This week Kevin Rubio, the Count of Monte Ducati, responded to an Adultfyi.com story. It was about his lawsuit against Skeeter Kerkove being apparently dead in the water because Rubio wasn't paying his attorneys.
Rubio had this to say: While the lies www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=22611 continue to spew from the "street" I can tell you for a fact that as recent as last week Ducati Productions discovered a FOURTH scene owned by Metro interactive that was provided by Defendant Skeeter Kerkove to Ducati.
The fact of the matter is that this lawsuit was initiated because the Defendant Skeeter Kerkove sold scenes to Ducati Productions that are owned by Metro Interactive which are now up to a total of four. The proof is in the DVD's that have been released by Metro. It is my opinion that if the defendant Skeeter Kerkove sold four scenes to us that are clearly owned by another company then he probably did it to others he shoots for.
The so called "fact" that we have stopped releasing titles is also incorrect. Our shooting schedule has remained as it always has. Gene Ross's story is SO distorted it is not even worth my time to answer it. The "word on the street" might want to get on the sidewalk because a Mac truck with the Ducati and Metro logo on it are heading straight for it."
Before addressing the Metro issue, Skeeter has this to say: "I got a couple of people looking for some girls who did business with Kevin Ducati in 2002 and 2003. That's going to result in some fun stuff. I'm not happy about the content shoots where these girls got nothing and saw their stuff for sale on the Internet and winding up in Kevin Ducati's movies."
Regarding his lawsuit with Ducati, Skeeter says the first movie he shot for Ducati, Welcome to My Bunghole #1, Ducati got an $8500 take home check for it in Europe alone.
"That's the movie he claims he lost $15,000 on, then on ADT he said he lost $50,000; now he's saying he lost $100,000. There is a receipt where he got $8500 for European rights right off the bat from his $15,000 investment. And then he told Otto Bauer face-to-face it sold incredibly well. That's what he told Otto. So now the next step is how many pieces did it sell?
"But for real I have no idea what he's talking about- four scenes showing up in other Metro movies? All I can do is look at every single Metro movie that I ever did that's been released on line. I'm completely dumbfounded. Why won't he just list the movies? That would be wonderful to name the movies."
Skeeter claims the only way this could happen as Ducati is saying is if Ducati made a deal with someone at Metro and sold them the scenes after he was done using them.
"But there would have to be a way to prove it," says Skeeter.
Skeeter says the third movie in the Welcome to the Bunghole series was an out and out comp which North Star released as brand new.
"Every one of those scenes that was in that movie, he [Ducati] previously released all of those scenes in other movies, which means he turned over a comp to North Star to sell as a brand new release without letting anybody know it's a comp.
"Since he got away with it before he got caught doing it, I guess it was a pretty profitable movie," Skeeter muses. "Every scene in the movie- one of them is five or six years old with Jessica Dee- every scene has been previously released in other movies that were also sold as brand new. There's even a few scenes that he used three different times. I'm sure at North Star they never noticed."
