Porn Valley- I spoke to the Grand Vizier about the late Peter Kinsler. Kinsler, a former one-stop operator, died recently from complications of a gastric bypass and there were services for him several days ago.
The last time I spoke to Kinsler was in August- ironically in regard to comments the Vizier had made about him at that time. www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=23928
What riled Kinsler was the fact that The Vizier, commenting on Lenny Friedlander’s passing, said it would have been better had it been Kinsler. Even though he took exception, Kinsler apparently took him up on the suggestion.
“Kinsler would beat you out of six grand but if you ran into him in Vegas, he’d take you to dinner and tell you he’d get you tickets and comped rooms,” says The Vizier. “Strange character.”
“Apparently he got up to 300 pounds or bigger.”
The Vizier remembers the time Kinsler hooked up with a doctor who’d write up phony prescriptions for Vicadin.
“They got caught on that and Kinsler talked his way out of it,” The Vizier recalls. “He had pulled some stuff with the casinos in Vegas. Apparently he had gaming accounts at three different places. He ran up gambling debts and never repaid them.
“And instead of them putting him in jail, KInsler talked his way out of it and got hired by one of the hotels to be a guy who brings in the big spenders. Kinsler would give them tickets to the fights and shows. Then he got caught scalping the tickets and got fired from that.”
“While he was doing the hotel-thing, he’d entertain at all the fancy restaurants. He’d treat the high spending porn people to lobsters and steaks. That’s how he got big as a house- all that free food killed him. He was in a free buffet line in a manner of speaking.”
“Kinsler had the gift,” says The Vizier. “He beat more people for money. Nobody ever did anything.”
[Kinsler supposedly had a $2,000 tab at Brent’s- an industry hangout- that went unpaid.]
“He basically never paid,” continues The Vizier. “He was legendary for doing this. He even talked Russ Hampshire into co-signing for a two seater red Mercedes. Kinsler never met a bill he could pay. He should definitely get a chapter written about him in a book on the business. He was maybe the con artist supreme. He always had a new car, jewelry and a wad of money.”
“There were even stories that Kinsler was slipping warehouse guys cash to back door product- if there was a loophole in the system, Kinsler would find it.”
“Kinsler had a variety of partners and every business he had, he fucked them. And the Spallone-thing is legendary.”
[Apparently Spallone who was owed money by Kinsler, went to Kinsler’s office one time with a baseball bat and began busting up the joint with Kinsler hiding under a desk.]
