LOS ANGELES—Leading adult studio Evil Angel announced today that Chief Financial Officer Adam Grayson is leaving the company to pursue new career opportunities.
"It's been like ten years this month that I've been with the company," Grayson told AVN, "and I think I can simply say all things run their course, and perhaps greener pastures made sense for me and for [Evil Angel owner] John [Stagliano] as well, but it just seemed like time to pursue other opportunities and other interests and find something freshly stimulating."
When asked whether there had been any precipitating incident which sparked Grayson's resignation, he replied, "That's a provocative question. Yeah, sure, you know, working as closely as I have with John, it's sort of like a marriage where, sure, there's things where we didn't see eye-to-eye, but such is the complexity of life and we were always grownups about it. We're parting amicably. You reached me at the Evil office where I am here for a few hours today to help out; I'm not on payroll any longer but I am here helping with some transitional stuff, so it's amicable and we're trying to keep it civilized."
So no one thing impelled the move? "No, certainly there was not."
Acccording to a press release from the company, "Stagliano will be taking over day-to-day operations, with the help of Chief Commercial Officer Magalie Rheault, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing Alexandra Kelley, and VP of Product Chris Gentile. Evil Angel will continue its long tradition of treating creative and business partners with integrity while upholding our standard of edgy, artistic, real sex."
And what will Grayson do in the future?
"I think my canned answer for people who've asked me this the past few weeks has been, I'm really interested in working with smart people to solve interesting problems," he said. "I know that's intentionally vague, but I think that is what would scratch my itch better than anything at this point, so I don't know if I'm going to stay in the business or not; I haven't really decided yet, and I guess we'll see what opportunities the universe presents."
Grayson was equally vague about his future as a member of the Board of Directors of Free Speech Coalition.
"Well, I will not be at the retreat," Grayson said, referring to the annual Board retreat scheduled for this weekend. "Actually, I've just gotten back into town and I've been in New York for the better part of a month, so I had expressed to Eric [Paul Leue, FSC's Executive Director] that I'd been away from my family, my wife and kids for a month, so being in Santa Barbara for another weekend didn't seem like the right thing to do, so I will be missing that. But I haven't put that much thought into the FSC Board but I guess we'll see if I'm reelected and then I can decide."
