Gene sez: Contrary to what is being written or implied, New Frontier Media was contacted re: the Scott Wussow lawsuit and another pending one which might raise some eyebrows. Those requests were ignored. It's pretty much understood that New Frontier Media will not respond on this site stemming back to the J.P. Lipson lawsuit story which ran in AVN. Nevertheless, we do want their side of the story and will continue to solicit their responses on all future lawsuits. We do not create the lawsuits. We just report on them.
Marc Wallice called Gene Ross Wednesday afternoon. Ross was on the Buck Adams set. Wallice left a message to call him back either at VCA or at home. Wallice was contacted later and discussed the story going around that he and Sharon Mitchell were having sex.
Wallice: "It's my private life. It's between Sharon and me. As long as you have safe sex and take proper precautions, it's no big deal. I'm just sorry I confided in two fucking idiots and let that come out. They said to me, boy your sex life must be different, now. I go yeah, and it just like slipped out. It's true. I meant to call Sharon and apologize to her. It's not like I was bragging or advertising. What are they getting out of doing this? This has nothing to do with the industry. She doesn't work in the business anymore."
Gene Ross sez: "Is there a cover-up in the good ol' boy network? It might be irresponsible to report as news, gossip from anonymous tipsters. These are the only facts that were known about Wallice/Mitchell. On or about July 15, Gene Ross received the following cryptic e-mail:
John and Linda write: "On behalf of a friend who wishes to remain anonymous at this time. I have no knowledge of how this whole industry works, though I believe I can see the pertainence of this being made known. I do not even know who I am sending this to, but I have to assume you hold a position of importance to the industry and I would urge you to look into this matter and take whatever steps are appropriate.
"If push comes to shove, and for some reason you need to contact the originator of this information, feel free to contact me and I will have them get in touch with you."
[Presumably, this is the "friend" now commenting:]
"After wrestling with this for a few months, I've decided that the need to know outweighs the respect to privacy. Sharon Mitchell has on more than one occasion fucked Marc Wallice after knowing he was HIV positive. Have any doubts? Call Marc and I'm sure he will verify it. After all, he has told three people I know on separate occasions, so I can't see him denying it. This needs to ne known if we're to protect the industry from future HIV."
Gene Ross contacted John and Linda via e-mail, and this is what they wrote back:
John and Linda: "I am still unable to identify my friend. However we just got off the phone with Rob Spallone and Jimmy Digiorgio who will be glad to confirm this since you are unwilling to check with Marc. [GR: That's totally untrue about being unwilling - it's nobody's business.]
"Both Jimmy and Rob had been told by Marc Wallice on a separate occasions. There is no doubt that this is true, and if, as I have now been lead to believe, you do indeed care about the industry's health, you will at least investigate."
Then John himself called saying the "friend" who's supposed to be well-placed in the industry would call. The "friend" never did. Unwilling to be a party to anonymous tipsters, Ross let the story go for the time being. He did call Sharon Mitchell and this is what she had to say at the time.
Mitchell: "Marc and I are close friends. Whether we had sex or not, everyone in this industry gets tested on a regular basis. And that's that. I'm current negative HIV. Current negative everything. I don't know what to say to that. Isn't Marc entitled to get laid? Suppose I did fuck him, so what?"
April Storm of Seymore Butts Home Movies writes: "Dear Gene: Just wanted to let all of Alisha Klass' fans out there know her third and final episode of "The Hoop Life" will air on Showtime this Sunday night (July 25th). She will then be appearing live at the Spearmint Rhino in City of Industry on August, 5th, 6th and 7th and at Hustler Hollywood along with Melanie Stone on August 14th. Alisha hopes that all her fans in the L.A. area make time to CUM!!! www.teamtushy.com
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Vivid has the big celebrity, by invitation-only bash this evening at Bar Fly on 8730 W. Sunset Blvd. It celebrates the relaunch of vividvideo.com. Major media will be covering it. DJ Jason Bentley spins the platters.
Fan or fans apparently stole a sign announcing Zoe's appearance Friday night at America's Liquidators in Chatsworth. If you're in the neighborhood, Zoe will be there [minus the sign] from 8 to 11pm. It's at 10136 Topanga Canyon, Boulevard. On Saturday evening, Zoe will be signing at Hustler Hollywood from 8 to 11, also.
Sandy Margot [the actress formerly known as Tyffany Million] reminds one and all: "I'll be on the FX channel tonight on "The X Show" in a segment called "Gettin' It!"
Steve Drake is ready to go full tilt boogie with his concept for adult performer training seminars.
Drake: "This is looking pretty good. I got a lot of people from the Adult Expo give me a positive response on what I'm trying to do. And I'm trying to get some money to get this started. World Modeling signed up as my first sponsor because they have the most to gain. I'm talking to Wicked and Vivid right now, and I think they're going to be on board as well. Once the money's in place, I can print up some flyers and World Modeling can start handing them out. I'm thinking of running my own ad, maybe, maybe not. Companies who are sponsors will also be allowed to have a representative at these seminars as far as a casting call because World Modeling has stopped their casting calls, and this will serve that need."
Drake hopes to be conducting the seminars at one of the local hospitals, but details haven't been finalized on that, as yet.
Drake: "We'll be covering a variety of topics and it will always be a flexible curriculum. I'm going to go and talk to people in the industry and get their ideas on things. I don't want this to be just the Steve Drake show. I know that this will be one of the biggest criticisms, that it's all my views.
"We'll cover a lot of different items - health and grooming, DNA testing, set etiquette, taxes, insurance and possible investments so they won't have to be doing this for ten years when they don't want to be doing it anymore."
Drake is also tinkering with the idea of a sexual how-to tape as part of the training program
Drake: "It would be a nuts and bolts thing like a good pussy eating, bad pussy eating; good cock sucking.., and not just what I think is good..we'll get a general consensus on it....I want it to be as accessible as possible without this costing anything."
Drake said inquiries could be directed to X World, 333 Washington Blvd., #10 Marina Del Rey 90292.
He's still an adult company owner [Firestorm Productions] the last time we checked, but James Fortune is now an official adult industry performer, too. Fortune did the Houston 500 gangbang, but got his first taste of a scripted shoot on Wednesday when he got to play one of the bank robbers in Buck Adams' Babewatch 10, which is sort of a homage to 'Point Break,' a Keanu Reeves film that screams out for a homage.
Fortune: "I was a bank robber."
G. Ross: "I heard they had a second crew shooting those scenes. I asked Buck did you bother to get a permit to do that or did you hire a couple of guns and do it cinema verite-style."
Fortune: "It came out really good....I talked to some of the girls on the set, particularly Temptress. She had a very interesting idea. She said there's a clinic in North Hollywood that offers for women, free, full STD screenings. She totally agrees with me. [Fortune, as you may recall from his interview this week proposes full STD screenings, at least for those performers who work for his company, Firestorm.]
"I'm just doing this girl-by-girl approach. I'm gaining a lot of support. This could turn out to be a really positive statement by the younger performers in this business, that we care. At least it's a consciousness about it."
[David Bookbinder of Hustler has been contacted regarding the following story.]
Freelance writer Georgia Miles said she was commissioned by Bookbinder to do a piece for Hustler on big breasts.
Miles: "It was going to be an exposé, exposing the surgeons and all the illegal stuff that they're putting into the girls. That was the focus on the piece that I wrote. I was told to keep it balanced and positive. Late yesterday, I got a copy of the magazine and it's not even close to being my piece. Nothing about the horrible things that the doctors are doing. The one doctor that butchered Lee Carroll, a plastic surgery junky, they got him saying all these positive things. I had him on tape saying, 'she had the cash, and so I did it.' Instead of putting in that kind of stuff and exposing the doctors for being the assholes they were, they had the direction changed from everybody wanting plastic surgery to what a thing it was going to a strip club with all these guys lining up having a ball seeing these big boobs.
"They had these guys being a bunch of creeps, and all this negative shit about the girls. At one point it says the reason Nikki Sinn had her surgery done because she's following the footsteps of her father who's a clown in the circus. This is nothing I said or wrote. They just slapped my name on it and completely distorted the whole article. It's really frustrating because I was looking forward to the big check, having the big circulation."
G. Ross: "Did they give you the big check?"
Miles: "Yes."
G. Ross: "Okay.."
Miles: "I know they have editorial rights. But I don't get how they can trash all these girls and put my name on it. They trashed the customer waiting in line getting to see the strip show..the way I wrote it was cute, but they turned the customer into a damned leacher.
G. Ross: "They told you they wanted a positive article?"
Miles: "Yeah.."
G. Ross: "But you say they ran negative stuff?"
Miles: "Yeah."
G. Ross: "And inserted comments you never wrote?"
Miles: "Right...the whole article is completely rewritten. But I do have the original piece. There's only a few quotes that they actually used. The good part is I had a service type it for me...it's not just my word. I have documentation and proof of what I actually wrote versus what they printed. In my original story I wrote about how Nikki Sinn's surgery was botched up and about how she almost died from her implants. I wrote about how I tried to contact her doctor and he didn't want to speak to me. Their version was that she tried to emulate her circus family. They changed the thing about Lee Carroll. They made it sound really horrible, what they said about her. I didn't write that. They had me saying she was once flat-chested and stuff that wasn't even true."
G. Ross: "The point is, they paid you."
Miles: "But they got me saying horrible things about the girls. I don't mind if they take out a few words or fix my grammar. That I understand, but to completely distort the whole content of the piece...It's frustrating because I get a lot of interviews from the girls and referrals from the girls because I don't write negative stuff. They tell me things that most people don't normally hear. I have a good rapport with them. I can send Nikki Sinn the original, but whether she believes it or not is going to be her choice."
Mike Albo comments: "Want to hear my story about Georgia Miles? She's such a piece of work. This goes back a couple of years ago. I used to get these phone calls. She would call me up, 'You got Wally Wharton doing gossip for you. She is SO hated in the business. I can do a better job!' She kept pitching me on these stupid ideas. She sent a couple of sample pieces. She bugged several of the other editors. But I became her mortal enemy. And we have a tape of this - she called up one time upset that Max Hardcore was doing an advice column. Anyway she calls up haranguing me, saying that Mike Albo was a sick bastard, that I was the most hated man in the business. 'You have Max Hardcore answering questions? What is wrong with you!? You need to have your fucking head examined.'
"I didn't know who it was. I played this tape for David Kastens, and he said, Georgia Miles. I get these phone calls now and then from her saying I need professional help. Then she gives me unsolicited medical advice.
"But I don't believe the people at Hustler did what she says...and if you get a hold of Jef Hickey, tell me he still owes me money. I tried to help the guy out. I was friendly with him. He was working at Zane at the time. It was always, I swear, Mike I'll pay you back first thing tomorrow morning, but I don't have my rent. They're throwing me out of my building. Then I'd call up in the morning and say you're going to pay me back, right. He'd say, 'well, it's possible.'
"What do you mean it's possible? 'I can give you ten bucks, but you're going to have to drive out to the Valley to get it.' Just pay me the money you owe me. It's devolved ever since. Obviously, he has enough money to dye his hair blue. That takes some money. It's been over a year, and the guy's made no fucking effort. But he always wants me to do favors for him. It doesn't work that way, pal.
"I had taken the guy out to lunch several times. One time he had just got check for $350. It was him and his girlfriend at the time Alyssa Luv. So he said I'll take you out to lunch. We went to this restaurant, and before we sit down, he says, 'You can have one drink and a side of fries. That's it. I need the rest of the money.' Fuck him. I want the world to know what a loser, scumbag he is."
Gene sez: "Hickey is not returning phone calls, particularly to tell us about his lunch date with Sonja Red. The Albo spending deficit issue is another matter, entirely."
Farrell Timlake comments on Jeff from Legend's e-mail posted earler today. Timlake addresses, particularly, the Al Borda, Whorio remarks, the inference being that Xplor might have done some whistle-blowing in retaliation for Borda going to Legend.
Timlake: "No one blew the whistle on Al. They paid. Everyone paid. It was just a stroke of luck that it happened in the Legend warehouse to begin with. That was right when they had stolen Al from us. We didn't do anything of the sort. We were so happy that Al was going to their company. We didn't want anything bad happening. We just wanted them to take Al, lock, stock and barrel. They should realize since we all joined forces legally, that we didn't have anything to do with that. They know that. They've seen all the briefs and stuff. They know exactly what happened. I think we paid for another couple of years on that. They have to stoop pretty low to get me there. There were a bunch of companies that got thrown in [legally] together. We were in as a John Doe company, and that's why Legend, originally suspected us. When all the John Does got revealed we split the payments. The whole settlement was something like $100 K. There was Legend, Al Borda, and us with maybe another distributor and whoever did the boxcovers. The distributor and the printer got out real quick with a quick payoff. Everyone else is still paying."
JENNA FLASH
To celebrate the release of Jenna Jameson's much anticipated film "Hell on Heels," Wicked Pictures is announcing a contest for visitors of Jenna's web site www.jennaj.com
Fans will be asked to answer five trivia questions about Jenna. Once all the entries are received Wicked Pictures will choose the Grand Prize winner from those who answer ALL FIVE questions of Jenna Trivia correctly.
One Grand Prize winner will receive an autographed pair of boots worn by Jenna during the making of "Hell on Heels," a copy of the movie and a movie poster.
There will also be five second prize finalists who will receive a copy of the movie and ten third prize finalists who will receive an autographed "Hell on Heels" movie poster.
All entries must be received via email no later than August 31, 1999 at 5:00pm PST. All winners will be notified via email. Contest is open to anyone visiting the Jenna Jameson web site. Contest is only open to individuals eighteen years or older.
