> Mayhem Writes on www.lukeford.com: Both Luke at Lukeisback and Gene Ross at AdultFYI picked up on a thread from XXXPorntalk which came across a dead thread on DVDTalk which was read by my uncle who knows a friend of a cab driver who came across this electrician at a store who said he heard from a guy who's best friends brother knows this girl who dated a UPS driver who saw a sign that 'Defiance Going Out Of Business Sale' at a local thrift store in Kittery, Maine.
It all started with a DVDTalk posting that said 'Defiance Belly Up, Ran Out Of Cash', and then someone started trashing Taylor Rain just because, and then Norman Bentleys ex-wife chimed in.
Here's my take, I'm extremely biased but I'll try to do my best with just facts.
Lukeford is owned by Taylor Rain, and I write for Lukeford which means I work for Taylor Rain. I work from home as an independent writer for various websites and I also write reviews that are published in magazines and on websites. I do not know Taylor that well, my first time meeting her was at this years AVN show. I do know Fayner, as I was a huge fan of his writings at Hustler and Lukeford. When I got the opportunity to write here on Lukeford I jumped at the chance.
I've been to the Defiance offices in Calabasas about 6 times, to pick up movies for reviews. Keith and Anthony Simone helped me for the first 3 weeks learn how to use the update system, posting entries, uploading photos, creating archives. Now I do it all on my own without any assistance. Outside of Taylor Rain being a Defiance contract star/director and dating Keith, Defiance has no connection to Lukeford. Taylor Rain writes for this site almost every day, as does Fayner. And the fact that they push Taylor's website and the company she works for is fine with me. I remember when Wanker had the site, it was all Anabolic all the time.
If Defiance is in 'trouble' or going 'bankrupt' then that's news to them, me and to anyone who's ever seen their operation or knows the company background, it's actually a joke. The principal owner is Ron Levi, the father of the webmaster affiliate program. Levi could afford to shoot 5,000 movies without ever collecting a dime and his pocket wouldn't feel it. Come on now, you're not talking about a few guys who each put in $20,000 to start a company. Estimates have Ron Levi's worth in the 'high eight figures range' range. The company is extremely healthy. They have a library of 40 titles, 15 titles released and on the shelves and 25 titles in the can. They ship hundreds of pieces every day, and on 'New Release' day they ship enough to cause the UPS driver to come back twice.
In February I asked O'Connor, who runs production, if there were any shoots coming up that he wanted me to cover and he replied, "I have over 20 titles either in post or ready for post so before I start shooting again I need to get caught up.' Why did they have so many titles in post, "Since we started we've been releasing 2 titles per month, we don't want to force product down distributors throats. We give our titles shelf life by spreading them out. The strategy has paid off because our re-orders are phenomenal and our pre-orders on upcoming titles is very strong. It's these pre-orders that have caused us to look at releasing 4 to 6 titles a month now, thus for me to be able to step into that type of release schedule I needed to look ahead and have those titles available."
When I called the Defiance offices this morning to speak to either Norman Bentley, O'Connor or Simone, none of them really cared about the 'out of business' gossip, they laughed it off. The reply I got from Bentley was, '....why give credibility to an anonymous posting, the fact it's anonymous speaks volumes. We ship titles every day of the week, when the UPS and FedEx pickups stop then we have something to worry about. Defiance is fully funded, we don't sell stock to get cash, we have no loans, we don't borrow, we don't factor receivables, we're good to go. We just have a lot of titles in the can so we don't need to be shooting anything right now. We're here today, we'll be here tomorrow, next month and next year, releasing titles!'
I asked if they wanted to go on the attack and reply!!! The answer from all 3 was this, "On the attack? Why? Who are we going to attack, an anonymous poster? Who cares? Our only response is to keep releasing product and selling titles, that's enough of a reply. If w'e're out of business or bankrupt then we're done and won't be here anymore, if the posting was BS then we'll be shipping Dirty Dykes next week and then Multi Racial Mayhem and then House of Anal and then Teen Handjobs 2 and then Latin Obsession 2 and then Kiss My Ass and then Teenage Dreamin 2 and then Runway."
> A thread about Kevin Rubio has started on XPT
truthaboutporn posts on www.xxxporntalk.com: From AdultFYI.com http://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=15028>>"I got my test that night and did my first girl-girl the next day." Wankus determined that her test wasn't even back but she did the scene, anyway. Asked what company she shot for, King said she didn't want to plug the company because the owner was a "scumbag."
"I really want you to plug him because he shot you without a test," Wankus told her.
King said it was Kevin Rubio of Ducati Productions.
"He does the whole audition couch-thing," said King. "He's, like, I want to make sure you can have sex if you want to be in this industry." Wankus asked King if Rubio fucked her.
"I fell for it," she confessed.<<
Any other girls been on the casting couch with Kevin Rubio? Maybe he agreed to do a shared content shoot and never delivered the pics or video?
Do Regan Senter and Kevin Rubio exchange tips on how to scam people? Maybe Ben Fisher needs to get his fee from Kevin Rubio!!!
> Hailey Young posts on www.xxxporntalk.com: I know kevin rubio, he has tried several times to get me to call him so he can see if he can use me, he doesnt get that I am not an idiot and wont fall for it, he has been harrassing another girl I know since he met her at AVN, he is a pretty shady guy, I feel sorry for the girls that get fucked over by him.
> DoodlesNoodles posts on XPT: Isn't this Rubio guy the same one who accused Skeeter Kerkove of selling scenes to both his company and Metro Studios?
> XPT is resurrecting a thread that started in July 2004 when Lain posted the following:
because iv been asked more then once.... the max thing...... lol i find my self telling this story so often!!ok well max was the first thing my ex-agent got me out here, i don't watch porn so i had no idea who or what he was, i was told by my exagent that he was "a very nice guy" so the ex agent dropped me off, max didn't explain much aboout what was going on, exsept the pretense for my scene was that i was a 12 year old hooker that had been raped by her uncle at the age of 8 (this really put me off i thought it was the most horrible thing and the fact that that got max hard off it really put a bad vibe between us!)so we started the scene he pissed on me igot up and yelled "did you just fucking piss on me!!"
not that the peeing thing bothers me (i did piss mops like the next day) but he didn't tell me and i just didn't like the guy, so he went on to call me an idiot, i was crying not because max had that affect on me i just wanted to punch him but i had alot of other thoughs in my head, that and when i get upset i get so frustrated i cry, can't help it, so he continued to insult me and called my "agent", i eventually regained my composer, and explain to max that he had no reason to insult me and that he was the one that is sitting here taking advantage of new talant and that he should not assume someone knows that your going to pee on them or what ever, you should explain your self well when it comes to things like that
Sooooo. my fuck for an agent came by all pissy, him and max work up an idea for me to do a scene with the camera guy, to save the shoot and so i could still get paid, while i was doing the shoot they were to work out the details of pay, I WAS NEW ENOUGH TO TRUST THEY WOULD WORK OUT SOMETHING FAIR AND REASONABLE after all he was my agent (this was the stupidist conclusion iv ever come to in my life) but in my defense i was new and some what worked up
so i did MY FIRST FUCKING ANAL scene with the camera guy,(my first and only anal scene, i don't do anal)and as i was told by max i saved the shoot, (inthe bath room where i looked all upset i was told to act that way, which came easy cause i was still kinda pissed about he whole thing)
so after wards
MAX HANDS ME A $200 CHECK and a $40 cash tip for "being such a good sport" this i found insulting, and unforchently due to utter shock i wasn't in my right mind to throw the 40 dollar tip back in his face although later when i came to my senses (well maybe not senses but when my sense of pride returned) i did thow it in the street,
now until now i have not stated any opion about the man just what happened, and i did want to leave this post the bigger woman and not sucome to insults, but resiting this in detail has kinda pissed me offsoooooo..............fuck max hardcore, he has no upper lip
