Porn Valley- I talk to Bill Margold this morning. We covered a variety of topics but had a chat about former porn performer, Dusty, mostly. Margold’s recollections of Dusty [a short haired blond] are a bit different from mine.

“Dusty was a nice little blond girl who got caught up in the machinations of an evil husband who somehow managed to get the test results of another person and then pass them off as Dusty’s,” Margold remembers. “Dusty was never HIV positive. Ever. She was essentially drummed out of the business.” Margold also seems to think that Dusty was not an east coast girl, that she might have been from way out west. “She was like a cowgirl or something.”

Margold remembered consoling her during the XRCO show of 1990 on the Santa Monica Pier.

“It was at the famous Big Wednesday Show,” he says. “Because that’s when the [HIV] controversy hit. I remember Channel 2 came to see me and I said you better be real careful with what you’re doing. They showed me a test of a woman in her forties. And Dusty wasn’t. This is when everything was real lackadaisical. Or maybe it was the test of someone considerably younger. One of the two. Dusty was either considerably younger or considerably older than the test I saw.”

Margold also remembers the drama where Dusty’s husband wanted the kids back. “It was some kind of idiotic game being played.”

Margold summons up the name of Chris Blanchford as being the investigative reporter on the piece. “I told him if you’re wrong, you’re gone.” He subsequently went to Channel 11, Margold believes.

“I remember him coming to my home. I looked [at the test] and I said, this is impossible. Either she was older than the person on the test and I think she was older. I think he showed me the test of someone pretty young and I said you’ve got to be kidding me. It isn’t her. He said we got the information. I said I don’t think you got anything. This is back when it was so new to the business because they only person that had been affected by any of it had been The King [John Holmes]. But this was too early for us to get really overwrought with. I really felt sorry for Dusty because she was a nice kid. She was a good natured woman. But I don’t know of her doing conventioneering.” [Which I assured Margold was a fact.]

“But if she did it, she certainly was healthy,” Margold suspects although he isn’t sure if Dusty had a last name but guesses that it might have been Rose. [There is a Dusty Rose but it’s not the same girl.]

“That’s possible,” Margold continues. “But she was harmless. She got caught up in an evil situation and shortly, thereafter, left.”