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Tuesday, April 6, 1999

John Bowen's Cream Entertainment Verges on Collapse

Shortly before announcing a big new deal, John Bowen had a severe car accident Monday afternoon.

On the way to Dodger Stadium for opening day, John took his eyes off the road to reprogram his radio. He ran straight into the car in front of him.

"The accident was entirely my fault," said a wounded and spacey Bowen at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. He suffered a concussion and bruises, absorbing the steering wheel with his chest. John's wife also suffered a concussion. She's now out of the hospital.

"Nothing's broken. You don't really know how hurt you are until the next day," said John, owner of Cream Entertainment. "Neck pains, head pains, chest pains, arms... I'm incredibly spacey. I shouldn't even be at work but my all-feeling staff left me with some problems that I had to come in and take care of. I don't have much of an option. I'm doing the best I can.

"I was knocked senseless. I've been doing business all day today but I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm writing everything down. We let go our sales guy Mike Barbella."

Rushed to the hospital Monday afternoon, Bowen was unable to make it back to the office to sign the checks for his "all feeling" staff who quit on him. John's bookkeeper remains. The status of Cream's contract girls such as Zoe and Kendra is not clear. They had no comment Tuesday afternoon.

I talked to Mike Barbella shortly before 3PM: "There's something to it when one person makes a move," explained Barbella, "and everyone jumps. Prior to me talking to John at 5PM yesterday, there was never a discussion amongst ourselves about leaving. When I decided to leave, and said I was leaving [over the phone to John and Mrs. Bowen who were in the hospital at the time], I walked out. And right behind me walked the staff. And I asked, 'What are you guys doing?' And they all said, 'I want to quit because of...' And [another staffer said], 'I want to quit because of...' And, 'I want to quit because of...'

"I'm not going to air dirty laundry. But when an entire staff quits, there's an obvious problem.

"I wanted quit in person but I was forced to do it over the phone. I consider myself to be a good guy and John had just been in a car accident, and his wife, who I care for, was in the hospital. It's unfortunate that I was put in this position on this particular day. Being put into positions that you don't want to be put into is one of the reasons why I left. Being asked to do so many favors with no way of being repaid for them. Everything is 'please do this for me now and maybe tomorrow something will happen.' Nonstop broken promises."

Barbella worked at Cream for six months. "It was good at first. I did a lot for them. John didn't have a warehouse and didn't have the ability to ship to the distributors. He didn't have a business game plan, or the means to implement one. I brought him everything he needed to create a manufacturing and distributing company with the expectation that I would make a good salary. And that there would be title releases.

"I was brought up on the belief that anything less than four titles a month, you have to close up shop. We were at one a month. That was a friction causer.

"I quit. I had to take a stand. You can only be asked to do so much. You can only be pushed so far."

Mike (818-895-9708) has three interviews with porn companies this week who desire his services. Many of Cream's former employees may go with him. "Anyone who does come with me will fall under my umbrella. I'm not going to try to take him employees. It would be like f---ing your friends' wife."

www.nicisgirls.com Prostitution Ring

Nici of www.nicisgirls.com appears to be the new Heidi Fleiss, or Madam X, depending on how far back your memory goes about Los Angeles prostitution. Nici claims to employ numerous porn girls. She emails the following inquiry to porn girls:

Hi girlfriend!

This is Nici with Nici's Girls in Beverly Hills, CA. Please feel free to visit my website at www.nicisgirls.com. I run the most exclusive modeling/escort service in the world with bookings at a minimum of $1,500 per hour and up to $25,000 per day. Most of my models/escorts earn anywhere from $15,000-$30,000 a month. My clientele consists of the world's most famous, affluent, and generous gentlemen including politicians, celebrities, Fortune 500 CEO's, entertainment moguls, dignitaries, and royalty!

As you will see from my website I book some of the adult industries hottest XXX Film Stars as well some very beautiful models and dancers and I currently have over 200 models/escorts on my books. You might be familiar with some of the XXX Film Stars I currently book including Tabitha Stevens, Nici Sterling, Anna Malle, Brittany Andrews, Alex Dane, Missy [Missy denies this], Jill Kelly, Farrah, and Raylene. I also book many featured dancers and magazine models including Casha Rae Allias, Mason Marconi, Bobbi Billard, and Melanie Camberlango. If you would like references from some of my girls please feel free to ask.

I understand that to some ladies discretion is key which is why I created
the XXXCLUSIVE portfolio for regular and well screened clients only. If
you feel more comfortable I would be more than happy to place you in
there rather than in the main online portfolio. PLUS I can also list you
and a link to your website in my Cyber Cuties portfolio with ladies like
Petra Verkaik, Victoria Zdrok, Heather St. James, and Shae Marks.
Currently my website gets over 100,000 impressions a day....that's a ton
of potential fan club members!

WOW...with that mouthful said I am hoping to hear back from you soon!

XOXO - Nici

Tuesday evening, Luke received this:

Subject: Nici's Girls
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:24:21 EDT
From: Geilimlaw@aol.com
To: luke@lukeisback.com

Gilbert R. Geilim
A Law Corporation
4929 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 825
Los Angeles, CA 90010

April 6, 1999

Luke F-rd
264 S. Lacienega Blvd., Suite 4172
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

RE: Publication of Private Communications

Dear Mr. Ford;

Please be advised that this office represents the interests of Nici's Girls and all parties associated with this company.

We have been informed that on April 6, 1999 you published a personal and confidential e-mail on your website at www.l-keford.com. The communication in question is dated April 6, 1999. The publication of a privileged and confidential e-mail without the authority pf the sender is a violation of civil and criminal statutes on both the State and Federal level which protect against the dissemination of privileged and confidential e-mail communications. According to the Electronic Communications Act of 1986, if prosecuted on this charge in a Federal court you face a mandatory 3 year prison sentence and/or a $100,000 fine.

The communication, which has been published by you, was a privileged communication and intended only for the use of the recipient. Since you are clearly not the recipient, you are hereby notified that the publishing and distributing of this e-mail is prohibited.

At this time we are requesting that you immediately cease and desist from any further publication of private communications via the internet. Your continued publication of this letter will only subject you to added penalties under the law.

It is abundantly clear that your publication of this privileged communication was done maliciously and with reckless disregard for the privacy interests of my client.

My office has been instructed to take immediate action against you for your blatant violation of the privacy concerns of Nici's Girls, which includes the filing of a civil action against you for invasion of privacy and defamation.

Govern yourself accordingly.

Sincerely,

Gilbert R. Geilim, A Law Corporation

CC: Nici's Girls
Luke F-rd VIA US Mail

Gilbert's full name is Gilbert Ralph Geilim-Morale. You can check his standing with the California State Bar here. It seems he's been disciplined many times: "This member has a public record of discipline which consists of one or more of the following:

private reproval with public disclosure

public reproval with duties

discipline with actual suspension

disciplinary probation with no actual suspension

suspension for failure to pass the Professional Responsibility Examination

disbarment

Brandy Alexandre of www.kamikaze.com responds:

I'm happy to allow the "personal and confidential" e-mail acquired by Mr. Luke F-rd to be reposted by me, since I didn't happen to save the one Nici sent to me, which said the exact same thing. Spam mail, as far as I'm concerned, since it was unsolicited and commercial in nature. Pot calling the kettle black if you want to talk about internet no-nos.

While it is considered to be one of the deepest breaches of netiquette to post e-mail, I have had MANY conversations about copyright and privacy with an attorney and he unequivocally states that there is no way anyone can ever expect that e-mail is in any way private. It can go through scores of
computers before reaching its destination and can be read by anyone along the way. The sender is presumed to be aware of this and consents to it simply by hitting the "send" button. Even with PGP keys, which was not attached to the email I received, and most likely not this one either, you cannot claim that your email was confidential in nature.

Also, with regard to copyrights, it is the recipient of "mail," which is loosely interpretted as all correspondence in the electronic age, who is the copyright owner (it's more complex based on the content, but none of it would apply to this, so I'm snipping it), not the sender. Apparently, the recipient of this email thought so little of their "ownership" of it they freely gave it to Mr. Ford to do with as he pleased. Allow me to digress a little bit and state that anyone giving anything to Pooper Scoop Luke F-rd must be presumed to be operating under the knowledge that he will print every last word of it, so this was obviously intended for publication by the person who forwarded it regardless of whether or not any verbage to the effect was exchanged. That's simply what he does.

Depending on what Mr. Ford said in relation to his putting the email on his web site is another matter entirely. I haven't seen it so I don't know. The letter is just a scare tactic to get their way. From the content of the email itself, even without Ford's color commentary, I cannot seem how Nici
can be defamed. She's already claiming she's a pimp AND a hooker in the email. How much worse can it get than that?

As for *my* privileged email, I forwarded mine to a biography writer for one of her celebrity clients, as well as subsequent communication between Nici and me with regard to him. So sue me. It was *my* email, in the end, and I can do with it as I please.

Fred Nek writes to Luke: "I read the letter you posted on your web site from a lawyer allegedly representing Nici's Girls. You may want to point out to this attorney that Rule 5-100(A) of the Rules of Professional Conduct state:

"A member (i.e. a member of the California Bar) shall not threaten to present criminal, administrative, or disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in a civil dispute."

These rules govern attorneys in California.

DrZ writes to Luke: "I have been an avid reader and fan of yours for quite some time now. However, until this very moment I never thought that my opinion really counted in your discussions so I have kept my comments to myself. Well now I finally have the opportunity to shed some light on one of your very controversial topics. Seize the moment!

"Come on Luke. Who are you going to believe? The porn stars? Don't get me wrong, I love these women as much as the next guy but we're not talking about the most well rounded individuals in the world here. These are PORN stars!

"I use services like Nici's Girls all of the time, including Nici's Girls on several occasions. Ironically enough it was Nici that introduced me to both Missy and Davia Ardell. Aren't these the very ladies that have disputed association with this agency on your board? Missy [she denies this] was beautiful and very sweet but let's just say that Davia isn't all that she is cracked up to be.

After keeping me waiting in my Las Vegas hotel room for more than 2 hours she showed up wearing sweats, no makeup, and had no eyebrows. Needless to say I had to politely decline her services. I even asked Nici one time about Alicia Rio and she refered to me to her ad at www.city-source.com telling me it might be easier if I booked her directly. And as for Bianca Trump - she posts on her very own site at www.biancatrump.com that she is available for escorting so is it so why is it so hard to believe that somewhere along the way she gave Nici permission to post her as well. After all Nici's is a much nicer site than www.angeliquesesc.com where Bianca was posted for almost a year.

"I've got to ask you though Luke, why Nici? I have been following this post for a while and I have not seen any confrontation between you and her. As a matter of fact the ladies I met through her had nothing but wonderful things to say about her professionalism and fairness. I think that the only thing Nici is guilty of is over charging for the ladies servies but then again you'll never hear the girls complaining about that!

"I mean what would be her motive? She obviously has access to all of the women posted on her site. Of course any girl with an ounce of humility would deny working for such an agency when confronted on your board among her fans and peers.

"I have seen these very same girls posted at sites like www.allure-la.com and www.playboysclub.com. I have even run across a few of them while visiting with Caressa Savage. Caressa runs her own ad in the LA Express. The site www.xxxvideovixens.com also advertised the services of many top XXX Film Stars under the link "Porn Stars Who Escort". I don't think it is still listed on their site but you can contact these same people through an ad in the LA Weekly that reads "Porn Star 818-XXX-XXXX". Also have you visited www.shylafoxxx-productions.com? She advertises her services on her own site as well and even posted with Nici's Girls way back when. Is it fair to say that the proprietors of these services are pimps too?

"I don't think it is fair to call Nici a pimp. She does not make offers of prostitution but merely an introduction to your favorite film actress or adult model. She clearly posts on her site that if you have a dream date she will try to find them for you so it seems only logical that she would e-mail
a lady in the manner which she did. Perhaps this was by a clients request. A pimp no. A good business woman yes. From all of my dealings with Nici she has proved to be an honest, fair, and nice person.

"I don't mean to be a pooper on this topic but it just seems that there are larger issues to fret over than this one. I mean for christ sakes Luke our country could possibly go to war with Russia if you watch the real news and believe in the writings of Nostradamus.

"Like I said, up until now I WAS a fan. But I agree with Nici's attorney - you have a blatant disregard for the well being of others. Just always remember the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Now those are words worthy of being read."

Jim writes: "I love the Brandy letter. She's so adorably nasty to you, Nici and everyone else. The part about defending their reputation was the funniest. Your posting of both the cease-and-desist followed by Brandy's note, both in their entirety makes for great reading!

"Pimping and whoring are nasty, judgemental terms. Madam and escort are the nicer terms. Soliciting and prostitution are the formal terms for it. You can judge the attitude by the term used.

"Nici has found a good angle - people will pay a lot for "stars" and for the stars making a large amount for a sex episode that is not videotaped is not far from making a medium amount for one that is. Pursue this one and you'll be back on TV again soon!"

Porn star Bianca Trump writes: "#1. I never gave Nikki permission to post my pics. I was on Angeliques sites and in all their ads for nearly 4 years exclusively.Not one year. When we parted ways I went on my own. Odiously thus my web site. I never deny anything scandalous I do. Why would I start now? I don't give a rats ass who knows I escort or where I do it. It comes down to money. If someone is posting my pictures and doesn't even know me .....well then I'm not making any money am I? And the clients are mad that they can't see me. So no one wins DDUUHHH. Luke, Do your readers think before they speak?

"#2 As far as that email goes it's bulls---. I went to her site clicked on the exclusive members site and entered Jack Ass as my name and a hotmail email account. In 2 seconds I got a password. The same thing from a friends house under the name Jack Off again SAME password in 2 minutes. There is nothing descrete about her or her service. Anyone can look in that part of the site. There is NO confidentiality at all. Like I said before she is just a LIAR!

"Lastly......$25,000.00 a day...............please. I was born some day but not yesterday."

What happened to Reuben Sturman's millions?

The godfather of porn grossed up to a million dollars a day at his peak but claimed during the mid 1990s to be broke. Sturman's family ran an ad in the 1/98 AVN appealing for donations to help with burial costs and to pay for the education of Reuben's daughter. A source: "$1mil a day sounds unusually and fantastically high. You can figure out the cash by estimating the amount of stores and clubs, which was probably around 300, times, perhaps, $2000 to $3500 per store, per week for a total of $600k-$1.05mil per week. Neither David nor Reuben's other children got any money nor did his ex-wife or her daughter." A good guess of where Sturman's money ended up would be the same person who inherited hundreds of Sturman's stores - Eddie Wedelstedt of Goalie.

Extreme Scandals

A couple of weeks ago, Luke received this anonymous handwritten letter in his snail mail box: "What do you think the odds are Rob Black has all the model releases for the movies he's directed?"

That was it. But it was enough to get Luke wondering, and now he's hearing that Extreme Associates does not have the models releases to individual productions from the recently fired Tiffany Mynx and Van Damage that Extreme has sold to a cable TV company. I hear that Rob Black's company has already received payment for the shows but was unable to deliver on the releases.

Apparently, the forthcoming Tiffany Mynx and Van Damage comps to be released by Extreme in their hardcore versions and already sold to cable TV contain scenes from Tiff and Van's movies for which Rob has the masters (because Extreme Associates makes the dupes and distributes the product of such production companies as Tom Byron's, Tiff's and Van's), but the releases are in the hands of the production companies Tiffany Mynx Productions and Van Damage Productions.

Rob Black told www.geneross.com: "We have not sold anything to cable. We have not received any money from any cable deals." [Black has been battling back and forth with a certain cable company over licensing agreements, and the cable company's alleged unauthorized licensing of Black's product. Black's attorney last week appeared to be willing to ride out the problem, but Black says certain circumstances have altered the situation, and they're going after the company.]

"That's what we're going through with our lawyers today," Black says. "That [cable] company's going to be called Extreme Productions TV. We're going after them full bore. We're in meetings right now. We have contracts that....signed as president of Extreme. They're [the cable station] running things already that I never signed. They were supposed to send a list of all materials they had and renegotiate prices. They did not do either of them. We said, 'Okay, that's how you want to be..' They have a title, Fire Wire that we know they have, and they're saying they don't have it. And they went directly to our director, direct, and asked if they could get it from him. He said, 'I don't own the f---ing thing.'

"The model releases for the Van and Tiffany movies? Van Damage stole them from our offices. He stole the model releases and masters. He knew he stole the masters because he replaced the masters on the shelves with work tapes, bogus tapes. So when we picked the masters up, it felt like there were tapes in there. When we moved our offices, we had to move all the masters. So, as we started moving all the masters, one of them fell to the ground and a f---ing tape fell out that said, 'Cellar Dwellers Work Tape.' One of our editors goes, 'Is this supposed to be there?' We went through all the tapes. He [Van Damage] replaced all the masters with bogus tapes. If he owned them, like he thinks he does, why would he replace them with bogus tapes? If you take a look at every Extreme box it says I produced the movie and I'm the holder of records. So how could he have them?" www.geneross.com

Black fired Tiffany and Van (who've lived together for over a year) in early February, 1999.

Page 109 of the April AVN features an ad by Extreme Associates for "Tiffany Mynx: Rest In Peace," which contains eight scenes and two hours of tape. During her tenure with Extreme Associates, Mynx, a heavy pot smoker with a reputation for laziness (according to Extreme sources), produced only one movie, "Asswoman in Wonderland."

Attorney Michael Friedman, who represents accountant Mike Daniels in his suit against Rob Black, writes to Luke: "I take exception to your reference in your column tonight regarding Tiffany Mynx being a heavy pot smoker and lazy. I do not know where you got this information but I can assure you that, in order for her to be a feature dancer, she must have a great deal of energy and cannot be lazy. Let's see Rob Black shake his ass from Thurs to Sat. Then we'll really see who's lazy."

Rob Black told www.geneross.com: "That's true about her. She is a lazy, f---ing dope-smoking f---. That can be attested to by everybody including Patrick Collins who she tried stealing $20,000 from. We had to get the attorneys, and we had to pay the f---ing bills to get her out of that f---ing mess. Patrick will attest to that. Our attorneys had to spend hours on the phone with the furniture people to get her out of that mess. The bill alone for that was over five grand which I paid for. We'll just keep drilling out all that s--- about these two. Now we're finding out that Van Damage wasn't a Navy SEAL. He's been lying about that. That's all bulls---. He's a con artist. We'll confirm that tomorrow. We're already in contact with the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado. We're getting the history of Van Damage, and there's a lot of conflicting stories. They want a f---ing war? They ain't gonna f---ing survive. We're still taking care of her f---ing guinea pig which she abandoned and left here in this f---ing office. Her kids? She's abandoned her kids. The girl's a worthless piece of s---, on top of the fact that Van Damage is a f---ing rapist. We've got it from over five girls that Van Damage has sexually assaulted and has forced sex upon. We can bring these girls up, and criminal charges might be levied upon him for that, too. We're coming full force. Know what that derogatory ad picture is? It's on the Cock Smokers 3: Blow Your Load box. It's on the side of the box of her smoking a cigarette. The picture's already on a f---ing box. She took the pictures. We have stills of me putting fake cum on her face for the box. We have model releases. It was all staged. She sells it on the road, that little piece of trailer trash. And how did I steal her image and flush it down the toilet? I own that image. I paid for it for a f---ing year. When that bitch free-loaded off me in that house that she lived at. Van Damage and Tiffany Mynx lived together in a house which I paid for, for three months, then they lived the rest of the time together in a house that I f---ing paid for with Tom Byron for seven months, rent free."

Roy: "I got to thinking about what possessed Tiffany Mynx to buy a guinea pig, and what she would name it. Any ideas? As pissed as Rob Black sounds, I gotta crack up every time I think of that guinea pig making noises and stinking up the place. I'll bet they got that guinea pig stoned a few times." (RAME)

The AVN ad features a tombstone which reads "Rest in Peace  Tiffany Mynx "Asswoman" Born 2/9/98 Dead 2/2/99." And there's a derogatory picture of Mynx smoking a cigarette, her face covered with cum.

Mynx could sue Black for defamation, I'm told. It's hard to imagine that she gave Rob a release to put her in a bad light. "He stole her image and flushed it down the toilet for his own satisfaction," says a source. "Taking those personal feelings he might have and putting them into an ad and a video to be distributed worldwide is risky business."

I hear that Rob took White-out and forged a release from Mynx to take to the insistent cable company for the Mynx RIP movie. Such forgery is illegal and may bring down criminal charges against Black aka Robert Zicari.

Rob told www.geneross.com: "No, completely false. That f---ing movie they don't even f---ing have. That movie isn't out for sale, it's not even done! The movie's sitting in the edit bay."

Luke hears that Extreme plans to release a Van Damage compilation tape called "The Damage is Done." Again, the proper releases are missing, I hear.

Black told www.geneross.com: "That's a complete falsehood. There's no such thing. But that's a great idea. I don't know where Luke's getting that one from."

I hear that Extreme and Mike Daniels are taking their court case to private arbitration. Black agrees.

I hear that Tom Byron is doing scenes for Seymore Butts, indicating that Tommy and his Tom Byron Productions are in financial trouble.

Rob told www.geneross.com: "That's completely and utterly false. The last scene he did was five or six months ago. And the only reason that he would work for Seymore, and he don't work for anybody else, was because Seymore pays his rate of a thousand dollars and Tommy gets to f--- Alisha Klass. He enjoys f---ing her in the ass."

Former Extreme contract girl Stryc9 says she has not been paid by Extreme for several scenes. And I hear that Tiffany Mynx and Van Damage claim that Extreme owes them money for scenes. Perhaps they will fold their case into that of Daniels, who's represented by attorney Michael Friedman.

Black told www.geneross.com: "That's complete and utter bulls--- hearsay. Tiffany owes me about 25 grand. She [Mynx] lost her passport to go to Brazil, which she did on purpose. The day before we were supposed to go to Brazil she mysteriously loses it. I had to fly Ashlyn Gere from a dance gig to cover for Jasmin in Florida, and I had to fly Jasmin from Florida to Brazil; and I had to pay the club for the advertising they did for Jasmin. Tiffany Mynx owes me that f---ing money. I will take her to civil court on that, that little ungrateful cunt."

What is Extreme doing with its money? I hear that Asswoman made over $50,000. Extreme's earnings do not seem to be flowing back to the production companies of Byron, Mynx and Van Damage. I hear that Mynx and Van were not paid according to their 25 - 75% split deal with Extreme Associates (whereby Extreme keeps 25% of the sales).

Black told www.geneross.com: "Asswoman didn't make fifty grand. You know how much that movie cost to make? $38,000. I wrote every single f---ing check from it. From duplication, to talent paid, to Tiffany Mynx being paid. I have cancelled checks by Tiffany Mynx Productions for thousands of dollars which say 'in lieu of payment for Asswoman.' When Tiffany Mynx cashed that check she was paid for that movie as a performer. Period. End of f---ing story. She didn't direct that movie. Tiffany Mynx did not direct that movie. Tiffany Mynx did not write that movie. My MOTHER came up with the concept for the movie about being in Wonderland, and Lizzy Borden wrote the f---ing script while Tiffany Mynx layed on her bed and smoked pot throughout the entire f---ing day. I f---ing directed the movie. I shot the movie. Ask Nina Hartley. I was on the f---ing set shooting Nina Hartley on the f---ing set. We produced it. If Tiffany Mynx claims anything else, I will take a f---ing lie detector test. Tell her to come down and take a lie detector test with me. She didn't do one iota for that movie. She didn't do anything except get her ass f---ed in that movie, and she bitched and moaned throughout the entire time. She's a piece of s---. She abandons her children. This is the only girl I know who abandons her children so she could smoke f---ing dope all day and live in a house with Van Damage while her children are living with her ex-husband who got fired from Elegant Angel. Why didn't she take her kids and move in with her mom and raise those kids? She didn't. Worthless piece of s---. I used to talk to her all the time, why don't you go be with your kids. 'I want to do movies, and I want to try and make a career.' And she ain't a dancer. She don't know how to dance. Know what her show is? She goes on stage and puts a dildo in her pussy. She doesn't dance that much because she only goes to places where she can put things in her pussy. The last time that she danced at the club in San Francisco - The Regal - she made half her money by giving people blowjobs and jerking guys off. She made over f---ing 15 grand there jerking people off. On the money aspect, let's see. We moved into a new building. We bought a Media 100. We're putting everything back into the company. We're coming out with our first DVD's next month. We bought the DVD authorer to make our own DVD's.

"Tiffany Mynx never had that kind of split [75%/25%], ever. We were going to work that out in the beginning with Van Damage, but as he became lazy and slow, I had to fund all the f---ing movies. When I had to fund all the movies, I said you're not owning this stuff. The only f---ing thing on our foresight was that he got to copyright the name Lewd Behavior. That's it. Every single movie he ever did was financed by Extreme Associates and Extreme Video, and I have over $100,000 worth of canceled checks for it to prove it. Van Damage still has a movie that's not even f---ing released yet, that I paid for when he went to North Carolina. He took our editor Charles Pinion and went to North Carolina. I paid for everything out of North Carolina. I paid for hotel rooms, I paid for everything. He still has that movie in his safe which he stole. That movie was paid by Rob Black and Extreme Video. How is that a Van Damage movie? He don't own that. He owns s---. I could barely give his stuff away in foreign, and he missed four release dates that cost us almost $200,000. Why? Due to personal problems because Tiffany was on his f---ing case because Van was sexually abusing different girls in the business. We can bring numerous girls that will claim that Van sexually abused them. He had a charge in San Diego when we were at Elegant Angel. He got in trouble because a girl [an undercover cop] came into his office in San Diego and said that he sexually assaulted her. A COP!!! Van Damage has a history of that. Van Damage used to f--- Iroc when Tiffany wasn't home and make her suck his dick. Amia Amore- ask her. Van tried to con her into sleeping with him. And this was recent. What's part of the prompting of Van getting fired, was because we had to have a meeting at the Extreme house, because Van was sexually assaulting the girls. And Van broke down and cried like a little bitch and told everybody he was sorry, that he had a sexual problem and needed help. Tiffany Mynx was crying into her hands because she didn't believe that Van did this. Van admitted that he sexually assaulted the girls at the company."

The same documents in the Daniels vs Tom Byron Productions lawsuit that show TBP is owed money, reveal that Mynx and Van's companies are owed money also by Extreme Associates (100% owned by Rob Black).

I hear that Byron, who remains tight with Rob, is now a part of Black's production company Extreme Video (as opposed to the distributor Extreme Associates, which is 100% owned by Black).

From www.geneross.com:  "Completely and utterly false. Tom Byron will attest to that." Black also charges as false, Ford's notions that Byron is part of Black's production company, Extreme Video. "Tommy is nowhere on any of those things. We have documents. You can go to business records and find that out. It's me."

In a January 1999 interview with Luke, Black said that Mynx, Byron and Van Damage were only employees of Extreme Associates who got paid a director's fee. But the various production companies of Mynx, Byron and VD own the copyrights to all their productions.

From www.geneross.com: "That was me being too nice. That was me preventing to them what happened over at Patrick's when they continued with the Cumback Pussy series. That just enabled them to, if they left, that we couldn't do Filthy Lil' Porn-a-Bees #6 with David Aaron Clark directing it. Like Patrick did to ruin Tommy's name by doing Cumback Pussy 13 with Brian "Cheeks" Williams and everybody saying that it's s---. That's how the name's copywritten."

     Black tells Gene Ross that Stryc 9 was "paid for every goddam scene, check by check. That little cunt was paid for every f---ing scene she did. I don't f--- people on money like that. You can call Jim South because Jim South knows the deal. If Stryc 9 wants to dispute it, have her come down with her records. She was never f---ed for any scene."

     Black also disputed Ford conjecture about his "drug habit" as being a possible cause of money disappearing and denies inordinate pressure to pay his father back on a loan.

     Black: "No drug habit. Anybody who knows me knows it's the cleanest I've been my entire life. I don't lie about my drug habits. I talked on Ed Powers' radio show about my drugs. When I'm clean I'm clean. When I used to do drugs before, I told people I smoked joints and wrote sexual atrocities. I don't try to keep a squeaky clean image. No cigarettes. No booze. Chewing tobacco, that's it. As far as owing Dominic, it's a loan. There's no interest, and there's no amortization over a year. I pay it back when I pay it back. That's it. There's never been pressure whatsover. My dad comes out here and hangs out with us. He enjoys seeing us do good." From www.geneross.com.

Luke sees a trail of dissatisfied people leaving Black's company - Stryc9, Mynx, Van Damage, cable company, to start with...

An observer: "I don't know what is going on with Extreme Associates because they're generating enough business to be able to run things completely honestly, legally and above board. Why they're not is curious? Is it a drug habit? Is it the debt that Rob owes Dominic [Rob's dad]? Is Extreme funding movies that people don't know about? What good does it do Extreme Associates to withhold money from the people owed the money unless they're using it for something fun or nefarious or productive?"

World Modeling Scandals

There are more allegations about sexual misconduct at porn's leading talent agency - Jim South's World Modeling. Scotty Schwartz, the child actor and former World Modeling assistant, wrote to www.geneross.com about Jim South's talent agency: "I know for a fact that former employees and current ones at World Modeling have indeed have had sex with some of the girls. Steve Austin was notorious about it, a new girl would come in, decide to do video work, he would call whatever company and want to shoot her that night in his apartment...

"Check out Gina Ryder's scene in Dr. Fellatio, it was shot in his tiny bathroom, as was a few other scenes. And if any girl wouldn't work with him, he'd take her number home and try to do phone sex with her promising a job, which there of course wasn't. And due to the fact that she wouldn't work with him, he wouldn't recommend her for work unless she was sitting right there in the office and someone needed a girl. I know for a fact from several girls that this went on with only this guy.

"Before him [Steve], there was another guy named Brad [Gunches] who also worked for Mark Carrier's company. He, too, would get a new girl and rush her into a scene with him, either regular or BJ. Both of them were talent, if you could call either of them that. That is a direct conflict of interest, but Mr. South let it go on for sometime. Jim [South] Jr., has also dated several girls in the biz, the longest to my knowledge was Celine Deveaux. They dated for about 6 months or so, and dating definitely means having sex with him. He's a good looking kid, not out to hurt anyone, but sleeping with the owner's kid definitely would help you get work as she did a s---load of jobs and whenever someone needed a girl, she was the first to get a phone call. Also, he dated Kristi Mist for some time..." www.geneross.com

Scotty, who now has good reason to fear for his life, says he never had sex with any of the talent represented by World Modeling while he worked for World. "As for Mr. South's relations with the talent, I'm sure that a few girls in the 20 years he's been in business have had "personal" relations with him. A select few of the talent, and only those that instigate contact, but it is not policy, or a requirement...World has definitely straightened things out and now running the way a talent agency should."

World Modeling owner Jim South told www.geneross.com: "This is funny. Steve Austin has been a friend of Scotty's for about ten years. What is he really saying? Is Scotty indirectly bad-rapping World Modeling? I never heard anything about Brad. Indirectly, it still falls on me. I don't know what to say."

Called Monday evening, Steve Austin said (after talking to Jim South): "It's beneath me to even comment on this."

Austin performed in half of the BJ scenes for Elegant Angel's Dr. Fellatio series (shot by the late Israel Gonzales and the former hubby of Stephanie Swift).

Various sources back up Scotty Schwartz's allegations about twelve year porn veteran Steve Austin. In a brief interview shortly after Austin was fired from World Modeling in the summer of 1998, Jim South indicated that he got rid of Austin for conflict of interest reasons (Austin performed on camera as well as assisted Jim).

The internet has been a nightmare for South, particularly this site which has run numerous rants and accusations against him, his employees and his agency. The numerous charges against Austin on this site probably contributed to his firing. During the summer of 1998, South took great heat from upstart agent Rob Spallone who later befriended Austin and appeared poised to hire him as a way of destroying South. Instead, however, Spallone made peace with South in February 1999, leaving Austin in the cold.

In conversations with other people, Jim South has reportedly made similar accusations to Schwartz's about Steve Austin. In response, Austin, in mid January, 1999, told Luke F-rd that he would reveal all about World Modeling if South did not stop badmouthing him. I hear that this threat frightened and quieted South who patched things up with Austin through his son Jim South Jr.

As for Brad Gunches, Tony Montana says he is a drug derelict living in Venice.

One porner upon hearing Scotty's comments said that "Schwartz has a deathwish... Something will be happening to him... Scotty uses his size (5'2") to his advantage. No one will kick the crap out of him because it is like kicking the crap out of a little midget. But Scotty is going to be feeling this one."

Playboy Channel Runs Program on AVN Awards

Veloracr: "The Playboy channel is running a 2hr "program" of the 1999 AVN awards .... IT SUCKED. They had that IDIOT helmetcam a hole there along with some African American dude who was ANNOYING. They kept cutting away from the awards to do lame interviews PLUS 1/2 the time they did not even IDENTIFY the starlet. Really POOR, it looked worse than SCARFACE on regular network TV.

"Unfortunately you ended up on PLAYBOY's editing room floor. Tom Byron did mention Rob Black. Called him his friend & lover. Lexus looked AWESOME as always. I don't particularly find JULIE attractive but she did look OK here.

"When the winners mentioned anybody "behind the scenes," they NEVER panned over to that person. They should have taken a page from the Academy Awards. Seymore Butts had the best and longest acceptance speech."

Notorious Bukkake

Sources indicate that the Jim Powers Bukkake (group of men jerking off on a girl's face) shoots for Notorious Productions do not require HIV tests.

Source: The Ashley thing: they [Notorious] called us about that shoot thinking that we were fans interested in jerking off on to her.
Source:    In the article they say that the guys got paid to do the shoot.
Luzdedos1:    You mean you're not fans interested in jerking off?
Luzdedos1:    lol
Source:    When they talked to me on the phone, they told us that we would have to pay them $100 bucks to attend the shoot.
Luzdedos1:    lol
Source:    I consider my jerking off a private, holistic, spiritual thing.
Luzdedos1:    :)
Luzdedos1:    I have not noticed you writing about it on your site
Source:    I guess AVN needed to alter that fact so that it didn't come across that the shoot was really a video documentary of an actual group act of prostitution.
Source:    Re: the Ashley shoot. During the phone call when they asked me to shell out the $100 bones to appear in their video, their was absolutely no mention of needing to bring along an AIDS test.
Luzdedos1:    hmm
Source:    At the time it struck me that Ashley might be attempting to finish herself off.
Source:    Which, I guess, would have tied in nicely with the whole Japanese theme of the shoot.
Source:    Porn hari kari.

Email: "Luke, I was in a couple of bukkake shoots for Notorious. They paid the guys $25. Don't know if they are now charging them to do it. HIV tests were not mentioned. I brought mine as did many of the guys but they were not checked by anyone from Notorious. One of the girls told us that if we weren't tested we couldn't cum in her mouth and all agreed. Not to safe if you ask me. We sat around for 2 hours waiting for the shoot to start. Tests could easily have been checked at that time. I don't know why they wouldn't go to the small trouble of making the shoots safe."

From www.geneross.com: "Is director Jim Powers running an illegal bukkake operation? There have been allegations of a massive cover-up conspiracy to hide the fact that male performers are supposedly working without tests - charges that Powers finds extremely amusing.

Powers: "All these guys that come in have a 10-minute test. We tell these guys that only the regular performers, the ones that have been DNA-tested, are the ones that can actually cum in the mouth. I can't expect these guys to go get a DNA. It's not like these guys are off the street. It's the same old guys that show up on the Houston gangbang. They're the guys who don't get it up enough to really do scenes. And I always tell the girls to shut their eyes, too. In fact we're having a bukkake Wednesday night. [Harley Rains is the one being bukka-kized] It's Harley Rains, like Claude Rains in the Invisible Man. This will be the eighth time. The first bukkake went in Perverted Stories 21. Then we decided it was such a smash, we needed to do this as a non-stop thing." www.geneross.com.

Pay Tribute To The Stars

Protodorian writes on RAME: "Let's say you see your favorite porn star at CES at a booth. If its Alisha Klass, Tyfany Mynx, Jenna, Katie Gold, Alexandra Nice, Serenity, Racquel Darrian or whoever.

How is security? If you wanted to whip it out and start jerking off in front
of your favorite pornstar as a tribute, would you get in trouble?

Or would they cheer you on and would your favorite porn star get into it?

What if a lady wanted to masturbate in front of Ron Jeremy to fullfill her
fantasy or pay tribute to the greatest man in porn?

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Sin City says: As of last week, blond Eurostars, Linda Thoren and Katja Kean have signed exclusive contracts with Sin City Entertainment. Adding to the roster with dance sensation and contortionist, Nikki Lynn, will be Sunset Thomas, who will perform for the Sin City fans exclusively for the next year. Look for Sunset's newest effort, entitled, "White Rabbit", directed by another Sin City exclusive talent, Michael Raven, due to release next week.

A new release party for the movie will be held at the Hustler Hollywood store on April 14, at seven o'clock. There will be everything a porn fan could want, naked porno stars, free give-aways, and a special drawing with the winner to appear in an upcoming release.

Kendra Jade (KendraJXXX@aol.com) writes: "Dearest Luke, I am starting to think that you do not love me anymore.You do not return I.M's or anything. I am going to run off and cry somewhere now.......BOO HOO... Anyway....You still have MY heart.....

"I am wonderful. Life is beautiful. I have so much going on...wait till you find out what! (that is meant to tease you). By the way...I have a new comic book out. I am going to give you a copy if i ever see you. It is the tale of my life (Jerry Springer stuff included) and my fantasies, too. Listen to the Howard Stern show on the 20th. Okay? Also, thanx to your posting of our conversation, I have gotten so much email, and orders of my movies."

I hear that Tommy Lee's new houseguest is Carmen Electra who doesn't normally like white guys.

Pioneering porner Eddie Mishkin died last year.

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Rodger Jacobs: "On Update 4/5/99 you posted an excerpt from Dave Cummings website titled HOW TO ENTER PORN. While I admire Dave greatly and find his business accumen faultless, I must take exception to one erroneous bit of information in Dave's writing. As one of those "select few insiders" that Dave refers to as the screenwriters in this business I have never received less than $350 for a screenplay (Dave asserts that the pay for a script is "only a couple of hundred dollars") and in point of fact I often receive twice and sometimes three times that amount. And while it certainly is true when Cummings asserts that there isn't even "a slight increase in demand for scripts" there is a demand for stronger and more involved screenplays from story-driven directors like Nic Cramer, Jonathan Morgan, and Wesley Emerson."