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Sunday, June 13th, 1999

Bone Boots My Baby

Luke and Kendra Jade were supposed to go to the movies Wednesday night. But Kendra never phoned me back. I found out Sunday morning that John Bone and his business partner Martin, a landlord, had booted Kendra and Shelle Pearson (former Cream Entertainment sales gal) out of their apartment for nonpayment of rent.

Why could they not pay their rent? Because John Bone had not paid Shelle Pearson, according to Jade, what John owed her.

The girls have found new lodgings. Look for Jade and Ford at Sunday's Erotica LA show at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

"They gave us three days notice after John not paying Shelle her dollars," said Jade.

The latest double issue of the National Enquirer lists the biggest scandals of the decade and Kendra's fling (there's big picture of Jade) with talkshow host Jerry Springer ranks up their with double murderer O.J. Simpson.

Osil writes Luke: "I applaud you for having a certain amount of openess--i.e. printing e-mail that is critical of you. yet, i'm troubled by your apparent lack of journalistic ethics. in the last several days you've charged a certain dutch gentleman [Charles Geerts] with murder. all based upon a hunch and a lack of a dutch speaking friend. free speech is a wonderful thing but we do have laws against yelling "fire " in a crowded theater which isn't, in fact, burning. woodstein had to have a confirming source. do some reporting before you accuse anyone of such a heinous crime. yours, osil ps: don't know if i dig your new narcissistic web look."

Former AVN writer Randy Kaplan writes Luke about his comments on Charles Geerts: "As one who understands the concept of lashon hara [evil speech], please do not be personally offended when I say that I regard you as someone with no respect for human life."

Luke: "Yeah Randy, I don't have respect for child pornographers like Charles Geerts. Do you?"

JD: "You know, one of the reasons I hated geneross.com was that the damn page was ugly, overloaded with ads, and took too long to load. Nice to see that you've not only caught up, but surpassed him in user unfriendliness by compounding all the aforementioned problems with unnecessarily tiny type. Is this your way of punishing readers for being interested enough in porn to look your page up?"

Jewish Botanist Girl and her sister write in praise of NiceJewishGirl: "She is a good friend of ours and we highly praise all her fine attributes not the least including her vivid intelligence and fascinating camraderie. I think you have enough miles between you that you can afford to be emotionally close without too much risk. You should realize how lucky you are to have the attention of such a cute chick."

Tiffany Mynx, Van Damage Sue Rob Black's Extreme Associates

Attorney Michael N. Friedman
1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1610
Los Angeles, CA 90067-6001

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Shannon Prince [aka Tiffany Mynx], Van Brunt [Van Damage], VG Productions and Tiffany Mynx Productions.

Case No. LC049069

Complaint for:

1. Breach of contract.
2. Accounting
3. Fraud
4. Copyright Infringement
5. Invasion of Privacy
6. Money Not Received

General Allegations

9. Plaintiffs are informed and believe...that...defendants Extreme Video and Extreme Associates were the alter-ego of defendants Black and Byron because (a) defendants Black and Byron commingled the assets of defendants Extreme Video and Extreme Associates with their own personal assets; (b) defendants Black and Byron used the assets of Extreme Video and Extreme Associates as their own personal assets...All of the foregoing makes it unjust and inequitable for defendants Black and Byron to use the corporate form of Extreme Video and Extreme Associates to shield themselves from liability for the damages alleged herein.

17. In or about February 1998, defendant Black reached an oral agreement with plaintiffs setting forth the terms by which Extreme Associates would distribute adult videos produced by VGP and TMP. Pursuant to this agreement, Extreme Associates would advance the production costs and distribute the videos in exchange for 25% of the gross domestic income from the sale of the videos, plus reimbursement of advanced production costs. The remaining sums collected by defendant Extreme for the distribution of plaintiff's videos would be paid to plaintiffs, including 100% of the money derived from the sale of foreign distribution rights to foreign distributors and broadcast rights to cable television broadcasters, the latter requiring substantial editing to make it suitable for broadcast.

18. Plaintiffs and defendant Extreme performed pursuant to this agreement from approximately February 9, 1998 to February 9, 1999. During this time, VGP produced seven videos: Lewd Behavior, Lewd Behavior - 2nd Offense, Lewd Behavior - 3rd Offense, Filthy Lil' Pornabees, Filthy Lil' Pornabees 2, Flesh Pot and The Damage Report. During this same time, TMP produced one video: Asswoman in Wonderland.

19. Except as alleged hereinbelow, each of VGP's videos are owned and copywritten by VGP, and VGP possesses all model release forms for each performer in each video, as well as age verifications for each performer, as required by federal law. VGP also possesses the masters of each video.

21. In addition to producing the above-referenced videos, Tiffany performed in approximately ten scenes for Extreme Video. Van also performed in approximately three scenes for Extreme Video. Defendant Black verbally agreed to pay Tiffany and Van for scene work at a rate of $1,000 per scene, and Van and Tiffany agreed to execute model releases upon receipt of payment.

22. In the one year that plaintiffs produced adult videos pursuant to their agreement with Extreme, sales of plaintiffs' videos were strong and produced substantial revenues and profits. Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based thereon allege that, after deduction for productiona dn distribution costs, plaintiffs' videos generated approximately $120,000.

23. In addition to selling plaintiffs' videos, defendant Extreme sold plaintiffs' foreign distribution rights for said videos. Plaintiffs are informed...that the sale of foreign distribution rights for their videos generated revenues for plaintiffs in the approximate sum of $15,000.

24. Plaintiffs are informed that..defendant Extreme sold the broadcaster known as Colorado Satellite Broadcasting for the approximate sum of $30,000.

25. Based upon their agreement with defendant Black, plaintiffs were entitled to receive as their share of the revenues from the sale of their videos, the foreign distribution rights for their videos, the broadcast rights for their videos and their performances for Extreme Video $178,000.

26. Defendants and each of them were obligated to pay to plaintiffs, by virtue of their agreement, the sum of $178,000. Defendants breach said agreement by failing to pay plaintiff said sum. Defendants paid plaintiffs approximately $15,000 and has wrongfully retained the remaining funds.

34. By virtue of said distribution agreement, plaintiffs reposed their trust in defendants Extreme and Black to collect monies owing to plaintiffs for the sale of their videos and other rights, to account for all monies collected and to promptly pay to plaintiffs all monies owing plaintiffs on account of said monies.

35. In reliance upon defendant Black's representations that defendants would distribute plaintiffs' videos pursuant to their agreement, plaintiffs entrusted defendants with possession of the original masters for plaintiffs' videos for defendants to duplicate and sell, and further entrusted defendants with the collection and accounting of all monies generated by said sales.

36. Defendants Extreme and Black defrauded plaintiffs, in breach of their fiduciary duty, by

a) failing to account to plaintiffs all monies collected for the sale of their videos;

b) entering into cash transactions for the sale of plaintiffs' videos and failing to record the cash collected in Extreme's accounting records and converting the cash collected to defendants' own personal use and benefit;

c) failing to pay plaintiffs monies owing to them which were collected by defendants and are still held by defendants;

d) altering the box cover art work for the video "The Damage Report" to provide that the copyright holder is Extreme Associates rather than VG Productions;

e) failing to return plaintiffs' original masters upon demand therefore;

f) creating derivative works based upon plaintiffs' videos without their permission and/or consent and without paying plaintiffs for their use of plaintiffs' concepts;

g) converting or attempting to convert plaintiffs' videos to their own use and benefit;

h) altering model releases signed by plaintiff Tiffany Mynx to sell her video to Colorado Satellite Broadcasting without her permission or consent;

i) continuing to distribute plaintiffs' videos beyond the termination date of their distribution agreement; and

j) by committing such other acts and omissions of which plaintiffs are currently unaware but which will be proved at time of trial.

37. ...Plaintiffs have sustained damages...in excess of $200,000...

38. The acts of defendants Extreme and Black were malicious and fraudulent. Defendant Black harbors ill-will toward plaintiffs and each of them and intended to cause them injury. In an interview March 3, Black stated:

"See, I told you the [Vivid] deal wasn't going to happen. I told you. Didn't I tell you? They [Damage and Mynx] want too much money because of what I was paying them. You'd think that if I wasn't paying them, and f---ing them...bulls---...they'd take anything they could get, right? Tiffany had a good life. I told them they ain't gonna get paid by anybody else out there. Nobody's gonna give you f---in ten [$10,000] a movie. They're not comin' back, never in a million years...those f---in' pieces of s---."

Based upon the foregoing, plaintiffs are entitled to punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial but in no event less than $500,000.

40. Between February 9, 1998, and February 9, 1999, plaintiffs produced the above-entitled videos and registered the copyright for each said video. By virtue of their creation of the videos, and their registration of the copyrights therefor, plaintiffs were and are the owners of the copyrights for all of said videos and own all rights acquired thereby, including but not limited to the names and cocnepts included in said videos...

41. Subsequent to February 9, 1999, defendants...infringed on plaintiffs' copyrights by committing the following acts:

a) Using the name "Lewd Behavior" in videos produced by Extreme Video and distributed by Extreme Associates;

b) Using the name "Lewd Behavior" in videos produced by Extreme Videos...

c) Using the images and likeness of plaintiff Tiffany Mynx...

d) Using the image and likeness of Van Damage...

e) Making compilations of scenes from plaintiffs' videos; and

f) Committing such other acts of which plaintffs are not presently aware but which will be proved at trial.

45. After February 9, 1999, defendants...misappropriated plaintiffs' images and have marketed them for their own use and benefit, including...

a) Defendants advertised and released a video compilation of scenes which included performances by plaintiff Tiffany Mynx in a video entitled "Tiffany Mynx - Rest in Peace." The box cover depicts the face of plaintiff Tiffany Mynx, splattered with sperm, on a tombstone. A true and correct copy of a full-page advertisement published in the April 1999 edition of Adul Video News (AVN) is set forth below:

b) Defendants have advertised a video entitled "Asswoman - The Rebirth," which depicts plaintiff Tiffany Mynx lying face down, dead on the ground with the woman cast to replace Tiffany Mynx as Asswoman standing above holding a smoking gun...

c) Defendants have created and intend to release a compilation of scenes in which plaintiff Van Damage performed and which Van Damage produced, entitled "The Damage is Done." Although this video has not yet been released, plaintiffs are informed and believe...that the video has been produced and that the art work for the box cover for this video has been ordered.

47. The acts of defendants and each of them were malicious and intended to injure plaintiffs... The advertisement for "Tiffany Myn - Rest in Peace" depicts plaintiff Tiffany Mynx in an unfavorable and unflattering manner. It includes the statement "The dead speaks," referring to plaintiff Tiffany Mynx, and shows her name, and her industry identity as Asswoman, on a tombstone which bears the dates that plaintiff Tiffany Mynx was in contract with defendant Extreme Associates. Likewise, the advertisement for "Asswoman - The Rebirth" includes the statement, "What do you do when your dog can't see, walk, bark or fetch? You take it out back and shoot the Mutha f---er!" It also includes the statement, "Let the retribution begin." Based upon the foregoing, plaintiffs are entitled to...$500,000.

49. Within two years past, at Chatsworth, California, defendant Extreme became indebted to plaintiff for...$178,000.

50. Despite demand therefor, only approximately $15,000 of said sum was paid, and there is still due and owing the sum of $163,000 plus interest...