We found this interesting little tidbit in Monica Mayhem’s book, Absolute Mayhem, Secret Confessions of a Porn Star and, in the spirit of holiday sharing, now present it to you.
Mayhem writes that 2005 was a particularly good year for her, professionally. She produced a movie called Skin and was very proud of it because she received her first AVN nom for a Best Solo Scene.
“The film has no director’s credit and it just says ‘produced by Storm Productions’ on the box-cover,” Mayhem writes, noting that it was actually directed by her and a friend Darren Kaye.
The movie was distributed through Skye Blue’s then company Platinum Blue which subsequently went out of business. Mayhem tells us the movie was shot over a three year period and hence, one scene finds her being a blonde, another, a redhead, etc.
“A number of things had kept getting in the way of production- like finding an investor [the quaint porn euphemism for “sucker”], and me being on the road so much that I didn’t have time to do anything else,” she continues.
Because she owned part of the movie, Mayhem decided to do her one and only anal scene. It also helped that Mayhem was a bit drunk when they [Her, Dez and Alaura Eden] shot it.
Then in October, 2007, Mayhem learned to her chagrin that the scene had been used again- without her knowledge- in a compilation titled The Ass Hammer.
“Both films were released by Platinum Blue, but Skin was funded by an investor and part of the contract was that they would not use any of the footage in any other films,” states Mayhem.
“Yet here they were doing exactly that. They also used still photos from Skin, which is a breach of contract, too.”
“Unfortunately for me, Platinum Blue went belly-up a month later, leaving my investor and me high and dry,” rues Mayhem who goes on to say that neither she nor her investor ever saw a dime and aren’t likely to.
“My enthusiasm soured after I found out how they’d use my anal sex scene in this way. It made me look bad to the buying public,” she says.
[Ed’s note: Monica, there is no buying public.]
Nonetheless, Mayhem says she contacted one of the producers of The Ass Hammer, who she thought was a personal friend, only to be told she should have known better and that they had every right to use anything they wanted for comps. According to Mayhem, the issue was never resolved.
“A friend of a friend lost his life savings because of that whole mess. I felt bad for referring this guy to Platinum Blue, but I had no idea we were going to get ripped off.”
