April 29, 1999

Kim Kataine Dead

Luke received this email Monday 4/26 but was unable to confirm it until www.geneross.com broke the news publicly Wednesday afternoon with a Nick East interview. Luke's email ran: "Just a note to update you with some sad news about adult film star Kim Kataine [real name Kimberly Bailey]. On April 1st, 1999, Kim passed away in a tragic accident at a freinds house. While showering that morning, Kim apparently suffered from a seizure. The washcloth that she was using plugged the drain filling the bathtub. As a result, Kim drowned. We all loved her and will miss this beautiful flower."

This same email was posted to the newsgroup alt.dead.porn.stars 4/18 by See-More@webtv.net.

I've heard that Kim abused drugs and like many girls in the industry, was highly insecure. I hear that after one break-up with Nick East, she took up with veteran porner Paul Coxx.

East, a former roommate of the late Cal Jammer, dated Kim on and off for four years. He only found out about her death Tuesday night on internet chat, about 36 hours after I heard the news. Like Nick, I did not initially believe it to be true. Nick then phoned Kim's family who confirmed her death.

Nick East told www.geneross.com: "...When I heard April 1st, I thought maybe it wasn't true. But when I heard more details it sounded exactly like Kim because of the circumstances. Kim has had seizures in the past. It had a lot to do with a lot of our problems, her having seizures. Prior to that [her death], she was found a week before by the highway patrol crashed into a ditch. She had another seizure. She came out in February for a couple of weeks and went back. She had her own place in Erie."

AVN Twists in the Hurricane of Truth

AVN's Gene Ross spends about 20 paragraphs defending himself on www.geneross.com. But the text reads more like a resignation speech. Gene's been forbidden from writing about me except for vague references such as "an internet scribe," and in quotes from porners. Meanwhile, AVN publisher Paul Fishbein is racking his brains trying to figure out how he can fire Gene without Gene then giving up the truth about the AVN Awards and other shennanigans around AVN that directly or indirectly implicate Fishbein. The whole rotting edifice of Adult Video News may come tumbling down, and with it the den of vipers they've been protecting.

Shaye writes: "I worked at Cream [John Bone's company] for about two months, give or take, and I lived with Kendra from August to December. In this time, I saw and heard these things, which are facts: John [Bone] told me that Gene [Ross] was working for him and was going to leave AVN, John was paying Gene on Fridays just like everyone else that worked there, meaning me, Donnie, Mike and Cleo. I did not witness the actual money exchanging hands, but I recall a specific occassion when Gene kept calling on a Friday and John said to tell Cleo that he needed a check for him. I can recall John saying that Gene was part of the payroll. Gene looked over and helped rewrite the script for Too Hot For Porn 2, and was also there the whole day it was being filmed. Gene brought in box covers of Rob Black's and Tom Byron's movies showing John what the new, cooler box covers looked like and how John should change his to that kind of format. John used that as an example to demand sex from Kendra or she would no longer be on any box covers. Gene told John that people were bored by the films focused on just one contract girl, and to go for more of Gen~X, college girls type theme. That brought in Kristin and "Kandid Kristin", which had a college girl theme. Gene suggested wrestling as a theme, hence, came a wrestling movie from a director that stated himself that he knows "s--- about wrestling."

"In my eyes, it seemed to me that it is true that Gene had no intention of leaving AVN and working for John because John didn't have enough money, so instead he was doing both. Everybody knows that John doesn't have any money, that he blew all the money that he DID get from the Jerry Springer scandal, that he shoots movies knowing full well that all the performers are going to recieve bad checks, and then hires people like me to lie to them and calm them down. It is also a fact that he has sex with girls without even glancing at their AIDS tests, and that he uses that in exchange for them getting a part in the films. John takes pictures of all the girls who come in for an interview, and I remember him showing them to Gene and discussing who should be in what. John threatens Kendra and Zoe with destroying their careers if they leave his company. He emotionally abuses them. John thinks that he can do whatever he wants, to whoever he wants to do it too, and I don't agree. Maybe Gene should pick better friends."

Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Collins prosemaster@hotmail.com is preparing an in-depth report on AVN that may contain new revelations about its sweetheart deals with certain companies.

Altakaka (yiddish for old man) writes: "Oy, Lukey! You need to schmooze the bubey, Mitchell Spinelli about Gene's scripts under the name W. Bozley DeLongpre. The first movies put out with that name were Gene's scripts, but later Mitchell appropriated the name (which, as I recall straight from Gene's lips, irritated the s--- out of him!) I have a copy of one of these scripts... I'll dig through my garage... That gentile lawyer lady of AVN's is a real piece of work, I tell you! A lawyer kvetching about corruption...lawyers should know from corruption...they invented it! Shalom."

Doom writes on RAME about comments by Lynne L-patin: "Wow. To think that Nice Guy Eddie [Ed Powers] actually snowed some people here into thinking he was a caring individual. I guess it doesn't take much to be perceived as a good guy in porn. Scores of "Do you like older men?" questions seem sufficient to convince some of the inherent kind nature of Nice Guy Eddie.

"Also, I guess it's not surprising that AVN would funnel movies to fit the tastes of particular reviewers, though I doubt the Village Voice shunted particular films to Andrew Sarris. I wonder what the "see no evil" crowd WRT AVN's reviews think now? Actually, I'm sure they still think that AVN's reviews are still beyond reproach b/c they don't have an explicit "fawning praise" policy. Of course, no such policy is needed. Do ABC's investigative reporters need to be told that digging into unflattering stories about Mike Eisner is a bad career move? Current reviewers who wish to remain employed by AVN just need look to the cautionary tales of their predecessors who dared give negative write-ups to the sacred cows of AVN."

Kelly Jade Nails Coffins of Gene Ross, John Bone

Luke talked via telephone to Kendra Jade’s stepmom Kelly at 2:45 PM, PST, 4/28/99.

Kelly Jade: "I talked [12/98] to [AVN publisher] Paul Fishbein about what was going on with Gene. That Gene was on the payroll [of John Bone’s Cream Entertainment]. That he [Gene Ross] had scripts he was selling. John kinda made it public knowledge. He didn’t really hide any of it. They did these private meetings, but I was there for half of them. The guy who used to distribute John’s movies?"

Luke: "Jerry Garfinkle."

Kelly: "He knew. He’s well aware of all this. So I told Paul about it [12/98]. I said, that’s not right. He said, well, I know that you guys are angry, blah, blah, blah. I said, ‘it doesn’t matter that we’re angry. These are the facts.’ Well, if we can come up with some tangible proof that he is doing this…’

"So Paul has known since way back when [12/98, because Luke printed this information on www.l-keford.com and Paul talked privately with, among others, Kendra and Kelly Jade, who confirmed what I printed about Gene taking payoffs from John Bone], and he has overlooked it. So he can sit back with his saintly little face and say, ‘it’s not AVN.’ But it is AVN [that is corrupt], and he is well aware.

"John and I have been at war for a while. I am going to take that man down. And apparently, I have to take Gene down in the process."

Luke: "Yeah, because Gene has been protecting him."

Kelly: "Yes, but John has been protecting Gene. This whole thing has been going on since I stepped in during the Springer scandal [3/98]. That’s when Gene and John joined in… There’s stuff that Paul [Fishbein] doesn’t even know that I’ve held back on. That Gene had done to Paul, such as promising certain spots for where the picture would be, or the cover story or whatever."

Luke: "The placement of stories and pictures."

Kelly: "Yes, yes. And that is not supposed to happen."

Luke: "Gene had promised that to John Bowen?"

Kelly: "Yes, yes. That Kendra would get the cover story.

"And when we went into AVN to meet with Gene, we were near this little machine where you can view pictures, and I had mentioned some things. I’m naïve. I didn’t know how good the information I was hearing. So I just blurted out, and he [Gene Ross] backed off. ‘Oh no, I can’t promise that she is going to get the cover at all.’ And he’s [Gene] looking at John, and John kinda shut me up. That’s how I knew something was up.

"Now, can we prove that they exchanged money? Kendra has seen it. Kendra is not going to rollover on John. She knows no better and she trusts nobody. Do we [Kendra and Kelly] get along? We haven’t talked to each other in a long time.

"I raised that child [Kendra] and she knew damn well that I was going to speak with you about John. And that I wasn’t going to be nice. Then she hopped on the internet and chose to say some choice words regarding me. She went overboard. There was no need for that. I’m not angry, she had to do what she had to do, but I still feel strongly about that."

Luke: "Well, AVN is preparing to sue me to defend Gene Ross."

Kelly: "I would testify for you in a New York second, sweetie.

"We were all there [when John paid off Gene]… If Shaye has seen it and I’ve seen it and Kendra has damn well seen it… And so does everybody else who’s been to one of those ‘private meetings.’"

Luke: "So you’d sit there with John and Gene…"

Kelly: "Oh yes… At every private meeting, he never asked us to leave or anything. We sat right there through the whole thing and John would say, ‘oh, don’t worry about them, they’re all right.’"

Luke: "How many meetings?"

Kelly: "Ohmigod, they probably met twice a week while I was there [from March to July, 1998]. I’ve seen Gene regularly."

Luke: "Kendra has said that Gene would come in on Fridays to get paid. Was Friday payday?"

Kelly: "Yes, because that was when John got his money. Gene knew. Because John pays whoever is in his face first. Gene knew that if he didn’t get in his face, he wasn’t going to get it. But John always made sure Gene was paid because that was how he was moving up in the world. So, Gene came first. He’d pay Gene before he’d pay the rent on his building."

Luke: "Did you ever see a direct payoff?"

Kelly: "Money was exchanged. But when money was exchanged, it was more of a hush than anything else."

Luke: "Did you see money exchanged?"

Kelly: "Yes. But can I say that he [John] stood there and said [to Gene] ‘this is for,’ no. But have I seen money go from one hand to another? Yeah. I think a lot of people did. And we just never figured it was anything important. They’re friends. They always portray that they are friends. Then, you’ve got to remember that Gene was doing his nasty with Cassidy."

Luke: "Oh www.geneross.com today he says that he never had sex with that woman, Miss Cassidy."

Kelly: "Hah, he’s full of s---. Because I made a comment once to John that I thought Gene was a nice looking guy. John said, ‘yeah he is, but Gene’s taken.’ I said, ‘oh.’ And then he told me by who [Cassidy]. And I said, ‘ohhhh.’ Cassidy never confirmed it to me but me and Cassidy weren’t buddy buddies. But John did [confirm it]. John didn’t care really what he said to people because we were nobodies. Remember, I’m a nothing house wife. Well, this nothing housewife is going to sink that fatboy. Think about it. All those shady deals that he was doing…

"I wanna call Paul Fishbein up and say, ‘Look, we had this conversation. You were well aware that Gene was doing these things. Don’t stand here and be shocked about it now.’ We discussed it. He told me, that if we had tangible proof [Paul would fire Gene]… Which we did, which was Gene being in certain shots in movies before they were deleted out."

Luke: "In the master tapes, before editing, would show Gene directing. Which movies?"

Kelly: "Too Hot For Porno… Shaye might know. He [Gene] was still doing it at the time I left. This stuff is so old. I know all about this and I’ve been gone for how long, since July of last year?"

Luke: "I didn’t know it. I’d hear whispers of things and I ignored them."

Kelly: "Why? Me and Kendra, in December. Read December [archives on l-keford.com]. It was all there."

Luke: "Yeah, it was not all there. But I printed that…"

Kelly: "It gives you the idea of what was going on."

Luke: "I was talking to AVN’s lawyer today [Deborah Drooz at Strook & Strook & Lavan, in Century City, a high powered intellectual property firm]. And they said, ‘what evidence do you have of this [corruption by Gene Ross], and I said, ‘I have two on the record sources (Kendra Jade and Shaye) who say that Gene would get payoffs from John Bowen. And now I have three on the record sources in addition to several not-for-attribution sources."

Kelly: "There’s no doubt. I didn’t think anything of it [corruption]. I thought that was just how it [porn industry] was run. It’s not a nice business."

Luke: "This is how the business is run, through corruption. It’s just that no one has come along before and reported on it consistently. Most people in the business just yawn about such corruption, but once you make it public, you shine a light and all the insects scurry."

Kelly: "If you only knew half of what goes on. Hah! Ohmigod, all the people who are involved, including Gene.

"Gene [Ross] served as an advisor to John in the Jerry Springer scandal. What would make her [Kendra Jade] more famous to get into AVN."

Luke: "When did you first meet Gene Ross?"

Kelly: "I think I met him in the first four hours [of Kelly and Kendra Jade’s arrival in Los Angeles, 3/98]. We met him at a restaurant. John was asking Gene, 'this is what is going on. We're going on a show. We're going to do a gangbang [contest]. We knew who was going to win before it started."

Luke: "Did Kendra win that?"

Kelly: "Oh yeah. We knew before it even began what the deal was. Everything had been fixed from day one."

Luke: "Like this latest Kendra Jade Duro2000 scam."

Kelly: "That's a joke. That backfired in John's face. He was hoping to get big reviews about it, especially a spot on you. If it makes your article, then it is something. But it didn't. Therefore, it backfired. My husband produces the Howard Stern show at the local radio station [in Connecticut]. He wires it... So he hears Howard every day. She'd gone on it [last Tuesday], saying she was dating this guy, blah, blah, blah... And the consensus from listeners was that she wasn't dating this guy, it was to sell these vitamin pills. And they laughed it off. That wasn't what John wanted. He wanted a big ordeal. He wanted it to hit the tabloids. He wanted it to make the big great thing like the Springer scandal. But he doesn't have one important part of that, and that's me.

"The British tabloids set everything up. They set up all the cameras... Via John. John supervised. Supposedly the News of the World happened upon this story. No way. They set it up with John. They'd told John what he needed to do [to get publicity for Kendra]. And Kendra and I would go to all these meetings, with Gene and John and with the tabloids. I just assumed that this was part of the thing [porn]...

"The reason I talked to Paul Fishbein in December [of 1998], was because of Gene. Paul wanted me to know that if I was accusing Gene, I was accusing AVN as well. 'And I don't want no part of that,' he was saying. 'If you have proof, blah, blah, blah... Because I was accusing Gene of taking money. Paul said he had no knowledge of this... If Paul is going to side with Gene, he's going to lose.

"On that [Cream] movie with Kendra and a tiger, Gene was actually there camera in hand. He was shooting stuff. And I never knew it was anything bad. You're talking a year of s---, with me not knowing what it meant until now, which is why I am very amused by the whole thing. And if AVN takes you to court, let me know. John needs to be held accountable as well... I don't know how long Gene has been selling scripts... I don't know how long he has been corrupt. I just know that he was corrupt with John and I have a feeling that John is stupid, because I have a feeling that John wasn't the only one that Gene was corrupt with. I think that Gene was corrupt all the way around. And stupid John, feeding him his cash to get what he wanted, wasn't getting any further.

"We had given Gene the [full] story [about the Jerry Springer - Kendra Jade in a hotel] days after the scandal. But we [Cream] couldn't run that story. We had to hold that story. And Gene held the story, and he waited. Which any good person, like yourself for example, if you have a story like that... Why would you hold it? All of America knew nothing and Gene knew. Gene sat in his office and wrote out the whole thing. How Jerry was set up, who was involved... It was all written in Gene's computer before anyone knew, before the scandal came out..."

Luke: "He didn't publish anything shocking."

Kelly: "He's got a whole interesting story... He took tidbits out and that was it. Probably John had something to do with that because John wasn't sure how to let Gene use it. And so Gene held the story and waited until John made profit. Why would he do that? If I went to you with a juicy story and told you, 'no, you've got to wait.' Isn't it your job to report? If you have the facts... Gene knew it was true. The people were sitting in front of him. The facts were all laid out. At some points John would tell me to shut up and he'd have Gene erase what was said. Gene had every detail of that story long before the tabloids knew.

"Paul Fishbein didn't. He had no clue. Gene feared him. I feel bad for Paul. He had the wool pulled over his eyes by Gene in a big way and back then he had little knowledge of Gene. But when I told Paul in December, he should've gotten wise to it. And he still has Gene on his payroll?"

Luke: "Paul pulled Gene off assigning reviews a year ago."

Kelly: "John is not that intelligent because he thought that he was buying Gene exclusively. But he really wasn't. Gene was just taking John for a ride. He was promising John things and wasn't delivering them and John was a little unhappy from time to time. Because he wasn't getting exactly what Gene had promised the first time. And Gene would say, 'if I do this, it is going to look like this, and I have to be careful.' Gene tried to cover his tracks but they discussed it in front of me and Kendra like we were nothing. I don't remember these things. I remembered every detail I could about LA to protect my own ass. I knew that I was swimming with the big fish. I was told by some friends of mine who deal with big fish, you have to keep your mouth shut and your ears open. I've just been waiting for the right opportunity to get even with John Bone.

"John screwed me for a lot of money. He got a settlement from the Springer people (more than $350,000), which he promised to split. He wasn't supposed to get any of that money. That money was supposed to go to Kendra and me. He took it, said it was his money, but that he would give her things. He asked Kendra if he should send me some money. She said no, because we were arguing then, and he didn't.

"John owed a lot of people money. And he has his own problems at home. His little wife has been taking his money and squandering it in a little account for herself ever since I've known her. She's ready for him to fall and she's going to take off for her own country with all that money. I say, more power to her.

"John owes everyone and his brother so he manipulates his way through. How Gene got involved with John in the first place amazes me. Gene should've been more cautious. Here you are sitting in front of two girls and they were talking like you and I, about everything and anything. Gene questioned it once and John said, 'they're all right, don't worry about it.'

"Gene was on film. So if Paul Fishbein wants proof, there it is. We told him that back in December. The names of the movies. That if he got a hold of the masters, he'd see Gene on film [shooting and helping direct a production]. Whether or not Paul did that, I don't know. These movies hadn't even come out yet."

Luke: "Did you learn anything about AVN awards being fixed?"

Kelly: "No."

Luke: "What about reviews? Did John pay Gene for good reviews?"

Kelly: "That's what it was all about. It wasn't just money for movies and scripts, it was about reviews and being in the biggest spread in AVN. And if you notice that when Kendra's career started, she was in AVN quickly and lots of [picture] spreads. That's because Gene was getting paid for that."

Luke: "Did John give Gene Cassidy?"

Kelly: "No."

Luke: "She was attracted to him?"

Kelly: "Yes, that was a very private thing that I'm sure Cassidy wouldn't want out. I think it helped John. I think that she may have expressed an interest in Gene and John said, go for it. But if you notice, Cassidy is a B girl. She's not under contract..."

Luke: "She is now, a Cream contract girl."

Kelly: "Last I knew she wasn't under contract with John, that is why she was with Gene, from what John said. Because John was mad at Cassidy, and Cassidy would tell Gene things. Gene was getting his inside information on John through Cassidy. Gene's not completely stupid. He was always looking to see what John was doing because John is a crook. So Gene was using Cassidy to get information about John. Because Cassidy was pissed at John. That another reason John wasn't getting the reviews and other things he was supposed to be getting, because Cassidy was with Gene at the time, and John had kicked Cassidy out. So John made her a contract girl because he knew that Cassidy would go behind his back. But if he made her a contract girl, he could keep his eyes on her and keep things inside the company. That's how John is.

"And it was such common knowledge. I'm surprised that people are shocked about it. Yeah. I'm reading it and going, huh? Why is he [Luke] going through all this old stuff. This can't be new. I had to start my computer three times and load it again because I thought something was wrong. I had my husband sit down... He knows everything too because I would sit down on the phone in LA and feed this s--- to him. You need to remember this, and you need to remember that. I needed my own security because with John, you need your own security. And if I had to blackmail him, I had to blackmail him. To get home, because I couldn't trust that John would pay me so that I could fly home. So I always had something that I could use over John's head as my security.

"Anything Shaye says, I know it has to be true. Because she worked in the same office...And if he didn't care that I knew, I'm sure he had her doing errands... I'm sure she made phone calls. I'm sure she knows things. That's how open he was about it with everybody who was in Cream."

Luke: "Did John bribe anybody else that you know of?"

Kelly: "He didn't have anybody else with those kind of connections. His biggest problem was to get rid of his movies... He tried to work with one of these little asian people and it fell through. Jerry knows all his connections. I know that John screwed over Sterling Raw. The first movies Kendra made went through that company. John made a contract deal with Sterling to make these movies... He'd get paid, but he did not deliver the movies as agreed.

"Then John broke the contract with Sterling and went with Joseph at Factory Home Video. With Joseph, it was the same goddamn thing. He was taking money for the movies, say four, and then he would only make two, and not on time. And you don't mess with Joseph. Joseph is another one who will bulls---. He will promise all sorts of money, and then when it is time to deliver, he wouldn't have the money. But John wouldn't make the movies for him either, he would just take the money. He'd pick up his paycheck on Fridays... That's how he would pay Gene. And Gene knew what John was doing and where the money was going. This was when John was trying to start Cream up after he threw out Charley Frey from Florida.

"I know Charley as well. They're both dubious characters. Charley is a small fish. He owes me $200. I was the one who replaced Charley Frey [as a promoter for Cream]. I dealth with promotion, interviews she was going to do. I was there for all of them because I was part of them. I helped figure out what we were going to say and where we were going to go. I was with him with all the lawyers. I helped out with the scandal and with the tabs... Do I regret that I did that to Jerry Springer? Yes I do. That was horrible. That wasn't fair. Jerry was my friend. He'd call my house at 5PM and see how I was doing. He'd talk to my kids on the phone. He was our friend and I felt bad...

"John had talked about it... How this guy [Jerry Springer] wanted to get a hold of you. And Kendra and I had talked about it and we weren't sure we wanted to do this. Then we're on a plane and get to the hotel and the people from News of the World were already there, setting up their surveillance stuff. We couldn't get out of it if we wanted to. Kendra and I never gave our okay to that [tabloid coverage, cameras, etc]. John did. We felt that we had to because all these people flew out and they were determined to get a story, no matter what.

"Yes, we appeared on Springer. It was our third time. I didn't do much on the show because I had just had a hysterectomy two weeks before. It was on the second show that Kendra's mom knocked her tooth out."

Kelly says she did not have sex with Jerry and neither did Kendra. She only gave Jerry a blowjob. Kelly says she had sex with nobody because she's happily married. "I wouldn't cheat on my old man if my life depended on it."

Luke: "But didn't you do Too Hot For Porno?"

Kelly: "Ahh, no. Not really. Practically no. I never had sex with anybody... There's a small little five minute blowjob scene. Herschel Savage. A small little scene that was supposed to make me millions. Yeah, sure, it was another way for John to sell the movie. I was being stupid but you learn from these things.

"I was the one who dealt with all the media who came in and wanted to film parts of movies that were being made. We had a few groups of different publishers and magazines take pictures of us..."

From www.geneross.com: "Cassidy says that a certain website writer has been pestering her with incessant phone messages, trying to get the lowdown on Gene Ross. [Luke actually phoned only twice, and never left any message beyond his name and number.]

Cassidy: "This guy's calling six times a day. My boyfriend's getting really annoyed with it. I was supposed to be given to you on a silver platter? What? Two adults can't have a friendship in this business without something sexual being read into it. Where's he getting this stuff? It's so ridiculous. I think he's getting this information from--- I'm trying to convince John that he's getting it from---. He's calling my house left and right. I won't call him back. Mike Albo's all over him. He's been defending you left and right. Originally I went to see you because I was trying to get some insight into this business. I was being thrown around and you were the one who straightened
everything out for me and gave me some guidance. My reviews have always been good reviews anyway. The magazine has been very fair to me not for lack of effort. This is what I don't understand."

Luke hears that John Bone's new girlfriend is Teah, a girl from Jim South's agency World Modeling. John owes World Modeling thousands of dollars and so they refuse to send Bone talent. Cream contract girl Kendra Jade didn't show up for the Rick Dees show Wednesday morning with the judge. He was by himself and not too happy about it. I hear that Mike Barbella [recently departed Cream sales guy, John owes him about $16,000] is doing drugs, along with Kendra's uncle Donny. John and Donny live together, and owe their landlord Martin, John's new partner in Cream and landlord, money for rent.

Highlights From www.geneross.com

Where The Smear and the Antelope Play

At 5pm Wednesday evening a certain website writer [Luke] called John
T. Bone in what might be construed as an effort at conciliation. The
brief conversation went as follows.

Bone: "Hi...how may I serve you?"

Writer: "Oh this is strictly off the record. This is totally off the record."

Bone: "... why would you be calling me?"

Writer: "I just felt the need to talk to you."

Bone: "Do me a favor..., next time you feel the need to talk to
me, get over it."

Just, oh so coincidentally, the writer decided to feed the need of Kelly Jade to have more publicity. Jade, a Connecticut woman who's in no way connected with the adult business, and who's only claim to fame is luring celebrities into hotel rooms to compromise them on film, is claiming she saw Gene Ross take cash bribes and is willing to swear to it. Jade's now going so far to implicate Ross in the Jerry Springer scandal. Jade, in her interview, alludes to mythical dinner meetings, in which vast, complicated conspiracies were developed between Ross and John T. Bone, Jade, by her own admission, taking an integral part in the sordid affair. Jade, in the interview, also confesses to "blackmailing" Bone.

Bone: "It's ludicrous. She [Jade] is going to bring me down. She sat in on all the private meetings. You [Ross] were a party to the Jerry Springer-thing. You knew everything but, AFTER the Jerry Springer-thing they sat down and did and interview with you where they told you everything. And you sat on it. It's unbelievably stupid. This is graffiti. This is taking a spray can, writing your name on a wall and then standing back with pride when everybody sees your name. This is trailer trash who is jumping on another opportunity to say, 'Hey, look, my name's on the Internet!' This is pathetically funny. Oh man."

Ross: "And your wife's got some kind of secret bank account."

Bone: "Isn't it amazing that for somebody who has absolutely no money, I'm surrounded by people who are taking tons of money away from me. My wife has a secret bank account. Oh man. Gabor, I took his money and never delivered movies to him. Josef gave me tons of money and I never gave him movies. It's amazing. This is howling."

Bone [quotes theatrically from the Jade interview]: "If you only knew HALF of what goes on. My god all the people who were involved!!"

Bone: "Now this is interesting. Here, where the industry is, nobody knows what goes on, but this Connecticut f---ing trailer trash housewife knows all the inside skinny of our industry because she's the stepmother of a girl. You [Ross] served as an advisor in the Jerry Springer scandal, but you still needed an interview to find out what had gone on afterwards. She [Jade] knows all about Duro2000. Kendra hasn't talked to her in months, but she knows all the inside of that. Oh, you were shooting camera on Windsong!!"

Ross: "I was?"

Bone [reading from the Jade interview]: "Yeah, Gene was actually there with camera in hand. He was shooting stuff. And I never knew it was anything bad!!"

[Jade was never on the set of Windsong.]

Bone: "The camera on Windsong was shot by a couple of guys from Paramount Studio. But you were shooting f---ing camera. So now you write my stuff, you shoot camera, you direct it, you arrange the on-the-set pieces. You review my movies for money."

Bone [reads from the Jade interview]: "I don't know how long Gene has been selling scripts. I don't know how long he's been corrupt. Gene was corrupt all around. We had given Gene the full story about Jerry Springer after the scandal, but WE couldn't run that story; WE had to hold that story. And Gene held the story and he waited.

[Ross picks himself off the floor from hysteria.]

Bone: "But you were the conspirator that put the whole thing together. Here's a funny thing. You'll like this one. When did you become a bad guy in all of this? Why is she out for you now?"

Bone reads aloud how Ross, according to Jade, was taking Bone for a ride, promising him everything and delivering nothing that Bone was "getting a little unhappy."

Bone: "So you f---ed me over. Here's a thing about how she [Jade] was blackmailing me. That's a nice one. You're on film, so you're actually in the movies, now, too.

Bone [reads]: "Did John pay Gene for good reviews? That's what it was all about."

Bone: "So I was paying you for good reviews. Where are they? She's completely messed up on the Cassidy-thing."

Bone [reads again, quoting Jade]: "If I had to blackmail him, I had to blackmail him!"

Ross: "Who's she blackmailing?"

Bone: "Me. So, she's a blackmailer. She says it in her interview. I failed to make her blackmail payments so I guess that's why she's going public. There's also something in here about how they [Kelly and Kendra] went over to AVN to see you, and there was 'little machine with pictures on them.' I think that's a television set."