Porn Valley- There’s helicopter rides, speedboat races and more fun than a barrel of Make a Wish Foundation picnics. But will the Ducati Ranch owned and operated by Kevin Rubio be open this summer for more frolic? Or will female porn stars opt for the one operated by Don Imus intead? That is the question.
The first to ask in a series of them would be, what happened to the lawsuit Rubio of Ducati Productions filed against Skeeter Kerkove last June? www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=19652.
Rubio was basically saying that Skeeter handed in a movie to him- Welcome to My Bunghole #2- that wasn’t up to porn standards which everyone knows can be pretty high. And because of that Rubio was supposed to have lost $100,000.
Of course that doesn’t answer the question why Rubio, aka Count Ducati, aka Prince Rubio, who had earlier issues with Skeeter over another title, hired him to direct this one. Another issue Rubio had with Skeeter was the fact that Genesis Skye wasn’t in the movie. She was replaced by Hillary Scott whose enormous industry creds far outweigh Skye’s. So little sympathy seems to be mustered for Rubio’s argument there.
Word on the street, too, is that the Ducati dream team, headed by Paul Cambria, has made their own wish- that this would all go away, that there’s no money in the case, the lawyers have been buying time and that the Ducati assets may have been marvelously overstated. Consequently Ducati’s attorneys have been exhibiting little or no exuberance or momentum in the case to the extent they’re embarrassed by the fact they took it thinking they had at the very least a $100,000 pay day.
Besides the fact that Rubio hasn’t provided paper work pertinent to the case stating profit, loss and return on his movies of the past five years, there’s also the fact that Ducati Productions has basically stopped releasing titles.
The Ducati Dream Team was also under the impression that Skeeter Kerkove was being paid $15,000 per movie. That was the total cost of the movie whereas Kerkove was getting more like $1500 to assemble it.
In the mean time, Rubio has made charges that Skeeter Kerkove was directly responsible for Rubio’s being fired from North Star and that no one will buy his product because of that. Then, again, it didn’t help matters that North Star, through Ducati, unwittingly put out I Loved Jessica Dee, with recirculated scenes- some in as many as three other titles- as a new release long after Dee had been determined HIV positive.
This is the same Prince Ducati who once bragged to Suzie Ink [pictured]that he has so much money, he doesn’t know what helicopter’s he’s going to buy. And before their relationship had soured, Rubio, on one occasion, went so far as to tell Kerkove that he would have to helicopter in from Laguna Nigel to give him money to cover future productions.