RALEIGH, N.C.—Musician and former porn store employee Louis Love Money filed a lawsuit against the former lieutenant governor of North Carolina on Tuesday. Mark Robinson, a pro-Trump Republican who ran for governor in 2024, sued the former porn shop employee for defamation during that time in an effort to revive a flailing political campaign shrouded in personal scandal. Money accuses the failed gubernatorial candidate of abuse of the court system and subjecting him to unjust persecution.
Robinson sued CNN and Money for a whopping $50 million in October 2024 after investigative journalists for the outlet published an article alleging that he made scores of posts on porn forums in the late 2000s, including on a platform known as Nude Africa. He posted under the username "minisoldr" there and on platforms also including YouTube and Pinterest.
According to the CNN report, Robinson posted in support of slavery and called himself a "Black Nazi" who favored Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler over Barack Obama as president of the United States. He also shared posts using slurs that are homophobic, racist and antisemitic. He furthermore admitted to peeping on women in public showers when he was 14, and that he enjoyed watching transgender pornography.
The suit also implicated a music video Money produced with his band, Trailer Park Orchestra, titled “The Lt. Governor Owes Me Money.” In the song, as well as in an additional inquiry by investigative news outlet The Assembly, Money claimed that the former GOP nominee frequented porn shops in the 1990s and early 2000s, and that he never paid Money for bootleg porn video purchases.
Robinson denied all of the allegations in the CNN and Assembly pieces, including his visits to porn stores throughout Greensboro. Shortly after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein beat him out by 14 percentage points in the 2024 race, Robinson dropped the lawsuit.
In March 2026, Robinson appeared on the "After the Call" podcast, hosted by conservative Christian pastor Josh Hall of Florida, admitting that he lied to "protect" the Trump machine.
“More than anything, you know, allegations that I watched pornography and was involved with people that watched pornography, and that that was absolutely true,” Robinson told Hall during the 90-minute interview. He characterized his consumption of pornography in the early 2000s as an "obsession" that haunted him well into his political career.
Money's immediate complaint was brought over the abuse of process and malicious prosecution allegations in a state-level court, note court documents.
Money's attorney argues in the suit that the "[Robinson] lawsuit was never truly about money or about any supposed deep-state conspiracy, artificial intelligence, or pornographic video allegedly purchased in the 1990s or early 2000s. Instead, the lawsuit appears to have been political theater, using the court system as part of an election strategy.
"As a direct and proximate result of Robinson’s [initial] actions, Plaintiff incurred substantial attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses defending the Wake County lawsuit," the complaint adds. It seeks damages for Money that it says "exceed $25,000.00.”
The case was filed in the Guilford County branch of the General Court of Justice Superior Court Division. Money is represented by Andrew L. Fitzgerald, a founding partner at the Winston-Salem-based law firm Fitzgerald Hanna & Sullivan, PLLC.
