XXX tells me: "Regarding your ongoing story about industry deadbeats, it's people like director Nicholas Steele, who lost his deal with Adam & Eve, who don't pay up. In December he shot a movie- he still owes all the cast and I think most of the crew, their money. There are about a half a dozen girls at Exotic Star that haven't been paid and he's avoiding all their calls. What bothers me, also, is all the people like the Metros and the Pure Plays who work the cast and crew 14 and 16 hours then tell them we're paying you on payroll and it takes four weeks. That's BS. If you don't have the money, don't shoot the movie and a lot of these companies are jerking these people around and it's just not right.
Why does it take companies like Metro and Pure Play three to four weeks to pay when they shoot a movie?"
Gene sez: In 1998 Seymore Butts sued Steele aka Nick Pinkowski when Butts learned that Pinkowski and his company Ultimate who, at the time were distributors of Seymore Butts productions, had made unauthorized copies of Seymore's master tapes and was covertly selling them, off the books.
A federal lawsuit was filed by Butts against Pinkowski and Ultimate Pictures in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. District Court Judge Manuel L. Real found that Pinkowski had, indeed, been selling unauthorized copies of Seymore's movies. There was a Permanent Injunction issued against Pinkowski and Ultimate. And the court also awarded significant damages, attorney's fees and costs to Seymore.
