Jessica Dee - Sad report in German Newspaper SZ
Yesterday I was somewhat surprised when I opened my daily newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" - for those not familiar with Germany´s print media landscape: Briefly said it is equivalent to what the NY Times manifests in the States!
Okay, the frontcover headline of their weekly magazine - SZ Magazin - was: Jessica's last shooting - The lethal scene.
Here´s a brief summary for those who do not have German language skills. (Do not blame me for grammar and style mistakes, please. I am not a native English speaker!)
The report starts with an explanation how Jessica got infected with HIV at a porno shooting. Then her mental situation is described and her decision stop crying about the situation, but she still does! After that she says that "They want to get rid of me."
The next paragraph tells something about Larry´s and his daughter Jewel D’Nyle background. Then the reporter gives a down-to-earth account about Jessica´s work as a porn actress. A paragraph about her former agent Dick Nasty follows.
Next the reporter give his impression about a HC scene with Steve Holmes and Melissa Lauren, directed by Kylie Ireland. The dialogue between Kylie and her husband Bryn Pryor is quoted word for word.
Then Steve Holmes tells the reporter about his background. Until the age of 35 he has been a Manager with the Software industry and a company car. He lived in a wealthy area near Munich. From that former life only his wife and his two daughters have still left. They meet each other rarely, because Steve commutes Between the three porn centres Budapest, Prag and the Valley. He plans moving to Barcelona with his family soon. We are informed that he earns about $40,000 a month as director. When working as an actor he gets $700 and he is able to do two scenes per day.
In the next paragraph a lighting technician talks about Jessia Dee as "collateral damage." Steve is not happy about that expression. Then the lighting technician is quoted with: "The four movies she has directed have others done for her. Jessica Dee is history."
Next comes a summary about AIM and Sharon Mitchell. Now the story returns to Jessica and how she got into the adult biz step by step leaving her hometown of Ostrava with the age 17. Her family background is explained quite in detail. Now we getting informed that a fourty year old man [American porn performer] married Jessica after she got infected with HIV.
Her current financial situation is getting worse day by day. She has to pay $1000 a month for HIV medication. If that´s not enough bad news, now the US immigration and tax authorities accussing her with illegal earnings of more than $100,000 Dollars. Therefore she has lost her residence permit. Were she to leave the USA, she never could enter the country again!
The report ends with her saying she now wants to find out in what movie the DAP (Double Anal Penetration) scene is used for having her life changed forever. Sad, very sad about her!
AC Cream writes:
Everyone who became HIV infected was involved in 1 film for TT Boy titled...."Split That Booty #2". If you search for that film today (as not to leave a smoking gun)that film was released without Jessica's, Miss Arroyo's, & Lara Roxx's scenes. Though informed people who took the time to read all the news coming out around that time know Bianca Biaggi is the actual Patient Zero and not Darren James. Bianca Biaggi's scene was still released in that film. She immediately retired after the HIV story broke, but a Transsexual Bianca had just worked with for Joey Silvera just prior to "Split That Booty #2" turned up HIV positive. Then a director in Brazil that tried to hire Bianca back in Brazil said she was HIV positive. Darren James, Lara Roxx, Miss Arroyo, & Jessica Dee should come together and either through subpoena or whatever should try to force Bianca Biaggi to return to the US to be tested. Those 4 people shouldn't struggle to survive while TT Boy's company goes on making him money.
Steve Holmes writes:
I met the SZ Magazin reporter in L.A. and we hang out for a couple of days. A very nice guy. But the way he tells the story is not true. He might have misunderstood something in the short time he was here.
John Stagliano is the best example that you can have a career after being infected. You should also know something about the structure of PXP. It is mainly a distribution company. Jewel De'Nyle, John Strong, Manuel Ferrara, Michael Stefano, Sean Michaels, Brandon Iron and me are independent producers. We cover all the cost and turn in a finished product for distribution. We all have certain slots for release. Manuel and Michael left to RLD but still own the movies they shot for PXP. Jewel gave Jessica a chance to direct some of the movies Jewel owns. She never worked for PXP. She worked for Jewel.
I like Jessica Dee a lot as a person and I feel sorry for her situation. I was neither involved in hiring nor firing of her but I can understand both decisions. Jewel wanted to give her a chance but Jessica couldn't live up to the expectations.
I personally use Darren James as PA and behind the scenes camera man when I shoot in L.A. A very nice and talented guy.
Secluded Observer writes on ADT:
...This article is only the latest in a series of one-sided reports in quality German newspapers (peaking during last year's HIV-crisis and the Sibel Kerkili-story). They all have the same tone. They characterize the business as mean and exploiting. For me it seems that these journalists have this opinion way before they start writing these articles... But what I seriously can't understand is why there's no response from the German industry * to this even though it affects them in so many ways (not only sales but new performers, laws,...)! The fact that they don't do probably says a lot about them!
PXP director Steve Holmes writes:
The journalist who wrote this article came to the porn valley without any prior contact to the industry. He stayed here few days and met few people. He told me that everything is so different that he expected. I think Jewel did great in giving Jessica Dee this chance. Manuel Ferrara and I got the same chance two years ago.
The first thing Larry [PXP CEO and Jewel DeNyle's father] does every morning, is going to the toilette to get water for the coffee machine.
StemCell writes: "It seems the coffee at PXP is an awesome brew."
Jewel DeNyle writes:
I'm very pissed off about this article that could be further from the truth about any of us at PXP. Jessica did movies for David Joseph he owned them and no longer wanted her to shoot for him instead he decided to have one of his RLD do it for him. I am having Jessica now shoot for me as I said before no one is shooting for me at this time not even myself as I have about 15 movies on the shelf that I need to put out and re-coop funds for before I go on another shooting spree. I have Kylie, Jessica, Mason and myself that make movies that I own. We offered to get Jessica a job elsewhere to do something during her time off to make some extra money to help pay for whatever she needed and I told her if she got too low on money to call me and I'd make and exception and have her shoot something so she wouldn't be broke. I still own my part of PXP and David is my partner so stop assuming you know what's going on from some journalist that loves to twist things to make our business look like s--t. I'm very displeased you would even think I'd be so thoughtless.
The harder I get tore down the more determined I get to be the best this industry has to offer. This is why I don't do many interviews since I started PXP the press likes to knock you down when all I'm trying to do is bring this industry up a notch.
I'm in a small percentage of women in this business who has stepped into a male role so everyday is a fight and I refuse to go away.
Philipp writes:
This is the reporter who wrote the story. I came into this forum because some misinterpretations regarding my article are starting to concern me.
It strucks me as very strange how many of you express allegations and strong opinions about the story although only very few have actually be able to read it. I don't think you can base your judgement about the story -- or even worse: about the behaviour of characters in the story -- on a very casually translated summary. I'm not going to justify the story's accuracy and it is not important whether people like my reporting or not. But what really is important that you understand what is really said about the characters in the story. Especially regarding Larry at PXP, there have been serious misinterpretations:
Larry (BTW, nor anyone else in the story) is NOT portrayed a cold, heartless, f---ed-up executive who just fires Jessica. He's rather the guy who, whether he likes it or not, is thrown into the situation to be the one to tell Jessica that she has a stop filming. He doesn't like it but he has to.
Let's look at the details in the text: Larry is introduced as the one who told Jessica. Then the text says: "When he said, that he looked down on his boots", indicating that Larry doesn't feel comfortable at all to tell Jessica because he feels sorry for her. Jessica starts crying and Larry can't stand it -- not because he's this heartless asshole but of course because it makes him sad as well. Because he cares. That's why he murmurs (not complains!) "Always this crying." It's just a little different from what was translated before but it makes a whole lotta difference.
Same goes to what Larry says about HIV. He says the adult industry is a tolerant business. Everybody can try his/her luck here. Then he says he's met in the business manager, academics, immigrants even former criminals and ex-models.
Then he says: Only one sort of people is hard to bear for the adult business. People with HIV. This is not Larry's cold opinion, it doesn't indicate that he doesn't like this people. It is a matter of fact statement that at least five other sources confirmed to me. If you contracted the virus, it's getting difficult for you in the business.
A bit later in the story, Larry says how surprised everbody was when Jessica finished her first film, Throat Yoghurt. This quote is a first hint on what Larry later on will state as the reason for PXP or RLD to stop Jessica. The reporter asks: Why couldn't she continue? Larrys says because she's filmed four movies right after it. She was too fast. The films would have to be stored and the talent would get old. I don't know whether this is the true reason but this what Larry said and I can tell that he gave this information to the best of his knowledge.
Further on, we learn about Larry's background, a paragraph that portrays him as a family man who pinned photographs of his children on the wall and, of course, has his issues with his daughter having worked as talent. He used to be Sheriff and also a state representative. He doesn't watch the movies that have Jewel in it and that's why he better not go to the bathroom since there (at least when I visited it) lies a copy of Adam Film Work XXX that has a several-page-spread with Jewel.
The paragraph ends with the quote by Larry saying that as talent Jessica was good, uncomplicated and not picky but one could tell from how Larry said it that he would have preferred to talk about agricultural reform in the State of Colorado.
Everyone who Larry knows that is true. I went thru all this in such great detail because Larry is one of the finest men I met during my reporting. He cared a lot about Jessica and showed great compassion. Everybody who reads whatever else from my story (or its rough interpretation) is wrong.
Apart from that, I am convinced that the story is accurate in its facts (sorry, Steve, that I got your kids' age wrong, somehow it was in my notebook) and even more important, FAIR towards everyone.
I invite everyone who feels otherwise to send me an email. I have very much enjoyed reporting the story and meeting each single person in the valley, especially Jessica, Larry and Steve Holmes, all of whom I owe a lot.