Craig Valentine Interview

Thursday afternoon, October 7, 2004, I begin with Craig. He and his wife Summer Haze are on the road in Connecticut.

Craig: "I had one of my glass blowers rip me off and I had to have him killed. People need to realize that you don't steal money from us."

Craig and Summer hosted a contest (Miss Nude Connecticut or somethiing) at Stagedoor Johnny's last week.

Craig: "The fiasco? I care not to discuss that. That was a nightmare."

Selena Steele and Bridgette Monroe discuss it negatively here in this Adultfyi story.

How did you get into the adult industry?

"I was a DJ in a titty bar 15 years ago. The feature entertainers decided that they wanted to use me as a little sex toy. They figured out that I had a talent. A couple of years later, one of the features that I was banging, told me that I could get paid for what I do. So, 300 sex scenes later, my dick pays my bills."

When did you do your first scene?

"Shiiiiit. We're going back to 1992. Shannon Rush."

When did you hook up with Summer Haze?

"She featured in my club in 1995. She wasn't 'Summer Haze' yet. I was the DJ at the Crazy Horse Too in Pompano, Florida. I've never owned a club. My stepfather owns Trapeze, the swingers clubs.

"She thought I was a f---ing a------.

"We ran into each other again [in August 1999]. I was doing the Exotic Dancer show. I went to work for Pure Platinum. We got selected as the club of the year. She'd started doing porn. We met up again at Internext (then IA2000) in the Fall of 1999. I'm famous. I'm the one who rented the Sea Escape and did the porn cruise.

"My ex-partner fell in love with her. He told her I was a broke loser and she took off.

"About two years later, somebody told her the truth. Everybody had figured out that I was a millionaire. We wound up getting back together. We got married last year at the Exotic Dancer convention. We just had our one-year anniversary in Las Vegas."

I know you've banged a lot of porn star. Did you have any relationships with any?

"Not really. It's just a job."

Did you have relationships with civilian girls?

"Here and there. I really didn't have relationships with anybody."

Has this been your life the past 15 years?

"Basically. And I owned the third-largest concert tour company (Mystery Lighting and Production Arts) in Florida. We own an Internet company. We own a production company. We own a glass sex toy company.

"We lost the touring company September 11 [2001]. We got stuck in Brazil. Our equipment got robbed. They wouldn't allow the cargo planes come back in. When our wonderful president declared war, war invalidates my insurance.

"We licensed Summer's name out to a company called Glass Pleasures [in January 2004]. They ripped us off. We went after them and took possession of the company. She designs it. My guys manufacture it."

How is it different from all the other companies that make sex toys?

"All the other companies have guys owning everything and guys manufacturing everything. One, you've got a porn star. Two, you've got a woman. Women know what women want. If we had to figure out what a woman wants, we'd go nuts. All her little girlfriends come over to my house. It's like a pornfest and a f---fest over at my house every weekend trying out the toys."

I believe porn star Serenity owns Las Vegas Novelties, a sex toy company out.

"We were distributing directly. We just started distributing through RSK Distributions out of Baltimore, Maryland. We have a downside. Everyone thinks that Alex is god because he's the only one who's been around but Rick's got some competition."

Who are the Alex and Rick in this quote?

Craig Valentine does most of his scenes in Florida and New York. "I know Jim South very well but he doesn't get me much work. I can go to New York or Florida and work five or six times in a day. The theory is that I am unproven LA talent. I don't give a f---. I get $500 a sex scene in Florida.

"I used to be the head MILF-seeker for MILFseeker.com. I did almost 20 episodes. Until the photographer, Photogregg, got jealous because he couldn't f--- my wife. 'I'm sorry dude, but I take this strictly as a business. She's gotta f--- you for me to keep my lead role? Kiss my ass.' He ended up losing a filming contract when they moved MILFseeker out to LA."

Pornstar2pac writes: PhotoGregg's house burnt down again. Try back Monday.

"I was going up to New York for Magnum Productions. Bob Magnum. Shannon Rush's ex-husband. CV Productions. Paul Howser. Greg Gregory. There's anywhere from 20-30 scenes a day going on in Florida. The problem is that they don't adhere to the testing rules like they do in LA.

"I don't classify the testing as meaning s---. But there are enough problems in our business now. You don't need to throw any wood on the fire.

"My wife eight months ago came up with a bunch of restrictions. She only wants to perform with women or me. I can do what I want.

"She got hurt the last three times on a set [with a guy]. She got put in a hospital on a set."

I hear Summer talking in the background.

"Then she had a photographer for a major release stalking her. After putting a decade into the industry, she should be able to work with who she wants, not who they tell her to work for."

How did she get put in the hospital?

"Somebody went ahead and did what she asked him not to. They come up with these guys with monster dicks. She had ovarian cancer real bad three times. She said, if you are going to do doggie, do it real easy. He did whatever he wanted. She wound up with bruised kidneys and everything else. He put her in the hospital.

"Then we had a shoot offshore of Florida where the guy put her in dangerous positions. It went to DVD. It was released at AVN Expo [January 2004] -- Sexy Outdoors. We had it yanked because he was shooting in a National Wildlife preserve with kids around.

"The photographer (Adam Redford) was going around -- 'oh, you're such a good f---. Throw your husband out and come over to the house.'

"He almost caught a beating at AVN. He tried turning around and play little scumbag when I was picking up our AVN Awards tickets. Somebody had to stop me from throwing him a beating.

"He said, I've got a client. Here's how it works. After she kills the snake in the Everglades, she lies down in the grass with the cameras off and the client f---- her. I said, dude, she's a porn star. She's not a hooker.

"Another one was that he takes her to a cabin in South Carolina, slits a pigs throat, and lets it run around the cabin dying while he's f---ing her.

"He didn't know I was her husband. When we were going to shoots in Florida, nobody knew we had anything to do with each other. When she was doing her sex scene four miles off shore... I said, I've got a gun. He tries shoving a fish in her pussy. He says, I've got my cameraman. Well, I'll shoot both of you [with the gun]."

4/28/05

I call Craig Valentine Thursday.

Craig: "We love the porn agents. Their job is to put as many girls as possible in movies so they can make their fee. Jim [South] is a nice old man. He doesn't eat much at dinner, though.

"I won't name this particular booking agent. When porn girls get a good name, everyone wants to see them in the clubs. If an agent wants to book Entertainer X into a club, and they don't want her, he will put Entertainer W in there. His fee of 12% doesn't change. So he doesn't care who he sticks into a club.

"All the [feature booking] agents are screwing all the girls now. Unless you kiss their ass and are in their circle, or you are their favorite, you don't get booked. There are some big-named porn stars who don't get booked [because of favoritism by the bookers].

"If you go to a strip club, you see the same stupid girl doing the same stupid show.

"If you call your agent and say why aren't in this club, he'll say the club doesn't want you. Then you'll get a call from the club asking why you won't perform at their club. The agent lied to you.

"This one agent placed a phone call to Summer, threatening her and threatening to destroy her credit. He even forged a contract that the club owner presented to us when we got there.

"He sends threatening letters to clubs around the US and bashes her and other girls over the phone so they can't get work.

"You wrote about the Miss Nude World pageant [scam]. I'll name Ken Shinkle [who is married to the recently crowned Miss Nude USA Jada Deville]. He's always packing on the weight. He used to work for Continental Agency.

"When we bought the sex toy company, we were supposed to do a free showcase for that sonofabitch. I said, 'I'm about ready to write a check for $500,000. I'm not going to do your showcase for free when I'm ready to buy a multi-million dollar business.'

"He classifies himself as G-d and the Anti-Christ. You will bend over and kiss his ass or you will never work in the industry again. If Summer Haze does not do his showcase for free to see how she performs, he will make sure he never works for any clubs in the United States."

Duke: "Does he have that power?"

Craig: "The majority of club owners are not that bright. They listen to the agents. If the club owners were smart, they'd go on AVN and see who the hot people are.

"Let's get real. When you go to a club, do you want to see a girl dancing and rubbing herself with lotion? Or do you want to see a girl take a dildo as long as your arm and ---- the living ---- out of herself?"

I don't know what to say.

"If you go to a club to see a porn star, you know what the porn star does for a living. Then you have these dancing feature girls who do little shows and tricks and pour paint on themselves. I don't see any reason for a guy to pay $20 to get in the door to see a girl paint herself.

"I like to go to a club to see Danny Sexton ---- herself with a beer bottle. Or I see the girls do a strap-on show and ---- the ---- out of each other or blow the guys on stage. That's a show. What else would you go to a titty bar for? Dude, you live in LA. You get everything else you need.

"We are in the porn business. It's hard to impress us nowadays. If a girl pulls a bunny rabbit out of her ass, I'd be impressed for a minute. I'm pretty sure you'd stand there and say, I can't put that on the recorder.

"You know Leanna Hart. The agents are blackballing her to make sure she can't work. She needs money because she has a son to take care of. These girls are booking themselves into clubs and screwing the agents.

"There's a powerful agent who classifies girls as A-list, B-list. Every club owner in the world wants Tera Patrick, Jenna Jameson and Brianna Banks. If these club owners had $35,000 a week to throw away on a feature entertainer of this calibre, they'd be out of business.

"You're friends with Lisa Sparxxx. She's a well-known name. Why wouldn't they want to put Lisa in the club?

"Flexxx the sexual contortionist. The agent who books her won't put her in clubs because she won't make her tits any bigger. I'm sorry, but if a girl can bend over backwards and lick her own pussy, who gives a ---- what her tits look like?"

Duke: "Right."

Craig: "A C is perfect. I'm pretty sure that if you saw a girl bend over backwards and lick her own pussy, I'm pretty sure you'd drop the recorder.

"Taya Parker. This wonderful girl came up to me at Exotic Dancer and handed me a package. It had hand-writing comparisons and attorneys against Rio Rivers and the Miss Nude World pageants proving that the contest was rigged.

"Taya is now kissing Ken Shinkle's ass because she doesn't have any work. So he's booking her into clubs to shut her up from this package circulating.

[Ken Shinkle says he's never booked Taya Parker.]

"The most powerful booking agent is Lee Network run by Dave Michaels, a moron. Number two is Continental. Frank, the owner of Continental, is a nice guy, but he don't do anything.

"We went up against Tera Patrick last summer. We packed over a thousand people into the club Summer was performing at with a line going out the door.

"I was on Playboy radio with Juli Ashton and Nina Hartley. They said that the reason they stopped featuring was that the agents kept screwing them.

"[Journalist] Don Benn went through this already. He tried sniffing out a couple of the agents and talking to them. He felt stupider after talking to the agents then when he started.

"About two years ago, we were on this wonderful show called the Smut Doctors. The two fat kids. They all forget that I used to be one of the real popular DJs here in Florida for one of the biggest strip clubs -- Crazy Horse Too. These guys have a secure job at Tootsies. They wanted us to do a blowjob contest. Don't we get paid for that on set? When the girls do that on my films, I have to pay them to do a blowjob scene. Why should we give a radio show that nobody sees video on? At least when we do a live sex shows on KSEX, everyone is tuned in listening.

"A couple of weeks later, the Smut Doctors had her on as a regular guest. I called up. What's the deal? Well, her agent says she's not a porn star. Really? Here are 30 of her DVDs and 50 VHS tapes. Thirty five magazines. I dropped off to them.

"They said, the agent says that is not important. We are going to go with what he said.

"Wankus [at KSEXradio.com] is very nice. He believes that everybody is entitled to a piece of the pie. He's not greedy. We told him what happened.

"Summer goes to feature at that club and she gets cancelled. And she keeps getting cancelled and cancelled and cancelled.

"Someone writes to the DJ at SmutDoctors, and his response was: 'She was mean to me. So I don't feel she should be allowed to make money in my club.'

"OK, fat boy. You don't own the club.

"Summer Haze went to a club. All the porn girls had flaked on them. While she was in the dressing room, she interviewed all the girls, including Rio Rivers. She wrote down, word-for-word, what the girls said. The girls were saying the place was a joke. That Rio lied to everybody.

"Rio said, yeah, 20 of my girls didn't show up. She was paying other girls to fill in. She was trying to hide all this from the club owner. Her posters said, '26 of the top porn stars.' The only girls there that did adult film were Summer Haze, Xena, and Mercedez. How can you have porn star wars when there are no porn stars?

"Summer did the favor and did the show. She f----- herself with a big glass fibreoptic dildo on stage. I had Lance [Xena's husband] run around the stage with an inflatable penis. It was killer.

"We don't publish the story. We felt bad for Rio.

"Then, a couple of weeks later, we get a magazine in hand, and not only did Summer not get thanked for doing the show, but one of the girls who took her finger and touched her pussy got the Hardcore Award. I'm sorry, but a girl f------ herself on stage and a guy running around with a six-foot inflatable penis trying to ---- her with it while she's trying to f--- herself with a dildo, I think that's more hardcore than a girl taking her finger and touching her clit.

"Not even a thank you for bailing her out.

"So Summer went ahead and printed the story, word-for-word, what all the girls told her.

"Then we got a call from the club owner that we trashed the club. The agent, Ken Shinkle, said she bashed the club. At no time, did she bash the club.

"Daisy May Madison. She's in Behind Closed Doors 4. AVN didn't rate the scene too highly. They rated her as a dumb stripper. It's not an act. The girl is stupid.

"I videotaped her signing a contract. This little idiot turned around... We promised her a boxcover. She was supposed to give us three scenes. The girl didn't give us three scenes. The girl barely gave us one scene. We turned around and said, unless you give us the other two scenes, we're not going to put you on the boxcover.

"The guy we rented the studio from offered to buy 5,000 copies of the disc. We put his girl on the boxcover. He wired the money right to me.

"I got a phone call that the reason Daisy May Madison didn't make the boxcover is that she didn't suck my dick. Don't flatter yourself. Sucking my dick doesn't get you a boxcover. Money gets the boxcovers. Performance in the movie gets the boxcover. Honoring your contract gets you the boxcover.

"We caught this girl bootlegging one of the DVDs and recreated the art work so that she was the star of the disk.

"When I was on the Wankus show, I'm called dumb suitcase pimp. I'm worth a couple of million dollars and own a load of houses. Whatever money Summer Haze makes, Summer Haze keeps."

Craig goes off on the fake titles strippers use to pad their resumes. "What's Miss Nude Connecticutt? I like Jennifer Steele who can shoot fire out of her pussy and set a guy's face on fire on stage. That's cool. What's Miss Nude Wyoming going to do? Bring a cow on stage?

"The only thing that Summer wants in this world is an AVN award. The agent says, it doesn't mean anything if you have an AVN award. Apparently it is the biggest event of the year. If you walk off that stage with an award, doesn't it mean that somebody paid attention to what you did?

"These girls are busting their asses. Let them have an award.

"We packed 1,500 people into Club Seven for a swingers party [during AEE]. Dave Cummings was there. If Summer's name doesn't draw people, why do they come?"