Porn Valley- In the days before [and after] she became a porn star, Metro contract director Bridgette Kerkove turned tricks. Her pimp was known as Duke, and Duke, long before Rob Spallone would beat him with a baseball bat, tried out the goods. The first time he met the then portly Bridgette, Duke fucked her in the ass.
Skeeter says Metro director Kerkove took some guff in the beginning of her career about her weight. “There were some comments that I didn’t agree with,” Skeeter admits. “The first person that said she had to lose weight, and that she was too chunky was that creepy pimp Duke. He took pictures of her. He was 5′ 6″ with greasy comb-over hair. He drove a Cadillac and lived in this small jacked-up apartment in Reseda by the Yellow Jack liquor store.”
Metro director Kerkove had met this girl named Angel who calls Duke about this girl [Bridgette Kerkove] being a good whore at the Club Starlight, Skeeter relates. “It was a hostess job and Bridgette had a good reputation there for sucking all the guys off and letting the guys play with her pussy and fingering her butt. She was a pretty easy girl and got pretty popular. But it didn’t pay much. There was a very few high paying costumers.
“Angel approaches Bridgette about her friend Duke who’s a pimp in Reseda- that’s what Angel called him, a pimp,” says Skeeter. “One night Bridgette calls up Duke and says Angel told me to call you. They’re going back and forth in conversation. Then she says, yes, Duke, I do want to be your girl. I will only work for you. He said that he’d like for her to come over so he can take pictures of her. Bridgette says I can come over right now- I can be your special girl. She does her makeup real quick in the mirror and she put on a gray slip on dress. It was thin with a slight shine to it. And she wore ankle-strap heels with clear platforms with black shiny straps.”
Because Bridgette doesn’t drive, Skeeter brought her over to Duke’s in his Ford truck.
“Duke then takes her in his bedroom for a little while, then takes pictures of her,” relates Skeeter. “He [Duke] says he might have some work for her and sends me on home. I come home and Bridgette calls me. She said that she just did a practice run with him. I said what do you mean. She goes well I fucked him to show him how good I am. Then “Duke gets on the phone and he’s talking to me. He’s like, man, your girl’s really good. She didn’t have to do all that. I go what do you mean. He goes, well, you know she’s saying fuck my ass and I want to swallow your cum. And she swallowed all my cum. The girls don’t have to do that. I said without a condom on? I go I hope you’re tested. That’s my girl. I want to fuck her. He goes, oh yeah, I go to AIM Healthcare and get a test. But your girl needs to lose weight. She almost weighs 140 pounds and she’s only 5’4″. I said I think she looks good being curvy. She has a beautiful ass. He goes she needs to lose a little weight. I tell him she just miscarried a baby a month ago. She’ll lose a little weight. So he took her to do some tricks that night. And one of them was Gino Greco.” www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=11141
According to Skeeter, Metro director Kerkove was getting $200 a guy in those days. Then Duke called him a few days later and wondered if she could come over for a few more pictures. He also wanted to take her to a couple of jobs. Skeeter says he drove her to Duke’s but all he wanted to do was to fuck her.
“So he fucked her again in his little apartment,” says Skeeter. “Then he called me and had me go back saying she only has one job- that I have to follow him there and wait outside for her while she does this because he won’t be able to give her a ride. It was some specialist guy who wanted to videotape it and take pictures. This was in Century City in a high rise condo apartment. So she had to bring toys because this guy really likes to do toys in the butt. He wanted to do double anal.
“This was only supposed to take a half an hour,” Skeeter continues. “But I’m two and a half hours waiting and waiting. Then she came back and I had to get up early the next day to go to work. I had a heater to install. The Duke called again the next night for her to go work. Now she’s worrying about getting in trouble at Club Starlight because this is going to be another night she missed. So we go out to Monterey Park. There’s some hotel out there and she goes upstairs with this guy who couldn’t get it up the whole time. But she finally got him off.
“She did a few more jobs for Duke then he got her that first job for Sean Michaels in Erotic City #6. It was shot in Sean Michaels’ back yard by the swimming pool. Sean told her it was probably best for her to lose a little bit of weight- maybe five or ten pounds. But he thought she was really hot looking. Then he got her a lot of work. Bridgette lost some weight but I thought she looked fine.
“Then she started expressing to me that she wanted plastic surgery,” Skeeter goes on to say. “On February 25, 1999, she had me drive her to Santa Barbara where she got the first of three nose surgeries. This is where the vanity started coming in with the plastic surgery and the hair extensions. On May 18, 1999 was the first time she got her lips done. After that she started Botox.”