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Luke talked Saturday night by telephone to booking agent in the strip club scene who gave the lowdown on his rivals.

XXX: "You've never written about Lowell Smith's arrest [and conviction around 1993 in Florida]. He spent two years [actually 13 months, released in 1995] in federal prison for some white collar crime (counterfeiting and fraud)."

Lowell: "Technically speaking, those were the charges."

XXX: "Lowell Smith tells everybody that he got $10,000 from the guy who beat him up last year, Michael Morrison. Michael could not afford to go to jail, being a convicted felon."

Lowell denies receiving any money from Morrison. Lowell says he's had no contact with Morrison since Michael flattened him at the 1999 CES.

Lowell: "Looking at the way that facts have been distorted, this can only be Richard Machelli telling you this... If he's been in the business for 28 years, I must not have heard of him for 21 of those years. He's such a minor person in the business. He's a cripple. He broke his ankle in a club in Connecticutt. If he's such a big agent, how come he never goes to any of the trade shows? Nobody has even seen this man. He has as much of a chance representing the Vivid Girls as I do of being the first man on Mars.

"I'm not really Lowell Smallowitz. My grandfather from Romania was named Smallowitz and when he came into this country at Ellis Island, the immigration official told him that you are now Smith.

"I'll give you a quote about Richard Machelli. When he does his next booking, it will probably be his first."

XXX: "Lowell's trying to make himself look big. He's been doing that since he came out. He's been recruiting girls to work at the cat ranches [illegal brothels in Nevada]. He also works with escort services in Las Vegas."

Lowell Smith firmly denies these charges. He says he has never booked anyone for escort work. Other sources disagree.

XXX: "Lowell Smith is not a registered booking agent [for strippers]. About five booking agents are not licensed, including your good friend Charley Frey. And Marty Foyer (who operates out of his house). They're supposed to register with their individual state. Certain states you don't have to, but in Florida, New York, and Nevada and many others, you have to register."

Luke: "But they can say they are talent managers rather than talent agents."

XXX: "Were you at the club owners convention last year? Lowell was running prostitution there... He had a couple of hookers."

Lowell denies this. He also says that most of the clubs he deals with are not owned by Arabs. "What's Richard going to do? Threaten to tell them that I am Jewish?"

XXX: "The agency Legacy, with Michael Rose in charge (out of New York) and Jeff Russell (Texas) and Lydia Parks (North Carolina), is not licensed.

"Charley Frey cooperates with law enforcement. A couple of years ago, a Russian submarine off the Florida coast was caught by the feds trying to smuggle drugs to a place [strip club] called Porkies. Charley Frey had his office there. Charley didn't want to pay his rent, so he called the police. That was a drug deal that Charley was part of but then he set them up.

"Charley has had many speeding tickets over the past few years but he has no points off on his Florida drivers license because he cooperates with the feds... Charley takes an attorney with him for every moving violation... Even when he testified against Michael J. Peter on state charges, Charley got paid for that. Everyone says Charley is a rat.

"And Charley's been intimidating girls by threatening bodily harm.

"Charley got beaten up at a club called Tens in Fort Lauderdale in October. And Marty Foyer just watched."

Charley Frey says: "What can I say...I have never in my life heard more unadultered bullshit than that of this so-called agent. So far fetched is the nonsense he has spouted that it is not even worthy of a point to point response."

XXX says: "Marty doesn't book anybody. The Lee Network has all his girls.

"The owner of the [stripper booking] agency Pure Talent (licensed out of Florida) is married to a business partner of Don Waite, a part owner of Exotic Dancer magazine."

XYZ: That allegation is totally untrue.

XXX: "Pure Talent makes up phoney credits for many of its dancers, turning house dancers into features.

"Spearmint Rhino is doing terrible. They use The Lee Network strictly. Spearmint Rhino in Las Vegas is doing terrible. It has a predominantly black crowd, black staff. That's friction in Vegas. They bought three clubs on the East Coast in Florida (Tampa, Miami and Keyes) that have gone out of business. SR don't know what they are doing. They said they were starting their own movie company but have not done anything yet.

"Deja Vu is getting hurt by the government. The state of Washington is restricting a lot of things. Charley Frey dropped a dime to the feds on Harry Mohney [convicted felon who owns Deja Vu]. Harry is on federal parole. Lowell Smith also dropped a dime on Deja Vu.

"Lowell talked to Metro [another name for the Las Vegas police department]. Lowell said something like, if I can't get work here, Deja Vu might as well not get work here because Harry is as much of a convicted felon as I am. A convicted felon can't register a corporation in Nevada. Lowell says Harry was using different titles. After that, Metro left Lowell alone for a few weeks.

"Lowell is paranoid. Lowell is afraid of cops. He's petrified of cops. If you knock on his door and say police, he'll go through the wall. He likes to get the cops on his side, if he can. His real last name is not Smith, it is Smallowitz. He started his career in New York City on 42nd Street. He went to Florida. Got in trouble with the authorities. Went to Vegas. Went to prison. Been in Vegas eversince. His company is a non-existing company."

Lowell says he's had a Las Vegas business license since 1995. And he welcomes Richard Machelli to walk up to his house and yell about the cops.

Lowell says he has excellent relations with Deja Vu and Harry Mohney and has not finked to the feds on them.

Lowell: "Almost all the people Richard wants to represent, I have contact with. And they want nothing to do with him.

"Richard, I'm sorry to have to say all this about you and I know that you are mad at me because I told a club owner a long time ago, when asked for a referral, that I had no knowledge of any booking that you have ever done. I'm sorry to have had to have told the truth about you but if you can prove otherwise, I am all ears."

XXX: "Lowell has been warned to cease and desist on a lot of people. He's been harassing girls. Giving them ultimatums such as work with me or you don't work. Or telling the girls that you have to sleep with him to get a job. Most of the clubs he deals with are owned by arabs.

"Lowell co-books with Universal, owned by Eleanor, originally from Massachusetts, she now owns a club in Connecticutt. She's on the up and up. She's legit."

Lowell says he does co-book with Universal but that there have been no cease-and-desist orders executed against him. And that he does not tell the girls that they have to sleep with him to get work.

Porn director Bud Lee started The Lee Network around 1990 before selling it around 1994. It's become the premiere agency for booking strippers.

XXX: "Lee Network claimed they had opened up an office in Van Nuys, California. They used a dummy phone number out of Florida. Lee Network is run by Canadian Tony Indovino who also owns an agency in Toronto. "Steve Chase" is his so-called partner but that is not even his real name. The Lee Network doesn't do the phoney credits as much as others. They're pretty much on the up-and-up. But they've only been around six years. Some guy in Pennsylvania (Al Diamond, with clubs on the East Coast) owns The Lee Network totally. It's just registered under different names.

"The agency is owned by someone else but the license is in the name of Steve Hardick (Chase) and Tony Indovino. The information is open to public records in Tallahassee, Fl."

Luke: "Do club owners buy it [that many house girls are getting passed off as feature dancers by using phoney credits]?"

XXX: "They don't even know. They believe everything they hear. They're conned. They get the pictures and the credentials... And in the industry, nobody ever gave a definition of what a feature dancer is. If you claim you were in a magazine, you should identify the month and year. But nobody ever gives that. A lot of girls say they did movies when they never did them. They get boxcovers made for themselves.

"[The stripper act] Scandalous had a club shut down last year for doing a sex act on stage. A month or two later, they went to another club in New York and had that club shut down. And now they're playing games. They go to certain clubs and don't go to other clubs, but they're rates keep going up.

"The group Scandalous were a duo now they became a trio. They use to own a magazine and they appeared in every issue. They may have appeared in Penthouse but not too many magazines. They appeared in a few magazines, not too many to speak of. They haven't been in any movies but they appear at the East Coast Video Show, Club Owners Convention and CES. They aren't real features. Check their web site www.scandalousduo.com."

Mike South writes: Actually Luke this one is only partially correct Adara's partner (called Michele Michael in my vid) HAS done Hardcore. She shot for me in Mike South's Southern Belles 2000 Vol. 1 and does full on boy girl and a big facial pop. Adara on the other hand likes to hang around pornstars for the publicity value but she has never done hardcore and I seriously doubt that she will. She tells people on occasion that she is going to get into porn and that she has contract offers from Vivid and Wicked but when I contacted people at both companies who would know they said, and I quote "Adara? Adara who? Never heard of her."

XXX: "The Lee Network thinks they own the girls [rep them exclusively]. There are certain features we're trying to reach and we've been told by the Lee Network to leave them alone. I'm not listening to them. Ninety five percent of their girls are independent.

"I don't think anyone should be exclusive 52 weeks of the year. But the agents are giving them that ultimatum. You don't do that and you don't work.

"I can give you a hundred girls names who go out as features and aren't even real features. Contest girls don't exist. You have to buy your way into the contest. They're not real. The only two real contests are Miss Nude Galaxy (done at the Ponderosa in Indiana) and Miss Nude Illinois (Big Alice in Peoria). The others are fake. They're not registered anywhere."

Luke: "Who would they have to register with?"

XXX: "The contest and club have to be registered with the state to be a real contest. The Miss Nude World contest is a big farce. You have the new magazine Exotic Nights which only covers the contest scene with house girls.

"There's an East Coast girl named XXXena who's trying to be passed off as a porno star. She has no credits. [Not to be confused with the California girl XXXena who's a contract girl for Leisure Time.] There's another Savannah... All this crap...

"Jade St. Claire is the name of another phony feature. She appeared on the Howard Stern show saying she was Nude Miss World. He laughed her off the air. He asked when she was Nude Miss World. She said three years ago. He said, 'Why didn't you put the year down? To make me think you're current? Get off my show.' And he kicked her off the show. She only does these phoney contests.

"Nikki Lynn is going out for the same price as Brittany Andrews but the difference is night and day. Brittany is an established star. Pure Talent books Nikki Lynn at $3500 for twelve shows.

"Brittany Andrews charges $3700 for 12 shows, with a prepaid ticket. She needs a window seat. And a nice hotel.

"When Marty Foyer showed up for the club owners convention, he sat in the corner for the whole thing. Marty got really fat. I call him 'Shamu' [after the whale]. He had nobody to talk to. He was greeting everybody as they came in.

"Marty doesn't even know the name of his computer. Last time I spoke to him, there was a storm. He was under his table... He's always looking over his shoulder. And if you call him before 4PM, he will not answer the phone without an atittude. He looks for business anyway he can. Two of the girls he spoke with, he promised them work, were Penthouse Pets and nobody has seen them since. One moved to Rhode Island. Marty's name does not come up. Anything he had, he lost.

"Marty's uncle doesn't even speak to him anymore, and he started Marty in the business. Marty plays the telephone pretty good. As soon as you tell Marty something, everybody hears about it within an hour.

"Charley Frey has dyed his hair. So he's not a blonde anymore. He's a brunette. And he brings his own bodyguard.

In the sex business since 1978, Richard Machelli of Purr-fect Productions International (purrfect-1@mindspring.com), a stripper agency out of New York, partners with Dominic, a former US attorney.

Richard: "I owned clubs (Foggy Bottom, Camelback Lounge) in Phoenix, Arizona. I worked for Michael Peter...

Richard: "But the other agents are just conning girls, ripping them off financially. Taking more money than they deserve to get. We just take 10%. The other agents will take 14-16%. Charley Frey gets 45% from some girls.

"We provide security for girls. We check the clubs before we put the girls in there. And we're open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If they have trouble, they can just call us. And we have an attorney on retainer... And we'll be providing medical coverage.

"A friend of ours got beaten up in a club and the agency she was with said she deserved it.

"Sadie Sexton had a heart attack at age 21. And she's still featuring.

"I turn girls down unless they have credits that are checkable. We have a couple of girls that still owe us an agents fee. We'll send the girls one final letter before we turn it over to an attorney. We don't mess around.

"We're not prejudiced either. We have black features we cannot even book in clubs because of the agencies. The clubs are being controlled by these other agents who don't want black girls. There are very few clubs that will take a black girl. We're trying to work deals with clubs to take them [black girls] to prove a point. And we're talking porno stars, not just the magazine girls."

Luke: "So most clubs won't take black girls?"

Richard: "Most of them [black girls] are told by the agents that it is not going to work out. If you look at the situation with most clubs, the owners are idiots. I've never seen such a retarded situation where the reason I am using an agent is because I am friends with them. When it comes down to money, noone has a friendship. You've got to be strictly business.

"And you don't rip off a girl's rate. Remember Rayveness? She was going for $250 a show but now her agent claims she's going for $150 a show. And the agent doesn't even book her. They're lying to the public.

"Ten years ago, there were only five agencies in business. Now you have about 15. A lot of false people working out of their home. When I was working for Michael Peter at Goldfingers, we never heard of these people."

Luke: "Do girls with small breasts, A or B cup, get pressured to get boob jobs by many of these agents?"

Richard: "That's the whole kickbang thing. They get kickbacks from doctors."

Luke knows, and has seen firsthand, doctors getting kickbacks from porners for referring talent.

Richard: "We had a 21-year old girl Cindy out of Syracuse, New York. We were telling her not to do anything she didn't want to do. We wanted to start her out with magazines. The Lee Network took her to do movies. They told her that with her bodies, magazines won't do her. She needs to do [porn] movies. I spoke to her today. She was upset.

"They told her there was no future with magazines. If you want to get far with us, you have to do movies. Charley is doing the same thing. He was pushing girls towards Metro for a while. He was telling people that he was a part-owner of Metro.

"Another girl was told by the Lee Network that she was too small [breasted]... But there are movie companies out there who will shoot her... We recommend girls to board-certified doctors who've done Playmates, Penthouse Pets or girls in the industry. And we don't take any kickbacks. Not a damn thing.

"The Lee Network claims to have exclusive dealings with Vivid. The other movie companies are flexible.

"Frank Baine owns Continental. They claim that they represent all these porno stars. Many of them have never done a movie. You've heard of Racquel Darrian? Well, they're using a girl with a name very close to that. I told the club, check it out. It's not real. They did and cancelled the booking. Why should Racquel Darrian's name get ruined? This is what the whole crap is. They use names that are fake and credentials that are fake.

"Continental has nobody real. They go for the contest girl. They have a deal with one of those schools up in Wisconsin that charges $200 a week and makes them features. Pure Talent is starting a talent school too. Everybody's doing it for the money. They tell the girls that they can become features by watching movies. At the end of a couple of weeks, they pay you $100 for the night and say you are a feature. They give you a bunch of phony credits.

"Continental send a girl to a booking that pays $1000 for twelve shows. She pays her own transportation. And her own hotel. She comes home with $300 a week.

"We travel about 35 times a year checking out clubs. There are clubs I don't book anybody.

"We're trying to get girls into different things like motorcycle magazines that we have friends at... Some girls might even do commercial work.

"Two years ago Charley Frey threatened us that he'd burn down our office. We went down to Florida looking for him. He locked himself in the office with the police outside. But that's Charley, he's noted for that.

"He tried to open a club in Longbranch, New Jersey, two years ago... And he had Ron Jeremy at a hotel a mile down the street, with Jasmine St. Clair. He tried to open up his club but the police had it padlocked. The police told him, you can't open. The city is not letting you open. So he called 9-1-1 on them [which dials the police department].

"Charley is scamming people. He's threatening clubs. You don't know who you're pushing around. You don't know who my connections are. That's his game.

"There aren't many good clubs around anymore. Most of them are dying out. The features are fake, there's false advertising... There's no money coming in. Ridiculous prices. Is Houston worth $20,000 for twelve shows? Would you put Houston above Jenna Jameson? Charley does that."

Luke: "He's quite a hustler."

Richard: "He goes into clubs and tries to make deals behind everyone's back.

"The Lee Network has been telling bookstores that you have to book a feature every week if you're going to make money. But the bookstores can't afford features."

Richard resides in New York six months of the year and in Dallas the other six.

Richard: "Texas is just a bedlam of stupidity. Caligula 21 in Dallas burned down because of a problem between husband and wife. Nice way of getting out of the business."

Bianca Trump writes: "Oh and hey....who the hell does this guy "feature agent" Richard book? All the bad mouthing he did about alot of great agents......who is he?What talent does he book? What clubs does he book? I've never even heard of him. All that stuff is BS I book with all the agents.....yes all. No pressure to be exclusive, no lieing about my credits, no price wars amongst each other. Different clubs book through different agents so it all works out well for all of us. He is filling your pages with poop. He sounds bitter."

Ann Marie Hayek operates Pure Talent at 213 Belcher Road, Clearwater, Florida 33765, (727) 796-9600 Fax (727) 723-7355. www.pure-talent.com Email: hotfeature@aol.com.

Richard: "If you go on her website, a lot of her girls do not even have credits. She has names of magazines with no month and no year. She even has a girl claiming to be a Penthouse Pet who is not a Pet. Vanna Lace (vannalace.com)."

Intrepid investigative reporter L-ke Ford surfed over to vannalace.com and found this: Welcome to my website, VannaLace.com! Here are a few details and frequently asked questions for my internet fans. I'm a graduate of the National Ballet School of Canada and I achieved the Championship title of the Master Division in September 1997. I love performing throughout the World entertaining my fans. Where are you from Vanna? I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but now I make my home in sunny Southern Arizona. What are your measurements? I'm a perfect 36DD - 24 - 36. Where will we see you next? Look for my latest Penthouse layout coming soon! If you'd like to see me at an adult venue near you, request the club owner or manager to contact me for a booking! For Bookings Call: Skyyline Promotions (520) 749-0110.

I'm the 1997 Penthouse CoverGirl. I've held the titles of Ms. Nude Canada and Ms. Nude World. My television appearances have included HBO Star RealSex 4, the Joan Rivers Show, the Montel Williams Show, Jenny Jones Show and I've also featured on MSNBC. I was the first Ms. Nude World to feature in Penthouse Magazine and HBO. I am also the spokesmodel for Entertainment and Sports Today. What kind of shows do you put on? I have 60 dynamic shows. My Signature acts include: The Fire Show, Classic Ballet, a Sign Language act dedicated to the hearing impaired, Sexy Suds Show, and the Famous Fan Dance!

Richard: "Club owners in California are retarded. I spoke to somebody yesterday in La Habra who does not know what he is doing. There were 40 partners in the place. You're guaranteed to lose money in this business if you don't know what you are doing. They used to deal with Lowell [Smith] before he screwed them up."

Luke asked Lowell: "Do you remember screwing 40 partners in La Habra?"

Lowell: "No. I only once dealt with a club in La Habra."

Richard: "Lowell is interesting with his agency. He's promising girls everything... He works out of his house. He's not registered."

Lowell: "I am interesting. I am downright fascinating. Do I promise the girls that they will make money? Yes, if they do their jobs, they will make money.

"If Richard spent as much time trying to get bookings as giving you this erroneous information, he might've booked someone in all these years."

Smith remembers talking by phone to Richard Machelli while Lowell lived in Florida in the early '90s.

Lowell: "We were friendly. He'd call and talk volumes... And everybody, including me, after a half an hour of the same garbage, always has to pretend that they have another phone call just to get rid of this nuisance.

"Richard has a partner? He must have a mouse in his pocket. That's the 'we.' I've booked Phoenix and I've never even heard of those two clubs [Richard says he owned]."

Luke: "I guess Richard is going to sneak up on a lot of people."

Lowell: "I don't think so. I think he'll just bore them to death. He's not going to sneak up on anybody. He's going to limp up..."

Richard: "Pure Talent books Rayveness for a thousand dollars less a week than she asks for. So I'm trying to get in touch with Rayveness, who's part of Juli Ashton's Risque Business company.

"Alisha Klass is asking for $5000 a week for 12 shows. I don't think she will get it... Continental promised her that but so far she hasn't gotten anything for that price. One club she went to she got $2300 for 12 shows.

"I respect Rocki Roads. She did everything on her own.

"One guy Michael [a booking agent] claims to be a movie producer. He's not. We booked one girl for him as a feature and we haven't been paid yet. If we see him we're going to knock his teeth out for lying.

"Reb Sawitz [talent agent] is an interesting guy. You put a call through to a girl and he won't put the call through. He'll say the girls don't want to talk to you."

Strip Club Controversy

XYZ writes: Hey Luke, you had a lot of stuff on your site about Deja Vu from Richard Machelli. Deja Vu is the most professional strip club operation out there. They brought in $75 million last year. Yes they are having problems with the government trying to zone them out of business, such as in the State of Washington. You mentioned that Charley Frey had dropped a dime on them to the feds. For what?

DBT writes: John Gray of Quest magazine. He used to work for Night Moves magazine in Florida. They bought him out and said he was broke. Then he was partners with Scandalous... He shows up at many events...

Luke: True, I know him. Met him at CES last year. He publishes magazines in many states. Spearmint Rhino owes John Gray thousands of dollars. John has partnered up with adultstarsmagazine.com.

Ann Marie Hayek operates Pure Talent with her husband Jim at 213 Belcher Road, Clearwater, Florida 33765, (727) 796-9600, Fax (727) 723-7355. www.pure-talent.com. Email: hotfeature@aol.com.

Rival strip club booker Richard Machelli: "If you go on her website, a lot of her girls do not even have credits. She has names of magazines with no month and no year. She even has a girl claiming to be a Penthouse Pet who is not a Pet. Vanna Lace (vannalace.com)."

TTT: "Jim is not business partners with Don Waite, owner of Exotic Dancer magazine. So you got that totally wrong... Jim does work as a production manager for Don Waite's Exotic Dancer Expo.

"Pure Talent is the best booking service I know. The most honest, the most professional. They work hard and have a great reputation. I've never heard a complaint about them, except from competitors."

Charley Frey is suing adult lobbyist Mike Ross for using Jasmin St. Claire's name without permission.

Ross is working with Pure Talent's dance school (charges features $1500 a week, house girls $1000 a week) to educate the strippers on the political process. How to lobby, etc...

Luke interviewed Jim Hayek Tuesday afternoon. His wife Ann Marie Hayek appeared in the April, 1989 edition of Playboy and other editions of the magazine, including an appearance in "Girls of the Big East," a "flats edition" and in a 1989 Hong Kong edition. She's now pregnant.

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Jim Hayek gave me a message about industry unity. He had hardly a bad word to say about anybody.

Jim: "It's a shame that industry people want to go ahead and criticize... There are so many things going on with the City Council and legislative matters that are jeopardizing the clubs...let alone folks within the industry slandering... A lot of the times when we hear stuff, we just let it go in one ear and out the other. It's unsubstantiated.

"My wife and I started Pure Talent about five years ago [1994?]. She was a feature entertainer for five years. She booked through all the agents herself. She learned what was going on. She owned the dance troupe "Dream Girls Centerfolds," an upper left style revue show (six to seven girls) that travelled around for six years. She owned, operated and managed the troupe...

"I am not a business partner of Don Waite's Exotic Dancer magazine.

"Richard Machelli. I've never spoken to him. I've never heard of anything he's done. I know that when Ann Marie first started her career, he called her frequently. I don't know what we ever did to this guy. I don't know why he feels like trashing everybody in the industry.

"I run the Exotic Dancer Expo. I helped Don Waite start it. But Don is the sole owner, I am simply the production manager.

"There is no reason for us to make up credits on girls. Every credit we list on the girls is directly from the girls. There is no reason for us to make up titles for the talent. We strive to represent the top ten percent of the talent. Ann Marie has set new standards for the booking industry. She does club report cards for the girls and the clubs. She hands out three page questionaires to the talent before we even accept them as talent for our agency. They have to send polaroids."

Luke: "How would you know the girls are telling you the truth? If she claims she was in Penthouse..."

Jim: "We check it out. We have a very strong relationship with Dottie Meyers and the General Media organization [Penthouse's corporate parent]. We are one of the few agencies that they recommend to girls to work with.

"We require girls to send in the issue [of the magazine they are claiming on their resume]... If they claim they are a Penthouse Pet, which is one of the strongest credits a girl can have on the circuit, you can tell if a girl is making something up. I've been to about every single event out there. I know all the publications. And if a girl says 'I was in Penthouse' and doesn't remember the date she was in, that's a red flag. We receive subscriptions to most of the magazines out there.

"When it comes down to some of the smaller contests, that is irrelevant to the club owners... You can't book a contest girl on a higher rate... She would normally fall under the new girl rate..."

L-ke Ford has decided to start up his own stripper contest. Don't forget to show Luke your assets and oral abilities at CES so you can be L-ke Ford's Miss Nude World, L-ke Ford's Miss Nude World Petite, L-ke Ford's Miss Nude World Greatest Cocksucker, etc... It should boost your dance rate dramatically.

Jim named off a long list of contests.

Jim: "I don't know [how legitimate they are]. It's not my job to police them. But if a girl has participated in an event at a club, I don't know the legalities of registering contests. We don't do contests. We put on showcases."

Luke: "How meaningful is a contest? She won a contest for any of the organizations you just mentioned... What difference would it make in her booking rate?"

Jim: "There are contest girls who are phenomenal dancers... There are many different categories of girls. There are novelty acts, adult film stars, magazine models, high energy entertainers, you have girls who are drop dead gorgeous. It really comes down to matching the club with the right girl.

"Ann Marie does the bookings. I'm getting my license and you have to have a license before you can book anyone."

Luke: "A license from whom and for what?"

Jim: "From the state of Florida, Business and Professional Regulations, BPR. You have to renew it every two years. You have to be bonded. We have to hold $5000 bonds. They do FBI background checks on you. You have fingerprints, photos... It is not a regular business license where you go to a local court house and pay $15... These licenses initially cost about $800, and then you have to post surety bonds... You have to renew every two years, and that costs about $400... It's good to have licensed agents. It makes it reputable. Anyone who goes that extra mile and puts it out there and goes through background checks, and it takes six months to get...

"When we talked to the guy from BPR, he didn't even know that our industry existed..."

Luke: "It's amusing that the government regulates stuff like this."

Jim: "That's why we have guys like Mike Ross, fighting for the clubs.

"We're starting our first school on the 24th. We represent girls like Penthouse Pet Chloe Jones who wants to become a feature entertainer but doesn't know zero about it... We're going to give them the A - Zs of being a feature entertainer. She's been in tons of magazines but what goes along with that. The promo, the appearances, the radio interviews... She needs to look at longevity in the industry. You are only a thoroughbred racing horse for so long... Look after your money. Getting the proper costumes.

"The feature school goes over establishing credits, promotional photography, costuming and props, show format and music, dance instruction, cosmetic surgery: is it right for you or not?, make-up strategy, appearance - skin, hair and nails, body - how to care for it. We have a fitness instructor... Safety on the road. Contracts, what to sign, with who and when. Insurance and financial planning. And Mike Ross is preparing stuff for us as we speak for the political arena. If something happens in their club when they're busted, who's in their town that they can contact.

"For our January 24th class, we have Cheri magazine coming in to do a big spread on us.

Jim Hayek: "For the house dancer: What's the best club for you. Dance instruction. How to be a star in your club. Costuming and music selection. How to do different dances. How to sell dances. Pole techniques. Stage presence. Hair and makeup, skin and nails. Diet, fitness, safety...

"I come from the concert touring industry and I still do a major tour called the "Extreme Sports Tour."

"It was difficult to get a group [health insurance] policy for the entertainers. How do they know what this girl makes in the club? We get nothing from this. We don't get a percentage. It is simply referral. It is the right thing to do for our entertainers.

"We're trying to bring legitmacy to this industry. Our girls are married... These aren't bad people... Every single day we come in with our honesty and integrity and at the end of the day, damn well we're going to leave with that.

"Some adult film stars go out for huge money. Then we have some new girls who go out for $50 a show. A standard week is 24 shows. If a girl has credits, $2400 is a standard rate... Penthouse Pets generally start out at $125 a show. Doing one or two movies is not going to increase your rate. You have to get into the range of the Anna Malle's who've done over 300 films."

Luke: "Richard says that you book Rayveness for a $1000 less a week than she asks for?"

Jim: "No, that is ridiculous. The girls tell you where there rates are at. I won't discuss any of the girl's rates in a public forum. It's a girl's decision what she wants to take for a performance. As an agent, you strive to get them the highest rate you can. There are scenarios that go on. Perhaps the girl is two hours away from the next booking... Maybe it is a down week..."

Jim says that not only do the girls fill out questionaires to join his agency, but clubs wanting to book his girls must also fill out questionaires. "We don't ask them to send us polaroids about their club but we ask them for referrals.

"We take a 12% commission, the industry standard.

"We don't service clubs that aren't safe. I know that Ann Marie in the past has dropped numerous clubs because the hotel conditions aren't par. And par is Holliday Inn quality."

I glance through his website www.pure-talent.com.

Jim: "We're having problems with our webmaster. They have photos up there that should not be up there... And it has been frustrating... I have a different vision of our website than what our webmaster has done."

Luke: "Do you guys get kickbacks if you refer a girl to a plastic surgeon?"

Jim: "No. I've never had a kickback. And I've never heard of anything like that. Plastic surgery is the girl's decision. Look at Ashley Lauren, a natural chested girl who's one of the most published magazine models in the industry."

Luke: "Have you ever told a girl that she needs to get a boob job?"

Jim: "No. Girls are always going to ask Ann Marie's opinion... If they ask if it would help, you try to be as honest as possible. And it's no lie that the hour-glass shape does sell. And it is a body business. But for you to tell someone 'You need to get a boobjob or you will not be able to feature,' is ridiculous. No way."

Luke: "Do you refer girls to certain plastic surgeons?"

Jim: "No, we refer them to girls that have had plastic surgery."