from www.newsoftheworld.co.uk – High above Los Angeles, in a home in the hills, chandeliers swing from cathedral ceilings, the flames of expensive candles flicker in each room – and former porn star Gina Rodriguez is quietly plotting.

The silicone-enhanced, thrice-divorced mother-of-two has just launched a public relations empire, which has the likes of Tiger Woods and Charlie Sheen quaking in their boots.

Her vision? A talent agency for the mistresses of celebrities.

Gina has decided to represent women who’ve had dalliances with A-listers before being thrown to the wolves. And help them fight back.

Whether these home wreckers want to rebuild their reputations, defend themselves or cash in on their fleeting fame, the aptly named agency DD Entertainment is on hand. Part Max Clifford, part Katie Price, 43-year-old Gina – patron saint of wanton women – seems to have hit on a recipe for success.

So far, signings to Team Rodriguez include five of the Tiger Woods girls, one of Charlie Sheen’s ‘goddesses’, and Michelle ‘Bombshell’ McGee, who had an affair with Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband, Jesse James.

Reclining on a plush sofa, wearing a strapless sundress that just covers her artificial 36F bust, Gina explains the motivation behind her business venture. “For as long as there have been celebrities there have been mistresses – and they always come off worse,” she says.

“They are vilified in the press, lied about and abused. The public forgets it takes two to tango. I’m not advocating affairs but sometimes these women are victims too and when they come to me they are often in a terrible state.

“They feel they are hated by fans, and they’re often heartbroken too.”

Gina hit on the idea for a mistress agency in late 2009, when Tiger Woods’ spectacular fall from grace began.

She watched the seemingly endless parade of women coming out of the woodwork claiming to have slept with the golfer. One woman caught her eye – Joslyn James, 34, a porn star Gina knew from her previous career in the adult entertainment industry.

With the paparazzi circling like vultures, Joslyn was hiding out in Las Vegas. She was broke, frightened, and devastated at the realisation that her married lover was a serial womaniser.
Saving Tiger’s girls

Straight away, Gina got in contact with Joslyn. “I phoned her, got her on a plane, picked her up at the airport and hid her for three months,” Gina says.

“She was a mess, physically, emotionally and mentally. I’d catch her sitting in front of the television in tears as the story unfolded, unable to believe what she was hearing. She never heard from Tiger, of course.”

One by one, Tiger’s conquests started joining Gina. Soon she had collected five of them: along with Joslyn came Jamie Jungers, Devon James, Laura Donna and Holly Sampson.

Joslyn was the only one living at Gina’s, but it wasn’t all plain sailing.

“The women couldn’t stand each other. They saw the others as rivals, they fought and fought and often came very close to physically attacking each other,” Gina says. “Any time they came round, my house became a war zone. Joslyn was horrified about these other women, and dismissed them as Tiger’s flings and one-night stands. She was in denial.”

Slowly Gina counseled her and gave her the confidence to move forward.

Her first business deal was to secure £9,000 for Joslyn to appear on Inside Edition – a top-rated entertainment show on the US network CBS. Gina’s cut? Twenty per cent.

The interview in February 2010 made headlines around the world as Joslyn revealed she had fallen pregnant twice by the golfer. The first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, she tearfully explained, and the second in abortion.

It was a spectacular debut. Gina’s agency got the kick-start it needed, while Joslyn finally felt strong enough to move out and focus on the future.

Gina sits in front of her Apple Mac now, where she spends her days fielding calls from the press, placing stories with her favorite showbiz journalists, and negotiating big-bucks interviews.

Family photos fight for space with piles of glossy celebrity magazines, and the occasional copy of Penthouse.

A wide-eyed shih-tzu named Rocco wanders around, along with four other miniature Yorkshire terriers and Gina’s third ex-husband.

“That’s Greg,” she says, gesturing towards a nondescript man in khaki shorts, a black vest and baseball cap. “He’s just retired and lives in the basement. He helps with the agency, and we’re still close friends.”

In typically crazy LA fashion, Greg Deuschle, 49, is also one of the most famous male porn stars of all time – better known as Randy Spears.

‘Randy’ looks a bit tired and beaten down. No great surprise after 23 years in the industry and almost 1,000 blue movies to his name.

With a conspiratorial smile, Gina reveals their marriage failed in part due to the fact that after a long day at the ‘office’ he was not interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with his wife.

“The last thing he wanted was sex,” she confesses. “And can you blame him? We just became friends in the end. We’re better that way.”
Misused by men

Greg actually introduced Gina to the world of adult entertainment, although she insists he didn’t encourage her to join the business.

She needed the money and having worked as a stripper, a model and an actress, pornography seemed the next step. She became known in the profession as Demi Delia and made a string of X-rated movies.

In her 30s, Gina was considered an older actress, and she became a mother figure for the younger girls. Many of them were only in their teens, and some of the things she saw on set upset her.

I help women at rock-bottom turn their lives around

“I felt like some of the girls were being manipulated by the guys who were running the show,” she explained. “So I often tried to lend a hand.”

Another incident from Gina’s past explains her motivation to help women who’ve been exploited by men. In her early 20s, she was sexually assaulted by a famous US sportsman she does not wish to name.

Gina regrets not reporting it to the police, and says she now feels compelled to fight for the female underdog.

“I enjoy helping women who are at rock-bottom to turn their lives around. It is something I am good at and I get a lot of satisfaction from it,” she says.

LA lawyer Gloria Allred helps, too. She’s built a reputation defending women in high-profile cases, and from time to time sends girls in Gina’s direction.

January Ryan, a 25-year-old aspiring singer, is one such girl. She arrives wearing tight skinny jeans, a cropped T-shirt, a lot of make-up and a tan that wouldn’t look out of place on Katie Price.

She doesn’t blend into the background – and you suspect she wouldn’t want to anyway. Standing against the champagne bar in Gina’s lounge, she tells her story.

January was implicated in the break-up of national sweethearts Kim Kardashian and American football star Reggie Bush in March last year.

She’d been signed by Kelis’ record label and her music career was starting to take off. But because of the negative publicity, she was told to lie low.

The reason she was accused of breaking Kim’s heart? She’d joined a group of friends who went back to Reggie’s home after a night out in West Hollywood and was pictured leaving at 7am.

She says: “I was offered over £60,000 to sell my story. But there was no story. I have known Reggie for years, we go to the same bars. There was nothing going on between us but I got the blame for the break-up.”

January was branded a home wrecker on dozens of US magazine covers. Her life was effectively ruined.

Gloria Allred hastily organised a press conference for January to tell her story.

“The pictures were everywhere, and people posted horrible comments online, calling me ugly and asking why Reggie would break up with Kim to be with me.”

Violet Kowal, 27, is another of Gina’s girls – and another victim of celebrity scandal. The softly spoken, beautiful Polish woman made the mistake of being at the centre of allegations that she was involved with an out-of-control Mel Gibson – claims that he has denied.

Violet says she had no idea he was in a relationship with Oksana Gregorieva, who was expecting his child at the time.

The fallout almost ended Gibson’s career as he became embroiled in a very public battle with his furious ex.

“It wasn’t a serious relationship,” claims Violet, who says she was introduced to the Oscar winner in 2007 by a mutual friend. “He rang me out of the blue one day in 2009 and he invited me to his home. I thought there would be others there, but it was just me.

“He never mentioned Oksana, and would invite me over whenever he was in town. He was very kind and would ask after my family,” she claims.

“I stupidly told one of my friends who then told a National Enquirer journalist. Mel’s agent got a call and then before I knew it he was on the phone.

“He was furious. He said it was my fault. I don’t want to repeat what he said, but it was not pleasant. I understand why he was angry. I don’t hold it against him. I was scared of the attention so I left town for a month, but even when I got back, the press were all still after me.”

When the National Enquirer ran the story, they labelled Violet a porn queen even though she was a fitness model and claims she’s never worked in adult entertainment. She was mortified.

“My family were so worried… I had to keep warning them what was going to be printed and tell them what was untrue,” Violet says.

Since then, she’s done a series of interviews to clear her name. Gina has helped her get more modelling work and launch her own handbag line.

For Violet and the scores of others who’ve had their reputations dragged through the mud, DD Entertainment’s brand of crisis management offers a future – as well as the chance to tell their side of events.

Discussing the Ryan Giggs scandal here in the UK, Gina says: “Imogen Thomas has every right to tell the world about her affair with Ryan Giggs. When a man engages in an extra-marital sexual relationship with a woman, he should not be protected. Hopefully she’ll contact me and I’ll help her slam Giggs.”

As the super-injunction scandals rumble on, an agency like this seems more relevant than ever. Whether you believe what these women say – or feel any sympathy for them – is up to you.