Porn Valley- It was a good story while it lasted but the lawsuit that Rebecca Hilton filed against Summer Haze and Craig Valentine has been dropped. I spoke to Ron Miller aka Don Hollywood, Valentine’s lawyer, who tells me that Hilton’s attorneys filed a request for dismissal.
“Assuming it has been filed it’s now dead officially,” says Hollywood. “There is no appeal, and I think it’s safe to assume that the California case has run its course. At this point in time the entire case has been dismissed.” Hilton served Haze-Valentine with papers during AEE, then earlier this month talked about her case on the Howard Brown Live show. According to Hilton, factors involving the shooting A Not So Simple Porn Life were taken into account with the suit.
“I’ll never say anything that’s not a fact,” stated Hilton during the show. “The fact is we hired her [Haze] and her production company to do three movies for us. We got the first one. It got released. They fucked up on several parts of it so it didn’t do very well. We were, like, alright, we counted on you guys to do the right thing and you didn’t. The second and third we were having so many problems with them after we filmed them- and we had so many problems with them [Haze and Craig Valentine] we finally got called by the distributor [Arnold Stein at OPD] asking if we had ever been paid for the first movie. I said no, and he showed us cancelled checks that had been made out for our movies for over $6,000 that we had never gotten. So when we brought it up to them, they denied it and said that was all bullshit, of course, and everything like that. It just got uglier and uglier.”
Goaded, in part by Stein, Hilton elected to sue in the California courts and the judge earlier this month basically tossed the case on jurisdictional grounds with a right to appeal. Rather than do that, the Hiltons chose to file the request for dismissal. According to Hollywood, the judge presiding over the case in early April said it seemed a little odd to him that there were no written contracts involved. Paraphrasing the judge Hollywood quoted him as saying that it almost seems absurd that someone would give somebody else in excess of $40,000 and have no written agreement of any kind.