Porn Valley- The Grand Vizier calls me Tuesday afternoon.
I tell the Vizier I’ve received a complaint from one of the porn company owners about how I always refer to The Vizier’s Auchincloss cigarettes in the context of our conversations. The Vizier reacted as one touched inappropriately.
“Son of a cheese maker! May his first born daughter have a penis!” declared The Vizier, always with the sharp upper hand in repartee. His wit can be like a flashing scimitar.
“I had three separate conversations with company owners today,” the Vizier tells me. “All three of them used the word ‘dismal’ to describe the business. Can that just be a coincidence?”
“And then you have Sunshine buying the Leisuretime masters,” continues The Vizier.
“Inside information confirms that for the 3500 masters, the Josef people paid in excess of $1Million and cut a check. That old joke if we had their money, we’d burn ours? Rumor is that Josef’s brother is making millions that needs to be funneled through Josef. There was a time that Josef wanted to buy Fantasy Home Video [Perry Ross’ old company]; he said he had $350,000 in cash which he had to 'dump' almost immediately. He was turned down.
"The brother now lives in the states and may be behind the Leisuretime deal. With as cheap as Josef sell discs, how long do you think it would take to break even on the $1 million investment? Maybe they’ll buy AVN- just because they can.”
“And then you got Mark Carriere, the most charming man in our business,” laughs the Vizier. “He never met a bill he wanted to pay. And if you sued him, he’d sue you back. He had bullet proof glass in his old office. Working it the way he was working it, you can’t go out in public to eat a sandwich without having two bodyguards. Carriere paid to have friends.”
“Just in downsizing strategies, I also hear that Anabolic was trying to sell their building to Sin City,” The Vizier adds. “Chris built that aircraft carrier that Microsoft could move into. Then him and his partner split up. There was also that brutal divorce. Boy, did Buffy Malibu walk into a good thing. She’s getting $30,000 a month from Chris. And then there’s the rumor that Chris is back stunt cocking as Biff Malibu for chump change to make the Ferrari payments. But that’s just a rumor, although Chris is trying to sell the building. It might wind up becoming a Cineplex if this keeps up.”
The fact that he just saw her name in an agency announcement, reminds the Vizier of another story - this one about one of the porn performers.
“Without naming her name, lets say she was shopping at a Target,” says the Vizier. “She forgets her handbag and walks out. The people in the store find the handbag and look through it for identification. Guess what they find? A distributor’s supply worth of meth.
"Anyway, the porn chick calls the store asking if she had left her bag there. Having already called the cops, the store, playing it cute, tells her, yeah, come in and pick it up. The porn chick goes back to the store and is arrested.”
I’m wondering who the babe is, and all The Vizier would tell me is that she’s now repped by Adult Talent Managers, Shy Love’s company.
