Gina Lynn told AVN.com Thursday that she has left Club DVD and is now a free agent for the first time in over two years.
Lynn starred in three titles for Club, Gina Lynn Reinvented and Flash 1 and 2, while two additional titles have yet to be released.
“I was under contract for a little over two years, and I didn’t get anything out of it,” Lynn told AVN.com Thursday from Baltimore, where she is appearing at the grand opening of the Scores gentlemen’s club there tonight. “I was off the market for video production. They weren’t very organized and they didn’t know what to do with distribution. People thought I was retired.”
Lynn continued, “Even for talent to think I was retired was kind of crazy. In the two years time I was with them, they just recently put out the third movie. The whole time I was willing and waiting to work, and they were paying me and that was great, but it wasn’t productive for me. The magazine is great. I love that part of it, the exposure of the magazine, but the communication on the video side wasn’t there, and the editors [of the magazine] didn’t know what to say to me. They didn’t have the power to make decisions over video production.”
Jay Annis, a consultant to Paragon Publishing, Club’s parent company, is in charge of Club DVD, but he was unavailable for comment at press time. Club magazine’s U.S. Editorial Manager, Lisa Massaro, on Thursday addressed Lynn’s remarks.
“I cannot argue that it was not a productive two years for Gina, which I very much regret,” Massaro told AVN.com. “If this is considered a stall in her career, it is considered the fault of Club DVD and not the fault of Gina Lynn. Moving into video production seemed a logical progression for us, but we did jump into it before we organized our company to be able to actually do it.”
Massaro continued, “I believe her anger and frustration is warranted. I am frustrated and disappointed about what Club DVD was unable to do in the past two years, but Gina is great. She’s gorgeous, hardworking, and so willing to do whatever you ask her to do. Frankly, any other company would be lucky to have her.”
Lynn said that she also was not pleased with Club’s preparation for her appearances at trade shows.
“It was upsetting to me,” she said. “In the middle of February, we put everything on the table and talked about how we felt, and as of now I am not with anybody. I’m a free agent, but if I decide to work for other people, I’m going to be selective. I have to have the [box] cover, and be the star of the movie. I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I want to work for the bigger companies, and do the type of movies that I haven’t done. I could do gonzo with anybody.”
Lynn said that she didn’t know that Flash 2 had been released, and wishes she could’ve promoted it.
“I promote everything that I’m in as long as I’m involved in it,” she said. “The lack of communication, it was ridiculous. I was in constant communication with the magazine editors but they couldn’t give me any answers. I love Club, they’re good people. I just think they weren’t ready on the video production end of it.”
Meanwhile, Massaro indicated that Club still has several photo layouts featuring Lynn that will be published in upcoming issues of the magazine. Lynn and Brittney Skye are on the cover of the June issue, and there is a girl/girl pictorial with Sandee Westgate coming later in the year.
“There are six to eight more layouts that we have every intention of running. We love Gina as a model and a performer. It was our malfunction that we were not able to produce and release the DVD material with her,” Massaro said.
She continued, “We love Gina Lynn, and when it came to us signing her as our first DVD and magazine contract girl it was very exciting for us and we were thrilled that she agreed to take on the task, which unfortunately in hindsight we were just not up to. We still have the greatest affection and respect for Gina Lynn and wish her nothing but the best in her career.”
Lynn can be contacted at [email protected].
Photo courtesy of California Exotic Novelties.
