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Director David Aaron Clark Defends Ex-Extreme Associates Star Jessica Darlin

From ADT:

I worked at Exterme when Jessica & her husband Bobby were there. In terms of politics, I'm light years towards the other side of the spectrum, and to be honest, I can't help but feel that anyone who holds some of her beliefs is either misled or not educated enough. But that's my snotty "liberal" bias, I admit. However, Jessica was -- and I suspect, still is -- a paragon of professionalism who has always taken great pride in doing her job as best as she possibly can -- and I'm sure her fans will agree her best is A-list quality.

What I will say is that Jessica is admirably honest and open-minded, amazingly fearless in standing up for what she believes in on both large and small levels, and has the common sense and IQ of any two or three Stepford Porn Whores put together -- which is not necessarily claiming genius status for her, of coure, but ... She has no hidden agendas.

She is NOT a hypocrite, or calculatedly self-serving, like so many loudmouths in this business. Snide remarks concerning her literacy and writing ability smack to me of mysogny and/or dislike for her opinions, considering that this board has endless proof that this industry is a posterchild for the swiftly dropping American literacy rate, from the postings of company owners to wannabe talent agents.

Jill Kelly Productions

Smiling Arab writes on XPT:

The shares in JKP owned by Jubilee were not purchased outright. Rather, they were swapped from a company called "Maximum Ventures, Inc," which I recall from JKP's initial SEC filing. (There are two - one a British Columbian mining interest; another, this one, in New York).

On November 18, 2003, per this link, Jubilee swapped shares of Jubilee itself with Maximum Ventures in exchange for Maximum's holding of JKP shares.

Who was "Maximum Ventures"? According to this link, it was sold. The purchase price is quite interesting. Maximum had transferred more than a million shares of JKP restricted stock valued at $3.75 per share. Yet, not long after, Maximum itself was sold to VerticleBuyer for only $450,000 (representing 77% of the company's outstanding shares). Compare/contrast: JKP restricted stock valued at around $4 million, vs. a tenth of that.

Quite interesting: just two weeks prior to swapping his JKP stock to Jubilee, on November 6, 2003 the CEO of Maximum Ventures, Abraham "Avi" Mirman released this press release announcing the Jill Kelly Productions Adult cable channel that James mentioned. Note it was issued by Maximum--not JKP.

Note also that the above press release announces no contract, no money at all, just a "letter of intent"--just two weeks prior to selling. I haven't been able to find any other JKP press releases signed by Avi. Why haven't we heard anything else about the cable channel? Was it something to attract genuine investors by JKP's angel in NY so he could cash out?

Here's Maximum's piece of s--- website. It says that they helped with "reverse mergers," among other things. Aha. Maximum consults with Bob, is given worthless stock in lieu of cash, then sells it while it can.

Avi's other company is called Mirman Capital Ventures. Mostly involved in biotech.

Jubilee swapped some of their shares for JKP. Why? Like Maximum, swapping their stock for other companies was the shell game by which they hoped to catch lightning in a bottle and attract investors:

From their 2003 report, shortly after picking up their JKP shares from Avi Mirman:

The Company's original intention was to build a portfolio as quickly as possible, with sufficient critical mass to create genuine liquidity in the Company's shares, for the benefit of those companies which had agreed to exchange a block of their own shares for shares in Jubilee.

The percentage of Jubilee's holdings in JKP in relation to the rest of their portfolio has fallen dramatically in the past year. At the time of their swap from Maximum, it represented some 8% of their portfolio. Now, per their
3rd quarter 2004 report, it's only 3.5% (and that's considering, again, the hilarious restricted stock valuation of 1.242 million quid). This number is so small that they don't even list it in their top (equally dodgy) primary holdings.

Here's Keith Gordon's employment contract. They set up a wholly-owned subsidiary called "JKP Bizarre" to distribute his stuff.

Here's Jill's employment contract. Now, if you're an executive, you need to have one, but I think it's funny that JKP's own "PR professional" Scott Hoover persists in misrepresenting this as a "woman-owned company." It's a corporation, and far and away most of the shares are not in her hands. It isn't nice to mis-represent the ownership of a publically-traded corporation, Scott, even if the only place you can sell it is on Pink Sheets.

The Koretskys own Pleasure Productions. In 1999, their partnership with New Frontier Media--another clusterf--k of a porn company going public--was a "perfect fit," according to Koretsky. Within two years, they were suing the holy hell out of each other over, among other things, stock transfers. (Parenthetically, I have to say that I know judges who would throw this complaint in the lawyer's face. I've never seen so many misspellings in one document since I was a clerk typing affadavits from crackheads.)

Klehr is a fairly decent, if cheap, law firm. There haven't been any disciplinary proceedings taken against any partners or Barry Siegel, the guy that did JKP's SEC paperwork.

What is/was Bob's connection to the three owners of IDC Technologies? At least there were three of them when they purchased PacificTradingPost. One of the three was implicated and subject to investigation following a raid on a boiler room pumping-and-dumping stocks that they had business with. I haven't been able to find any SEC charges.

And, while we're on the subject, why did Bob issue a $778,414.05 promissory note to himself through a shell corporation? Perhaps he won't be satisfied with still more stock in lieu of cash, like Michael Koretsky got for his $250,000 note. Or this porn producer, James L. Long, who was, after 3 years, paid only $10,000 of $140,000 owed to him, and settled for still more stock.

Now it's starting to make sense. This company was absolutely riddled with debts, but probably not any more. Let them eat stock options! And more stock options! It's an all-girl orgy of stock options! I never get tired of exchanging cash and services for stock options! Damn you promissory note! Psst, hey, buddy, wanna buy a stock option?

Re: Avi Mirman and his Maximum Ventures, Inc's holdings of JKP (later swapped to Jubilee after the mysterious "letter of intent" for a JKP adult cable channel), I was correct. Maximum was advising Bob and JKP and as a result was paid in company stock--so much company stock he was actually part-owner of the company. The merger agreement refers to Maximum having all but veto power over a number of issues in the agreement.

From the JKP-IDC Technologies merger agreement:

5.4 Publicity. Any public announcement or press release relating to this Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions must be approved by MVI, JKP and the Company in writing before being made or released.

That was on August 8, 2003. On November 6, 2003--three months later--Avi Mirman issued this press release on a "letter of intent" signed by JKP to own their own adult cable channel, a subject which has never been heard about from any JKP corporate officer again. Less than two weeks later, Mirman swapped his JKP shares with Jubilee. Quite a deal, isn't it?

That "letter-of-intent" press release had an extensive quotation from Bob. Kind of serious, that, if it turns out this "letter of intent" was intended solely to overstate the company's future earnings potential. It's a different world when you're under Sarbanes-Oxley jurisdiction, compared to being a horny old man that likes to fondle twenty year old girls in your sole proprietorship.

Michael Davis Vs. Rob Spallone

Michael Davis emails Rob Friday night:

Rob listen,you have no family,no money,no real job,no friends,and soon no kids.As you would say you have NOTHIN.Go back to New York and crawl under a rock,or take that gun of yours and put it to your head and pull the trigger aim under your chin not just to your head.The bullet may graze you other wise and not do the job.You can't read or write,your health is in poor shape,your in poor shape.Do yourself a favor,nobody will miss you.Beating up 80 year old men,you really need to kill yourself.Rob some people are just too stupid in life,your one of those people.Im going to have fun with you,like you have fun with other people.I will enforce the judgment I have against you for the 90k and always speak the truth about what a scum bag you are.When you look in the mirror you see it too,come on baby.No more emailing me anymore even this really brings me down its so negative.You have that effect on people.Me,your wife,your kids,your parents,anyone you come in contact with.Im off going to check the work in progress on my new 5 story 4 million dollar beach home right on the water.I guess you never know that feeling.It was not just the money Rob you stole it was the fact you stole from me and or course the money to,90k is 90k,I'd rather give it to my favorite charity or girls I like than line your pocket with it.I thought the investment with you would help you out,make money and be fun.Boy was I wrong.

Friday night, Rob left these me these messages:

One. My wife got about $26,000 from me two months ago, not that I have to defend myself.

As far as AIM, I probably got about 25 phone calls this week asking me to set up another clinic.

When I had the North Hollywood Clinic, did anybody have any complaints about them?

Third. Mike, thanks for all the publicity. I got two new accounts this week. I appreciate that. I need it.

I can't wait to see him in court.

Why isn't his partner Guenther suing me? I have Guenther's $25,000 cashier's check. They should both sue me for a million dollars each.

Penthouse Redesigned

The March issue of Penthouse features the launch of its redesign. The magazine is slicker and of better quality. The whole thing is slick. The photos are toned down. There are no insertion shots. No hardcore. No ejaculation or urination. No fingers or toys digging inside a girl. Overall, it's a more wholesome and family-friendly mag.

Adult Industry Medicine Vs. Rob Spallone

Mike Davis received these unsigned emails from AIM regarding his feud with Spallone:

I'm glad to see someone is taking a stand when it comes to this person, I commend you for what you are bringing to light, I do hope it makes some difference, but typically, these types of people tend to thrive in the porn business, and go on for years without notice. I'm so sorry that you did not do diligence and check up on this person's backgrouond before you went into business with him. I have been dealing with this absurdity for 8 years.It is incredible how someone who causes so much damage, lies, violence and theft, can go on and no one says a thing. Good Luck.

I have been receiving your forwarding information on Mr. Spallone. I sympathize with your problems...

Natalia Cruz Interview

I chat with 2005 Penthouse Pet of the Year runner-up Natalia Cruz, 23, Friday morning (2/4/05) as she drives to the airport.

Luke: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Natalia: "A paleontologist. I was fascinated with rocks. I found rocks with prehistoric shells in them in my front yard [in Vancouver] all the time."

Luke: "Why didn't you?"

Natalia: "As I got older, I went to a theater high school. I was a member of a theater company. When I was 14, I started modeling. I was doing runway modeling. I didn't mind walking around naked in front of 2000 people. It was popular at the time to have models naked on the catwalk bodypainted. I did a lot of for charity, for AIDS, for Nepal.

"When my mom found out, she said, you should get paid for it. I don't think she meant Penthouse."

Luke: "Were you always cute?"

Natalia: "No. I was definitely an ugly duckling in high school. I was awkward and skinny and my nose was too big for my face.

"I moved to Arizona when I was 18."

Luke: "How was your experience of the Howard Stern show?"

Natalia: "Howard was a gentleman, surprisingly enough. It was a little bit personal because my publicist talked about stuff to him that I didn't want to talk about."

Luke: "You mean the rape things?"

Natalia: "Yeah. I didn't want to talk about that on Howard. Other than that, it was fine."

Luke: "Is it true that you only want to sleep with black guys?"

Natalia: "It's not that I want to. It's that I psychologically can't sleep with white [or pale] men. I can't have a sexual relationship with someone with pale skin because of that stuff."

Luke: "What were the ramifications of you spilling all this on the Howard Stern show?"

Natalia: "My publicist went and told him all this stuff. He asked me about it and I clarified."

Luke: "So what do you love and what do you not love about being a nude model?"

Natalia: "I love it because it's reclaiming my sexuality and making it mine again. Sometimes I hate it because I'd much rather be doing mainstream stuff. It's a pain in the ass when you are a known entity in the adult world. A lot of people will resent you for that."

Luke: "Do you want to get married and have kids one day?"

Natalia: "Yes. I've been married, but I want to marry again."

Luke: "When did you first get tattoos?"

Natalia: "When I was 14."

Luke: "Why?"

Natalia: "Because I've always been a little rebel kid needing to do own thing all the time. When I was 17, I started the big one on my back. My dragon. It's been ongoing for five years now."

Luke: "If you weren't a nude model, what would you do for a living?"

Natalia: "If mainstream modeling doesn't work out, I plan on going back to school to become a doctor of naturopathic medicine. That would take eight years."

Luke: "Were you a good student in high school?"

Natalia: "I have a photographic memory. If I read something a couple of times, I've got it memorized. I never went to class or did my homework but I aced all the tests."

Luke: "What kind of kids did you hang out with in high school?"

Natalia: "Half were punk rock kids on drugs and the other half were hippies on drugs."

Luke: "How would your close friends describe you?"

Natalia: "A little bit strange but upbeat. Peculiar but happy."

Luke: "What's peculiar about you aside from being a nude model?"

Natalia: "A lot of my ideas on religion and philosophy."

Luke: "What are your most controversial ideas on religion?"

Natalia: "I am interested in all faith traditions. My spiritual path is reverent to the earth. It fits in with my yoga practice. I do personal healings."

Luke: "That doesn't seem terribly strange."

Natalia: "When you get into it... I study a lot of stuff about Zen Buddhism and Tantra. It's really different from a lot of people's views. I grew up in a Christian household. Lutheran."

Luke: "By what age did you rebel against that?"

Natalia: "Fourteen."

Luke: "A lot of things happened then. It sounds like the most important year of your life."

Natalia: "I guess so. I lived in Winnipeg when I was 13. That was difficult to leave all my friends. At 14, I came back to Vancouver. Everything had changed. All my views on life. My parents stuck me in this Mennonite school for a year. I hated it. I became a bad-ass. It is against the Mennonite religion to drink alcohol or to dance."

Luke: "How do you determine what is right and wrong?"

Natalia: "If it doesn't hurt anyone, then I'd say that it is ok."

Luke: "Who are your favorite philosophers?"

Natalia: "My favorite philosophers?"

Luke: "You said your friends thought you were strange because of your religious and philosophical views."

Natalia: "I wouldn't say philosophers in general. I've done a lot of study of religious philosophy -- Hinduism, the Bhai faith and paganism in general."

Luke: "Do you think you might become Hindu or Bhai or commit to one path?"

Natalia: "One day. I like to study all religions -- the Bible, parts of the Torah, some of the Koran and Buddhist scriptures and try to understand as much of it as possible."

Luke: "Have you been to synagogues, mosques and temples?"

Natalia: "I've never been to a synagogue or mosque. Mostly I confine myself to reading the scriptures. My path is solitary. There is nobody I know who is seeking like I am to discuss all of it with."

Luke: "Why don't you seek out a mentor?"

Natalia: "That's one thing I should be doing but my schedule's so busy. I'd like to seek out a guru. But as I travel two-to-three weeks out of the month, when I'm home, I'm too tired."

Luke: "What are you doing?"

Natalia: "I'm doing promotions. I'm on shoots. I'm on my way to Jacksonville right now to host a [Super Bowl] party with Lloyd Bates."

Luke: "Will you do boy-girl sex scenes?"

Natalia: "Oh no. I'd like to move more into mainstream, so I definitely would not like to work with men."

Luke: "How does your boyfriend feel about you being a nude model?"

Natalia: "He doesn't mind as long as I don't work with men."

Luke: "What was it like to start showing up in magazines?"

Natalia: "It's funny because I always get the cover. I've had 15-20 covers. I'm sort of proud of that."

Luke: "You mentioned that most of your friends in high school were using drugs. So what is your use of drugs today?"

Natalia: "I experimented a lot when I was a kid. I never got addicted to anything, so it didn't affect me when I left high school and didn't do them anymore."

Luke: "How have your parents reacted to your nude modeling?"

Natalia: "My mom cried. My father was cool with it. I'm sure they'd both like to see me doing something else."

Geed writes: "natalia like a lot of other porn sluts has done boy/girl porn on karadavis.com with a white guy and another with another white guy . I particullaly like your site but please take off the kids gloves with these girls if you take of your clothes thinking that it may lead to fame more often than not you end up in porn in one form or fashion.on both occassions she didn't seem truamatized or maybe it slippedher mind."

Natalia Cruz's Rape Stories

Penthouse Pet of the Year runner-up tells them on Stern reports Gene Ross:

Cruz, who is from Canada, stated that she only dates black guys. "it's a psychological problem that I have," said Cruz. As illustration, Stern pointed out that Cruz had been raped three times by three different white guys. Cruz said she has a lot of friends who are white guys. "Until they try to touch me they're my friends," she said. Cruz said it's not so much a flashback to the rapes as the fact that it now disgusts her. Cruz said the rapes occurred in Canada between the ages of 15-17. "Different guys." Explaining her "exotic" background, Cruz said her father was from Romania and that his ancestors were gypsies from the Transylvania mountains.

Stern suggested that because there are no black guys in Canada, Cruz probably came to the states to get dates. "I wouldn't date a white Canadian, either," Stern said. Cruz explained that one of the rapists was an older guy who was 50; and the other two were men she was dating at the time. Cruz called the police on one of the rapists. "But they didn't believe me." Cruz said she fought the guy off but there was no evidence. "He was always kind of violent."

Cruz's parents came home while she was in the state of hysteria. "But they only thought he hit me." Cruz didn't report the second rapist. "It wasn't even a relationship," she said. "It was some guy I knew. I went to his house. I never seen him drunk before and he was violent. He was drunk when I got there." Cruz said the guy took her caveman-style. Cruz then ran down the street with no shoes on. Stern suggested that Cruz should have been walking around with metal panties on given her track record for sexual assaults. "Did you know you were this hot that guys can't resist you?"

An Interview With Ken From Mike Hott Video

Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Ken: "I wanted to be a rock star."

Duke: "What happened to that dream?"

Ken: "I came down to LA and realized the realities of the music business. I thought the next best thing to goof off in life and get paid for it was to get into porn."

Duke: "How did you get into porn?"

Ken: "My sister was dating an editor for Mike Hott Video. I asked him if I could come down one day and check out a set. I was always a fan. My life wasn't going anywhere at the time. I had a lot of time on my hands. He said, yeah, yeah, yeah, whenever. I never thought it would happen.

"A couple of days later, he called me up and asked if I knew how to use a camera. The second cameraman on a shoot couldn't make it. Can I be down there in 20-minutes? I said sure, man.

"This was 1996. My first day on the job was nuts. It was everything I thought a porn shoot would be -- chaotic, tons of people on set. We were shooting a gangbang. There were 15 naked guys and two girls. I didn't know what I was doing. I went with instinct. They told me, you've just got to point at something and keep it on the shot for a little bit. Try not to move.

"I guess I did all right that first day because they hired me fulltime."

Duke: "What did you come to love and hate about your job?"

Ken: "I loved that it was always about the girls. They had great attitudes back then. They were gungho. They were doing it for thrills. If you sprung something on them from out of the blue, or if you wanted to make stuff up as you went along, they were gungho with it and had open minds. It wasn't a process like it is now where if you decide to do anything different from the program it is a constant negotiation. Their agents have a lot to do now with how they think and where they go and what happens there. It's about not getting ripped off and not getting taken advantage of. The girls are defensive now. Whenever you decide to do something different, it's a constant struggle. It's pulling teeth. They think that you're getting too much. Why are you taking too many pictures? Back then, there was none of that.

"The girls never flaked. I was shooting out in Duarte (in the San Gabriel Valley, where the 405 meets the 5) and girls would come out just for auditions. They would always be up for anything. That's what I love. I still love this business but it is more of a business now. Back then it was more fun.

"You're always going to have girls who want to be there and girls who don't want to be there.

"At Mike Hott Video (yes, there is an actual Mike Hott), we were paying them on a day rate (say, $1000), which you can't do these days. We'd be able to do whatever we want. We'd say, well, we've got you for the day. We really don't know what we're doing but it is probably going to be a lot. We'd make it up as we went along. The girls just wanted to do their best. Nowadays, you can't even pull s--- like that.

"If the girls was really good looking, we'd shoot her for two days and do two different kinds of gangbangs, five boy-girl scenes, a hand job scene, a blow job scene. And no one ever complained."

Why can't girls be more reasonable about these things today? The work ethic of the new generation has gone down the toilet. Porn girls are just not as easy to abuse as they used to be.

Duke: "Perhaps you guys are single-handedly responsible for this change in attitude?"

Ken: "Exactly. We educated them out of day-rates. The girls are a lot smarter."

Duke: "More difficult to take advantage of."

Ken: "Yeah."

A whistful tone creeps into his voice.

"They weren't taken advantage of. It was just an economical way of shooting stuff.

"Mike Hott, the owner, would come up with ideas on the spot. The girls now have to have an outline of what they're doing before every shoot.

"I was on a shoot a few weeks ago. We were just taking stills of this girl. And she just needed to do a toy for four or five shots and she completely freaked out. 'Nobody told me.' It was a little dildo. I couldn't believe that kind of attitude.

"I'm now a co-owner of Mike Hott Video but we don't do much production these days. I freelance. I work for Pure Play. I shoot for Cousin Stevie."

Duke: "Do you think you were taking advantage of the girls when you would pay them by the day?"

Ken: "No, because I didn't know any better. Mike Hott set everything up. When I came into the industry, I had no idea what was the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. Then it didn't seem like the wrong thing to do because these girls, their attitude was spectactular. A lot of it happened to do with that we auditioned them beforehand. They'd come out a day early so we could talk to them. We'd ask them the sickest questions. If they were gungho for it, we knew that we had our girl.

"Mike had high standards, not in looks, but in how far a girl was willing to go."

Duke: "Do you enjoy your work as much as eight years ago?"

Ken: "No. My world was more of a party atmosphere back then.

"Mike was a pioneer. He helped originate the gonzo style before every unemployed gas station attendant had a camera and a girlfriend.

"Back then we were doing stuff that nobody was doing. The cream pies. Mike had this great idea of instead of doing one cream pie, doing a gangbang cream pie. Then we'll get a girl to come in and eat it out. He was going on and on."

Ken describes other innovations that make me too queasy to list.

"He would just come up with this stuff right off the bat back in 1995."

Mike Hott was truly a man ahead of his time, sort of like Gallileo.

Duke: "Did any of it make you nauseated?"

Ken: "No. You got jaded quick."

Duke: "Did you get blowjobs on camera?"

Ken: "Oh sure."

Duke: "Where is Mike Hott today?"

Ken: "It's another porn cliche. We had problems with distribution and money owed us. We license stuff over the Internet.

"Mike Hott didn't go to awards show or functions and he absolutely didn't [cater to] XXX film reviewers. He was paranoid. He only trusted one distributor who ended up f------ us in the long run. They are out of business now. Major Distribution out of New York.

"I don't think any of us realized how much the business would expand. Mike was happy with a low profile. He wasn't big on socializing and ingratiating himself with people. He didn't think that advertising was necessary. And now that is all it is because everybody is shooting the same stuff. Now it is whoever has the better advertising wins the game.

"Mike Hott was the first one to shoot many of these girls who are really big today. Did you ever hear of our C--- of the Month series?"

Duke: "Yeah, it was a great honor."

Ken laughs. "It was the pinnacle of success for a lot of these girls. Stephanie Swift. Sunset Thomas. She was our Marilyn Monroe C--- of the Month. She came to our day barefoot and pregnant. Cheyenne Silver. Tina Tyler. Rebecca Lord. These were training grounds for up-and-coming porn sluts.

"Mike Hott Video muddied the waters for porn. We set the standard but everyone else took from us and became more famous.

"Mike Hott was responsible for the separation of niche themes to all of the videos. You always knew what you were going to get. For example, if you like girls who swallow you would rent "Girls Who Swallow..." If someone liked creampies they would probably be interested in the series "Cum In My C---" and so forth.

"Another example of how great the girls attitudes were back then. During an interview with Nancy Vee we asked her to drink multiple loads of --- out of a coctail glass. All she cared about was if there would be one of those little bamboo umbrellas in there.That was pretty hilarious. We have over 200 of Mike Hott Video titles on AEBN .net with another 400 going up in the upcoming months."

Duke: "What are your ambitions?"

Ken: "I have none. To start producing stuff for Mike Hott Video again. We have a lot of our legal problems behind us now."

Duke: "Have you dated any of the girls in the business?"

Ken: "Just a few. I learned my lessons from that."

Duke: "What lessons did you learn?"

Ken: "Valentine's Day when you are sitting around with candy and flowers for her and she's getting gangbanged. It's not a good feeling. It would irk me that I would be stood up by a girl who was swallowing loads in another part of town. It would come in waves. Sometimes it would get to me. I am mainly interested in civilian girls."

Duke: "How many porn stars did you date? Who?"

Ken: "Three or four. Kate Frost."

Duke: "What do you tell strangers about what you do for a living?"

Ken: "At first I thought it was something to hide, but I got tired of that. This business is mostly mainstream already. You say that you produce erotic material. It goes by people much easier than it did before. Nobody really cares anymore, or people say, wow, that's really interesting. My friends think it's great.

"My parents wanted something else, but if it was between this and my trying to make it as a musician, they were down, in a bad way, on that. This is to them the lesser of two evils. My mom was a musician (pianist) and she will tell you how hard it was.

"I am a drummer. I still play."

Duke: "How do civilian girls react to what you do?"

Ken: "They don't. The second I tell a civilian girl what I do, they are interested at first. But no matter how you tell or whatever aspect you tell them you are in this business, whether you are directing or producing or just photographing, they always think, this isn't really the guy I want to be dating.

"It's a double-edged sword. You go through so much trauma and heart ache with a girl who's in the business and then you go outside and the girl is never going to accept that you are in the business in any capacity.

"When I first got in the business, I had a girlfriend. She increasingly became more paranoid and delusional and thought I was banging chicks every time I went off to work."

Duke: "Were you cheating on her?"

Ken: "Not at first. Not until she became psychotic and accused me, then I said, I know this relationship is going to be ending soon. Once you plant that seed in your head, it's hard to remove it."

Duke: "This is a big problem. This is isolating and sad."

Ken: "Yeah, but it could be worse. I just don't tell civilian girls what I do for a long time. I'm sure there are women out there who will be accepting. I just haven't met them yet.

"It's not something to leave the business for."

Duke: "If you met the right woman, would you leave the industry if she asked you to?"

Ken: "I'd probably tell her I was going to, and then just stall. She'd have to be some kick-ass chick."

Duke: "You seem passive about your life."

Ken: "I just go with the flow. I've always thought life was about having a good time. I choose not to sit around and dwell on what's coming up next. What have I done? What have I accomplished? What have I not accomplished? Though I do do that. But it seems futile. Instead I see wherever life takes me."

Rob Spallone Vs. Mike Davis

These guys used to be business partners and friends. Rob lived with Mike for a couple of months. Now they're enemies.

Rob emails Mike Thursday afternoon: "YOU ARE A JOCK BUT I LOVE IT KEEP IT UP YOU HAVE EVERY BODY LOL OK RAT PROVE WAT YOU SAY LUCK IS DOING HIS JOB A I LOVE IT BUT MIKE NO ONE HAS SAID ONE THING THAT YOU SAID IS TRUE BUT PLEASE DONT STOP YOU R A JOKE"

Mike emails Luke:

The guy just is not in reality.He is so concerned with the truth well there it is in black and white real simple.I think Rob is obviously a sick person who can't face the truth.Like in the Film A Few Good Men when Jack Nicoleson said:"You can't handle the truth."He must have been speaking to Spallone.

Rob go crawl under a rock would you.Have some drinks,shoot your mouth off some more and loose some more money you don't have playing cards when you should be giving money to your wife and kids who are going without clothes and food right now Family man.Everybody knows what kind of a guy you are stop trying to fool everybody it's over.You made your bed now sleep in it,I did not ask you to do the mean and hurtful things you have done to innocent people trying to make a living.You just can't face the truth about the kind of person you are.I would have trouble looking in the mirror myself if I were you.You could always take that gun of yours and put it to your head a pull the trigger.Nobody would miss you pal and you would being doing yourself and other a favor.You know the way I feel about you,so stop trying to change my mind.As long as Im living I will always tell the truth about you Pal,always.

Mike Davis leaves this message for me Thursday night: "I wanted to give you some insight on how this blew up again. Rob contacted me on email January 1: 'Hey bro, how are you doing?' I replied, don't contact me unless you the money to pay back what you stole from the company.

"Eversince then, he's been calling me a rat and this and that. It finally got to me. I didn't want to be silenced anymore. I wanted to discuss what this guy is all about. The guy lived with me for a couple of months and I got exposed to some behavior that he did. I will swear on my life that everything I said is true."

Tyler Faith's Boyfriend

FlyontheWall writes: "Tyler Faith and Wankus shot a JKP scene today.I think she just blew him but she was calling him "her boyfriend" on the set."

JKP Responds

Scott Hoover, publicity man for Jill Kelly Productions, writes:

That rumor about the fire is utter bulls---. I was caused by faulty wiring....I do not think anyone from Bizarre would be stupid enough (or agile enough) to climb up into Jill's attic and set a fire or rewire it to short out.

What was done with Bizarre's product was a legal business transaction. I could go into detail about the shady and underhanded events that happened to cause us to sever ties with Bizarre, but that will all come out in the end. The truth always does. We shall prevail.

Everyone LOVES to trash JKP- is it because it's a woman owned company or because of people's feelings towards Bob? I have no idea but it is completely moronic to think that we are over here shaking in our boots in fear of any wannabe or so called "mafia connected" criminals coming to take us out. f--- them and f--- those who continue to have nothing better to do with their time than make up silly s---. Hey- why not talk about something good. It seems so many people in this business really hate the industry that is their bread and butter. Self loathing is rampant here. Go do something else! Why not go bake a cake for your neighbor or visit and elderly relative you locked into a nursing home. Can you people really look at yourselves in the mirror each day for more than a quick second?

Parasite writes: "JKP's a woman owned company? Not unless Bob Friedland got some bolt-ons and had his cock and balls cut off."

I thought JKP was a publicly-owned company?

I get calls and emails that "everyone loves to trash JKP" because:

* JKP is widely thought to be a fraud.
* Because a lot of porners can't stand Bob Friedland.
* JKP has a history of not paying its bills on time.
* JKP will always be a penny stock. Friedland knows his nonsense could never pass scrutiny on a big board.
* What kind of PR person for a publicly held company writes press releases using the f-word? Obviously Friedland doesn't treat it like a publicly held company.

Smiling Arab writes on XPT:

Back to JKP: the funny thing is that you can see the writing on the wall of it right now, or at least one possible scenario. Forget about where the money is coming from and going to ($9 million dollars loss in one year? Why would they even have a nine million dollar gross budget, total, much less a loss of that amount?) Everyone that owes that company will be mutilated if Bob simply calls in the deferred compensation and loans he's made.

Their "board"? Seriously, slap yourself around, people. Jill is an employee of her own company, she's not going to stand in the way of anything. How could a company with probably less than 10 full employees lose $9 million dollars? Most of it, of course, was Bob's capital, and most of it was before they went public. The former makes me arch an eyebrow, but does the latter have any signficance? What kind of due diligence has to be done on that $9 million once they went public? Can he simply point to a balance sheet that says, in paper, he transferred X amount of money to the company?

This is what we know: 1. Jill Kelly is no more than a paid employee with some worthless stock in "Jill Kelly Productions."

2. They pulled off a reverse merger acquisition with little legitimate reason to do so, since there is no demand for their common stock shares (valued by JKP at $0.001. This isn't uncommon for small market companies but it sort of defeats the point of going public for legitimate reasons when no one wants to invest in your company.)

3. Many of the shareholders are friends and family of CEO Mr. Burns. Others are adult industry players who either came up with capital or, more likely, discharged debt in exchange for stock options. Bob's own stock is held by a trust.

4. Rather notice this stunning peak and valley. I'm just guessing, but it appears that stockholders were selling at 5x the value, possibly through pre-arranged stock options, or possibly through prior agreement. Since there's no demand for this stock, we can at least say that most or all of these sales came from the original investors listed in their initial SEC filing following the company buying "IDC Technologies" (née "Pacific Trading Post," which did graphics for snowboards) and going public.

5. The 60+ year old CEO is inordinately fond of sleeping with his 20 year old employees. Not our business? Hell, try that in the real world.

6. Who is an investor in this British fund? Looks like a politician signed their annual report.

7. If this were a simple dodge, why would they hire PortfolioPR--which seems to specialize in penny stock companies--to do their IR/PR? Yet practically everything in the public domain with JKP's name on it is produced in house, in contradiction of the norm with PortfolioPR's other clients.

James writes:

Bam! we've got scrap-metals and hauling, manufacturing consultants and they're doing precious metals in WEST AFRICA. that's arguably the best area of the world if you need to make large amounts of money dissapear or appear. those places don't keep real records if they're keeping them at all. all you've gotta do is have the balls to set something up and say you lost or gained money doing business there. did you find a more detailed profile of jkp's actual financials or looked into what the "restricted" status means in practice?

Smiling Arab writes:

Here's Frank Maude's website. He's a Tory, apparently in good standing, and though I don't understand British politics, appears to be a centrist (ie, no railing against obscenity).

He also seems to enjoy sitting on a number of hedge fund and corporate boards. In the middle of last month, someone sold 50,000 shares of common stock in JKP.

That's really a drop in the bucket since they've issued (or plan to issue) 500 million shares for a hilarious valuation of $5 million dollars. But the seller didn't get more than pennies for them, compared to a year ago, after they went public, and shares were being sold for several times that. I dunno, what I think we're looking at is a guy (Mr. Burns) making sure he has a golden parachute.

He funded Ms. Kelly to the hilt and fondled the young starlets then, realizing how much money (his family's money) he'd blown, is attempting to con someone into buying it from him, and definitely to protect himself from the earlier debt-ridden financial profile.