Porn Valley- The coast is clear at the house in Woodland Hills owned by Alec Knight and Mika Tan. In recent months the location, which had been rented out to the industry, has been the scene of a few visits by LAPD and vice.
I spoke to Knight Fiday morning and he tells me that the house is now fully permitted to shoot.
"I'm just trying to get it out there that it's safe to come back," says Knight. "I was getting permitted shoots here and there but wasn't allowing anyone to shoot without a permit. But now it's all ready to go. If cops do show up I have a permit."
I had to ask Knight the obvious question- why he didn't do this in the beginning.
"Before, everyone was telling me don't worry about it," he explains. "The homeowner never gets in trouble. It's the production company if they don't have a permit. I just listened to that and figured everyone else knew what they were talking about. I think it's more of a new thing. I don't think it used to be that way. But the cops are biting down right now. They're trying to discourage everybody- so they're hitting everybody."
Consequently Knight got cited and is fighting it in court right now.
"That's why I never did it before," he adds. "I didn't think I would be held liable. I thought if the production companies didn't get a permit, it was their fault."
I suggested that Knight might want to talk to Skeeter Kerkove about that technicality.
"I did talk to Skeeter about that because I know he had to deal with that, too," says Knight. "He told me his whole story."
On another note, Mika Tan remains in Japan because her grandmother is failing in health.
"She was the one that pretty much raised Mika," says Knight. "She's going to be here until she [the grandmother] passes on."
