NL- Someone other than Vivid offers a fallen celeb a million dollar contract? Wow.
Following her admission that she made racist remarks, companies have been dumping Paula Deen left and right, but there’s at least one that’s eager to offer Deen a new gig.
TMZ reports that a porn company that features older women called PureMature.com sent a letter to Deen offering her a six-figure deal to endorse the site.
“Full figured or thin, arthritic or diabetic — you embody our perfect spokesperson,” the company wrote to Deen, adding that she’s a “MILF,” and they are willing to offer her “6 figures for very little work,” since there is no nudity required.
Despite the fact that Deen has now been dropped by The Food Network, Walmart, Target, JC Penney, her book publisher Random House and other companies, it seems unlikely that Deen would sign on, even as she loses millions.
from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/01/paula-deen-porn-offer_n_3529941.html?ref=topbar
I find this offer highly suspect. I just have a hard time believing that site has a million dollars to throw around. I mean its one thing if you actually have a million dollars to offer a celebrity to be a media whore and offer it up, but when you don’t even have the money …. that is just sort of really rubbing me the wrong way. I hope Paula’s people sue the piss out of this company for this fraud.
^ They don’t, making an empty offer and talking about it is just free advertisement..No-name companies do it all the time, and TMZ are little more than attention-hungry parasites only too eager to pass the word on. With the way dvd and streaming video sales are going, it’s a stretch to think Vivid has $1 million to burn.
Nobody wants to see Paula Deen doing porn, so hopefully her son James will convince her to stay away.
Exactly rsx, the site is getting exactly what they want, they are getting their name out there and getting free publicity. That’s why I laugh at people ho go off on Vivid when they make similar offers. These people know that the celeb in question is never going to take the deal and even if they do, they know the profit they can make from it will exceed what it cost them.
I realize what they are doing and what their goal was, but unlike Vivid who could actually afford to write Paul Deen that $1 mil check if she agrees to said offer (even though we know she never would) these guys I highly doubt could so that means what they are doing fraud and in my opinion that is where it crosses the line. Being a jack ass media whore is one thing, but committing fraud is another all together. And that is the part that bothers me about their offer.
I quite honestly have no problem with people being media whores to advertise their brand. I mean hey, if it works, it works. But committing fraud isn’t the same thing. These guys I really doubt have that kind of money to make that kind of offer.
It says “six-figure deal” – $1 million is seven figures. So it’s obviously going to be considerably less than that, probably closer to $100,000 – still likely to be far out of the price range of some third-rate company, but not impossible.
And I doubt that Deen could sue for fraud over some obviously frivolous letter, since it’s not legally-binding.
^ Yes, we noticed the accuracy oversight. None of us cared to correct it, and there’s no conceivable reason you should either. The company is doing nothing more then being attention-whores, they have neither the money nor the resources to make it possible.