Hollywood- A drink throwing melee was held at Forbidden City in Hollywood Thursday night and an XRCO Show broke out. The Molotov cocktail of explosive personalities featured one part Tera Patrick, one part Evan Seinfeld, one part Lucy Li, one part Nikki Benz and three parts bad blood.
The incident occurred before the XRCO show got under way and it doesn’t take a genius to realize it was all about money. Benz and Li, former Teravision contract girls, have been openly critical of the fact that Patrick’s company owed them money.
Here’s a story from the Adultfyi archives, July 20, 2006 – Former TeraVision contract girl Nikki Benz had another former TeraVision contract girl Lucy Li on her KSEX show Wednesday night. While Benz and Li held off most of the program from saying anything about their contracts they finally broke the ice in the show’s latter minutes. Including the fact that the new TeraVision contract girl doesn’t have a green card.
“It was all great in the beginning,” said Li. “The thing with them- you know how they were- they always wanted me to be around.” Li explained to say that Tera Patrick and Evan Seinfeld wanted her being around them 24/7.
“That’s hard on a person especially when she likes guys and wants to date,” said Li.”But a lot of it was personal. If I didn’t hang out with them and was like a good friend of theirs in the beginning it would have been a lot different.”
“You were obviously a lot closer to Tera but I honestly thought that Tera was my friend,” Benz said. “She said to me: Nikki, I’m so glad we’re friends. I’m so glad we hang out. I wanted to be good friends with her, and, in the end, plain and simple, they fucked me over. TeraVision- they still owe me money.”
“While we were with them it was very hard to get paid,” Li agreed. “We would be on the phone together- did you get paid? Did you get paid?”
Benz said her checks were always late and it pissed her off.
“When you have a contract, it’s there to protect you- you get paid on the first and the fifteenth; and a month went by and you’re still not getting paid, what’s the deal? That’s why you have a contract.” Benz said that was her biggest problem.
“I feature dance a lot,” she added. “And I would always have to get Evan’s approval to feature dance. And Evan was really disorganized. I would call him and say that weekend I have to feature dance in New York. He would say okay and approve it. Then I’d be in New York that weekend and he’d call me and say, Nikki, you have a photo shoot tomorrow. I’d be, like, Evan, I’m doing a dance gig that you approved. And he would always get mad at me and yell at me. And I’m like you have to be organized so this doesn’t happen. It was very disorganized.”
Li was of the opinion that Seinfeld is not a good business man.
“They had a good thing and they just disappeared.” Benz also agreed with that assessment. Li said she was warned about Seinfeld and Patrick and that this didn’t happen all of a sudden.
” I was trying to get a hold of Evan or Tera for two weeks because I was supposed to go to Exotica, Miami Beach convention with them,” Benz explained. “And two days prior to leaving for this convention, I was, dude, I’ve had enough. I’m fed up. My paycheck’s not here. I can’t get a hold of Evan or Tera. They were purposely ignoring me. I would call them- they were avoiding my phone calls, avoiding my e-mails; I was getting ignored. And here I am, I’m shopping- I bought new outfits for this convention. My suitcases were out. I wanted to know what to do with my dog. I needed to get my flight info, my hotel info- I was just being ignored.” Benz said she called her attorney June 6: please call Evan Seinfeld and ask him if I’m still attending this convention.
“My attorney called Evan and Evan was, like, I’m driving right now- call me back in 30 minutes,” Benz related. “So during those 30 minutes, Evan’s attorney sent my attorney a fax saying that it was a mutual decision between me and Evan to go our separate ways. It was never mutual because I didn’t even talk to the guy. He ignored me for two weeks. And it wasn’t mutual. I wanted to stick around and direct for them and write scripts.”
According to Benz, Test Drive was her idea and that the movies the company did were good.
“The contract I had was a good contract,” Benz noted.
“But a lot of things that were promised were broken,” Li added.
“Why sign a contract if you’re not going to carry out the contract?” asked Benz who said she was promoting TeraVision left, right and center.
“I was like Mrs. TeraVision- I was promoting it on MySpace, radio and when I feature danced.” But Benz also felt she wasn’t treated well.
“I feel like Tera has back-stabbed me,” Benz added. “And so has Evan because they still owe me money and we didn’t leave on good terms at all. I didn’t do anything to them. They just dumped me.”
According to Benz, Seinfeld released a statement to AVN when they severed her contract saying that while Benz was a great contract star they wanted to concentrate more on Patrick.
“They should have told me that,” said Benz. “Let’s end it in a good way where you give me notice. They gave me no notice. It was retarded. They violated the contract. I just don’t feel they treated us properly.” Benz noted that Li at least got her last check but she is still owed money.
“I don’t think you should treat people like that,” said Benz. Going back to what Li said about hanging out with Patrick 24/7, Benz said it’s hard being friends with Tera then do business with Tera.
“They actually have one contract girl left- I don’t want to say her name because I don’t want to promote her,” Benz stated.
“She doesn’t even have a green card,” Li added.
“She’s not legal here,” Benz said on top of that. “I don’t know what’s up with that but it’s not cool.” Benz was wondering how a performer can come here and work when she doesn’t have the proper documentation.
“How can you employ somebody that doesn’t have documents to work here? It’s not fair because I pay taxes and I wish other people would, too. When you employ somebody from Australia and they don’t have papers to work here and you’re still paying them, that’s not fair. You need a work visa to work here.”
Benz noted that she’s from Canada and is “all papered down.”
In addtional comments that she made online but not on KSEX, Benz claims that Seinfeld was also abusive towards her.
“Evan Seinfeld is very difficult and mean,” Benz went on to say. “He would always put me down. He was very abusive. Like not . . . he was emotionally abusive. Like my movie Test Drive, it has done very well for them. I’ve even been complimented by the writers at AVN. People, just everybody . . . congratulations for your new movie, it’s doing really great. Vivid is the one who distributes my movie. I’ve had people from Vivid talk to me and say, ‘You know what, your movie is doing really good. Congratulations!’ And then, Evan has the audacity to send me an email saying, ‘Oh Nikki, I’m so disappointed. Your movie hasn’t even sold as much as Krystal Method did.’
“I’m like, “Excuse me? Krystal Method has Jenna Jameson on the box cover and in the movie. You put Jenna in my movie, and you’ll see how much it sells.” But for him to tell me that when everyone else is congratulating me, he would put me down.”