Mike South reports on www.mikesouth.com : John T Bone has been having problems lately that’s for sure. A couple of weeks ago he was he was reportedly beaten pretty badly in his current residence in Angeles City, Philippines. This is unconfirmed but shortly after his bar there Casi Cielo was raided by the Philippines version of the FBI. That is confirmed. Reports that he was in jail as a result were false.

That has now changed. Word I’m getting out of the Philippines is that T Bone is now in custody and he and his philipino wife have been charged with “human trafficking” and are being held without bail.

In the Philippines that means that he had hired underage girls to work as prostitutes in his bar. T Bone is no stranger to legal troubles in Southeast Asia, he had run ins with Thai authorities on three occasions and is persona non grata in Thailand. He dodged those bullets.

The part about T Bone being in jail is unconfirmed but my source is generally pretty good on these matters. The website for T Bones bar is down. More as this develops.

Back story, April, 2007: The arrest of porn legend John T. Bone has sent shockwaves through Thailand’s sexpat community. Bone – real name John Bowen – was arrested in Pattaya last Thursday following a raid on his seafront apartment.

Vice cops seized video production equipment together with a huge stash of porn films and an undisclosed number of dildoes. Insiders have speculated that this should keep them happy for quite a while.

Transvestites and bargirls were allegedly hired to perform sex acts in T. Bone’s own apartment and the sixty year-old pornographer has been charged with producing explicit video clips for sale on a website.

John T. Bone became a household name back in 1995 when he cast Annabel Chong in The World’s Biggest Gang Bang but is best remembered for his refusal to pay her.