Las Vegas- This story is just developing and there's going to be a lot more to it. But, basically, Craig Valentine was served legal papers on the AEE show floor by Rebecca Hilton claiming that Valentine owes her company money among other things.
But Valentine claims Hilton and her husband owe him money. Now let the attorneys sort it out.
What particularly gripes Valentine is that papers were served publicly in Vegas with a degree of schlock and fanfare.
"My former production company was hired to film a movie for Hilton," Valentine explains. Valentine then gives me a back story stating that it's very similar to the one he's now experiencing with Hilton.
On that occasion, Valentine says he had been shooting for a company owner who had been sticking his dick in the talent. The company owner was going by the name of Ray Moon.
"This is a business," says Valentine. "Me and my wife [Summer Haze] just happen to be talent. Then I started getting complaints about Moon and I cut him loose. Plus he wasn't paying his bills. Then Moon started putting out the movies I shot for him. He goes by the Ray Moon alias because nobody's supposed to know his real name because he owns real businesses. Ray Moon is the name listed on the custodian of records, and he released the movies. My wife had a contract with Couples Fantasies [Moon's title] to do a hundred episodes as the hostess. Moon agreed to release her from the contract but never paid her for it. They supposedly made my wife a star- you know how that goes. We only shot, filmed, edited, designed their movies and got it out for them. But we had nothing to do with their series selling or being nominated. They basically made us. You know how that story goes." Valentine was being sarcastic, obviously.
"Yhey don't have ID's and releases on several of the movies from stuff that was shot ," Valentine continues. "This stuff is currently in the stores. There were some instances where he told me to shoot the scene, we'll sort it out later. I said I'd play the game, but my wife happened to be in one of the scenes for them which was her bukkake in Couples Fantasies 4. This was a scene in one of the nominated movies by AVN. She never signed a model release for that scene because he [Moon] never paid her. Basically she refused to sign the model release- she's talent. She's my wife. She has her own mind. That movie's all over the stores and there's no release. If I remember the law correctly, that's the contractual agreement between the producer and the talent. They're paid to do the scene. They sign the release. What they did was take an older release from Couples Fantasies 1 and added it to that movie. This is what started the issues, and basically we got served by Rebecca Hilton.
"That was the same instance," Valentine continues, noting that he owns the domain name for A Not So Simple Porn Life which is the center of the ruckus between him and Hilton's company.
"Let's put it this way," says Valentine. "She [Hilton] is old, beat up and wrinkled. Ronnie [Jeremy] wouldn't fuck her. But they served us with papers- they're billing us for her plastic surgery and basically not receiving their movies. They didn't finish paying us. Plus they fired us- her and her husband. Our corporate offices are in Florida- our licenses are in Florida. These people live in New Mexico and they're suing us in Los Angeles.
"One of our corporate attorneys has already been fighting with these people for months. But in the summons it says we have no known representation by an attorney. They're distributed by Old Pueblo. Their production ompany is Rebecca Hilton LLC. They're citing in the summons that we didn't tell them about internal business problems. Everybody knew me and my partner were fighting. It's in the complaint. They're suing us for punitive damages, that we didn't tell them [about the falling out].
"But we weren't going to do anything at the show," Valentine continues. "We're not going to disrupt AVN. They [Hilton and her husband] sent a process server- actually not a process server- it was a maitre d'- he threw papers in my and my wife's face at the Dane Production booth. They're going ahead with releases of movies we shot for them but they don't hold the ID's. They don't hold the releases. They owe us a lot of money and they don't even have a copyright on the name- A Not So Simple Porn Life. I own the domain and I wrote the script long - like a year- before I met them. It's pretty pathetic that they're walking around AVN pulling all these stunts. She's walking around with four private security guards that she hired because they're scared of me and Rob Spallone. Rob was going over to talk to them because they don't don't have his release and they never paid him to be in the movie, either."
According to Valentine, his stepfather, who owns the Trapeze swingers' club in Ft. Lauderdale, also filed a counter suit against Hilton and her husband.
"They used the trademarked Trapeze name in the video," says Valentine. "The same thing with X Factor- the adult video stores- they never got clearance to use their name, either. Basically nobody know who owns what- the attorneys haven't sorted that out yet. We're owed money. They say we owe them money. And this all stems from Mr. Arnold Stein."
This story, obviously has more to be added to it.
