XBiz reports Oct. 8: Adult industry attorney Michael Fattorosi told XBIZ that once the "Doe 43" case — involving adult performer Brooke Ashley’s alleged HIV contraction from a bareback anal gangbang — determines that adult performers are considered employees rather than independent contractors, Cal-OSHA inspections could mean trouble for uninsured adult studios. …"This state is…
Stefani Morgan posts on ADT: everything out of my mouth was altered. when asked what i think about the show pushing us more mainstream i said i think any of the vivid girls could do it, just matters who really wants that. and when asked what do i have to say to people when they…
Steve K. writes: Sophia Lynn owes me a lot of money and her lawyer AKA "Captin Save A Ho" [Michael Fattorosi] told me that she was going to pay me back the money she owes me this past Tuesday. Well its Friday night and I havn’t heard anything from her or "Captin Save a Ho."…
Stephen Yagielowicz writes: Recently, XBIZ World magazine asked several industry players, "Is the industry experiencing a downturn or is it mostly perception?" Here’s what they had to say: Provided there isn’t a huge economic downturn that I’m unaware of, I’d venture to say that it is mostly a perception that industry-wide revenue is down. While…
Holly Randall responds: Of COURSE I’m/was uncomfortable in my own skin, I would imagine that’s a big reason that I drank. Am I also an attention whore? Yeah, probably. Do I edit out bad photos of myself and only keep the good ones? Well duh– I’m a photographer, I’m a girl, and yes, I am…
A little birdie just called to tell me that alleged rapist Jack Venice allegedly beat the snot out of performer/director/agent Sascha at a gas station. The damage was severe: a broken jaw, a broken nose, and a broken hand. Sascha lived above Jack. They were friends. Sascha drinks a lot. When he’s intoxicated, he starts…
Shap writes on JBM: Here is something that costs all three of us money. Xxxpass (EroticGateway) is buying ccbill and paycom join for traffic. What are your thoughts? This is an example. When someone (With zango) tries to join a ccbill or paycom site as soon as the ccbill/paycom join page opens the XXXPass join…
Gene Ross writes: Ostensibly competitors, Kevin Blatt didn’t sound like he was too broken up by the death of celebrity porn tape broker David Hans Schmidt last week. Schmidt, who was accused of trying to extort money from Tom Cruise, apparently committed suicide. I spoke to Blatt just as he got back from San Francisco….
Tod Hunter writes: BEL AIR, Md. — Two recent fires in adult stores in Harford County, north of Baltimore, can be attributed to arson, according to Maryland fire officials. The most recent fire on Tuesday morning destroyed Express Video, an adult store in Fallston, Md. "Two of the three fires have been determined to be…
Rhett Pardon writes: SACRAMENTO — A porn ring based in Eastern Europe evidently is to blame for a near-disastrous shutdown of California’s sub-domain that would have taken all of the state’s government websites offline. The statewide shutdown came so close, that it prompted a call by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to President Bush. The problem began…
