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Joseph Abinanti Connected To 1990 Murder Of Ex-Gangster Anthony Dilapi?
According to law enforcement, Abinanti used to hang out with Anthony Dilapi and may have helped set him up for the 1990 murder in a bid to become a made-guy in the New York Lucchese crime family.
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Detective Story Alleging Hit Men in Blue: Details of Hollywood Killing
Helped Indict 2 Former NYPD Cops Long Suspected of Mob Ties (Josh Getlin,
July 15, 2005, LA Times)
As misting rain fell in the late afternoon, Anthony Dilapi strolled into the darkened, underground garage of his Hollywood apartment. Suddenly a masked gunman rushed toward him and fired.Five bullets to the face. Four to the body. The killer jumped into a waiting car and raced away. His victim died instantly. The Feb. 4, 1990, shooting never made headlines. Dilapi, 53, was listed on his death certificate as a used-car salesman.
In fact, he was a New York mobster, a member of the Lucchese crime family. He had fallen out of favor with his bosses and fled to the West Coast.
Dilapi had covered his tracks well. How did the New York Mafia find him?
Prosecutors were mystified. Their investigation hit dead ends. Then, this year, they uncovered startling evidence: The trail led to two of New York's most respected detectives.
In 1969, drug dealing, burglary, robbery and rape were soaring in New York. Muggers on the subways and in the parks terrified many; there was a widespread feeling that the city was out of control.
Nervous officials relaxed background checks and began hiring more police. Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito joined the NYPD during this time.
Alphonse “Little Al” D’Arco knows Abinanti. Little Al had a son who is reported to be one of the shooters on the Dilapi job. They are both in Witness Protection.
I saw Joseph Abinanti at Lenny Friedlander's suite at the AVN Expo in January 2005. Joey didn't seem pleased to see me. I walked over to say hello but Rob Spallone pushed me away.
Joey got a visit from law enforcement in late 2004 after I published some articles about him.
It's possible that Abinanti might be charged as an
accessory in the Dilapi murder.
Taylor Hill: 'The Truth About Throatgaggers 4'
The cosmetologist (taylorhillxxx at yahoo.com) writes on XPT:
In reading through this forum which has been rather delightful, mind you, I have come across several posts regarding my work in Throatgaggers 4. I am going to set the record straight right now. For the record:
YES - I did have a broken blood vessel in one of my eyes.
YES - I went to bed after the shoot & slept for a long time.(wouldn't you be tired after getting your faced f---ed that well?!) Unfortunately no, for those of you who got off at the idea of me curling up in a fetal position & crying I didn't, but if that's what you need to think to get off - continue.
& YES - I DID NOTHING AGAINST MY WILL I WAS IN COMPLETE CONTROL THE ENTIRE TIME & I LOVED EVERY f---ING MINUTE OF IT! NO - I was not hard up for money. EVER.
The fact of the matter is that of the few films I did this was the most "degrading" of them all. However, what most people don't know was that was what I was going for. Also, I do not see the industry the way a lot of people do. For me it was a way to express myself sexually, and to conquer new endeavors, to portray my self in different sexual aspects. I wanted my fans to see what I was capable of. Before shooting Brandon, Mr. Pete, & I sat & discussed what I was & wasn't going to do. After all was agreed we proceeded to shoot. I regret nothing, Brandon was wonderful and a complete gentleman. I had done anything like that in my home sex life, that film certainly changed my views lol. Now my fiance gets to do it to me on a regular basis. My reasons for quitting the biz had to do with my personal life & a bad experience with the jerk who had offered me a place to stay while I was working in LA That was all. Any questions? Feel free to send me a message or email me. Love to all, Tay
.....Mr. Pete followed Brandon's lead and was respectful as well, even despite my decline to have actual intercourse with him lol. He was great to work with. And to be quite honest I didn't get to look at his eyes all that much since his enormous cock was in the way. What would you like to know about John? I'm not sure what you mean by selling personal details, but if you ask I'll try to accomodate.lol He was wonderful! One of the greatest people that I met in the industry. I had some major problems with the jerk I stayed with when I was out in LA working & John really helped me out when he didn't have too. We met on the set of Heavy Handfuls 2 and I almost had a nervous breakdown on the set because of what I was going through with the person I was staying with. I had never been to LA before knew no one & had no where else to go. He took me in for the night and took me to a great hotel the next day where I ended up staying for the duration of my time in LA. I can't say enough nice things about him. He was a great person. I was very fortunate to have met some really great people while I was working out there. I was never uncomfortable on set it was always felt natural. I never had to fake anything, I thoroughly enjoyed my work on both films.
.......If you are referring to the person I was staying with wanting me to hook, yes, that had ALOT to do with it. Although I had talked to this individual several times over the phone and discussed my staying with him, he never once asked me to hook or anything even remotely close to that. He offered me a place to stay, to show me around, & to take me where I needed to go as a friend of Tim & Felicia's. He asked me if I would attend a few of his band's shows & go to dinner with him while I was out there in exchange for his hospitality. I agreed thinking nothing of it. I had joked with him about being his "girlfriend for a week", not realizing what kidding around would get me when I got there. As far as your ideas on human rights in the porn industry, I don't know how well that would hold up but if you think you can make a strong enough case then by all means go for it. As far as my consent, I don't have any desire at this time to pursue any type of action in regards to my injury, so I am unable to give it.
If you ran Playboy, how would you grow the business?
New Playboy employee Lensman (he sold his whole operation to Playboy a month ago) writes on GFY: "The good news is we're working on hot new initiatives, but I know the gang on GFY can come up with some great ideas."
Thursday afternoon. Oct 6. Tampa Show.
Cheyenne, Mike South, Reese, Haley Star Cheyenne, friend, Beater Cheyenne, Mike South, Rachel
Cheyenne, Mike South and company are sitting by the pool.
Heather Pink, 27, calls down: "Hi Mike."
Mike, 47: "Who are you?"
Heather: "You f----- me two years ago."
Mike was her first scene. He didn't remember until he went back to his room and looked her up on his website.
Cheyenne (did a 14-man bukkake video for Mike) has known Mike about six years and is best-friends with Felicia Fox (they grew up together).
My preaching throughout the weekend quickly gets on Cheyenne's nerves.
After ten years as a stripper (and two knee surgeries), she now works as a waitress in a strip club.
"The whole peeing [on film] thing started with [Mike South]," says Cheyenne. "In 2000 in Atlantic City. I did it just for a gag."
Luke: "Did you feel like Mike was exploiting you?"
Mike and Beater laugh. Cheyenne says, "Oh no. Mike doesn't want to exploit anybody who doesn't want to be exploited."
Luke: "But he took those images and showed them to thousands of people?"
Cheyenee: "So?"
Mike: "Now I've got some questions. Would your father be appalled by this [show]?"
Luke: "Yes. Why don't you guys make movies to uplift the human condition rather than degrade it?"
Cheyenne: "We have a blast. If people get offended, that's their problem."
Mike, Friday afternoon: "The best thing I've seen at the show is Amber. She's really hot."
Cheyenne: "Yes, she's really hot."
Mike asks me: "Out of all the people you've met in porn, who do you think the most well-adjusted people are?"
Luke: "The businessmen like Paul Fishbein, Steve Hirsch, [Ron Levi, Rich Botto, Alec Helmy]."
Mike: "How well do you know Steve?"
Mike argues the case for his own superb adjustment.
Cheyenne: "Mike's the most well-adjusted person I know. He's a businessman. He handles his [stuff] right. Mike is respectful of every woman he works with."
Mike: "Yeah. Do you think Paul Fishbein and Steve Hirsch are uplifting the human condition?"
Luke: "I didn't say that. I said they were [comparatively] well-adjusted."
Tampa Show. We talk Thursday, Oct 6.
As a child she wanted to become a gymnast. Then a teacher. Then, at the end of highschool, she wanted to be in the Coast Guard.
Trina, 21: "My parents [wanted] me to become anything I wanted to be. They didn't care. I don't think they expected this."
In highschool, Trina hung out with one friend. "I'm one of the girls who wants to go back to her highschool reunion and say, 'Yeah! Remember me?' I kept to myself. I didn't dress like this. I was originally a 36D but I didn't show them off."
Before porn, Trina got implants to move to 36DD. "After I got them, I went to the mall. This kid on the other side of the aisle said, 'Holy s---.' I just started laughing. I love it."
Trina lost her virginity at 16 and graduated at 17. She's now married.
"I never expected to be [in porn]. A photographer took my pictures and put them on a modeling website. I was contacted to do Adult work. I thought that would be cool. See what happens."
She did her first scene in May 2004 and has done about 200 since. "I love getting paid for what I would do for free. I get to be made-up every day really nice, decent hours, and do what I want. The thing I hate the most is the monthly [STD] test I have to take because I'm always worried. Your heart stops when you make that phone call. Will I have to cancel my next five scenes or am I good?"
Trina spends most of her Friday nights at the gym.
She's married "to a genuine pervert. He's the one who corrupted me. He gives me the freedom to do what I want. I just have to let him know what's up and he's cool with that."
Trina has no ambitions beyond staying in porn and perhaps studying photography.
Her family has no idea she's doing porn. "I always laugh when I go on trips like this in case my husband has to call my mom: 'Yeah, your daughter died in Florida.' She'd say, 'What the hell was she doing in Florida?'
"I'd like to tell them but I don't know how. I'm really scared of their reaction because my mom's religious. I hope that when I do tell her, she understands it's a business and it is actually really safe."
Dirty Bob writes last week: "Luke may be an acquired taste, but it was in extremely bad taste for him to make a recent comment on his site about me (which he followed up with an e-mail trying to bait me even further into commenting). I wasn't even IN Tampa this year, and I certainly didn't try to ban him."
Twelve hours before I published anything, I emailed Dirty Bob a report I received from a reliable source that his wife had demanded he attend no more porn shows (as Bob was not in Tampa for the show).
My email in entirety at 12:23AM Oct 12 was: "Hi Bob, I heard your wife won't let you go to shows anymore such as the Tampa Show? Luke"
Bob did not respond to my email. I did not email him again after publication and thus did not bait him. I simply did my journalistic due diligence before publication.
Dirty Bob wrote on AVN.com Oct 13 to Lars:
Of course I did not try to "ban" Luke from Tampa. Have you ever looked into how much it would COST to patrol Tampa's borders to keep him out? Seriously, no - I did not try to ban or do anything to Luke.
Luke is a professional fisherman and tries to bait people into responding or saying things that he can use for his own means. His comment about my wife is incredibly stupid - I missed the Tampa Show and stayed home that weekend because by son's wife had their first baby on Friday, and being there for that is MUCH more important that any adult event. Hey - I'm a grandpa now! Damn!
Luke operates in a similar manner as you - by saying things like you did, above, about Ramone and AVN (none of which is true, naturally) in order to perpetuate and propagate what appears to be some beef you may have about Ramone and/or AVN. How childish!
On March 30, 2005, Dirty Bob wrote on the AVN.com blog to his colleague Kernes about lukeisback.com: "Mark, Mark, Mark...who do you waste your time reading scatological remnants like that site? Even mentioning it (pro or con) just gives it more fuel for the fire. Ignore it."
Charlee Chase Interview
I meet the buxom blonde at the Tampa Show. We talk Thursday, Oct 6.
A mother of two, she's done about 30 movies.
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Growing up in Delaware, Charlee moved to Tampa eight years ago when she was 19.
Luke: "How come there's so much Adult stuff here?"
Charlee: "Actually, there's more fetish stuff here. The Adult stuff is in Fort Lauderdale and Miami."
Luke: "Do they tie you up?"
Charlee: "Here? Yes. I wrestle. I do all the foot fetishes. I love it all. I only do what I like."
As a kid, Charlee longed to grow up to be a hermit. "I was in a modeling competition at five, and I said I wanted to be a hermit because I hated people.
"Now I've come to the conclusion that people rock my world."
Luke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool. I was a cheerleader. I was a popular girl. I was a straight-A student until I got pregnant at 15 (she first had sex at 14). All of a sudden, my popularity went pfft. They said, 'Oh, you can't hang out and have fun anymore.' It's all good though. I can't wait for my [ten-year] reunion this year. I'm going to go back and be like, 'F--- you all. I'm bigger than all of you.'"
Luke: "Have you always had large breasts?"
Charlee: "Yes. I hit 13 and I was by far the largest girl in the school. After I breastfed a couple of kids, I got implants. I'm a 36DD. I'm a natural blonde.
"When I moved to Florida, my mom had cancer. I came to help her out. She lost her job in telemarketing. We needed money. I started dancing. I loved the attention. I made contacts and went into porn eight years ago.
"Porn has opened me up. I grew up, our family didn't talk. Now I talk. I say, hey mom, I'm about to do a gangbang. She says, 'That's cool. How many guys?' I only did four. I do it in my personal as well as professional life."
Have you seen this escort ad featuring Keri Sable?
I don't think it's real for many reasons, including that Keri, a Wicked girl and Brad Armstrong's girlfriend, is now brunette.
Heather Pink Interview
I met her at the Tampa Show last Thursday, Oct 6.
She's a nice Jewish girl (the youngest of five children) who went to Brandeis University before transferring to the University of Miami where she graduated with degrees in journalism and political science.
Before porn, she worked as a dancer and as a secretary at an investment banking firm. She got into sex work for the money.
Heather grew up in New York (she now lives in Manhattan), attending at times a Reform synagogue with her family. At age 12, she had a bat mitzvah. "My brother had a better one."
She says she's been reading me since 1998.
"I wish I would've stayed at Brandeis. I would've turned out a lot better. I had the grades. I was intelligent in that way. But I was very immature at 19 and I wanted to go to Florida."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being in porn?"
Heather: "In New York, they're not used to seeing porn people. I'm like their porn star. I get into clubs that are difficult to get in. I get my drinks for free."
Heather calls Madelyn Night a "pathological liar."
She's been in a relationship with Andrew for a year.
Before implants, Heather was flat-chested. She didn't wear a bra. Now she's a 32D.
Thursday night in the limo on the way to a club (there are about 20 of us, such as Lexi Lamour, Kami Andrews, Lexi Amour, Charlie Taylor, Kelly Taylor, Vivian West, and about half a dozen photographers):
Jersey Jaxin married August 13, eight days after she met the guy. They've bought a six-bedroom, three-bedroom, three-car garage in the Valley, which they will rent out to porners to shoot at.
Katie Gold and Jersey traded puppies.
Katie is drunk. She slurs her words and makes little sense. She collapses on the seat beside me. People roll their eyes.
I say into my tape recorder: "I'm sitting next to a very emotional Katie Gold."
Katie: "I'm not very emotional, you asshole.
"I give a goddamn, quite honestly."
Kami talks about her six months at Extreme. "She says everyone's got to go through that screwing over. It's a speedbump on your road."
She describes Extreme and Evolution Erotica as just shells of their former selves.
I meet Porno Dan, who's been in porn for six years and lives in Baltimore.
Kelly Taylor says she was raised with fear. That kept her twice from getting married. So she became a stripper and nude model (and she did a masturbation video).
Luke: "Where did you go wrong?"
Kelly: "There's no good or bad in my life. It's just a different part."
It took her a year to tell her dad about her Adult work.
Kelly says her dancing clients often want conversation.
"I just show them my butt," says Kami Andrews. "I'm a house dancer."
Kelly and Kami are both dyslexic. Kelly says she used to pronounce "genre" as GEN-ray. Kami says she pronounced "segue" as SEG-oo-ee.
Kami imitates a stereotypical stripper: "I'm getting my Masters. Snort, shake, sniffle, rattle. Right now it's in the bathroom."
Kelly says she feels bad when clients tell her they want to help her pay for college. "I tell them I've already been there. I have a degree in photography."
Kami tells them: "That just makes you feel better about exploiting me."
Nightmoves publisher Paul Allen uses a translator because he's losing his voice.
Paul says the club is putting on a special show tonight.
"It's a special fifth-grade presentation of Fiddler on the Roof," says Kami.
There's a swingclub connected to the strip club. Some porn stars wander over to watch civilians have sex. None of the porners participate.
Brooke Haven was a stripper for five years. She met future Vivid girl Lexi Marie "who brought me along with her. It'll be a year tomorrow."
She's done over 150 movies through her agent LADirectModels.com.
As a kid, Brooke wanted to become a doctor. In highschool, she had a B average. She hung out with the jocks (played volleyball and basketball).
Our interview petered out after two minutes.
Vivian and Sunny Lane appear in a forthcoming pilot for Comedy Central with Ron Jeremy.
A dancer for two years, Vivian has been in porn for a year. This is her second Tampa Show.
Sunny is a Tampa native but this is her first show.
Vivian's performing in the Nightmoves awards show. She's concerned that what she has planned is illegal -- she'll be giving a fake bunny rabbit a blowjob and it will ejaculate on her face.
Amazingly, that's considered a lewd act in Tampa.
I don't see her do it Sunday night.
Sean Michaels says he's feeling separation anxiety over leaving his four-month old daughter at home in LA. He didn't suffer the same way when separated from his son.
After a couple of hours of socializing, I sit in a corner and read my book on William Faulkner.
This catches the attention of Tampa-native Christy Wild (Christywild.net). When she comes over to talk to me, I turn the tables and start interviewing her.
She dances down the street at Deja Vu and does movies (about 200).
Christy moved to Tampa to attend the Christian Florida College. She was ejected after two-and-a-half-years for fornication.
As a kid, Christy wanted to become a nurse, teacher, and most of all, writer. She has a blog on livejournal.
"My parents sent me to college to get an MRS degree, but I never [otherwise] felt the pressure to become anything particular. It was more, do whatever you feel you is best."
Luke: "Do you respect men who patronize strip clubs?"
Christy: "I do for those men who respect the rules. I do not for men who come in thinking they can get a date, thinking we'll take them in the back and ---- their brains out. It's not going to happen. I'm not losing my job over the $200 you think it's worth to you."
Christy lost her virginity at 19 in a golf tunnel. "At that point I was going to the Christian college and I couldn't exactly have sex on campus. So my boyfriend and I snuck away to the golf course."
Christy slept with only two men before she was kicked out of her college -- her ex-boyfriend and her current one. They're swingers.
In her spare time, she loves to read and write.
Her family does not know she works in porn and as a stripper.
Luke: "What do you tell them you do for a living?"
Christy: "That I work at Victoria Secret. I know deep down that they're going to find out sooner or later."
Katja Kassin Interview
I clearly see myself as an porn actress and I want to perform with experienced male actors who know how to perform. I don't see myself getting involved with fans because of their motivation to be a part of it. It makes me more comfortable to know that my partner on camera is a professional actor as well and does that for a living, does it because he gets paid for it. I would also be very concerned about the testing. Every performer in this business has a history of testing that I can access online. First timers would make me feel a little unsecure.
Yes, the camera is some kind of an excuse to me. It allows me to be super nasty, where doing it in real life with a real person would make me feel guilty and humilated.
Tricia Devereaux writes:
The main problem I have with fan f--- type scenes is that it often has the effect of making fans watching the video think exactly what you said you wouldn't think of Katja as: an airheaded skank who will f--- anyone just because.
Even as a stripper in a club, I had guys just assume that just because I did porn, I would have sex with anyone, anytime. Not true.
The professional guys are professional because they have the appropriate skills for their job. They have nice dicks, and they know how to f---. That's why the porn girls like to f--- them. It's an enjoyable experience all around.
Also, I hate to ruin the fantasy for anyone who doesn't already know this, but there is often some down time during a scene. During this time, the guy and the girl and stretch out, rest, go to the bathroom, be alone, or if it suits them, just cuddle. I am not so sure that a bunch of non-professional guys would 'get' that this is a job. A fun one, but a job. During a break - TAKE A BREAK! :) If the girl wants water, let her get water. Don't keep shoving your dick in her face because you know you're going to have problems getting it hard again once the camerapeople are shooting again.
Melissa Lauren writes: "Money's nice, but my moral values are first. I'm a porn chick, not a hooker."
Katja Kassin writes: "I don't think that being an adult actress is better than being a hooker. But first of all prostitution is illegal and I want to distance myself from any illegal act. Other than that performing in a porn flick and hooking are total different things. Porn stars are being paid by a third party to perform. Hookers are paid by their partner to satisfy. I don't want to look down on girls that do hook for a living but I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it."
Bumlover writes:
I understand the reasons of legality, safety, working environment etc. to prefer porn over hooking, but I can't see the relevance of who makes the payment. You're selling your body either way.
I'm not sure how being a porn star is not prostitution. Sure, it's a different form of prostitution to being a streetwalker, but still, to me it boils down to the same transaction - you're being paid to have sex. You may enjoy it, you may do it for more reasons than just the money, but still you are selling yourself. The only exception I can see is if you only work with your real life partner.
It seems to me that some performers are misguidedly clutching to the presence of a camera as a "get out of jail free card", rather than challenging their own unwarranted discomfort at being a prostitute.
Tricia Devereaux writes: "The relevance of who makes the payment is extremely important to some girls. Some girls are more than happy to accept money from whoever, for pretty much whatever reason. For the girls that do this for more than JUST the money, then a comfort level of what they do and who they do it with becomes very important."
Katja writes:
I just don't want to do what somebody tells me to. Maybe I just have my own head and I'm too proud to take orders from anyone when it comes to sexuality. That exactly is the main difference between hooking and porn.
I am not a hooker or whore, I am an actress. You might have another opinion on this but please refrain from referring to me as one. I take it as an insult, so please stop it.
I'm not selling my body, I get paid for my service of performing. Nobody BUYS me or my body. I get paid for what I do with it.
Bumlover writes:
So every male performer you ever worked with was someone you previously knew, not just someone who was introduced to you for the purposes of shooting a sex scene?
Whether a particular form of prostitution is illegal or not depends entirely on where you are. Porn is also illegal in many places, so what's the relevance to the moral issue?
Dither writes: "Terms are not facts, they have cultural as well as factual meaning. The term "hooker" is, like the term "criminal", one that culturally has very negative associations. That a pornstar is offended by being labelled a hooker is thus very understandable, even it is semantically correct. It's also very understandable that you wouldn't like to be labelled a criminal even if you've got a speeding ticket, or be labelled a beggar if you collect money for the Red Cross."
Tricia Devereaux writes:
I'll admit that factually, porn stars AND hookers both get paid for performing sex. I know you don't want to admit it, but a LOT of personal emotions come into both of these activities, and a person's boundaries are exactly that - personal. Personal choices.
Katja Kassin writes:
Bumlover: the porn community is like a big family. Everybody pretty much knows everbody. Yes it happens that once in a while there is a new guy that I never worked with before but you can't make the plain statement that porn actresses f--- strangers because it's not like that. I can look up everybody's test history online and I do check their tests and ID's, I know their real names, birthdays and addresses and in many cases I know about their likes and dislikes, their hobbies or their personal affairs. In my eyes that does not qualify as a stranger to me.
Lord Snot Hits Smut Jackpot
From Joanthan Thompson in The Independent:
His aristocratic credentials are impeccable. As the eldest son and heir of Lord Feversham, he once stood to inherit a £35m estate in Yorkshire and one of the finest stately homes in the country. But 36-year-old Jasper Duncombe, whose ancestors include a number of high-profile British statesmen, has turned his back on a life of landed luxury - and emerged as one of the country's leading pornographers.
As the son of a lord, the Hon Jasper Duncombe has a better claim than most to the title of "porn baron". His company - relishxxx.com - was set up for just £2,000 two years ago, and is today worth an estimated £3.5m. Now, in his latest venture, Mr Duncombe is said to be negotiating a deal to put pornographic vending machines - dispensing videos and DVDs - into pub toilets.
It's not his first radical innovation: Relish XXX recently began supplying NHS sperm banks with a selection of its videos.
Not everyone is impressed with Mr Duncombe's success, least of all his family. A spokesman for Lord Feversham said that he was unwilling to comment on private family matters, but Mr Duncombe himself admitted that he was now likely to be disinherited.
It's a strange career choice for a man who was brought up in the lap of luxury at Duncombe Park, his family's 13,000-acre estate in North Yorkshire. He was educated at Gordonstoun school alongside Prince Edward, and his ancestors include Sir Charles Duncombe, an 18th-century Mayor of London, and Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, a radical MP and Chartist supporter during the 1840s.
His company has never been ashamed to play on its aristocratic roots - its first adult film was entitled To the Manor Porn. Mr Duncombe has always been something of a black sheep. In 1993 he was sentenced to three years in jail for attempted robbery, after holding up a surveillance shop while wearing a false moustache. His lawyer at the time argued that Mr Duncombe had never recovered from his mother's death from a drug overdose when he was eight years old.
Now the aristocrat says his life is back on track, and he is eager to devote all his energies to the growth of his company: "I've drawn a line under that part of my life. I was completely off the rails and did one or two things I shouldn't have, but that is all behind me now. I'm looking forward to the future, and the potential of Relish XXX."
Last year, Mr Duncombe and his business partner, Harry Colquhoun, whose wedding featured recently in society magazine Harpers & Queen, pocketed £750,000 through the sale of shares in their company. Relish XXX continues to sell material to the television channel Playboy TV, as well as distributing softcore movies, which are sold in high-street stores. More hardcore versions are mailed to customers from an address in Bruges in order to circumvent censorship laws. Mr Duncombe and his partner maintain a 30 per cent stake in the company, worth roughly £1m each, as well as drawing a "big salary".
Tara writes:
I know you're going to find this hysterically funny, but I've finally sorted and put up my AVN Expo pictures from last January.
All of them were on my laptop and I'd been putting off posting them, because I didn't feel like transferring them to my desktop.
I thought the conversation that you posted today between yourself and KB was funny! Webmasters hate s----- hotels, amenities mean alot, because all of the webmasters got into porn so that they could make alot of money and be comfortable. That's the main thing that separates webmasters from the video porn people. My impression of the video/offline porn people is that they were motivated to get into the business so that they could get laid and making money to them is very secondary.
On the 4th of July weekend 2005 Jamie (Chrystal Waters) and her husband Drew were out on Lake OkaBoji in Iowa. She decided to go for a swim and dove in head first not realizing that the water was only about 3 feet deep. She instantly upon impact snapped her neck crushing her 6th vertebra and damaging her spinal cord. After seeing her body go limp Drew and the boats captain immediately rushed to her aid and her got back on the boat unaware of her condition, she was only able to move her baby pinky and she was able to utter "call my dad". Drew and the boats captain sped for the shore and on the way they called 911, A chopper was waiting to airlift her to AVARA McKINNEN HOSPITAL in Sioux Falls SD. Once there the doctors discoverd the damage: 2 damaged vertebrea c6 and c7, these are located near where your neck meets your shoulders. And this type of injury usually means a lifetime of care, some of you may be familiar with the Christopher Reeves injury,this was very similar in nature, So after careful examination the doctors rushed her into surgery where they installed metal plates on her spine to reinforce her neck and relieve pressure off the spinal cord. At this time they also treated her for a large gash on her skull.
You can make donations to Waters' account at Bank of America: 003287010757
Porn star Kid Vegas tries to beat Nevada's legal heat
Mark Bonowski writes for the Toronto Sun:
California-born Scott Michael Austin, having already been a guest of the Toronto West Detention Centre, as well as the super-jail in Lindsay, is now booked into the Niagara Detention Centre, months after customs officials at Pearson International ran his passport through their computer and discovered he was no accidental tourist.
Austin's accuser, according to the Las Vegas defence attorney last retained by Austin, was in fact a co-star in Kid Vegas' last porno flick, available only on the Internet.
"The allegation is that the sex he had with her during an escapade one night in Beatty was forced sex," said James Buchanan. "This comes from a girl who appeared with him in a porn movie. And, yes, there were other accusers, but they were all at the same party.
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Sep 20, Clapham Junction, London. Suzy's boyfriend is performer Max Sloane. "It's easier to have a relationship [inside the industry]. You don't have to hide anything. People outside the industry don't understand. They think you're enjoying it [porn]. They think you're making love and it's not like that. It's very professional. It's too confusing [for people outside of the industry]."
Suzy's family don't know she does porn. "In the year-and-a-half I've been doing it, I've gotten away with it."
She doesn't get recognized in public. "I've been on the front page of magazines, Direct TV."
Suzy, 20, won't strip. "I can't dance."
Her main work skill is massage therapy and make-up. "I can always go back to it. It's a lot less money. I enjoy [porn]. I love the money. It's hard if you're on set twelve-hours a day and you're starved, or if you catch an STD. It keeps you fit. It's the kind of sex that suits me. I like girl-girl."
Suzy'll work with black guys. "I've only worked with one. There are not many here. I hear there are a lot of black guys in LA. Very big, I've heard."
Suzy asks me a lot of questions about working in LA. "I do a lot of rough sex here," she says, "but I don't know [what rough sex is like in LA]. I do anal here. I don't know if I would like to do it in America. Depends on what the guys are like. A lot of the performers here are really nice and you enjoy working with them. In America, are they really rough and don't care about the girl?"
Luke: "It varies. Most of them will only do what the girl wants. They do a lot of gagging."
Suzy: "I do that now. I know that in America that's very popular.
"What's Max Hardcore like?"
Luke: "He's perfectly normal when he's not doing that. It's just a character he puts on."
Suzy: "Really?"
Luke: "Except that he's a drunk. He can be mean when he's drunk. When he's sober he can be charming."
Suzy: "What about Dick Nasty [Nastymodeling.com]?"
Luke: "He's a nice guy."
Suzy: "He wants me to come work for him but I don't trust anybody [in American porn]. What about the name Dick Nasty? It's not appealing.
"I can't work every day.
"I get most of my work direct. It's easier than paying commission [her agent is the Walpole Group, the UK's largest porn modeling agency]. They're very good when you start off because you don't know what you're doing. You don't want to go to a job and not know what you're going to do."
Luke: "Does Relish pay the most?"
Suzy: "It's the same. Girl-girl is 250 pounds, boy-girl 300-350, anal 400, DP - 500. It depends on what you're rate is. If they want to use you, they'll pay you. They'll ask you what do you want. You'll tell them and they'll say yes or no. If they want something really hard, you're going to want more money. I know they pay more in America but the scenes are harder."
Harry, the director, says he's thought about shooting gonzo (so far he's only shot scripted features), "but why make what everyone else is making? I know it sells. I'm offering an alternative until it stops selling. With gonzos, there's some real nasty s--- happening in the United States, the punching, grabbing, choking. A. We can't do that stuff. B. I don't want to make that stuff. I want to make stuff that is more mainstream and more people can enjoy. I have my niche. British tongue-in-cheek. I use predominantly British talent and blend it with Europeans. There isn't an abundance of quality talent in the UK. You have to go further afield to get that, but then you lose the English. They don't tend to speak good English. I'll work a story around the talent I've got.
"Sometimes [different English porn companies] will collaborate [in flying European girls in].
"The European girls, because there's more choice, tend to be better looking. Suzy's one of the nicest looking girls we have in the UK. The European girls are more professional. This is what they do for a living. There are English girls who wake up and say, I don't want to get f----- in the ass today.
"Either you're a porn star or you're not. That's where you have to decide.
"Ben Dover and Omar have the biggest libraries. I don't think they're shooting much anymore. I think they'd say that there's isn't much decent talent around and they've all been shot to s---."
Harry estimates there are about 20-30 porn films shot a month in England.
Four months ago, Harry stopped releasing new titles on VHS. Customers can't buy porn in the UK via domestic mail, so Relish set up a mailorder company in Belgium. "We sold all our rights to this offshore company who then have the right to mailorder. It's legal to film. You have to have permits to shoot outside. You can't shoot outside unless you can prove to the censor that where you've shot is private and no one can see in. For example, we're not shooting on the terrace. We shot a solo masturbation scene in a MPV (multi-purpose vehicle). They wanted me to shoot it was all private, but there were buses going by, so I cut it."
Luke: "I heard that people shot scenes on the London Eye."
Harry: "But that's for the internet. You can get away with anything on the internet."
Harry says there's a shortage of reliable porn studs in the UK. It's considered scandalous to take Viagra and if it is done, it is done quietly.
Harry: "When you go to work, you should bring your tools. If they're having a hard time, we can't give them Viagra because if they keel over and have a heart attack..."
Luke: "Would you reach over and give 'em a tug?"
Harry: "Definitely."
Jimmy the white gaffer says black guys take longer to get it up. "There's one good black performer in this country -- Britt Tracy. There was Omar and there's a new guy."
There are no Muslims in the British porn community but there was a Shikh -- Tommy Sinn, who wore a turban. "He won a competition on some TV show on TVX."
Luke: "Do you still call the Indians wogs [Western Oriental Gentlemen]?"
Jimmy: "Sorry?"
Luke: "Is there WOG porn?"
Jimmy: "No. That's quite a racially derogatory term. It's really old fashioned. I haven't heard that term in years."
Luke: "What about darkie?"
Jimmy: "No. We don't use anything like that. That's really old fashioned. That's quite a naughty thing to say."
Luke: "What do you call gay people?"
Jimmy: "Gays."
Luke: "What about faggot?"
Jimmy: "No. It's like nigger. Black people have claimed back the word nigger."
Luke: "Can you call a black guy a nigger?"
Jimmy: "No.
"I was out in Finland doing a shoot called Turkish Sex. We went with this big black guy, Marcus, who's a stripper. He's the only black guy [in the town]. When he walked down the street, everyone was looking at him.
"He went into the bar to take a drink and this guy walked up to him and said, 'You're one big nigger.' Marcus was totally shocked. He turned to me and said, could you explain to him why he shouldn't use that term for black people.
"He [Finnish guy] really didn't get it. Because of rap and American [entertainment], he thought it was like saying 'mate'."
There aren't Irish in UK porn.
The guys say they'd be willing to shoot a German. "Right in the head," laughs Jimmy. "I've always wanted to do a Second World War porn film."
Luke: "Would you shoot a frog?"
Jimmy: "The French? Yeah, but most of the stuff I work on is dialogue-driven, and if they can't speak English..."
Luke: "Are they still sore about Agincourt?"
Laughter.
Jimmy: "They get real pissed about Waterloo."
Friend: "No, they're not retreating. I can't see them retreating.
"The French had surrendered. Lord Nelson, being a psycho, was asked if they had surrendered or should they blast 'em. Nelson put the telescope up to his blind eye and said, 'They're not retreating. I can't see them retreating.'"
A friend says they shot a scene between a girl who played a thief and a police officer. It turns out the girl really was a thief who had served time in prison.
Emma has done 11 boy-girl scenes. She does lap dances on Sky TV. She worked as a stripper and nude model for two years before getting into porn.
Her boyfriend also works in porn -- Rich. "I used to be into dating black guys but I never slept with one."
Luke: "Is there any national or religious group you wouldn't have sex with on camera?"
Emma: "Indians." She means dot, not feather.
Luke: "If someone is mentally retarded, are they allowed to do a porn film [in the UK]?"
Friend: "They're all mentally retarded."
The porners don't seem too worried about Islamic terrorism in the UK (a few months after bombs exploded in London, killing about 50). "It's just like the IRA," says Jimmy.
Until recently, it was illegal to shoot gay porn.
"I had two gay websites," says a webmaster, "and I lost over 50,000 pounds. I don't do it anymore. I'm not gay. I don't know what they want. I make gay sites with pink and gays don't really like it. A gay friend said to me, 'You know why nobody joins your gay sites? Because it's really obvious to a gay guy that the site is made by a heterosexual who's purely trying to get their money.'"
My friend and Harry french-kissed each other on a dare by two girls they were trying to bed on a double-date.
"I don't think it happened," says Harry (who's been married four years), "but I may have been a bit wasted. The stockings and suspenders might've happened."
Sept 21. 11pm. We go into a phone booth outside the Ritz. It's covered with postcards for prostitution services (falsely) boasting such stars as Stormy Waters, Jesse Jane, Tera Patrick, Aria Giovanni, etc. My friend borrows 40 pounds (the minimum to get a massage in a London whorehouse), calls one, books one, walks up Picadilly to the place, meets a college student who couldn't get into a club, is admitted, sees that the woman inside is not the one on the card, and leaves.
I'm told that the reason a webmaster earns 30% more with credit card processor Epoch than CCBill is that with Epoch you have to cancel 24-hours before the end of your billing period to get your refund.
London pornographer Alan Haley owns Maxim Productions. He claims to be in tight with Hans Burger and various mobsters. Alan owns security firms that get jobs at various clubs.
One way to muscle into a club is to beat their doormen senseless. Then you show up the next morning and say to the club owner, it looks like you need security. The security then can make sure you use the right Mafia launderer.
People say gangster Gerry Adams is the most scary guy in London but it's really his mother.
I walk past a restaurant where Boris Becker boffed a woman and later got sued by her for child support. It turned out later he only got a BJ. She spat his seed on to her hand and shoved it up inside of her and got pregnant.
Kirsten Halbort, who used to be married to Omar and ran Britain's largest porn talent agency, is coming on screen to work with Rocco Siffredi.
Donna Marie, in porn four years, directed her first movie Hard Day at the Office. She says it sold 20,000 copies and it is going out in the United States through Black Widow Productions.
At McDonalds this morning, the server said he recognized her. Then he added, "I'm not even going to ask you what you do."
On the train today, "this guy was staring at me, making me feel really uncomfortable." I told he was making me feel uncomfortable. He said, 'You do porn, don't you?' I said yeah. I would never deny it.
"About ten people turned around and looked at me.
"It's good to be recognized.
"I dread the day I get recognized by a group of English drunkards."
Luke: "How did your family react?"
Donna: "My dad's cool about it. My mom. We're not allowed to discuss it. Mention it to my mom and she won't talk to me for a couple of weeks. My dad will say, 'Did you have a good day at work? Can't you get me one like that. I'd love to shag women all day.' My dad thinks it's easy. But for everyone else, it's taboo.
"All my DVDs are in the living room, so..."
Donna was in a six year-relationship and "he was fine about it. I've got a new boyfriend and he's fine about it too, because I was honest from the start. He never causes problems. If he did, it would be my job over them."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about porn?"
Donna: "I love the social aspect. I get all my best friends to come on set. It's not just about doing the video. It's about seeing all your friends again and having a laugh.
"I hate people who are in it for money. You can see it on camera. They don't want to really open their legs. Victims of porn. I feel like I'm raping them. That's what I hate. It's females who do that. The men are cool."
Luke: "How did you get into porn?"
Donna: "I answered an ad [by Walpole Group] for glamor modeling. I didn't think it was this. I just thought it was topless. When they told me how much I'd get, I gave up my job, because I'm a qualified dental nurse. The first video I did was anal and I had never done anal in my private life. I went straight into the deep-end but it was good.
"I thought I'd come in and make 2,000 pounds and that would be it. Then I got to enjoy it.
"In American porn, all the girls look glam. There's a lot of effort that goes into it -- with beautiful locations, beautiful girls, beautiful make-up. England is more girl-next-door amateurish style. It's more realistic. In your's, the girls look like movie stars. It's like a proper movie. Relish is completely different [from typical British porn]. Relish is the best in England. They make sure the girls look good and have a good storyline.
"Housewife stuff sells a lot in England. I like to get glammed up."
Sept 21, Donna got arrested for marijuana possession. "At the train station. I was on my way to work. I had my bag full of sex toys. I didn't even light the spliff. I just had it in my hand. But the policeman, 24, saw it. He asked me for my occupation. I said I was a movie star. He didn't believe me. I said, open my bags and you'll find sex toys, business cards, etc. When he opened my bag, he put on these rubber gloves with his nose in the air, his face full of disgust, pulling out double-ended dildos... He was embarrassed.
"I got told off and now I've got a record. They took my fingerprints and DNA. I'm a good girl. I've never gotten into trouble before.
"If I ever want to go back to Australia or New Zealand, I have to apply [as she got booted the first time (in May 2000) for coming to the country to do porn for Bill Wright aka Frank Thring].
"The Czechs got us into trouble. It was for Private. Sylvia Saint got through. But a couple of Czech girls didn't, because the cameraman walked straight up to Immigration. They asked him, business or pleasure. He said business. He had all this camera equipment. They said, where's your working visa? He said, I haven't got one. They said, right, go back. It [screwed] up the whole production. We flew the whole way to New Zealand. They kept me for about 18-hours. They found traces of cannabis on me so they kept me longer. They found traces of cocaine on the Czech girls, so they were sent back. I got through. It was only me and Sylvia Saint.
"We couldn't do any filming. New Zealand is a lovely country but it's boring.
"I've got to leave this industry or I won't be able to leave England again.
"I'm going to France tomorrow [to shoot a movie of 12 white girls dominating eight black guys]. I haven't packed much. No slut shoes. It's going to be a fun week if we get through."
Luke: "Will you do interracial?"
Donna: "Yeah. I love it. Although I did regret that when I got to LA and saw how big their dicks were. I wish I had said I wouldn't. You get used to it.
"I went out first with Mark Spiegler but we didn't hit it off. I got on really well with Dick Nasty. I loved it out there. I miss it."
In her first films, French porn star Tabitha Cash had a swastika tattooed on her breast. Her boyfriend of the time is a leading French Nazi skinhead.
A lot of porn girls in Budapest have quit the industry because Private has set up a porn channel there and their friends and family can see what they've been doing.
A white girl in the racist London area of Docklands does an interracial scene. The photographer tells her it will only be shown in Germany. A few weeks later, her father and brother (leaders in a racist political party) see the scene and the photographer flees town.
A porner friend tells me, "I wouldn't let my own daughter go out with me."
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I interview Finnish blonde Saana, who's been in porn for 18-months. "I was a stripper for 18-months [starting at 18]. I met Finnish porn girls and started to do porn myself."
As a kid, Saana dreamed, at various times, of becoming a hairdresser, lawyer, and saddle-maker. She was a good student, particularly at history and math.
"We have to start taking English at nine.
"I was a shy kid. I had just one best friend.
"I've been dancing ballet my whole life.
"[Stripping] helped my self-esteem. I've always been shy. I've never encountered anything so disgusting [in sex work] that I couldn't handle it."
Saana came to America for the first time a year ago. She moved here a month ago. She's getting married in a month to an American and she's quitting sex work.
Saana's appeared in about 100 porn movies. "I wouldn't do this if I didn't love it."
She's going to school to become a bartender.
About 20 porn stars and 80 other folks show up to porn star karaoke in Ybor City Monday night, Oct 10. The cavernous club is largely empty. Some fans outside ask for Carmen Luvana and Jesse Jane who have already left Tampa.
Kelly Taylor asks me for the name of a Beatles song. I say Strawberry Fields Forever. I thought she meant it for her.
Ten minutes later, I'm called up to the mic and have to sing in public for the first time since I can remember. I'm terrible.
An hour later, I hear one guy (who does a duet with Paul Allen) say, "I was never going to get up to sing, but if Luke can do it..."
I talk to a young porn girl. "What's the point of doing porn?" she asks. "I've seen [two of porn's millionaire performers] still doing crack."
There's more adult entertainment in Tampa Bay per capita than anywhere in America. Tampa strip club owner Joe Redner has been arrested about 150 and he's always defeated the city with his lawyer Luke Lirot.
Kelly Taylor, dancer and nude model, has just moved to a small town in Kentucky with her mom. She's raising money at the Tampa Show for paralyzed ex-stripper Chrystal Waters.
Mike South tells me: "The reason we're all here is because we can't do anything else, you include. Don't shake your head."