August Bliss aka Veronica Bangg aka Amber

Tuesday At World Modeling

Ryan Knox Ryan Knox Mia Bangg changes in her car before lunch Mia Bangg Mia Bangg Mia Bangg Jim South Sr, Mia Bangg Jim Sr, Mia, Jim Jr Veronica Bangg (18yo), Mia on Van Nuys Blvd Veronica Bangg, Mia Veronica Bangg, Mia Kalgan Rivers Kalgan Jim South Sr Jim Jr's girlfriend Holly Wellin Veronica Bangg, Mia Veronica Bangg, Mia Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Jim, Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Aussie Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Veronica Bangg Tricia Oaks Tricia Oaks

I stop by World Modeling at 11:50AM February 15.

This new girl walks in. She's unsteady on her feet. She strikes Jim Jr and me as messed up on drugs. To Jim Sr, she looks nervous.

Jim Sr. asks if she has an appointment. She says no.

Jim: "You know what this is, don't you? Nude modeling."

She says yes.

Jim: "How old are you?"

Girl: "Twenty five."

She has tattoos and looks lost.

Jim tells her to come back at 1:30PM, when they're back from lunch. She says ok and leaves.

Jim Sr returns to his phone call and the two girls sitting before him -- Mia Bangg (5'7", 32D) and her 18-year old friend Veronica Bangg (who graduated high school a month early, they've only just met), who wants to get into the industry.

He says that many porn girls don't have cars but the guys do because they steal them.

I ask Mia if Jim has been producing work for her.

"No," she says with a smile. "He's a slackard."

Jim's on the phone. He says no pets, no meth and no drugs.

I think he's talking about renting out rooms to porn girls.

The industry has been disrupted the past two weeks because HIV results from AIM were up to ten days late (normally there's a one day turnaround but I think AIM had complications with its lab, or maybe it changed labs).

In porn three months, tattooed performer Ryan Knox has mainly worked for Brandon Iron. He asks Jim for a referral to adult.com who are shooting a lot.

Jim draws a blank. I start listing off the companies that adult.com owns as well as the name "Sal," their principal shooter.

Jim makes a call to Sal's assistant who then talks to Ryan.

Mia says she "had a strict religious upcoming."

Jim South Sr. invites me to lunch with the girls. Gladly I go.

The girls insist on putting on their make-up. They were supposed to be at World Modeling yesterday to meet some directors. They didn't make it.

Then they were supposed to be at World at 10AM today. They didn't make it until 11:50AM.

They had to drive up from San Diego.

Veronica Bangg says she's never had sex with a girl and Mia says she only did once, and she was heavily intoxicated.

I ask Mia how she spent Valentine's Day. She said she was in a hotel with a bunch of strangers. Hmm, I wonder what exactly she was doing?

In her year in porn, Mia has done about 25 movies.

Both Mia and Veronica Bangg have tattooes behind their ears.

Veronica Bangg, at 5'2 and 34C-24-34, is a compact soccer-playing package (she played competitively for seven years). She has bruises on the inside of her arms from rough sex a couple of nights ago in a rich guy's Dodge Ram.

She can run a mile in under seven minutes.

We cross the street.

Both Jims and both girls smoke cigarettes.

Mia studied dance from her fourth year on -- ballet, jazz, hip-hop and lyrical. Not bad for a girl with naturally D-cup breasts.

I sit down on Jim's couch and interview Mia.

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

Mia: "A mom. I never really had any goals. I never really thought about the future."

Veronica Bangg says when she was a kid, she wanted to be a mom. "Other little kids had goals, such as veterinarian. I didn't. I don't think it makes sense to plan that far ahead because anything can happen. And you've worked that hard for what?"

Duke to Mia: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Mia: "The dancers, cheerleaders and jocks."

Mia, 19, lost her virginity shortly after her 18th birthday. "It was a very intoxicated night in the back of a truck."

Duke: "Do you have a lot of intoxicated nights?"

Mia: "Not anymore.

"Once I had sex, I went on a sex spree. I realized it was something I really enjoyed. I had a family friend who told me about the industry."

Mia has lost a lot of weight on a "cigarettes-and-Red Bull-diet."

Mia describes herself as a homebody.

I ask Veronica Bangg why she is making this momentous decision.

Veronica Bangg: "I'm sick of working my ass off for nothing. I waittressed in restaurants. I recently quit a secretarial job. It was just laundry and making lunch."

Duke: "Are you nervous?"

Veronica Bangg: "I am very nervous. I've never done anything like this. The most I thought of was stripping and that was far-fetched. But you have to take risks in life."

Mia: "You have to expand your horizons."

Veronica Bangg: "I'm ready to move out of my parents house."

I ask Mia (who entered porn in early 2004) how her friends reacted to her becoming a porn star.

"They were shocked because I was reserved in highschool."

A Southern California girl, Mia has never been outside the United States.

Jim South's autobiography has hit a block.

Demi Moore registered at World Modeling over 20 years ago. She only wanted to do magazine work. She did a nude shoot for one guy. He called Jim looking for extra ID on her. Jim didn't have it. They pictures were never released.

Jim no longer keeps a tape measure in the office because he doesn't want to touch the girls and have them start trouble. Jim's dealt with many angry boyfriends and husbands over the years. One guy objected when Jim told a girl that she was pretty and should consider modeling.

I meet Australian rock star (from the Perth band Prawns With Horns) Kalgan Rivers, 32. He says his entire adult life, people have pestered him to get into porn. He's brought a laptop with DVDs of his amateur sex scenes.

He thanks Jim for taking the time to see him and gives Jim a boomerang.

I hear Bill Margold holding forth in his PAW office (Bill and Jim miss the excitement Rob brought to the building). I hear no other voices, so I assume he's on the phone.

I walk into PAW and find him talking to author Kieran Mulvaney.

I fear that I am interrupting. Bill says no. He introduces me to Kieran. He tells Kieran that it is an honor to meet me.

For Kieran's benefit and our own, Bill and I remember our tumultuous history. It was Rob Spallone that brought Bill and I back to speaking terms. Rob did the same thing for my relationship with Jim South.

Bill's concerned about Fred Salaff, an American pornographer jailed in Panama.

He's often thought of making a porn movie where porn's biggest stars bust into some third-world country and free their comrades jailed for producing X-rated material.

Bill: "The Heroes of X. Herschel Savage, Rocco, Nacho Vidal. Sharon Mitchell, Jenna Jameson and Juli Ashton seduce the guards while we get them out. Of course a couple of them would get killed. It would be a cool movie. Now it's really going to have to happen. We're going to have to get together all these people who became heroes in the eyes of society and put together a carnal commando squad and get these people out of Panama.

"This is a nightmare I've expected for years. The foreign countries don't want us.

"We used to go to foreign countries and then they'd shoot in bedrooms. You didn't even see the country they were so terrified.

"Fred's a good decent human being and he's finding out that certain countries aren't as good as he thought. Maybe we'll have to get our own hit squad to get them out. Play a dangerous form of the Playground fight where some of them don't come back. I'll lead it. I've got nothing to lose. I'll probably blow up my own foot with a rifle."

Bill sat through Inside Deep Throat yesterday.

Duke: "What did you think of it?"

Bill: "Not as much as a whole bunch of other people because I guess I knew it all. It's educational to people who know nothing. I felt sorrow that I couldn't honor Linda while she was alive. I will offer Reems the opportunity to be honored. We will offer Damiano the same thing.

"Deep Throat came around when the nation wanted to rebel and they used Deep Throat as its bronco. A lot of the picketing in front of that theatre was purchased ticketing [by people promoting ticket sales].

"The Legs McNeil book is a birdbath. It's a shallow book. I'm misquoted in there. I never gave Seka her name. I discovered her.

"There's a lot of me missing in important areas of that book. They should've talked to me about the Hal Freeman decision. I wrote the goddamn movie. I booked the film. I know more about that movie than anybody else. And I'm not in that section. I believe that because of his association with a lot of other people, I was edited out of that book more than I should've been. And it upsets me.

"Your book is better. It has a lot of inaccuracies but your book is better because at least you investigated stuff and didn't just trust people to tell you stories. This guy turned on the tape recorder and listened without any kind of investigation.

"The movie is a wading pool but nobody has gotten into this business. Not even you have. This business is an ocean and no one wants to go to the Mindanao Trench [deepest spot in the Ocean, off the Phillipines] to find the truth.

"Your site went off on a tangent about what happened with the woman from NYU [professor Chyng Sun].

"Here is a business that says it should never talk to anybody. Now along comes somebody from NYU [professor Chyng Sun] who is supposedly going to make a documentary. Two people [Bill refers to Mark Kernes of AVN and Ira Levine] who attack this business for talking to people couldn't wait to bust open like ripe melons. They couldn't wait to talk. They couldn't wait to drop their shorts and show their shortcomings. And ohmigod, they find out that their little tiny weenies are getting served up as cocktail sausages for our enemies. What do they expect from these people?

"I emailed her and said I'd be happy to discuss my vicarious revenge theory and never got an answer back. I wonder if this woman really exists."

I believe she did the interviews with Ira and Mark and she replied to my email.

Bill: "Under some form of pressure from Ira, she'll deny it, Nina, who I worship, said oh boo hoo, [professor Chyng Sun] didn't talk to me [Nina].

"Ira goes on and on. That he should've known better. Didn't he know better? Ira goes all the way back to [Dr. Robert] Stoller. How did we know to trust Stoller back in 1985?

"If you don't talk to people, you don't teach people. It's a learning experience. You take your chances. Now they're crying about how they got badly burned. It's the chance you take.

"If I am a hanger-on, they're welcome to cut off my fingers. Let's see the person who would dare do that.

"I will offer once again an adult-industry write-off. Roundrobin. All challenges. We'll find impartial judges. Maybe we could go to the Kinsey Institute. As each person loses, they're eliminated from the industry."

Duke: "Do you know what happened with the AIM ten-day blood testing delays?"

Bill: "Maybe we're getting better testing. I've never been a fan of fast-food blood testing. Would you trust something that is supposed to be next day when you are dealing with life and death?"

Bill and I took our first HIV tests in this room in 1998.

Bill explains to Kieran: "We really were friends until the Stagliano situation [February 1997]. I thought I was talking off-the-record but I wasn't and it wound up all over the net.

"He's a reporter. He's about as good as we're going to get. He's basically impartial. He's learned to be more impartial. He doesn't have any axes to grind with the talent unlike people who are jealous of the talent. He's not jealous of them anymore. He's been f----- by this industry physically. He's gotten laid. He laments about not getting laid but he's had his go-rounds with the industry. He can't say he hasn't gotten his pieces of flesh. He writes his own books.

"His name strikes fear into the heart of those who have something to hide. I like that. I don't have that kind of site. I could not be that proliferate. I could not spend 24-hours in front of the computer. It would eat my fingers. I don't trust my computer. Sometimes it doesn't even get the commas in the right place.

"AIM (Adult Industry Medicine) is a great line of [defense] for this business. It gives us more mental security than we had [before]."

Bill tells Kieran about his latest feud with Ira Levine. "I use words as razor blades. Ira Levine decided he'd come after me, so I decided I'd go after him, by referring to him first as Eichman and then Goebbels. He now refers to me as an anti-Semite.

"Any man who hides behind his religion deserves to be crucified.

"He is the perfect definition of a blowhard. More hot air is expended than even Hart Williams. Williams just writes and after a while you've got to stop reading. He goes off on tangents. He's amusing in his self-worship.

"Ira just talks. He started a campaign to get me drummed out of the business as an anti-Semite. I'm Jewish. I was born into the faith. I refused to be Bar Mitzvahed because I didn't want to be like everyone else in Vista Del Mar. They tried to bribe me with a Bible and money and a special meal. I don't need it. But I can guarantee you that I can say the Friday night prayer [Hebrew blessing over the Shabbat candles] better than he can."

Bill says it. Then I say it. Not sure who did it better.

Bill: "Then take the loaf of challah [bread] and throw it across the room, which I got punished for many times.

"Ira is unfortunately married to one of the best two or three spokeswomen in the history of this business -- Nina Hartley -- who I refer to as the bowl of sunshine. I bask in her glow. She's a joy to be around. Maybe one day she will wake up and find it had all been a dream."

Duke: "Would you like to marry Nina?"

Bill: "I don't think any one adult performer could handler her. All adult stars are more than any one person can handle. I wouldn't mind sharing her. I just like to be around her. She radiates a glow unparalleled in the history of this business, even more than Gloria [Leonard], my favorite of all time.

"I worked with [Nina] once, but she was my buddy and it had been years of having her as a hostess for the XRCO, and she sensed that I wasn't enjoying the blowjob.

"I said I can't, because I hold you in a special position in my life. I'm having conscience pangs about this.

"This was during the time when Nina had said that she had never done a scene where her character was coerced into sex. The scene between us in Jackhammer is a coercion scene. Another reason I probably felt more guilty. I think Viper wrote the movie.

"She was hunting through a warehouse and I came up to her from behind and pushed my hard dick into her and she said, oh, you have to be taken care of. You're a security guard. If you're blown, you'll be a happy security guard."

I chat with bubbly black girl Promise. I bond with her immediately because she's smart and a writer.

Promise entered the industry almost four years ago, shortly after turning 18. She's taken a two year break from porn to study creative writing. She's going to to get her BA in a year. She's working on an autobiographical novel.

Promise says her favorite writers are Virginia Wolf, Shakespeare and Tim O'Brien. She can go on and on.

Promise: "You think so? She's trying to do internal landscapes. Do you like Shakespeare?"

Duke: "Yeah. I can't say it's a pleasure. But I respect it. I like the one with the rape and the woman who gets all her limbs hacked off. That's fun. Titus Andronicus? And Troilus and Cressida. It's so cynical."

Promise: "I was [stripping] and I met a porn star [India] where I was dancing at."

Promise loves rough sex on camera and off. She giggles about visiting T.T. Boy today. He gave her a good workout.

She just returned to porn last week and hasn't done any scenes on camera yet, but I get the feeling she's done quite a bit off camera to reacquaint herself with the shooters.

Growing up in Southern California, Promise was a cheerleader in high school. And a slut.

Duke: "What did your friends from highschool think when you became a porn star?"

Promise: "They expected it. In my highschool picture, I'm wearing a shirt that says 'porn star' on it."

Promise has been working with a novelist once a week to finish her book. She doesn't want it to be seen by students until she's about to graduate. She's already known as the biggest slut in the school.

Promise says she's never slept with any of her teachers. "I don't know what's wrong with them," she smiles.

She was once arrested for a sex-related offence. She giggles but gives few details. She was in jail for six hours and it had no affect on her, she says.

She had a good lawyer. She'd been sleeping with him before she needed his professional services.

Promise: "Right now inside, or people who know all about it. It's hard to find a guy who has nothing to do with it who can understand completely."

Duke: "Men are not as understanding of their porn star girlfriends as they should be.

Promise says she's really into witchcraft. She's been studying it at college for two years in the Women's Studies department. She almost did a minor in Religion. She studied kaballah (Jewish mysticism) but found it too difficult.

"I brought a girl from school in here last week. She saw the pictures on the wall. Ohmigod. I'm trying to get her used to it [and into the industry]."

Duke: "You're like Socrates, corrupting the youth. They're going to put you to death."

Promise's porn star status is well known at her college. "I get hit on constantly."

Serena Marcus says she was busted for escorting without a license two months ago. She complains that her attorney Don Hollywood aka Ron Miller did a lousy job representing her. "And I had to do a free scene with him and his wife for him to represent me at all. I got put on probation. I needed something faxed for my court hearing. I was in Pennsylvania. He says, I can't do this. I [think], why the f--- did I f--- you?

"I was doing pictures for a website. Then this guy goes, will you go dance [at a bachelor party]? I show up to dance. And then they say, you don't have a permit to dance.

"Don could've fought it. If I had represented myself, I would've had the same outcome. I had to pay a $570 fine."

"Unless you consider September 16, 2004 two months ago... I'm sitting here with a file in hand.

"ON September 16, it says in a public record (case 4PN05669, State of California vs Jennifer Br----): 'She did willfully and unlawfully act as an escort without a permit...' In count two, she's charged with the same offense [and that] she conducted an escort bureau without a police permit.

"I have the entire police report including the statements she made to the police officers.

"They had a sting operation. They went to a location and waited for Angel to arrive. She was to be paid $300. The officer says, 'Angel? You're my escort, right?' Defendant said yes.

"Defendant says she was sent here for an escort date. 'I am not a prostitute. I was told to use the name Angel and the date was $300.'

"Serena indicated to me that she did not want to go to court. The reason she did not want to go to court I can not discuss with you. I continued this case for her from October to 11/16/04 to a pretrial hearing and settlement discussion and went to the December 14th hearing to go to trial. I appeared again 12/21/04. The case was again continued until after AEE.

"I explained to Serena that if she would execute waivers of her appearance and have them notarized...so a plea could be entered, I would make the appearance for her. I told her she could take this case to trial.

"She picked up all the documents. I gave her a Fed-Ex envelope and an Airbill to send me the documents from Pennsylvania.

"She had a friend from Woodland Hills call me and tell me to come pick up the documents. I said I didn't have time.

"I explained to her that the only condition of probation is that you do not escort without a license. She said she didn't care. She handed me $200 in cash. I said, Serena, the fine comes out to more than that. She said, whatever, just take care of it for me. I just want it over with.

"OK. No problem. If that is what you want. We met in court and entered the plea. I walked her down to the clerk's office, which I normally don't do with clients. I could tell she was nervous. I wrote my check for $200 and she paid the balance in cash. We walked back to the courtroom together and that is where we parted company.

"As far as I was concerned, we parted company on excellent terms. She never said she was dissatisfied.

"I had told her that if we had pressed this to trial, we could've done better. But she would've had to have been present for me to take it to trial. She said no.

"When Serena called me, I quoted her my normal fee. That fee exceeded her scene rate by about four times. Prior to the time she retained me, she asked if we had any work. I said sure, Justice Your Ass 4.

"It was shot 9/4/04. She was arrested 9/16/04. She said, if I give you the money back on the scene, will you represent me? I felt sorry for her. The agreed upon value for that scene was $800.

"I can't say everybody is thrilled to work with me. Some people don't say. I never give it any thought.

"She called the night she was arrested. She was hysterical on the phone. I said, don't worry. You have to go to jail.

"It displeases me that she was unhappy with the outcome of the case. I wish she would've addressed the issues with me.

"Serena, like every client I represent, was provided with a photocopy of the complaint and the police report. I tell my clients, get all your angery out. If there are errors, write them down.

"Serena did nothing with the police report. She never took the time to go over it with me. I explained that entrapment is when a law enforcement officer plants a guilty thought in an innocent mind.

Duke: "That can hurt your voice if it hits your vocal chords at the back of your throat.

Duke: "That's because you had something lodged in your mouth and in your two nostrils.

She goes off to her interviews with producers. There are four of them talking to girls today including two guys from Atlanta -- David Browning and John Foran of Have A Nice Day Entertainment.

Jim directs the Georgia boys into the executive kitchen and Don Goo takes over the presidential suite.

Aspen Stevens tells Jim South that she is looking to get the most money possible for her first anal scene. She wants a small guy.

Byron Long, who's hung like a horse, says: "Make a statement. If you're going to do anal, do the big one."

I meet slim blonde Niki Clover from Dana Dane Productions and Erocktadivision.com.

Niki has done two girl-girl scenes. She's gay, not gay-for-pay. She's the girlfriend of and assistant to the company owner Dana Dane.