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Tracy Quan Interview

People lie to carve out privacy, to make someone happy, to maintain an upper hand. Prostitutes often lie to their boyfriends but so do many other people. Now, some people assume that there is an authentic self, a person you "truly are," hiding behind the public image. I think that's naïve. You can minimize one aspect of yourself in order to play up another.

Pros and cons? If you are a prostitute, you learn to be versatile. But if you are too versatile and you get found out, you may be accused of dishonesty or moral turpitude.

There is NO job or lifestyle I recommend because every path involves risk or pain, but there will always be people who are attracted to the prostitute's way of life, whether you condone or discourage [it]. The call girl is like other people but she is also in a category of her own. Aren't all professions a bit distinct or different?

Jill Kelly Fire Was No Mystery But A Message

Bob Friedland messed with the wrong people when he fired Keith Gordon and Bizarre. That the Jill Kelly home suffered a mysterious blaze the next day is no mystery. That was a message. You don't mess (and I am using the polite word here) with the wrong people. And if there are people in this business that you don't want to mess with, it is Keith Gordon and the Bizarre crew.

I hear that Bob Friedland really stuck it to Bizarre when he threw them out of their deal with JKP. Bob tried to sell their warehouse of product for a buck fifty a piece when it normally sells for ten bucks a piece.

The day before JKP was supposed to say yeah or nay to a continuing relationship, Bob Friedland sold Bizarre's warehouse of product for a $1:50 each.

Keith got on the phone and stopped that sale. Then Friedland turned around and tried to sell that stuff to somebody else for a buck a piece. I understand that got stopped to.

Gene Ross reports January 25:

[Jill] Kelly said [Tyler] Faith did wake up, eventually, but it took Kelly screaming at the top of her lungs to do it. Again, dispelling rumors of a candle left burning, it was noted that the fire started as a result of an electrical problem.

Kelly, according to her story, woke up with flames lapping her ceiling. Kelly said her dogs were all in bed with her and her room was glowing. Referencing the movie The Exterminator, Kelly said it was like the effect of a flame thrower. "That was the sound and that's what it looked like coming out of my freakin' bathroom. But it was a vent."

Kelly went on to describe the back draft effect that was created. Kelly was particularly worried about the flames reaching a closet where she keeps two propane tanks. "It was like a movie, a cartoon. It was a nightmare."

The oddest thing said Kelly is that her dogs didn't wake up whereas someone driving up the road a mile away will prompt them to bark. "Or maybe they did wake up and I just didn't remember. I was in shock."

Kelly said the whole scenario was a very scary dream. "It was my seventh time almost dying and I've got two [lives] left."

This was not a mystery fire. This was a warning. Those guys at Bizarre are the wrong guys to set your little Jewish accountants on to mess with.

Somebody went to Friedland and said to him, do you even know who you are messing with here? Do you have a clue?

If anyone is the last vestiges of the New York Mob, it is those guys. I'm not saying they are Don Corleone but I wouldn't want to be on the bad side of Teddy Rothstein. And Teddy was in the office the day Friedland fired Keith and Bizarre.

I hear Keith and Bizarre have a new warehouse (Canoga Park?) with all their product intact.

I've heard rumblings that a lot of people were up in arms about what Friedland did and they want to take Bob and JKP down. Bob gave Bizarre a first-class screwing without a clue of who he was screwing.

If I were Bob, I'd be concerned about kneejerk responses from the Bizarre crew because they are kneejerk kind of guys. They may not call in Jewish lawyers. They might just take matters into their own hands. They're old school. They may not worry about legal niceties.

JRV writes on XPT: "All you have to do is look at JKP's SEC filing posted here a while back to know that JKP is running with the wrong crowd."

Indecent Proposal

By Luke Dittrich

A story about inflatable plastic alligators, interesting obituaries, and true romance.

Tim got on his knees in front of Felicia, told her he loved her, and asked her to marry him. Felicia's face flushed and she started blinking her mascara'd eyes watery-fast and when she finally said, a hitch in her voice, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, the crowd of hundreds cheered and hollered and hooted and it was just about the most romantic thing I'd ever seen.

..........

I met Felicia in the course of reporting a story about Mike South, the self-proclaimed "leading pornographer of the Deep South." Felicia is a porn actress and stripper. Her fiance, Tim, is what is known in that industry as a "suitcase pimp," a significant other who travels around with his partner as she does her business. Mike South met the couple a year or so before I did, when he starred opposite Felicia in her first-ever XXX scene. The transition from forklift operator to porn starlet is probably never an easy one, but Mike was sensitive to Felicia and Tim's anxiety, and out of their initial, admittedly awkward encounter, a strong friendship developed.

Missionary Positions

This Bill Day documentary has made it to the Cinequest film festival in San Jose:

Similar hot-button issues occur in Missionary Position, a documentary about the website xxxchurch.com and its creators: a pair of Christians who try to lure porn-surfers to repent when they stumble onto their URL. Check their site and find testimonials like "I fully believe a person could walk into an adult bookstore blindfolded and still feel a strong, sensuous spirit in the air. ... [They are] a gathering place of demonic spirits that affect people. That's why Paul warned believers to "make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts." Touring with an inflatable 25-foot penis they've nicknamed "Wally," these two evangelicals-or are they deadpan pranksters?-try to save souls by showing skin. (There's nothing new; around 300 C.E., the Phibionite sect of Gnostics used orgies as part of their Christian rituals. They were excommunicated, sadly enough.)

Mike Davis Vs. Rob Spallone

The feud returned with a vengeace today when Michael sent out this email to KSEX and company:

WANKUS RADIO, Rob Spallone Stole 75,000.00 from a company I invested in with him(Lowdown).Two years ago he robbed Jimmy D from his equipment and other stuff.He terrorizes AIM,he basically got kick loose from ever doing the Sapornos or working with VCA/LFP,Larry Flynt had to send him a message to shut the f--- up.He beat his wife and went to anger management.The guy claims to be a stand up guy,he even threaten our silent partner and extorted another 15k from a German investor.I'd love to confront him on your show,Im not like that that other guy the Qazar man from that company who was scared of Rob when you had them both on the show last year.I think Rob pulled the guys hair and tried to intimidate him.I want to choke Rob Spallone the tough guy out right on your show.We should have the tough guy sign a release so no body get's sued,he's tough right?I will sign a release as well.This is a long time coming.I think Spike TV has an Ultimate Challenge show.Your ratings will rocket,everyone hate's Spallone and he has been terrorizing the industry for years saying:" f---em what's anyone gonna do!!!! Let's set it up on your show,no rules rules,gloves,no gloves,anyway anywhere I will be there to shut that f---in Italian f--- up once and for all.I think Larry Flynt's BodyGuard Doug came by to try to talk some sense into Spallone but apparently was scared of Rob too.This guy has gotten away with too much crap for too long.It's about time he be shut up publicly once and for all.He is a self proclaimed wiseguy of Porn,let's get it on.I also have a pending lawsuit against Spallone,but Spallone really has no assets,I'd much rather settle the matter on your show physically since Rob has no money and is Broke,no wounder he robs everybody he come in contact with!!!!!!!See if you can set this up on your show Im game anytime.

I get a hold of Rob Spallone (my best friend in the business) for his side of things. I live to help people communicate better.

Rob: "Get your pen out. The guy Mike is a rat. Number one. I don't deal with rats. There's nothing lower than a rat. He went to the cops. He went to my wife. I never beat my wife. I never stole anything from anybody in the business. If anybody in the business can say that I stole from them, tell them to call me and I will give them ten times the amoutn they said I stole.

"He says I robbed JimmyD of his equipment. I don't even talk to JimmyD. You can call JimmyD and ask JimmyD if I ever stole anything."

[Luke: I called JimmyD and he says Rob never stole his equipment.]

Luke: "Are you going to meet Mike on KSEX?"

Rob: "No. I ain't going to jail for this kid. His lawyer already called me.

"I am shooting number nine of the Sopornos.

"As far as Larry Flynt's bodyguards telling me to shut up, that's not true.

"I never beat my wife. Ask him why he went to anger management. Ask him when he had a job.

"I stole $75,000 from him? Last week it was $250,000 he emailed me that I owed him.

"You want to talk to Cali (former secretary for Lowdown, a tall redhead who used to live at RealPornWorld.com), Kat Kleavage, Pebbles, and Trinity James.

"Mike invested in a magazine. He lost a million something dollars. He's a trust fund baby. He inherited property. He ruined that. He's not a good businessman. I told him to get out [of Lowdown] when I got out. He wouldn't listen.

"You find someone that I ever robbed and I'll give you $10,000. If I robbed them, believe me, I'd be bragging about it.

"I got a lawyer calling me saying that I have a libel suit because Mike Davis emailed this to everybody. He said I stole from JimmyD and JimmyD says I never stole from him.

"I don't sue people.

"I met him through Kat [Kleavage], who he paid for a trick. He also beat Kat. He used to choke her and beat her up. That's what he does to his women. Check his background.

"They bought me out of the company. Yeah, I made money, because I worked for eight months. They didn't do a thing.

"I want to see him take me to court and collect money he says I stole."

Mike Davis responds:

Rob Beats his wife and was arrested for it by the Santa Clarita Sheriff Department,he pleaded no contest and received anger management and probation(He still is on Probation today).This is a matter of court record.Rob will always try to throw bulls--- to take away from the truth.Luke come on it's about time people stop being afraid of this guy and be honest for once.Rob Spallone is nothing but a dirt bag that rob's,cheats and scares people.He has been getting away with this for years.How many problems has this guy had over the years and no body says a word.Im not afraid of Rob at all.He steals,cheats and rob's people.He is late months on his child support payments and claims to be this family man.He committed loan fraud with a phony tax return to Wells Fargo Bank on July 2004 at the Thousand Oaks Branch and used Mike Esposito address on the form without his consent.He has committed loan fraud out of Vegas before and a warrant was issued for his arrest.He was ordered to turn in his gun by the court after beating his wife and never did.Rob thinks he can do what he wants when he wants and the law is a joke.Rob is not above the Law and stole over 75,000.00 from a company called Lowdown that I personally invested my own money in.There is a lawsuit and a criminal investigation pending on him but he has no money to collect a judgment against.He even broke into a warehouse and stole mini bikes from a neighbor at our company warehouse and gave the mini bikes to his kids,the good father he is.Rob is a dirt bag.I couldn't make these things up if I wanted to Luke,the truth is the truth.He even cheats his long time friends like Mike Esposito at Gentlemen's video by buying Transsexual movies from a guy named Philly at Gentleman's video and back dooring them to Legends when they were supposed to be sold to and released at Gentlemen's video.I think Rob marks it up on Jack from Legends at about 1000.00 per film. These films do not even have the proper paper work to go with them I really think they are from Brazil and are shoot under very high risk conditions which Im sure the health department would be interested in.He also over charges Jack at Legends for every shoot he does to make extra money.The man can not be trusted at all.Yes he ripped off me for 75,000.00,but Rob rips off everyone he comes in contact with.I saw it with my own eyes.Rob's attitude is f--- everybody what are they gonna do about it.How long are people in this industry going to turn away from this guy and not confront him.Even you Luke the Media for the industry have been threatened by Spallone and pushed around I saw it with my own eyes.Rob thinks he is this self proclaimed godfather of Porn.He really needs to go back to New York and play tough guy there.He is on his way down out here in LA.People are hip to him.Luke if you check into all this you will find out all the above is very factual.Rob's wife will also confirm all the above she even refers to him a dead beat Dad.The Fantasy that Rob is an honest stand up family guy is really just that a Fantasy in Rob Spallone's small mind.Research all of the above you will find it to be true.Rob likes to throw mud to cover his wrong doings,but anyone with half a brain can see right throw it.What happened with his last partner Jimmy D?What about Sharon at AIM,before that Jim South,before that VCA,before that Paul Fishbean, Larry Flynt and even Bill Margold.Rob has had a beef and problem with almost everyone in the industry his track record Luke speaks for itself.Can everyone be wrong ??????Come on.Robert Spallone even engages in loan sharking.He loans money to a Dr.Bahnora who has a gambling problem like Rob Does and threatens him on a weekly basis even though the man has fully paid Rob back with interest according to Rob.Rob says the guy will never be set free from giving him money.Small world because that Doctor is friends with my personal Beverly Hills attorney.Im sending a message to the Doctor to no longer pay Rob Spallone and if he comes after you for the money I will protect the Doctor from Rob.Rob simply preys upon the weak.You know for a fact he has even threatened you if you did not print or say what he instructed you to print weather it is the truth or not.Yes he has protected you from other people in the industry but at what cost to your Media integrity and Values Luke?Will the truth ever be spoken about Rob Spallone and his wrath?I think it just has.Make sure if you print anything about me from this point on that Rob throw''s your way you do your research and find it to be true I do not wish to have any problems with you Luke.I run a very successful real-estate Development Company now and although Im a first Amendment advocate and Adult supporter I do not want or have any direct ties with the adult industry.I am no longer a person that conducts any type of business in this Adult industry so please use extreme caution when you print my name associated with the Adult industry and that your story contains the truth and is based on facts that you can support and not just bulls--- that Spallone rattles on about.Or you will here from my attorney.I think before I speak and these are facts that can be supported by documentation Luke.You may print all of the above as your free to verify these events yourself and make calls and do your own independent research.Im sure you will come to the same conclusion here.

I called Michael Esposito who said: "Rob Spallone has always been a good friend. Rob has always been helpful to me, honest, and loyal. I would do anything for Rob Spallone. I trust him with my life."

Photos From Jeff Goodman

Pictures of Stephanie Lee AKA Tracy Quan circa 1976-1978 Tracy with Richard Jaccoma

Cartoonist Marnin Rosenberg at the Josh Friendman book party in New York in December 2004

Author Tim Beckley in a blue jacket and an aged Jaccoma at the party. Shark girl.

Myron Fass Myron Fass Myron published this comic book

The filmmaker Kevin Page at the post-party Indian restaurant.

Josh Friedman with Marnin Rosenberg, whom he immortalized in a comic book a long time ago.

Jeff Goodman circa 1976 with his girlfriend. Jeff at age 25.

Josh Alan at the party. Josh with his dad Bruce Jay Friedman.

Isabelle Fortea, the girl that almost did in Jeff Goodman. Isabelle. Isabelle. 1994.

Jeff Goodman says:

I got her to pay back about 80% of the money she took from me, and I agreed never to contact her again. She "dated" Paul Borghese, Jean Claude Van Dam, about 1000 other guys in NYC. I saw her walking in the street about a year ago. She had aged, her hair was dyed black, and she was down to about 80lbs due to insane vegan diet. I heard she was a dominatrix in Europe for an agency. She looked like hell. At one point she was probably one of the best looking women in New York. She did know what she was doing in bed.

Timmy Secor, "The Shark" doing a "model" interview. Timmy, model.

Josh, Kevin Page.

Josh interviewing Tiny Tim in 1983 for OUI magazine when Jeff was the publisher/editor. Josh, Tiny Tim.

Josh in 2004. Josh performing in NYC, 2001.

One of Jeff's pre-marriage imported Japanese girlfriends, Polaroids by Warren Tang. Miki again.

Jeff's girlfriend of five years who died in the tsunami that swept through Phuketa. Jareeta Jareeta Jareeta Jareeta

Jeff writes: The first nude photos ever taken of Hyapatia Lee. Taken by me at the Indiana nudist camp where I first saw her.

Jeff with Bebe Buell, playboy playmate, mother of Liv Tyler.

Jeff Goodman Interview

Jeff Goodman aka Sammy Grubman (about 50yo) calls me Sunday. He pioneered phone sex for Carl Ruderman in 1983 and edited many sex magazines.

Luke: "How old is your wife?"

Jeff: "Twenty seven. A Japanese girl. A very nice girl. Married for about three years. She doesn't have any idea about any of this stuff. As far as she knows, and it is true, I am a very nice loving husband who would never do anything strange."

Luke: "Josh portrays you as the strike-out king."

Jeff: "That was true. We were hanging out at Studio 54 and I was organizing all these photo shoots. We would sit there and look at the merchandise. Once in a while, we'd try to talk to these girls. We gave off this aura of futility.

"While Josh's book is amusing and I like it quite a bit, he makes more of a cartoon portrait of me. In reality, I was only striking out for a miserable year and a half long period. My fortunes considerably improved post "Studio 54"."

Luke: "Are you still in mail-order?"

Jeff: "I am successfully copywriting and other things. I have nothing to do with porn. I have more lucrative lines of work.

"Have you looked at the Badmags.com website? This guy [Tom Brinkmann] has an encyclopedic knowledge of the cult magazine industry from the '70s. He's an avid collector of pulp and porn. He knows more things about me and Myron Fass [sex mag publisher pictured with a young Al Goldstein] than I remember.

"I've been helping him copy-edit his book.

"I told him it was too bad he never walked up to Countrywide because I would've hired him on the spot.

"I invented 900-numbers. Carl Ruderman became wealthy. All those guys who got in trouble, such as Bruce Chew, piggybacked on my idea. I didn't get a dime from it. I was ripped out of everything by Ruderman.

"I feel bad about [deposed porn mag publishers] Bob Guccione and Al Goldstein. I would almost start a fund to help them.

"A few months ago, I was walking through the subway. I go to the fleamarket on weekends. This horrible cracked-up bum comes to me. He was dressed in Salvation Army rags. He was smelly. He said, 'Hello, Jeff.' I was scared. I couldn't put it together.

"It dawned on me later that it was Goldstein."

Luke: "Panhandling?"

Jeff: "Worse. He looked unbelievable. You would never recognize him as anything resembling a human being. I didn't answer him. I just walked away quickly. After I walked away, it dawned on my clearly who it was."

Luke: "Did you meet your wife through your thing where you introduced Japanese women to New York?"

Jeff: "Yes. I met her online.

"When I was doing this full-force, like three or four years ago, there weren't that many girls online. Now there are hundreds of thousands. You can log on to ICQ and search for random girls online. Japan or Thailand or wherever you want to go. They talk. You exchange pictures and they want to come here. I had so many girls coming and going it was unbelievable. I'd drop one off for airport departures and then I'd had to race upstairs because another one was coming in from Japan in 20 minutes. I had 300 girls coming and going from Japan."

Luke: "How did you come to marry this one?"

Jeff: "She was just a very nice girl. She was crazy about me. I don't even understand why. I figured I'm not 25 anymore. I can't go on with this endlessly. I'll be one of these 70yo guys with a dribble cup. You realize that the Shark was Timmy Secora. He's a paraplegic who runs Star Models. He's been doing this for 40 years. He was on the college hockey team with John Kerry."

Luke: "Why did the Stud, Mike Florio, wind up in a mental hospital?"

Jeff chuckles: "Too many girls."

'Meg Calendar' Is Meg Register

Josh Alan Friedman writes in his new book When Sex Was Dirty:

Meg Calender was the crown jewel in Shark's stable [Star Models in New York]. "Boner City," said Sammy [Jeff Goodman], leafing through her portfolio, wincing in pain. An absolute 10, she made the rest of Shark's stable resemble, in Sammy's estimation, "a pig sty." She was a Ford model who maintained some mysterious allegiance to Shark from her early days. Meg still sought Shark's career advice, perhaps out of pity. Somehow, Shark procured Meg a small part in a Miami Vice episode, along with bikini walk-ons in a few Hollywood movies. He kept her Ford Agency portfolio front and center on his desk.

I skimmed through it. Every pose was haughty, superior, sophisticated. Height 5'8", size 8, bust 34D, waist 24, hips 34. She had a blonde mane teased around her forehead like a lion. But apparently Meg Calendar was too cold for anybody to like. Too fabulous for her own good. The only thing people viewed her as was a goddess. Shark showed a clipping of her from last week's Post, posing with Fabio, her male counterpart, at the Palladium.

"When I first saw her I turned my head away," Grubman confessed, "'cause I knew I'd feel deprived for the rest of my life. Why go on living? When I see her pictures, I know I'll feel sick for years for not being able to get her."

..........

Shark got Meg Calendar a double episode on some cop show from an old friend [Fred Dryer?], an ex-NFL player who co-produced and appeared in the series [Hunter?]. The football player took her on a weekend climbing excursion in the Valencia Mountains. The guy had a pet chimp who went everywhere with him, even mountain climbing.... At the end of the trip, as Meg was leaving, she reached over to pat the chimp on the head and it bit off one of her nostrils. One savage crunch.... Ruined for modeling...

"Meg Register seen walking out a room and sitting on a railing while topless, and then seen completely nude from behind as she sits on a bench. Hi-res DVD capture from Boxing Helena."

Tracy Quan's Diary Of A Manhattan Call Girl

From Josh Alan Friedman's new book When Sex Was Dirty:

In Sammy's universe, he faced opposition on three fronts: Women Against Pornography; lawsuits from enraged parents of wayward girls who'd come to New York to do porn; and Stephanie Mason, his stiffest competition, who edited a handful of fetish publications.

"Stephanie Mason" is a composite character combining what Josh says are the good parts of Dian Hanson in addition to the nastier qualities he ascribes to an asian writer and hooker now known as Tracy Quan, author Diary Of A Manhattan Call Girl.

Publishers Weekly says: "Fans of Quan's online column may enjoy the continuation of Nancy's X-rated soap opera, but first-time readers may be put off by her snobbishness."

By placing some of Dian in this character, Friedman has earned Dian's eternal enmity.

They competed for girls. They sent jailbait prospects each other's way...

Half Amazon, half intellectual, Mason oversaw five titles a month, each a masturbatory bible for a different fetish [Dian Hanson]. Current mags she edited catered to asshole obsessions, fake jailbait and feet.

"I won't run photos like these," she said, scrupling at a box of color slides on the desk. "I showed them to a proctologist firend of mine. He explained the girl, who's a crack addict, had a prolapsed anus. A very bad trend in the industry."

Ultimately, what Stephanie [Tracy Quan] was gifted at was turning girls out. She would introduce Sammy's wife to playboys and playas, dope kingpins and debonair blades with fancy cars and dubious backgrounds. She was dead set on turning Grubman's ever-suffering, Jewish-converted wife out as a call girl.

Tracy Quan used to date Josh's friend Richard Jaccoma.

In the last six years, she's published extensively in Nerve and Salon.

Tracy Quan is not her real name. Few people know her real name. I hear she has various bogus passports and phony names (including Stephanie Lee).

According to online photos, she appears well preserved. She's in her late 40s.

Thank You, Jenna Jameson

Jenna Jameson writes on XPT:

I just discovered this site, and was pretty excited about reading a few of the threads. I searched my name, and low and behold... absolutely every post that mentioned my name was absolutely RUDE.

Let me explain something, i have been in this industry for 12 years and I have loved every second of it. I have done everything in my power to make it a positive experience for not only me, but for everyone around me.

I now run my own company and thoroughly enjoy producing and directing movies. I am so surprised that so many of you literally hate me. I mean, do you even know me? NO!

It seems as if you are all just taking personal digs for no apparent reason. I mean if you are going to call someone a worthless scumsucking whore, have a f---ing reason. Until you know me, maybe you shouldn't make judgements... especially those of you who work for other companies, and those of you who are talent.

I would like to see ANY of you come up to me in person and say these things.... wishful thinking, i guess. Take all your cracks at my looks you want... My movies are still burying EVERY other movie produced by any other company, hundreds of times over. The proof is in the pudding.

Zenman writes: "Who's idea was it to have those "bodyguards" wear windbreakers with those goofy slogans like "Club Jenna: Touch her and die." I want to meet the guy who thought that was cool.Then I want to stand on his neck while I'm watching the Patty Duke Show marathon on Nick At Night. I hope they got paid a lot of money becuse they looked like f---ing tools."

Jenna replies: "At least they have a job you f---ing nimrod... It's called a joke, try a sense of humor on for size, f---face..."

Ivor Biggun writes on XPT:

I take my eyes off this forum for a couple of days and I miss all the fun. The planets must have lined up in some strange conjunction, because Jenna herself is posting and she's giving as good as she gets. In her first two days she clocked up more posts here than five years at ADT.

Many of us gonzo fans fail to recognise the significance of Jenna and the vital role she plays in the porn ecosystem. We owe her a lot for the way she has raised the profile of porn in the mainstream media and pioneered the role of porn superstar. Every year, hundreds of new girls enter the industry because of Jenna. Few have even come close to attaining her status, but struck with the promise of her success they try so hard.

The industry has become well geared up to harvesting these girls. Often they shoot several scenes a week and rapidly progress to harder and harder sex acts until they leave the industry burned out, drug-ridden or diseased. It's all good news for us masturbating perverts - we get to see these young, fresh-faced girls give us their all. Every time I get to see a new 18 year old starlet suck ---- from another girl's ---, I thank the L-rd that she wanted to be like Jenna.

Reflections On Ron Levi

Ron is also known as the Fantasyman (FM). He gets a thorough bashing on Oprano.

Lee Noga writes:

FM, has done alot for the business, and even if he is sailing another course, you cannot take away all the contribution this man brought to this industry that is viable today. Ya either loved him or hated him. He has a brilliant business mind and a memory of an elephant, he can pull emails from 9 years ago in about 30 seconds and quote something you said with total proof.

Could he crush somebody now? Nah, I do not believe that. His connections via business deals gave him the power thru alliances to do whatever he had to do, whether it be a good thing or not.

At one time, it was believed the only way to leave CE was in a body bag, and we all know in these times, its all love and well wishes. Times have changed, I do not believe CE has the influence and wing span it once had. There are so many sponsors now, and webmasters are very pleased with all the choices. No one sponsor has the power to ruin a webmaster easily like in the old times. But FM in the old days and the new CE will always protect their trademarks and copyrights, and will knock you out of the ballpark if you try to disparage them, steal from them, or bring them harm.

There is no way FM or anyone would crush a webmaster for opinion oppositions, actually at one time FM liked a good piss fought with facts...he chooses his battles, and we all know when he starts, he is relentless....I miss that side of FM and I miss him on the boards.

We had some great pees. I could still piss with FM, perhaps one day he will surprise us all, and drop by Oprano and fill the bucket.

NickatIlynx writes:

FM took me through Internet Grade School. I got my Batchelors under Dean [Shannon] and Scott Pink Bits and Serge helped me earn my masters and doctorate. The doctorate portion cost me prolly a couple of million, but then any education worth having is expensive.

Alex writes: "Ron is good as gold in my books. the guy has been always fair with me. Actually more than fair. The guy over paid one time 13k. I called him and asked him if he wanted to deduct it from my next check or I could cut him a check, His response was "You keep it. It was our mistake.""

Tara Reid in Hustler

Actress TARA REID's embarrassing boob-baring incident has made it into sleazy men's magazine HUSTLER even though she begged photographers to delete the shots taken at SEAN 'P DIDDY' COMBS' birthday party.

Writer KEITH VALCOURT gloats, "Tara went up to the paparazzi immediately following the accidental unveiling and begged the shutterbugs not to release them. Of course, Hustler's lensmen ignored her fervent pleas."

Dead Men Don't Sing Karaoke

Gene Ross reports suicide highlights evening in Burbank.

Will 3rd Party Processing Survive 2005?

Hooper writes on JBM:

I keep hearing story's from people about how the 3rd party billers have really been slacking off, from terminating individual paysite processing with no notice to denial of service attacks, to the impending .5% chargeback rate that is being rumored, the end of the cross sale as we know it, and a scrub that declines up to 75% of all transactions... At some point will all the big paysite owners just see no reason to pay 10-15% + holdback in order to be pushed around?

I'm not talking about fly by night characters either, the people i'm hearing this from are all running good programs with exclusive content and upfront billing. So will 3rd party survive 2005? Will 2005 be the year of the merchant account? Will everybody start relying on alternative billing methods?

Lensman didn't renew sigs this month, is the Reality craze over?

"Sigs" are what runs under a person's post to a board. Some companies pay posters to rent their "sig" space. It was the hot topic on adult webmaster posting boards for a few months. I found it annoying as I wanted to see discussions on a deeper level.

Peaches writes on JBM: "I never did understand the ROI [return on investment] on paying money for sigs. I didn't even pay attention to the Adult.com and TCG sigs because they were in so many posts."

Ali G's Search Engine

Ali G's version of the Gettysburg address:

Four score n seven years ago our brotha brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, n dedicated ta tha proposizzles thizzat all men is created equal doggystyle.

Now we is engaged in a bootylicious civil war, hatin' whetha thiznat nation, or any nation so conceived n so dedicizzle can long endure . One, two three and to tha four. We is met on a bootylicious battle-field of tizzy war. We have come ta dedicate a portion of tizzy field, as a final hatin' place fo' those who here gave they lives thizzay that nation might live. It is altogetha fitt'n n drug deala that we should do this.

How To Find An Asian Wife

Jeff Goodman, who's married to a Japanese girl 20 years younger than him, writes:

I am really the world's expert on finding an Asian wife. I agree with your friend. I have taught dozens of people (and thousands online) to get an Asian wife and it was the best thing that ever happened to them.

I agree with your friend that Asian women and Jewish men are the best match psychologically. MY wife advises her friends to find Jewish men, ands that is the prevailing sentiment amongst many Japanese, Chinese and other Asian women.

Jewish men are for the most part intelligent, family-oriented, kind-hearted, sexually competent, and their minds think along the same channels as Asian women. Asian women instinctively feel that making their husband happy is a natural requirement.

I'm also physically attracted to Asians far more than Western women. If you want to meet an Asian woman I can teach you how to do it very easily.

Cheyenne Silver Loves Animals

Cindi Loftus from Xcitement Magazine writes:

Cheyenne Silver is a down to earth girl who loves animals and the outdoors. She also loves sex. The beautiful all natural triple X star has made over one hundred movies. I caught up with the Vivid contract girl on the last day of 2004. We had an early morning chat and we were both a little sleepy. So as not to bore you my dear reader, I left out about a hundred yawns.

X: This is the earliest interview I've ever done. I'm thinking no way is she gonna be awake at 8 o'clock in the morning.
C: I had to get up to feed the horses.
X: Ah, so that's why so early. At least you didn't have to milk the cows. Where do you live that you can have horses?
C: In San Diego.
X: How did you get to be a Vivid girl?
C: A friend of mine had worked for them as an extra on occasion and when I first got in the industry he introduced me to them. I spent a couple years freelancing and then they started talking to me about a contract when they saw one of my box covers and liked it. It was a gradual progression of a relationship with them.
I'm supposed to be in Vegas shooting a mainstream movie the first and last week of January. So assuming I'll be shooting I'll be out there. But I am not sure if I'll get to go by the show or not. I may be busy every single day all day. I'm not sure.
X: What kind of mainstream movie are you shooting?
C: It's a movie by Eric Bernt, he wrote Virtuosity, Romeo Must Die and Surviving the Game. He's going to be directing it. It's called Vegas Baby. It's about five guys who go to Vegas for the ultimate bachelor party and everything goes wrong in a good way; there is a cute twist to it. Supposedly they've got Michael Clarke Duncan, the guy from the Green Mile. He is supposed to be playing my Harley riding crazy boyfriend.
X: What are you playing?
C: I'm playing a porn star that is on a set and my jealous boyfriend storms in and says he is going to kill everyone and they go running. It's not a huge role, but it is good interaction.
X: That's great! What do you do for fun?
C: The horses, dirt bikes, hiking, four-by-fouring.
X: You sound like an outdoors girl.
C: Anything adventurous. I love backpacking in the Sierras; that type of stuff.
X: What is the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
C: Probably this last summer dirt-biking up in Washington on these trails, going so fast and hard and then I did six full weeks of camping and dirt-bike riding.
X: How many horses do you have?
C: I've got three right now.
X: And do you have other animals too?
C: Yeah I have a couple cats and four chickens and a turtle and the horses. We used to have goats and my Mom would milk them and make goat cheese and stuff.
X: Wow, did you grow up like that with lots of animals?
C: Oh yeah. We used to have a lot more then this. We had lambs, goats, chickens, horses, dogs, cats. It's never ending.
X: How can your fans reach you?
C: Through my website CheyenneSilver.com. It's got a bio. galleries, a store, e-mail. I'm still working on the members section but it will have chat and live shows and stuff. So it's worth checking out. It also has a tour schedule that lets you know when I will be in the area. I've got a list of cities. I am going to all over the place.

Once-Conservative Adelphia Adds Hard-Core Porn to Lineup

Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation's only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated programming will be available on cable for the first time in a major media market: Southern California.

Industry sources said Larry Flynt also was attempting to become a force in the triple-X world of television, offering distributors attractive terms to carry his new HustlerTV. One adult industry veteran, however, said Flynt had received a lukewarm reception in the cable industry because of his notoriety for pushing the envelope.

Playboy is gearing up to supply a variety of programs on demand that will keep subscribers running up the bill. One goal: to increase the seven-minute viewing time historically clocked by the average person who orders an adult pay-per-view movie.

Tyler Faith Interview

I catch Tyler at Jill Kelly Productions. Tuesday, February 1.

Tyler: "Kurt [Lockwood] loves to tell people he was my boyfriend. He was never my boyfriend.

"Wankus and me are very good friends. He had a girlfriend for a long time. I don't think he wants to get into a relationship right away.

"I've f---ed guys who had girlfriends or wives but I've never gotten into dating anybody who was in a relationship."

Luke: "What do you call dating?"

Tyler: "Dating is when you will go places with somebody. Friends with benefits means I can have a conversation with after having sex. And people like Kurt, who I have nothing in common with, it was totally just sex... I would just have nothing to say afterwards. It was just sex."

Luke: "The day I met you, April 10, 2003, you wearing pink sweats. Do you still have them?"

Tyler: "I might. I have various pink sweats. I only wear pink. I like to be a tomboy so I have to dress girly."

Luke: "Are you going to the Super Bowl?"

Tyler, a big Patriots fan: "Of course. A friend of mine is close to the owners of the Patriots, the Kraft family. Jill [Kelly] was supposed to come with me but she got food poisoning today. So she's home in bed."

We talk about the fire at her place a couple of weeks ago. "It was surreal. It felt like a movie. It was totally a life changing experience because you feel so helpless. We were standing outside. There was nothing we could do except hope the firemen put it out before we lose everything."

Luke: "Why does Kurt want to beat up Wankus?"

Tyler: "I would imagine jealousy."

Luke: "Because he's boning you?"

Tyler: "No, he's not boning me. I blew Wankus on KSEX a couple of weeks ago. That might be where it stems from. It was Wankus's birthday. I am a porn star. Hello. Obviously I am blowing other people too."

Luke: "Oh. You're not exclusive with Wankus?"

Tyler: "Right. I do work once a month."

Luke: "Did you use any special techniques or lotions with Wankus that you don't use with other guys, thus making Kurt jealous?"

Tyler: "No."

Tyler used to be with Lawyer Milloy who is no longer with the Patriots.

Luke: "What's the latest gossip on you?"

Tyler: "I am working as a sales girl at JKP. Because it is so different for me, it's a lot of fun. I've been doing it for two days."

Luke: "How do you stay in shape?"

Tyler: "I'm lucky. I don't work out as much as I used to. I don't change my diet. I grew up eating pasta. I'm Italian. I still eat that way. I have a good metabolism."

Luke: "Do you have connections to the Mafia?"

Tyler: "No. There's no such thing as the Mafia."

Luke: "They protect you."

Tyler: "That's what I've heard."

Tyler says she majored in hotel management and business management at college.

Luke: "How do you have time for sales between manicures and pedicures and facials?"

Tyler: "I'm not high maintenance. My hair stylist comes to my house. All that other stuff can be done in one day."

Tyler says she's an animal rights activist and a member of PETA.

Sextracker Using Spyware

Lensman writes on GFY:

This is very serious and is the biggest story affecting webmasters in a long time. I have heard allegations of spyware and Sextracker for over a year now, from very high level sources. Now everyone knows. But where is the best coverage about this? Shap said on Oprano? Anyone have some links or something about this. Are they planting spyware without surfer's approval? Are they stealing signups from affiliates by hijacking link codes? Are they redirecting join pages? What is the truth? If it is proven, I will lead the call for a total boycott of sextracker.

Grimm writes on Oprano:

Sextracker are thiefs, they have stolen traffic (about 30%) from nearly every company in adult porn, anyone that has done biz with bode has had traffic stolen from them. They stole from us and we caught them, we have video evidence of it and bode will go to jail for committing one of the biggest internet frauds on the internet, using trojan viruses to steal traffic and defraud surfers all over the world. They have had servers siezed specifically by the German police and interpol have been called in. FBI will probably be involved by end of week. [Shawn] Bode and a bunch of FCI [Flying Crocodile Inc] peeps are going to jail for ALONG time.

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Based on the Caribbean island of Curacao, Avenue Media has ties to Shawn Boday, who in court documents is listed as a "sales consultant." Boday, who could not be reached for comment, is the founder of Seattle-based Flying Crocodile Inc. Flying Crocodile operates SexTracker.com, a compilation of pornographic Web sites and marketing tools for adult Web masters.

In sworn court documents filed last month, Boday said that Avenue Media suffered a loss of nearly a million Web "hits" during a two-day period in mid-November. He said an investigation determined that DirectRevenue was responsible for sending "computerized commands" that deleted the company's software from users' hard drives.

Ruin posts on Oprano.com:

Andy Edmonds had ties to Lycaeum.org (an online entheogen encyclopedia). No biggie really, Andy is/was something of a psychonaut. Andy Edmonds was hired by Kelly Kampen in 1996 to code Sexlist, he pulled Ross into the project. They exited out of that deal by breaking into Kelly's office and stealing their employment agreements. When they left they swiped Kelly's IP as well and out of that assf--- came...Sextracker!

Shawn came on board a couple months into the Sextracker project. Shawn was not a founder, programmer, or anything else other than a really smart marketing/advertising/biz dev guy. Andy got caught up in the times and started to believe his own PR. Too bad because he was a bright individual. Andy was one of the quickest intellects I've had the opportunity to work with in this business. Unfortunately he had an ego to match. That ego (and hard drugs) got us all in alot of trouble.

Flying Crocodile Inc. became FCI Inc after Andy Edmond was pushed out due to his gross mismanagement. Shawn Boday and Ross Perkins assumed the role of co-CEO's and shared Andy's former office. I had been on a forced "sabatical" for many months due to my inability to play ball with Andy. Its funny how dificult people (myself included) become when they are lied to, cheated, and not payed. Once Andy was forced out I returned to manage the advertising sales team. This was not to last as Shawn was insistent on managing advertising sales himself. So, I took over the management and marketing of Sexlist, a property I had developed with my partner and sold to FCI a few years before. It was at this time that Richard Fannin (Bama) came to the FCI offices one night to pitch a project to us. Shawn was busy so I met with him. Bama was pitching what is now known as adware. Sneaky adware. I was excited and pulled Shawn into the meeting. Shawn heard Bama out and said thanks but no thanks. We had other s--- going on...

1. FCI entered into a distribution agreement with Bama, they were to provide Bama with 1 million installs. Shawn read between the lines and noted, "the agreement does not specify where these installs are to come from!" Long story short, Bama got 1 million installs, from China and Korea.

2. While partnered with Bama, FCI had access to the admin to Bama's software. This was used by Shawn to gain valuable insight into the adware business. This access was also used to steal Richards intellectual property. When Bama declined our offer to provide additional services in consideration for a larger stake, we simply started developing our own software. Developers were given access to Bama's admin interface.

3. It was decided that this new business should be based offshore, work commenced on forming Avenue Media. Jim Finnell (CFO and one third of the FCI corporate triumverate) was pushed out at this time by Bob Kim over personal differences as well as Jim's desire to own more of Avenue than Bob, Shawn, and Ross were willing to give up.

4. Unbeknownst to me (my former partner at Sexlist and I were to have 60 points on FCI/AM's adware deal) FCI had started developing a second, confidential adware product incorporating Bama's feature set, as well as additional functionality Shawn and I had come up with.

5. While a friend/business acquitance was visiting on business Shawn and I (the third person can't be identified) discussed the feasability of distributing through the p2p's as well as through viral email methods.

6. FCI had a employee (interestingly enough he's posted on this thread) working full time adding URL's into the config. These URL's would have either all, or some percentage of their traffic redirected. This list included but was not limited to the top sites on Sextracker! All this work was done from the Seattle offices of FCI, not in Caracao. The employee was on the FCI payroll.

7. I think it should be noted (this is going to be a big duh to some of you) that the only reason AM was formed was to hide assets and evade taxes. As Bob Kim (the architect of all this jiggery pokery as FCI's CLO) once told me, "yeah dude, we're going to make alot of money, someones going to find out what we're up too and sue the s--- out of us. Also, we don't want to pay taxes on any of this income."

My involvement with FCI ended on a sour note when I realized that they had no intention of sharing the ill-gotten gains with me. Obviously these people have bad parents who didn't teach them vital life lessons about sharing and playing well with others.

I moved on and am hated by millions of people the world over in my own right.

A Chat With Industry Insider Jack Kramsey

Jack: "Do you like the information you are getting these days?"

Luke: "I do."

Jack: "You should start a Tim Connelly termination watch and every day you should have a countdown. You should say, we have a kitty and we're counting down the days until Tim Connelly gets fired as AVN publisher and editor. It would drive him nuts."

Luke: "That's really sadistic. It's just the sort of thing I'd do."

Jack: "It's got your name written all over it. Mike South and those guys would love it.

"Or you could do a porno guy death pool and take bets on who is going to die first. Jim Holliday. Clive McLean. Bob Friedland. Put every old porn guy in there. People who do drugs. Eddie Wedelstedt. Al Bloom. Put all the people you don't like. Everybody will think it is the worst taste ever. It's so you. Put Scott Fayner on there. He would love it.

"Did you get any more news on Frank Barbarino? He was close to death after a car crash and I haven't heard or seen the guy since.

"Or Bobby Vitale and his broken urethra. You know the real story on that? According to Vivid girl Tawny Roberts, him and Brianna Banks were both cracked out and she ran him over. She was in the garage and pinned him against the wall and ran over him.

"I hear Marci Hirsch is firing Tawny for drinking and fighting too much."

Rack 'Em Up

Acme Anderson writes:

Rumors have been going around for weeks that Digital Playground contract babe Teagan has been shooting scenes for companies other than DP, something obviously not allowed under her contract. I just got word from an inside industry source that the minute Digital sees anything with Teagan post-boobjob, the companies will not be allowed to legally distribute them ever and that they are fools for having paid Teagan for scenes that will never be seen.

Happy Birthday Jill Kelly

It's Tuesday, February 1. Jill's live-in girlfriend Tyler Faith is throwing her a party Wednesday night. "I'm going to marry Jill," says Tyler, "so she doesn't have to marry another jerkoff like Corey."

Jack Kramsey writes: "I like Tyler Faith- never met her- wanna set me up? I am looking for a nice girl, in the business. I am no Fred Flintstone but you can tell her I can make her Bed Rock!"

Roger Remains At Pornkings.com

Jack Kramsey writes: "Pornkings Roger was fired from his job and booted from his partnership at Pornkings and sent packing with Perfection Jeff. Another sign that the days of the "celebrity" "pimp" "playa" webmasters are over? You tell me!"

Roger V. replies:

It's crazy how Rumors develop we let a few people go and the rumor mill starts. I know for a fact I have not been booted from the company. I am a 50% partner and share holder of Marvad corp. hence the letters VAD in the company.

I have not received a buy-out check and I'm sure we haven't sold Pornkings. So I think it's safe to say I am still involved J Jeff on the other hand has been let go as well as a couple other people to cut cost, the company is just restructuring.

I am working on other projects aside from Pornkings so maybe that's why they are thinking I was booted. But to make things clear I am a 50% partner, not an employee.

As far as me being a pimp, playa celebrity webmaster that's kind of funny I consider my name branded as my program Pornkings because of my experience and proven track record in the industry.

Jack replies: "Nice spin from Roger. What exactly was or is his reputation? What exactly was he ever good at? What impressive skills does he possess that are carrying Pornkings to dizzying new heights? Face it- he got lucky by getting in early with a large sponsor program. He became skilled at acting like a "playa". Now those days are over and the "playas" have no value. Time to trim the real fat."

Roger replies: "Unless you know my History and my Reputation in the industry I suggest you keep your smart ass remarks to yourself or this could get ugly. I suggest you do a little more research. I do find it amusing because I guarantee you will eat your words LMAO!"

Tim Connelly Staying At AVN

On January 5, I published that Tim Connelly was out at AVN. His contract was not renewed. I was told this by several sources.

AVN president Paul Fishbein says: "Tim's doing a great job, spearheading our new novelty book with Philip, the new gay project with Doug Oliver and continuing publishing AVN with Mike Ramone and the whole staff. Let's put to rest these rumors that he's out."

I have published more Tim-Connelly-Is-Out stories than anybody.

Rodger writes: "Human Translation: 'I am the most unreliable porn gossip reporter of the bunch.'"

Jack Kramsey writes about the Super Bowl: "This is Paul Fishbein's greatest hope come true, decades in the making. God help us all if Philadephia doesn't win! Given Paul's very significant role in the business, an argument could be made that the outcome of this game will have industry-wide ramifications!"

Farley Cahan Takes Over AVN Sales

He's already head of AVN Online.

Howard, the previous head of AVN sales, gave notice a few weeks ago.

A year ago, AVN considered becoming a consumer-oriented monthly magazine but decided to concentrate on what it does better - business to business.

Jack Kramsey, industry insider, wrote to me Tuesday:

Another firing at AVN. I heard that Howard, the college educated replacement for Jennifer Rosenblatt was just fired. They also now have 5 or 6 sales reps in the magazine sales department, still trying to make up for the loss of Jennifer Rosenblatt.

Jennifer ran that entire department with just two sales reps and sales were never higher for AVN Online while Jennifer was in charge. Sounds like they were trying to save the money they paid Jennifer (over $300k a year and growing), however, that obviously back fired if sales are down and they needed to hire an addition 4 sales reps to make up for their former Senior Vice President and Sales Manager, Jennifer Rosenblatt.

My AVN source says the above is nonsense. Howard quit. Business has never been better. Sales have never been higher. Look at recent issues of AVN. Ad pages are up. Howard is leaving on good terms to pursue other interests. AVN just had its highest grossing year ever in 2004.

AVN is launching a sex toy magazine. Maybe GayVN will get its own magazine in 2005. The industry's 800-pound gorilla gets bigger. They even have their own blog.

Paul is the opposite of poverty-stricken former Screw publisher Al Goldstein. Al delights in making enemies. Paul delights in doing business. Al goes out of his way to alienate people. Paul goes out of his way to build bridges.

Al has something nasty to say about almost everyone, except Paul Fishbein.

On the Howard Stern show a few weeks ago, Paul said that homeless Al would be taken care of. I think some industry friends of Al's put together money and rented Goldstein an apartment.