Porn Valley- I had a brief chat with Don Hollywood who was in a meeting. I'll have more details in an update, but, essentially, Hollywood was telling me about this porn company which is openly admitting to running a Ponzi Scheme. Just the thought is absurd enough, but Hollywood and his better half Brooke Hunter got burnt in a deal with this company whose owner is from Baltimore. In fact, a movie Hollywood owned was sold from under him to K Beech, K Beech being an unwitting dupe in this Ponzi company's bag-o-tricks. Otherwise Hollywood tells me that a website that he recently launched, www.dirtyoldlawyer.com, has skyrocketed in the Alexa rankings thanks to a bunch of publicity he got not only on Celebrity Justice but from the wire services as well.
> In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, much is being speculated about the upcoming Jennifer Rosenblatt arbitration and most of it is pure guess work. But this isn't. Jennifer Rosenblatt is pregnant with a baby boy. Jennifer is in her 4th month. Congratulations! This is a miracle of sorts in that Jennifer's past medical history just about precluded her from having kids. Of course Rosenblatt's condition now brings the whole bully card into play.
> Meanwhile, Jenna Jameson is, herself, working on getting pregnant.
> www.lukeisback.com posts: "Various industry journalists are on the plaintiff's witness list including Gene Ross and Tod Hunter and a ton of ex-AVN employees in addition to numerous players in the biz. Kenny Guarino, Steve Hirsch, Steve Orenstein and others may be dragged into this dispute."
Gene sez: Add to that list the names of Luke Ford and Kimberly Wilson. I'm also hearing that AVN's going to be spending more in legal fees than what the cost of a settlement with Rosenblatt would have been. In her breach of contract contention, a settlement would have included several months severance pay and the remainder of her commissions to the end of the year. There was an original agreement, in principle, to that but it was Darren Roberts, apparently, who had the final nix on that deal. It was Roberts who was quoted as saying, "they got to subpoena us for our records".
I hear things are supposed to get under way within the next three weeks with an opportunity of filing an extension for an extra month. After the depositions are taken, it might be 8 to 10 months before the actual arbitration. The prevailing wisdom is to settle. According to Rosenblatt's contract, there had to be a written cause for termination and none was ever forthcoming. Another breach of contract allegedly occured when Rosenblatt's job duties were changed in midstream when her contract plainly stated same duties as you've always done.
> Steve Volponi and Rob Spallone head out to Palm Springs this weekend. Volponi remembers the time he first met Spallone. Spallone came into Volponi's place of work armed with a baseball bat and a knife looking for Peter Kinsler. I believe Kinsler was hiding in a closet at the time and Spallone is supposed to have taken the knife to Kinsler's leather couch and stabbed it. Kinsler apparently owed him money. Or so the story goes.
> Things must be slow at Elegant Angel. One of their salesman left an $8 tip on a $112 bill at Monty's.
> The deal that would have made Kendra Jade a contract girl for Legend is dead. From what I'm hearing Jade was asking for $15,000 up front to sign. Jack at Legend said thanks but no thanks.
> Let's play the how much money do you think Jules Jordan makes a month game. I've heard an opening bid of $200,000.
> Meanwhile Nic Andrews' sequel to Dark Angel has apparently been green lighted for $180,000.
> Here's one that I find really hard to believe, but I'm hearin' it - that Frank Koretzky has been putting up the money for Rob Black's legal bills.
