Friday,
July 27th, 2001
Chasey Lain Says She's Not Addicted To Drugs
Vivid contract performer Chasey Lain told AVN.com: “I know everyone has said that I like to have a good time and everything and it’s true that I do but the rumors that I am a drug addict are one-hundred percent unfounded and not true.
“I didn’t really ever leave porn. I was pregnant for nine months and then I didn’t work for the whole year after he was born. My son is 2 years and 6 months now, so I started dancing again about a year ago and now I’m doing movies again. I liked taking a break. I got spoiled. I’ve been working about twelve years and doing adult for ten so I enjoyed the break but I’m really glad to be back.”
Vivid has revived Lain's series Chasin’ Pink which will be shot vignette-style. "They’re Andrew Blake with a Greg Dark edge. They’re really pretty, not much dialogue with a lot of music over them." (From AVN.com)
Hart Williams Update
Hart Williams worked for all of Los Angeles's porn oriented magazine from 1977-87 when he moved to Oregon. I met him for the first time at the 1998 World Pornography Conference. He's a huge strapping man with a vocabulary to match.
He writes me:
Life is great. I am going nuts keeping a lid on while I finally finish the "movie." There are all sorts of techno wonders, and my screening guinea pigs all react in the same way: jaw drops. "Holy s---!" But my producer (Pepper Parrish, who was the first writer to figure out what Larry Flynt meant by "spiritual porn" back when HUSTLER was edited by Paul Krassner, and Larry was in his religious conversion state) insists that we have all the "t"s crossed and the "i"s dotted.
I've just about had to learn to build a computer from scratch (three major crashes), and I'm going to go ahead and take my A+ certification test when all of this is done.
When this thing started in 1997 it was supposed to be a quick amateur shoot. So much for good intentions. But it should feature any number of "firsts" -- which is why Pepper demands that I keep a lid on things.
I get up every morning, and boot the computer, and go back to work. I will provide details as soon as the news blackout is lifted, but my producer pays the bills, so I'm duty-bound to bit my tongue, no matter how bloody it gets. I do however have the obligatory "flash" movie up on the movie's website: http://www.moyst.org
Last month (a couple of years late), I found copies of my second novel for sale in a SECOND English edition from Sheridan Books (which is a Random House British paperback imprint). I wrote it under a house name, and refuse to promote it for the bastards (who made me sign a vampiric contract that might well sink a writer's career if one of the clauses is exercised) so I don't mention the title.
But it made it to a third edition without a single, solitary piece of advertising, or cover blurb (the late Theodore Sturgeon ASKED to do a blurb, and all they had to do was send him a copy of the galleys, but my editor, brain-dead bastard that he was, said "I don't think so." Well, Sturgeon's dead, and I'll never be able to use the blurb, but the Brits seem to love the book. It's gone through two editions in England and Australia, so I take it as a small measure of personal revenge against my editor.
I had been keeping a low profile in porn because of my positions as Webmaster for the Democratic Party of Oregon, state Public Relations Chair, and as a delegate to the 2000 Convention in LA, and we squeaked out a victory here in the fall elections, but Baby Bastard Bush stole it anyway, and the local yokels turned on each others like sharks feeding on a wounded comrade, and I was "purged" so I don't have to keep my "terrible secret" to myself any longer.
But I DO like to always remember: "I was worried about the opinions of THESE vicious assholes?" I am back in porn, which is certainly a lot cleaner by comparison. Besides, Dubya should manage to be good for business, if I remember my Republican Nazi asshole presidents correctly. Reagan was boom time for an industry that had floundered during Carter.
Hope all is well with you. I see you're making a living (seemingly) at it, and that's nothing to sneeze at. These days making any sort of living writing is tougher and tougher.
I got 31 e-mails from "MAX HARDCORE" the other day, all with executable attachments, like .pif and .bat and .com, which made it pretty clear it was a virus, and I have managed to confirm that it's the W32.Sircam.worm computer virus we've all heard so much about. Kinda wondered by Max would be e-mailing me 31 times, which is 29 more times than we've ever corresponded before!
I heard that your history of X book just came out in trade paperback. True? (Congrats if so).
Asia Carrera On The Perils Of Fame
Asia Carrera writes on her excellent web site: "Once you become a public figure in any capacity, it seems that the basic rules of common courtesy no longer apply to you, as people freely offer their opinions and criticisms on every aspect of your life from who you're dating, to how much you weigh. Would you stop a stranger in the grocery store to say they should lose a few pounds and lay off the twinkies? Of course not! But you wouldn't believe how often I hear unsolicited comments along those lines from people I've never met before! Recently I decided to stop going to my local grocery store, because I wasn't amused by the star-struck store manager telling everyone who I was every time I went in there. When I overheard a security guard sniping, "Guess she's not doing THAT well - look, she's buying lottery tickets!" I decided it was time to take my business elsewhere! But most of the time I just kinda grin & bear it, like at my favorite computer megastore, Fry's, where it seems like everyone in the store is on 'Asia-alert' whenever I stop in."
Oscar Wilde: "The only thing worse than being talked about is NOT being talked about."
Jenna Jameson's Diary
Here are some excerpts from ClubJenna.com:
27-JUL-01: HUNGOVER!!! It was a great party! Hopping on a flight back home...I'll post another entry then. JJ
26-JUL-01: Goodmorning, it's 6 am here in lovely Arizona. I have to go back to LA today. Vivid is throwing a big Jenna Party tonight. I am really excited and kind of nervous about it. Alot of mainstream press are going to be there to cover the event. It's always stressful traveling to an event like this... you have to worry about what you are going to wear way ahead of time , mainly because you have to pack it and you always forget something! You're not getting ready in the comfort of your home so that adds a little stress to the mixture. If something happens to you intended outfit, spill-stain-tear-bad wrinkle-etc, you are basicaly screwed. I usualy bring one back up just in case. But then again at home I have 2000 backups! I must admit I have a pretty extensive wardrobe, heheheee. I love to shop. Shopping is my stress relief, well until I add up the bills at the end of the month. You know that you have a problem when you look into your closet and 25% of the clothes still have tags on them. It' sbetter to have and not need than to need and not have, LOL. It's almost that time for me to go through my closet and collect a big charity pile. I donate clothes twice a year. I feel a little funny sometimes donating some articles of clothing that I would label "Hooker Wear".
FearZeus just had his baby!!!!!! It was a GIRL..We are sooooo happppy for he and his wife!!!! Make sure everyone congratulates him. It's his first child.
16-JUN-01: The chat yesterday was a complete fiasco. Sometime my server totally acts up and I have trouble logging in, and when I finally get in, I'm in black type. Then it makes a lot of people wonder if it's really me. Whick really ticks me off. Anyway, all the bugs got worked out, and I showed up in my normal hue - red!
13-JUN-01: Hi all! I'm back home, and the shoot went so incredibly well... everyone was surprised. Normally when you think of te Vivid girls, you think "untouchable". The first scene I was in was with Taylor Hayes, Brianna, and Raylene. These are some of the hottest chicks I have ever seen, and surprisingly, some of the nastiest! We f---ed for two hours! All I wanted afterwards was a nap :) The next day I was supposed to have a scene with Cassidey. She decided to not show up... FLAKE! So I got the honor of working with the beautiful Dasha. That was one of the hottest scenes I've ever done, she squirted all over the place! Pretty cool! All in all it was an incredibly fun shoot, the crew was happy and really supportive and great to be around. Vivid welcomed me into their camp with open arms....and I thank them.
Rob Spallone Plans To Shoot 50 Black Girls
Italian-American Rob Spallone says: "See, I'm not prejudiced. I'm going to shoot 25 black girl-girl scenes for some Israeli. And Lola Lane, call Rob. He will give you three scenes for the mistake last week. And if Sharon Mitchell wants to be in it, she can call me. But she has to have a test from AIM or I won't shoot her."
Rob harassed me with ten phone calls about Mitchell Thursday night, driving me crazy.
Friday morning, he left me an obscene message: "f--- you. You're cut off."
I pick up the phone.
Luke: "What's up?"
Rob: "You're cut off. I'm not talking to you anymore."
Luke: "Why?"
Rob: "You didn't print what I told you to print. You took one thing and made me look stupid. 'Rob Spallone Shoots Without AIDS Tests.'"
Luke: "I haven't finished transcribing you yet."
Rob: "Ok, you better write it all or I'm cutting you off."
Luke transcribed Rob and went to therapy. He came home and called Rob at the Blue Light Pictures office.
Rob: "I'm waiting for somebody to come in and clean this place up so we can move. JimmyD's going away for eight days."
Luke: "To dry out?"
Rob: "Yeah. Sharon Mitchell makes $23 on every HIV test she does. She says she does 300 tests a month. She's making $7000 a month on that alone. For a non-profit organization, always seeking donations and doing fundraisers, why can't she pay her bills? She wants a free ride? Tell her to go to Disneyland and mention my name.
"Luke, stop making me look like an idiot. Because I was going to cut you off this morning. I was pissed at you. I called you nine times and you put down that one little thing - that I don't require AIDS tests. That's it. He's cut off. I was going to tell you to come to shows and let people beat you up."
Luke: "How's your wife?"
Rob: "Good. She's the one who read your site yesterday and made me do all this. I was going in the shower yesterday and she said, 'Did you read Luke F-rd today?' I said no, why? I don't read Luke F-rd every day unless I get a phone call telling me I have to. So my wife gave me a little bit about the Sharon Mitchell chat. So I got out of the shower and I called you.
"Then she was telling me more, and I called you again. Then she yelled at me to read it. I said, I don't want to read it. Tell me. I call you. Then she forgets and remembers to tell me something else. So I call you again. Then Greg Zeboray calls me and said, 'Can you believe that she put up there that she did scenes when she was 17 years old?' So I called you on that one.
"Then when I read the part that talent had to get HIV tests from her clinic only, I couldn't believe it. So I called you on that.
"What pissed me off the most was when she talked about the chlamydia breakout a week after it occurred. If ten people went in there and tested positive for some kind of disease, shouldn't she let people know? You know these talent, if they have no money, half of them are still going to work [even with a disease]. They're not going to tell anybody [about their disease].
"All these people out there who say, 'Why is Rob picking on Sharon?' I'm not picking on Sharon. She started it by lobbying against the North Hollywood Clinic a booth at Erotica LA. People need to hear my side of the story. She's a phoney and she's got everybody bulls---ted.
"Before she even opened a clinic [summer of 1998], she came to me. 'Rob, what do you think we should do?' Her and that little douche bag Jeffrey Douglas. I took them out to lunch. I spent $100 on them to eat. They've got ten cents between the two of them. I tell them all this stuff. Sharon says, 'Oh that's great. We're going to do that. Thank you so much.'
"Three days later, the AVN magazine came out with all the stuff they planned on doing months before. So they were just humoring me? I'd like to rip his f--kin g head off. Jeffrey Douglas looks like a goat. When he gets thrown out of Free Speech, where is he going to go? Who's going to hire him to be a lawyer? I wouldn't let him fight a parking ticket for me.
"He and Sharon were supposed to help [HIV positive porn star] Kimberly Jade and they didn't do anything. But when they do something good, they want to get patted on the back.
"Why does she need money? So she can talk 17-year old girls out of getting into the business? Everybody who goes there, she tries to talk them out of the business? She's Mother Theresa? She's a virgin?
"There's no talent out there that can talk bad about me. I've always hired them. I've never fired them. I paid them when they were supposed to get paid. When they needed money, I lent them money.
"They say I'm a loose cannon. Because I tell the truth?
"Remember when I blew up at that [Free Speech Coalition] meeting at the Lodge? 'Oh, that guy's crazy. I'm surprised he didn't pull a gun out and shoot everybody.' The 200 people were standing up there lying. I stood up, they wouldn't take my question. I let them know how I felt. Paul Fishbein was the only f---ing guy who printed my story, because Russ Hampshire called him and said, 'Hey, get his side of the story.' Paul sent somebody right over and they printed my side of the story. Things changed pretty quickly then. How many people dropped out of paying Sharon Mitchell every month?
"Sharon Mitchell helped me with a problem with my brother. That was nice of her. Then she stabbed me in the back.
"Bill Margold invented AIM. Then Sharon stabbed him in the back. She don't care about nothing except her parrot and the bird s--- in her office.
"Bill Margold is a great guy. He runs his thing [Protecting Adult Welfare down the hall from Jim South's World Modeling]. Many girls who go by Jim South's office go by Bill's office and he sends them over to the North Hollywood Clinic.
You can reach Sharon Mitchell's Adult Industry Medicine (AIM) - 818-986-4581. Or the Family Medical Center at 818-487-1987.
Porn star Ruby writes: "Luke, I was nice to finally meet you in person, don't ever be shy and not hang out. So Rob actually made the statement that the girls make more than the companies, that hilarious!!!! Sorry, had to call him on that one. I'm at the ranch till the 7th of Aug. I'm extremely horny and in need of affection, so everyone cum-on down for the ho-down!!! Are you going to the Exotic Dancer Convention? I'll be there!! Rambunctious Ruby"
A Call To Arms
MikeSouth.com writes: For all l-keford readers in the Atlanta, Georgia area. As you probably know Cornetta Enterprises was successful in arguing the unconstitutionality of Gwinnett County's zoning laws. The result being that an adult store called "The Love Shack" has opened aat 6073 Peachtree Parkway in the Peachtree Corners area of Norcross. As is their right some local activists will be protesting the opening of this store tomorrow (Sat. July 28 starting at 10AM)
They have vowed to turn it into a media event. This is a nice clean well appointed store and is not detrimental to other businesses nearby. What I am asking is that each of you please come out tomorrow to The Love Shack at 10AM and show some support. I will be there and will be signing autographs, giving away free tapes and I may have some surprises for you.
We want to be peaceful and have fun, while at the same time displaying that those who that adult material should be illegal are in the minority. The protestors have notified the Papers and all of the TV stations and naturally they will come cover this story, so lets show them what we think. Thank you for your support and I hope to see all of you tomorrow, come up and say hello, introduce yourself. I suspect there will be plenty of refreshments on hand as well.
Luke Gets Mail
Dumblonde writes: Hi Luke ~ Not sure if you're still taking suggestions for your Luke shirts, but thought you might appreciate this pic.
Joe writes: Hey Luke I see Houston is back on the market. She is listed as an exclusive on exotica-2000.com. How exclusive can you be when you banged 620 guys?
Gregory Bowman writes: One point of the W32 Sircam@mm worm virus that people may not be aware is the possibility for extreme embarrassment or inconvenience. I think your readers should take a hard read on this. The Sircam virus, once infecting your system, takes at random from your "my documents" folder a document, embeds the virus Sircam.exe in this document, adds an extension such as pif, com, doc, or bat, and then mass emails this document to everyone on your address database. Results; everyone on your email list gets your documents.
I have received confidential and incriminating documents from a variety of sources in the industry. These include credit card information, script and shoot schedules, letters, resumes, money earnings from web sites, and even a letter outlined the sabotage of a certain VERY large porn production company. This is the result of the Sircam virus taking files from the infected host and sending them out to others; I can only compare this to everyone in the business swapping files; an electronic orgy. If you have gotten emails containing the Sircan Virus, I would love to see them. I can always can the spreadsheets from xyz, or the new scripts to a video line someone is writing. Now this is what I call sharing in the competitive world of the porn industry. Your comments? Nathans_parable@yahoo.com
Bryan Sullivan writes: Gene Ross' website is a cultural wasteland of pubescent nastiness. Day-after-day some poor little teenager has her asshole groped, probed and then tounged, right before it's packaged for shipping. SO VERY SAD, BUT SO VERY TASTY ALSO, SO I GUESS? Just as sad are the full-grown thirty-something pervs who discharge 0.30mm NUTBUSTER rounds onto the faces' of these luscious 18-year-olds and then leave behind the shrapnel without so much as offering a little first aid. Inconsiderate, non-laborious, pieces of s---. Extreme should make 'em work pro bono.
This is filth at its pinnacle, or either in its dark ages. In either instance, if you're turned-on by watching America's debutantes perform lewd acts in porno releases, then you might be just like me, hip and up-to-date. If lewd acts offend you, then you might want to reference E-As' catalog. They have lots of DVDs rated PG-13, which the whole family can enjoy.
"Gene Ross, once THE DEAN of porn journalism." [What the f--- does that mean?] As opposed to what, THE NOW PRINCIPAL of porn journalism? I guess he was demoted with the switch to Extreme Associates?
Chaim Amalek writes Luke: That tool Matt Drudge is catching some well deserved grief for revealing a key scene from the movie The Planet of the Apes to all who clicked onto his web site a few days back, whether they wanted to see it or not. Do you ever catch flack from your readers for blowing the ending of a porn flick?
A Rant About Lizzie Grubman
Chaim Amalek writes: Yeah, it would be nice if this rich black hair-rooted New York bitch apologized to the people she mangled with her expensive SUV. But don't hold your breath. And speaking of apologies - remember the OJ trial? One of OJ's victims was a jewish man by the name of Ron Goldman, and one of the two jewish lawyers who helped him beat the rap practices law here in New York. After helping OJ avoid conviction, this lawyer noted the similarities between his (jewish) family and Ron Goldman's (jewish) family, and actually apologized to them. In public. And for reasons never clearly stated (but we all know what they were: "Sorry I helped the slug who murdered your young son walk away from this a free man.")
Fine and dandy, only there actually was another victim here - a Christian by the name of Nicole Brown, to whose family no apology was publicly extended. It sounds horrible, but whenever I read about episodes like the slaughter of jews in Jedwabne, Poland, at the hands of the Catholic locals some 60 years ago, I cannot help but wonder if there weren't a few Lizzie Grubman's living there who helped poison relations between jews and catholics to the extent necessary to make communal slaughter possible. The Lizzie Grubmans of the world do more to create hatred than all the Pierce's and Yggdrasils of the net put together.
Extreme Associates Bounces Another Check
Hi, My name is Lisa and I feel so stupid. I'm not sure if this is appropriate but I have no where else to turn. I was issued a check that bounced by a well known company and don't know how to proceed. I was told that the check will go through but that I need to wait a week. I don't have a problem financially- It's just that I'm 22 years old and can BALANCE A CHECKBOOK and am just feeling used and stupid. Silly me didn't ask or think of asking if the check was good upon receiving it. My god.
The irony here is that I did a scene for a website 3 days before that was the most pleasurable experience of my life. It paid the most and the guy was a babe. I was told that doing websites was cheap and that it would hurt my career. I was told this by my "agent." The guy paid me right there and treated me like a queen. People have different agendas in this industry and I can't talk to anyone else so here it goes. Am I the only one that has had this happen? Please disregard if this isn't relevant to your site. But I don't know if I should just wait or call the police. The check is small ( less than 500.00 ) so it's not the end of the world. Sorry for the drama-just don't know what to do.
The company is called Extreme Associates. I was told that that this has happened before and the company came though -and paid- so I guess it isn't the end of the world.
Jeremy Steele writes: Hey Luke, Tell Lisa She can email me (jeremysteelexx@hotmail.com) and I can refer her to some of the decent people in this business who I've worked for who don't bounce checks and who don't treat people like s--- and pull bulls--- like Extreme perpetually does. They were the ones I were referring to last month when they bounced their check on me three times. I'm never working for them again. I had to stress out major about paying rent late. I would call and leave messages and the accountant would never call me back. I had to keep calling and calling and calling. I had to make two trips and wait hours to get checks which ended up bouncing three times. Maybe good for the bad man image but not f---ing funny, having to live on the street and having a bad relationship with your owner/landlord.
Meanwhile, Extreme owed me a measily $100.00 for half of a whopping $200.00 for a Krysti Myst gangbang from over a year and a half ago, which they claimed I never worked the second half of. The proof that I did work both days of a single girl $100.00 a day shoot spread out over three and a half weeks is in the video itself, where, in the first half of the video, I'm clean shaven, and in the second half, I suddenly appear with a goatee, which I grew for over three weeks. Some bulls--- happened with them, where I found out I was fired while showing up to be in a gang bang with a girl named Sunshine (forget her stage name), who with I never worked, and was escorted out without EVER being heard.
It turns out that someone, on l-keford, I believe, was apparently talking s--- about Krysti Myst and Extreme, and did so anonymously. I was one of a few people complaining the day of the shoot about this sudden ultimatum we were given about having to show up three and a half weeks later to the day we were booked to finish the cheap gangbang, otherwise we would no! t get paid for either. Krysti couldn't finish the shoot, and it may have had something to do with the fact that all of us were told, for the first time, once we got there, that we had to be real brutal with her.. Slap her, spit on her, and in her mouth, piss on her, and have her lick our dirty s---holes, as well. This kind of s--- we should all be warned about, and cleared with first, especially the actress. When I talked to her the second day of the gangbang, three weeks later, I told her I thought they should treat her better.
Anyway, later on in the scene, she suddenly says to me, in it's midst that I was the one talking "s---" about her, on the internet. I still don't know what Krysti Myst was talking about and I never said s--- about Krysti Myst on the internet, and what I said about Extreme, I said to them, in person, and to her. I was sticking up for Krysti, yet she somehow thought I was the one talking s--- about her, whatever it was. Maybe someone went on the internet paraphrasing what I articulated?
I don't f---ing talk anonymously on the internet, and don't fear them or anybody. I've spoken in the past about World Modeling and how they've f---ed me over and said s--- about me when Steve Austin was with them, because I fell out with them over a misunderstanding of intentions.. I speak my mind and I don't hide, in the name of fairness over political correctness.. which not enough people partake in, unfortunately. Anyway, I was blamed for saying some s--- on the internet and was convicted without a trial ever since, and they refused to pay me all this time. Even if I did talk s--- about them, I'm still entitled to be payed for my work.. They measily amount it was, at the time. Then, pretty recently, a nice guy by the name of Rod Fontana booked me on Extreme's Boot Camp, and a did three scenes (bj, dp and regular boy/girl) for $700 (I didn't even know what I'd get paid until ! I finally got the check).
I'll say it now and I'm not speaking anonymously, by the way. Extreme Sucks. They're lucky they are still on the shelves. The constantly reveal what they really think of talent, not only by the way they brutalize them on tape, for their own kicks, but by the way they bounce checks as well, and all the other unprofessional bulls---. They apparently pride themselves on f---ing with people in every way. It ain't cool we're exposing ourselves to the world in every way and risking our health or even lives for the public's entertainment, then we gotta deal with not being able to cash our checks, and wondering if we can pay rent. I think it's just one more middle finger they're waving at us, while laughing. It's part of the scumbag anti-porn posterchildren image they pride themselves in. With all the times I've had to call for my $100.00 check over the many months, and then the $700.00 and the bounced check fees, and my late rent fee, and the driving and the aggravation, I've tacked on my own late fees, the way the government might do with a late traffic citation.
I'd say, Extreme owes me about double, at the very least..Which I've managed to more or less collect, because I talked the accountant into giving me a second check, when the first one bounced, and was never returned to me promptly, by my bank. So, I finally two days ago deposited both checks and now I'll call us even, and give them a little taste of what it feels like to be ripped off, lied to, humiliated, repeatedly. Take me to court if you like, or otherwise just try confronting me in person, and you'll meet the wrath of both God and Satan, with the pain of all the f---s who've ever f---ed with me in my life but which I've held back against lashing out on, held within me still.
I've got more interesting things I could mention about Extreme, but I won't bother, unless they want a war. They need to learn respect and humility themselves... They're already way too high on humiliation.
Jeff writes: Do you think Extreme bounces checks because they don't manage their business properly? Or do they really have financial troubles?
Gregory Bowman writes: If a company writes you a bad check and has a history of doing so, I would suggest the following to recoup your losses and send a message to that company that writing bad checks may very well be illegal.
1. File suit in Small Claims court for treble the amount of damages plus your filing fees and costs due to the bad check. Missing that days work to appear is not recoverable nor are other items such as gas money or time taken to file the action. See your local court clerk for the criteria by which you may want to file and the amount.
2. Certainly file a complaint with the District Attorney's office for the bad check. Bad check writing is against the law. I am confident that the DA will be more willing to file charges if that company is also looking at future prosecution for obscenity laws. Its worth a try to get the District Attorney involved; what can it hurt.
3. Share information with others about the misconduct of companies who frequently have accounting problems. Writing bad checks is also called check FRAUD. It is a crime in some cases and the burden lies with the company to show it was not deliberate.
Hope this helps some of your readers solve the problem of check fraud and maybe puts those companies who have a practice of doing so on notice. Talent works very hard for you screwing on camera; they don't expect or deserve you to continue to screw them out of their entitled money.
Jennifer Steele
From BigDoggie.net: Ms. Jennifer Steele allowed me to comment of her Upscale Companionship Meetings finally since I had to let you Hobbyists know of this Multi Talented Classy Adult Starlet Skills. Her multilingual skills (Asian, Greek, Russian, French all very well spoken Professionally), eagerness to please to be the best, natural talents, going that extra mile and not watching that damn clock makes JenniFire one of my all time favorites. JenniFire's email is JenniFire72@Hotmail.Com
As a final comment when trying to contact her please do it via e-mail and not were she is featuring on tour since it could jeopardize her career because these Clubs do not need more heat and dislike non-related business calls as well. It has already happened in the past and she almost got taken off of her tour schedule.
Vivid, Details Party In Bevery Hills With Jenna Jameson
I wrote the author of that piece on Vivid in the June issue of Details magazine, Allen Salkin:
Dear Allen: I was really disappointed with your Details June piece on Vivid. I thought you were doing a serious investigation, (that's what you told me over the phone) instead it's a puff piece that could've been written by Vivid's PR department.
Tonight Vivid and Details are throwing a party in Beverly Hills to welcome Jenna Jameson to Vivid. Isn't that nice? Vivid and Details throwing parties together. How can you claim to seriously journalistically investigate a company and then start throwing parties with them?
When did you find out about this Vivid/Details party? Was it before or after the publication of your piece? Did Vivid get to see your piece and approve it before publication? Did Details make Vivid any assurances that it would be a friendly piece?
BTW, there's no way Vivid is going public in the next four years...or that Hirsch/James will ever be billionaires from porn.
Putative Marc writes: I say find out more on the Details/Vivid collusion. Details is pretty desperate for attention ever since they relaunched last fall. A publication with quite an interesting history--how it evolved from a gay club magazine in NYC to a grunge rock fashion guide to a maxim imitator and now ... Well, who knows what it is now? Conde Nast shut the mag down about a year back and pawned it off to their fairchild subsidiary ... now it's quite slick and sophisticated, but kind of aimless. Esquire for the less literate?
Jewish Journal Lukeless
I walked down to the corner to check out the latest issue of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal (JewishJournal.com) and found I was not in there.
Putative Marc writes: Once again, no big fancy LF article in the jewish journal, contrary to our anticipation ... they have more important topics to discuss, it seems, like this: Jewish Girls Rule.
Chaim Amalek writes: Well, Luke is something of a shanda to the Juden. (By the way, suppose someone penned the same article, virtually word for word, but substituted "white" for "jewish". What mainstream publication would touch it?
When all of the articles on you come out, can't you imagine the Gedolim of your community walking around muttering "Luke F-rd is our misfortune"?
Marc, you sounded a lot more animated today than you did the previous time I heard you, which was on Luke's show. In fact (and don't take this as an insult), I can readily imagine YOU on radio, whereas I cannot picture Luke hacking it in a real job like that. Have you ever taken a crack at some of the scenarios we kicked around for getting Luke on the radio? Maybe YOU are the annointed one - NOT Luke.
Rob Spallone Squares Off With Sharon Mitchell
Public health expert Rob Spallone called me ten times Thursday night to talk about AIM's Sharon Mitchell.
Mitchell wrote on Yahoo Chat earlier this week: "AIM has been difficult to keep going, because the filmmakers feel that they have no responsibility for the health care of the talent. Whether I agree or disagree with that, the fact is, that ain't changing anytime quick. So my best hope is to do hat I have done: start a monitoring system for HIV testing that the industry has been grateful to comply with for 3 and a half years now. When talent gets a job, they cannot work without a negative test from AIM, so when new talent comes here to get their test, I get a chance to give them a tremendous amount of prevention education and information and knowledge of our support groups. And our unique programs, such as the Porn 101 series, which is actors like Nina Hartley, myself, Herschel Savage and Richard Pacheco, giving the benefit of our experience our strengths and our help to new actors getting started in porn. And being a recovering addict, IV drug users are my personal favorite."
Rob says to Luke: I was sitting here reading your site. Sharon Mitchell's tooting her own horn again? (Rob refers to her Yahoo Chat.) What does she want, a pat on the back? How wonderful she is. She's the statistics keeper? She's phoney and she still owes money to the blood labs.
Now go start some trouble. I want to see if I get any feedback from anybody.
She's got everyone in the industry bulls---ted. They all think how wonderful she is and how I start with her. We already proved last week that she started with me. She's a lying...bitch that thinks she's so wonderful.
She says that if the government came in [to monitor working conditions, etc] she'd be right behind them. That the producers should be in charge of AIDS tests. I shot nine girls last week. Four of them without their AIDS tests. They didn't have any. I asked them if they minded working with each other without them. They said no. I shoot 'em.
Sharon wants to get hooked up with the government and have them come into the business and have the producers pay for health coverage for the talent. She has all these people fooled in the industry to donate money to her. Now she wants to bring the government in and have the producers pay for health coverage for the talent and for their old age pensions. Now she wants to be a good guy to the talent and to the government but f--k the producers, the guys who donate money to her? Without these people shooting movies, she wouldn't have anyone coming to her clinic.
The actresses in this business make more money than the companies. If they want health insurance, let them purchase it themselves.
Remember Tuesday on the set I told you about the chlamydia breakout. She knew about it a week ago. If she was so on top of things, why didn't she call all the producers and tell them? Today she prints it? If somebody comes in there and test positive for anything, she should call Jim South and all the producers. They need somebody with a brain to do this. Luke F-rd should be in charge of this.
If somebody got AIDS today and came into the North Hollywood Clinic, I'd call Sharon Mitchell. If anything breaks out in this business, everybody should find out so they don't hire that talent. This is the same thing she did when she found out Marc Wallice had HIV.
BrandyAlx1: Spallone's girls may have agreed to work without tests, but it's highly insensitive for a producer to leave it up to the talent like that. If any one of them had said no what do you think would have happened? They would have been replaced? Possibly not hired again. Confronting talent with such "work or no work" scenarios is unconscionable. I'm not supporting Mitch; I think she's a walking, talking joke, too, but that was an asinine admission. He shouldn't be able to even get talent if he's not requiring current tests--whichever clinic they come from.
The Italian Stallion writes: Hey Luke how does it feel to have a bodyguard. There is no shame to admit that Rob Spallone is your Bodyguard. Hey if I was Luke F-rd I want Rob Spallone as my Bodyguard too, and if I was you dont cross him dont do something in the name of journalism that would be very bad for you!
Tabetha Yang writes: I had a girl that didn't shoot for Spallone not that long ago because she DIDN'T have a test. Rob is fun and fair, but he is also a professional and seems to run his sets as so. I know a lot of girls that don't take tests seriously, specially when it comes to girl/girl shoots, and that puts the PRODUCER in an odd situation. I have never heard of Rob shooting without them.
Rob calls.
Luke: "No more."
Rob: "What do you mean no more? I'm reading Sharon Mitchell. She wants to get hooked up with the government and have them come into the business and have producers pay for talent's health care."
Luke: "Do you think that's a good idea?"
Rob: "I think she's a c--t two-faced bitch. These companies donate money to her. Now she wants to bring the government in... How do you think the companies who helped her raise money will feel about having to dish out more money for talent that come in the business for two months and run out?
"Now she wants to be the good guy to the talent and to the government but f--- the producers who donate money to her? I think she should reexaminate her brain.
"I think we should put on a fundraiser for Sharon so she clean up her filthy dirty clinic and maybe she can hire some real nurses and doctors like the other clinics have.
"My wife is doing very fine. My brother, the doctor, is coming over tomorrow with all his daughters. Maybe we'll bring them over to Sharon's clinic. Maybe my brother can work for Sharon.
"Brandy Alexandre, there is no law in the world that says we have to take an AIDS test from the talent. We can't force anybody to get an AIDS test. It's against the law. If a girl comes to work and she doesn't have an AIDS test, I can't send her home. There's no law saying that. If the guy or girl who's working with her, wants to still work with her, that's up to the talent. That has nothing to do with us.
"I don't shoot a girl who doesn't have a test if noone wants to work with them.
"Sharon Mitchell says that nobody can work unless they get a test at AIM? There are nine zillion clinics out there. I accept clinics from every clinic.
"Sharon Mitchell said in that chat: "I see 17- and 18-year-old girls every day who have no idea what they're getting into." What is Sharon Mitchell doing with 17-year old kids? She's counseling them not to get into the business? Is she Mother Theresa?
"She says she did scenes when she was underage. The feds read your site every day. Wait until the feds go around to the companies to go after those tapes with Sharon when she was 17. There's no statue of limitations on this. The cops can go through everybody's tapes now looking for Sharon Mitchell. She's a stupid bitch with no brain and a big f--king mouth."
Richard Gordon Takes Over ClubLove.com
XXX writes: Dear Luke: Hello. Do you have any information on someone named Richard (RJ) Gordon? He recently bought all of Seth's assets, including Clublove. I searched your site and see a reference to him throwing shows a few years ago, but that is all I saw from your site....RJ has quite the nasty reputation and I thought perhaps you might know more.
From CourtTV.com: Interview with Bill Kelly, retired FBI Agent. Eighteen of his twenty-eight years in the Bureau were spent working on obscenity and child pornography cases. Includes the Mob's affiliation with the porn industry, "Deep Throat," the Meese Commission and the FBI's Miami Pornography investigation (MIPORN). In the late 1970's the FBI mounted an undercover investigation of the pornography industry and distribution system in southern Florida. The US District Court of Southern Florida indicted 43 people in 1980 for transporting and conspiring to transport and sell pornographic materials over state lines. (PDF) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Bill: My name is William P. Kelly. FBI retired agent, 28 years, 8 months and 5 days of service. Retired in November 1980. I spent 21 years here in Miami, Florida. Eighteen of those years were spent working on obscenity cases.
I started working on pornography cases here in Miami in 1962. The leading organized crime people in the '60s were Cangiano brothers out on Long Island. They were making these little 8mm black and white loops. The FBI successfully prosecuted these fellows and they got eight years in the federal penitentiary, which was probably the longest obscenity sentence in history.
According to the 6/13/82 Los Angeles Times: Anthony Peraino and Michael Zaffarano dominated distribution of loops to Mafia-controlled outlets in New York City. According to the FBI, they sold their films secretly out of automobile trunks, coffee catering trucks, unmarked warehouses, several restaurants, a chain of meat markets and a Brooklyn candy store. Their primary sales representative was Cosmo Cangiano from Brooklyn, whose arrest record included larceny, forgery, mail theft and interstate shipment of stolen securities.
Bill: There was nothing much going on nationally until 1971. Then two things happened. In 1971, an element of the Colombo family, the Peraino family, came down to Fort Lauderdale, in South Florida, to set up offices and make the "first porn movie" Deep Throat for $22,500. Its eventual gross exceeded $100 million and they kept at least half. The second thing that happened is that it hit about 300 theaters nationally in 1972. And a few weeks later, [FBI chief] John Edgar Hoover died. If he had stayed alive and in full possession of his faculties, we would not be in this terrible condition nationally.
Hoover had five criminal priorities: espionage, kidnapping, extortion, communism and obscenity. I am sure that he would had not only me and one or two other agents working these obscenity cases nationally. That's all there was at that time. He would have had a platoon of us out there going after these people.
I was more than apalled. I was double appalled, shocked and disgusted. That's the first time we had anything like that [Deep Throat] in this country. And one thing that made Deep Throat so successful was the media. Gave those gangsters probably five million dollars worth of free advertising for Deep Throat. It's a lousy movie. I've seen it a dozen times, even paid to see it the first time when it opened in Miami Beach to a line going around the block.
The Peraino family had a man Robert De Salvo whose body we've never found. He went to Italy to try to collect additional money for the Peraino family. It's a bad place to try to go to collect money from the Mafia. We traced him as far as London and haven't seen him since. I imagine he's fish food.
The sweeper situation operated like this. You walked up to the theater and handed over $5. You never got a ticket. Now, my wife's family's been in the entertainment business in East Tennesse since 1937 and they've never not given a ticket for anything. But these Mafia guys, for obvious IRS purposes, they're not going to have any ticket records. So you gave the fellow at the door $5 and he says, 'All right, you can go in.' So I walked in with a newspaper reporter from one of the Miami newspapers. And sitting over in the corner of the lobby was a bent nosed guy sitting. He had a counter in his hand. As a person would pay his $5, this person would click his counter. And at the end of the day, he would go up to the owner or manager, the film having shown about 20 times during the day because it was only 59 minutes. He'd say, 'Now Mr. Jones, I've been sitting in this theater all day long as I've done every day since delivering this movie. And my counter says 3000 came through today. Three thousand times five dollars is $15,000. Give me $7500 in cash right now. No tomorrow, no checks, no promises, no bologna, right now or else.
Some of the theater owners said, 'What do you mean or else?' So a few of them didn't pay immediately. We found out what some of the "or else's" were. The least they would do is send a fellow or two to the theater and take the film off the projector and not let them show it anymore. And the worse thing that'd happen was that you would have a fire.
So there are 300 theaters showing the film continuously and 300 checkers sending in packages to Wilton Manners, Florida, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
And about two years after the film started showing, I got a call. "Kelly, you are not going to believe this but we have so much money down here that we can't move around the office. The money's getting in the way. We've got garbage bags full of money and we're tripping over it. We don't even count it. We weigh it. We get a stack of $20 bills and put them on a scale and it comes to ten pounds. So we call the bank and ask how much is ten pounds of $20 bills. We write that down and do the same thing with $10, $5, and $1 bills. We've probably got a couple of million dollars laying around here in garbage bags.
We've got a problem here. The Perainos saw you sitting out in the parking lot of the church across the street from here a few days ago. Now they're not afraid of you and the FBI. Because almost nobody gets prosecuted for obscenity anymore. You had another guy with you and we're afraid that's an IRS agent. Now we're afraid of the IRS because those guys will take our money away from us and that's what we're in business for, to make money. So we're not going to take it to the bank because we're afraid the IRS will jump on us.
We went to trial [for obscenity] in Memphis, TN, thanks to one little old assistant United States Attorney named Larry Parrish. One of the real heroes in the Justice Department in the last 30 years. He took all twelve defendants to trial and their eight lawyers to trial and he just beat them down and whacked them good and every one of them got convicted. For some reason Larry Parrish was forced out of the Justice Department. Perhaps Hollywood had an influence on that.
A number of Hollywood luminaries lobbied on behalf of Harry Reems, against the government prosecuting an actor for obscenity. I talked to Harry Reems at the trial. He was as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. He didn't want to be associated with these guys from the mid-Meditteranean region. I think he was looking at me to shelter him and here I'm trying to help put Larry in jail along with the rest of them.
Over on the side of the Memphis courtroom, closest to the river, are the twelve defendants and their eight lawyers. They must weigh about four tons. And on the government side are Larry Parrish and FBI agent Ed Donland, weighing about 350 pounds combined. And we still beat them.
Harry Reems was a completely likeable guy for being so amoral. He'd joke with you. I think he was a good comedic actor. He was pretty good as opposed to Linda Lovelace who had as much acting ability as that lamp over there. She wrote a book with Chuck Traynor called "Inside Linda Lovelace" where she accuses me of all sorts of improprieties. Threatening to yank her out of bed and put her on a place to New York to testify before a grand jury. I never met her until we testified before the Meese Commission. I didn't have an opportunity to speak with her.
I don't know whether I believe her [Linda Lovelace's Ordeal claims]. Chuck Traynor was a nice guy. He ended up with Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Soap girl. I knew Traynor five years before he knew Linda Lovelace and he was a pornographer then. When it comes to whatever she said about the making of Deep Throat... I'm from Missourri, it's got to be proven to me. Because she used to do things before Deep Throat that were worse, if you know what I mean.
Reuben Sturman without a doubt was the most important pornographer in the history of the world. Everybody kowtowed to Reuben who's alias was Nebeur, his name spelled backwards. I used to go to the pornographer's conventions openly as an FBI agent. With a camera with a 400mm lens on it and take pictures of all the pornographers which did not please them very much. So, to have protection, I would always have another FBI agent armed and in back of me. Reuben Sturman would come to these conventions and would be treated like royalty. And if you don't mind dealing with pornography, he was very important.
Sturman was so important that the Wall Street Journal did a front page story on him in 1985 with a drawing. Pornographers would throw bags of money at him. He had over 700 corporations. Each dirty book store had its own corporation. A lot of folks call them adult bookstores. I don't. I call them porno garbage dumps. They would empty quarters out of these peep show machines into five gallon buckets. And these guys would pick up two of them, give half the proceeds to the store, and walk out with the rest.
One of the big shots of the Gambino family sent down to South Florida one of his soldiers as a sinecure. He'd been a loyal soldier for 30 years, most of it spent in New York state prisons. Sent him down here with the admonition that if you want the peep show business in South Florida, it's yours. And we had some force and violence and two of the three owners capitulated. The third owner was threatened by this soldier and he did not cave. He called the FBI in West Palm Beach to say that so and so was coming up there to kill him if he didn't turn over his peeps. Two agents went running up there and arrived just as the owner of the peep show business had a gun up against his head by this particular hoodlum out of the Gambino family. The hood that saw the two agents coming was admonished by his victim, 'Here comes the FBI. Now you're going to get it.' He fled out the backdoor and into the swamps of Florida in his $500 shoes and his $1000 suit and abandoned his brand new Lincoln in front of the factory where these machines were made and we didn't see that guy again for ten years. But we encouraged him to leave South Florida and he went to Los Angeles where he died.
The finest FBI agent in the United States today, and for the last 20 years, is Roger Truman Young, a relative of President Harry Truman. He nailed Reuben Sturman after a nine year effort for interstate transportation of obscenity for the grossest tapes I've ever seen. Including people having sex with animals, in one case a fellow and a chicken. There was one movie in there that Roger Young told me about. He called me up and said, 'It's called More Than A Mouthful. It's a defecation tape.' He said that he and another agent watched the film while sitting in the Las Vegas office. And they each had a garbage can between their legs because it was so gross they almost vomited three times each. And we had to show that to a jury in a Federal Court in Las Vegas. The jury came back ten to two for a conviction. The two people who voted not guilty were lady elementary school teachers in Las Vegas.
There will never be another Reuben Sturman but his successor, his chief lieutenant, is a very prominent man in the industry today. His names is Edward Joseph Wedelstedt. He's based in Denver and he's got an outstanding lawyer [Arthur Schwartz]. The name of his main operation if Goalie Entertainment.
Was Reuben Sturman connected to organized crime? Reuben Sturman was organized crime. But he was not Mafia organized crime. Was he connected to the Mafia? I don't think there's any doubt about that. He probably owed something to the Gambino family through the personage of Robert DiBernardo who was a capo in the Gambino family.
I heard that DiBernardo started out as a soldier in the DeCavalcante family. And then he switched to the Gambinos. I've never heard of this before. He was a great moneymaker. He turned around Star Distributors on Lafayette St which was run by Teddy Rothstein. DiBernardo also owned a chain of alignment shops in the northeast. And DiBernardo was feared by everyone in the porn business. I remember on occassion asking pornographers about DiBernardo and they would just freeze.
We prosecuted DiBernardo, Rothstein and Andre D'Apice in the Mike Horn series of cases in federal court. We prosecuted him in 1981 and much to the discomfort of his handsome defense attorney Herald Price Fahringer, who was one of the best First Amendment attorneys in the US, DiBernardo used to come and sit with me and talk to me during breaks in the trial.
He talked about anything but the business. His father lived down here in Broward County and had cancer. And he talked about football.
DiBernardo was the best looking pornographer I ever saw. He was a handsome dude. He was always wearing a suit that probably cost more than all ten of mine combined. And he'd walk into a room full of women and the women would look at him. 'He looks like a movie star.' And he did. However, as soon as he started talking to you, you could tell what his background was. He was a rought talking sort of fellow who belied his appearance.
The Meese Commission was a follow-up to the original Attorney General's commission of 1967-70 which was put together at the request of President Johnson. The original commission consisted of 18 people, many of whom, especially the leadership, were members of the America Civil Liberties Union, not my favorite organization. Three members of the commission were favorable to my philosophy of prosecuting pornographers. But that commission handed in its two million dollar report to President Nixon in 1970, recommending the abrogation of all US obscenity laws (unless they pertained to children). They said that pornography was not a large industry, did not hurt people, and did not make much money. Well, in 1970 it was making about four billion dollars a year and it makes three times that much today.
President Nixon read the report and filed it. But the report and its recommendations went through a vote in the U.S. Senate and only 65 senators voted. Sixty of them agreed with Nixon that the report should be canned. Five who disagreed were Clifford Case from New Jersey, Jacob Jarvitz from New York, George McGovern and Walter Mondale. Now, I have mentioned that several times in lectures and you could hear the audience gasp when I mentioned Mondale. An associate of mine called Mondale's office and asked him about it. And the person at Mondale's office answered that had Mondale been elected president of the United States, he would have attempted to abrogate all obscenity laws.
The Meese Commission was formed in 1985 and it was given six months to report and a budget ($400,000) that was designed to it them fail. They didn't have any investigators to speak of. So about 30 of us, FBI agents, retired guys like me, postal inspectors, volunteered to work for free. The commission made something like 100 recommendations and all of them were implemented.
Child pornography has never been one tenth of one percent of the overall problem with obscenity and pornography in the United States. But it gets all the grease, all the money. And you can't find it anywhere except on the internet. I challenge anyone to go into a dirty bookstore and buy child pornography. The pornographers are scared to death to deal in kiddy porn because the penalties are horrendous. Unless the heats go off and then of course they'd get into it. Because they have absolutely no commitment to morality except to make money and keep from getting murdered by their peers. They don't think about the United States as a declining cultural entity which they are largely responsible for.
There are about 70 people on the Broward County's child pornography taskforce yet there have not been more than a dozen FBI agents devoted fulltime to [adult pornography].
I got thrown out of a dirty bookstore in Miami along with a chief counsel for the Meese Commission by a large bodyguard. We found out that every bookstore we went to in six cities stocked identical product. It tells you common sources, common pathways of distribution, equals organized crime.
I found John C. Holmes to be a yahoo. Last time I saw him alive was at a porno convention in Chicago or Las Vegas. He was riding around the convention hall on roller skates carrying a ballon which gave me some ideas about his mental capabilities at the time. He died of a heinous disease because of his propensities for having sex with thousands of women. I have absolutely no sympathy for John Holmes and his ilk.
Pat Livingstone was hired as a clerk, just out of highschool, by the FBI in Miami. Excellent employee, hard worker, smart little guy. He was short, almost bald, bowlegged, had a lisp. But tough. Ran marathons. He joined the FBI's agent training school with Bruce Ellavsky who used to look like a movie star.
Then in 1977, two Dade County detectives started their own undercover operation to nail pornographers. It got to be too big for them so they came to me to have the FBI take it over. We spent about $488,000 over two-and-a-half years on MIPORN.
Patrick and Bruce came down to me in August of 1977 and I trained them. I told them who their targets should be. I told them not to ask for child porn, they'll know you're a cop. And don't pay $60 for a tape that you can get wholesale for $40. And after a few weeks, they went out. We had an electronics genius named Van Ryan who wired their office beautifullly with sound and video cameras.
Livingstone and Ellavksy traveled the country for two-and-a-half years. They went to Hawaii to catch a child pornographer. He wound up leading guilty and got 20 years, the most substantial conviction we got. They made 20 trips to Los Angeles, staying first class. I would follow them to porno conventions to harass them and give them extra credibility with the underworld. If I had the opportunity in a hallway or a stairway with other pornographers watching, I would deliberately bump them in the shoulder and try to knock them down. And I'd say, 'You guys are from my hometown. I don't like pornographers from Miami.' They spent a lot of money on rented jewelry, apartments, buying drinks. Everybody took the bait except two pornographers in Palm Beach who were [Gambino family] associates. And these two guys said to Ellavsky and Livingstone, 'No way. You guys are either FBI agents or you're working for Kelly.' And they were right, but everybody else took the bait and sold obscenity to these guys because they were greedy.
They could have made cases against 200 pornographers but ended up charging 55. I'll never forget one case. Two guys from San Francisco, one called Walter "Frenchy" Bagnall, also known as the Dirty Frenchman, and Larry Nelson. They were homosexual pornographers. [The two FBI agents] bought one 8mm 15-minute color film with no conversation, no sound. The title was so obscene I won't even tell you what it was. But the entire plot of this epic production consisted of a black dude, maybe about 35, inserting his fist, a cucumber and a Budweiser up a young white girl's vagina.
Now we're prosecuting this in federal court in Miami and Marcella Cohen is the prosecutor, the finest federal prosecutor of obscenity in the history of the United States. How do you defend a movie like this before a jury largely composed of latin women who've never seen anything like this? You say it has serious scientific value - how much could be crammed into a young woman's vagina. The defense attorney Bob Smith brought in seven defense experts. One of the them was the finest looking 40-year old woman I'd seen in my life. She was a psychiatrist from Minneapolis.
The defense attorney asks, 'Have you seen that film?' She says she's reviewed it several times thoroughly. 'In your opinion, does it have serious scientific value?' And she says, 'Not only does it have serious scientific value, it has serious educational value because it fulfills a fantasy of many women who would love to have that done to them. But to be more succinct, it has serious scientific value because it shows the extent to which a vagina can be stretched.'
Our great prosecutor Marcella Cohen gets up. 'Only two questions. Are you married? [Yes.] Do you have kids? [Yes.] That's nice doctor. Just one further question. Is it or is it not true, madam, that the head of a baby is somewhat larger than a Budweiser beer can?' That's true. 'No further questions.'
Jury gets the instructions. Fifteen minutes later they're back in. Guilty.
We originally targeted over 100 figures for MIPORN but the Justice Department chickened out on us and made us reduce the number to 55. Forty nine were convicted.
Ellavsky and Livingstone were praised to high heaven as the heroes of the operation, which they were. They lived in constant danger for a long time. Ellavsky went to Boston. All of us could tell Livingstone was mentally disturbed. He was not the guy who went into MiPorn. He was aggravating. He would not answer calls. I had to mediate an almost fight fight between him and one of the prosecutors. He was off the edge from February, 1980.
His undercover name was Pat Salamone. The FBI agent in charge of Louisville was told Livingstone was mentally affected by working undercover and he should never work undercover again. First thing when he gets there, an undercover assignment comes up and he volunteers for it. I would say Pat Livingstone became his undercover identity.
In November of 1981, while on assignment in a suburb of Louisville, he shoplifted $150 worth of clothes while he had his four year old son in the parking in an FBI car. When he was arrested and the police took him away, he gave them his name Pat Salamone. That destroyed his credibility for the MIPORN cases. We had a four day hearing with Judge Spellman about Livingstone and his credibility, and Pat wouldn't give the judge a straight answer. The judge would say, 'When you went into that department store and was arrested, were you Pat Salamone or Pat Livingstone?' And Pat would say, 'Oh gee, I don't know, your honor. I could've been this. I could've been that.' The judge finally gave up and said, 'Well, all of your credibility is gone.' We had to re-indict all 55 defendants just based on the testimony of Bruce Ellavsky.
As far as I know, Pat Livingstone never fully recovered. His life and that of his family was destroyed. He was finally given a mental disability by the labor department and trained to be a polygraph operator.
When you're dealing with people in the Gambino and Colombo families, you're naturally in danger. These guys will kill you, along with some of the California people. They [Livingstone and Ellavsky] were travelling, always in dangerous situations where they would go face to face with some of these dangerous hoodlums. They couldn't carry their guns with them when they're going to meet these people. Every place they went, they'd rent two apartments or rooms. They would have an undercover room in one hotel and an FBI room in the other hotel. One thing the pornographers tried to do was stick prostitutes on them as favors. That would be terribly embarrassing if it turned out in court that these two guys were having sexual liasons with hookers that the pornographers gave them. Eventually they got two nice looking FBI lady agents, fortunately we had some at that time, to travel with these guys as their girlfriends. I saw these guys on the road and they played their parts to the hilt.
This is [picture] Russell James Hampshire, born in 1946, the head of Video Corporation of America. Also a MiPorn defendant. Not a heavy guy as far as being an underworld type character. A rather likeable guy to talk to.
This is Noel Charles Bloom, the second or third most important pornographer in the 1970s.
John writes: Luke, I agree with Bill Kellys' comments re Chuck Traynor.....I got to know him fairly well a few years ago when his present wife Bo, was still on tour regularly. Many times myself and my girlfriend, who dances at one of the clubs here went to dinner between shows with Chuck and Bo. Both are great people, and we have a standing invite to their horse ranch in Nevavda (just outside LV). Bo certainly doesnt seem like she is in any kind of distress, and is in fact treated like a queen by Chuck. Chucks' stories, needless to say, dont quite match up with those of Ms Lovelace, and he actually goes to lengths NOT to say anything bad about her when you ask him. Likewise Marilyn Chambers...they are still great friends. He has a million great stories about the industry, and what some people may not know is that he served his country well in Vietnam. Two sides to every story, know what I mean?
