that little clique where you talk to everybody on the chatboards... Your site is an easy way for me to get information.
"Seth Warshavsky owed us money for content. We settled with him about two months ago, with his CFO... They were supposed to send $10,000 twice a month to us. The first check came and it bounced. We called Seth up and said, 'Hey, Seth, we made this deal with you. We compromised everything. We didn't charge interest.' He said, 'I'm sorry about that. Our processing was down. Just redeposit it.'
"So I redeposit it and lo and behold it came back this time, account closed. So I called Seth up, and his attitude was, I'm sorry. I don't have the money. I'm getting sued by everybody. Get in line. So, we have an inhouse counsel and I gave them the green light to go to work.
"First we sent him a certified letter... Then we called the Seattle Police Department and the conversation started off with, 'Oh, we're so understaffed. We don't have many people who work on this. We can't guarantee anything. How much is the check. We told them. What's the name on the check? We told them. They said, hold on, and put the seargeant on the phone. And the seargeant said, we know this guy. We know his MO. We definitely want to get to it. And he also gave us the number of federal agent working on the case against Warshavsky.
"A few days later, we got a call from a detective working on the case. And he wanted to know our background with Seth... Next thing I knew, I got a phone call from a friend saying that Seth had called from Asia, and he was afraid to return to the States...
"He frantically called everybody he knows, including myself. We sent him a letter saying, 'Don't call me. It's witness tampering.' At this point, he's made offers trying to give us domain names and this and that. And up until now, we have not settled with him.
"He called me saying, 'Why are you being such a jerk?' And I told him, 'I'm not trying to be a jerk. You owe me almost $300,000. He said, 'we're out of business.' I said, 'That doesn't matter. Why should I suffer that you collected credit card money off of people and didn't pay your bills. You're still driving a Jaguar and a Porsche and you still own a million dollar condo and that isn't right.
"We own VoyeurDorm.com. We own Dudedorm.com. A big part of our business right now is Candid Hosting. We're doing a lot of adult hosting. We also offer the live voyeur cams on Candid Cam. We have about 150 employees.
"We're very multifaceted. We don't only do one thing with our retail sites. We also take the content and redistribute it to other people's web sites. We also made videos. We take the product and keep making multiple things out of it so that we have multiple revenue streams coming out of the same product.
"That's how we got into the hosting business. Nobody else could handle our hosting. We run 170 live cameras. We need to be very hands on with these cameras. So we started a hosting facility, and now many of the big guys have come to us because we're so experienced at what we do. And they want somebody who's on staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Luke: "Are you scared of Ashcroft and Bush?"
Dave: "I'm not because we don't do hardcore stuff. We're torn about Bush. You don't want him in office because of the business we're in yet you want him in office because we want his tax relief.
"We've just taken over a public company, YSeek.com or WhySeek.com. The company name is FWNT. The stock symbol is YSEK on Nasdaq. It's time for the adult guys to give Yahoo a run for their money. Ron Levi's one of the big investors."
Sarah writes about reading l-keford.com rumors and tracking down Seth Warshavsky:
I was shocked when I read this story but something about it made me question it's legitimacy. Is the story true? Well let's break it down and find out. After visiting some of his more popular sites such as Club Love.com and GirlsGirlsGirls.com I see they are still fully operational. I then picked up the phone and called the Seattle police department but this time I had no luck. They said they had no comment on the matter and that they couldn't release that kind of information to us.
I called a couple of Seth's friends and off the record they each told me an identical story - yes Seth was in Asia but not on run from the law. He was there on business - some sort of telephone deal he is working on. Next I was stuck. I had nothing left to do but call the man him - Yes, with Kelli's help I actually had not one but two telephone conversations with THE MAN himself.
l-keford.com is a site that deals with porn star type gossip. I personally visit the site for inside details regarding porn stars since I do work for Kelli's EroticVideos.com site all of the time. At l-keford.com you often find the porn stars themselves responding to allegations and even dishing out their own gossip. Like last week when Jenna Jameson told Luke she was leaving Wicked (which we already knew months ago) but instead she would be working with Vivid. Major gossip, which you know is true since it is the star herself telling it. Anyway, there are times that certain people tell stories that aren't always true or fair. However I think in fairness to Luke he posts all stories without prejudice and then let's the chips fall were they may. However it is times like this that cause him the most problems. When I write an article I have to check and then re-check all my facts. It's not easy writing articles. People have lawyers and my site alone cost Kelli's $10's of thousands of dollars in legal fees each year. Which in fact was why in the year 2000 I had to pull more than 10 articles. Sometimes people forget how fast a story gets read and passed around. So in the future if you ever want to write a story about something you heard you better be sure that you checked the facts and did your research. And also keep all of your research for the entire time the article is published. You never know when you are going to need that information again.