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Rob Spallone Shoots Lesbian Gangbang
2002-12-19 18:40:01

9AM. Rob calls. I'm asleep with the phone off the hook.

9:25AM: I call Rob.

Rob: "Who's Mike South?"

Luke: "He operates a porn news site at www.mikesouth.com and shoots porn out of Atlanta, GA."

Rob said some nasty things about Mike.

I arrive on set just after 11AM. I remember when this was a fearsome experience for me because so many people hated me. Now it seems that most people are happy I'm back. I guess I had a unique niche and I've been missed by the industry.

Rob picks me up in his black Mercedes.

Rob's steamed at comments Mike South made about Lenny Friedlander, owner of porn distributor New Beginnings: "These people who have their websites and have no f---ing life but to write s--- about people. They don't get paid for it. Most people, when their job is done, they go home. They stay with their families. These douchebags got to go write. There are a few exceptions like L-ke F-ord who gets paid to write. Extreme pays their writers. AVN. It's these douchebags who talk about how big their websites.

"Mike South is talking about how big his website is. I never heard of it. I asked ten people and they never heard of it. He likes to talk about people. He better watch himself and all you little douchebags should get a real f------- life. Get a job where you get paid. You're going to spend your own time and do this?

"Mike Quasarman, he stopped [doing a porn gossip site]. He thought - what am I doing? I don't get paid for this. You guys think your important. You are nothing but little c----."

[Mike South responds: I defended Lenny. How about suggesting Rob actually READ what I wrote before he goes off."]

Luke: "You are shooting two scenes today?"

Rob: "They're shooting pretty girl [stills] for the first one. Seven girls, all on time, we're ready to roll. This is my 53rd movie of the year. And I already have three for January and two for February."

I walk inside and see Bill Diehl taking stills of the seven girls - Brooke Hunter, Kat Kleevage, Kaylynn, Jasmine Klein, Dynamite, Randy Lions and Amethiest Stone.

I start a routine conversation with Jasmine and it turns dynamic. This 27-year old blonde mother-of-three is smart. She reads three books a week. She's brought one with her today.

Jasmine: "I was raised in [San Antonio] Texas."

Luke: "What brought you into this industry?"

Jasmine: "It's a long interesting story. Revenge, money and sex."

Luke: "Revenge on your ex-"

Jasmine: "Husband."

Jasmine's remarkable candid, so I keep pressing her.

Luke: "Why?"

Jasmine: "He's a mean person and a Bible-thumping holy roller [who loves porn]."

Luke: "Were you a holy roller too when you were with him?"

Jasmine: "No."

Luke: "No wonder you got divorced."

Jasmine: "There were more reasons than that. He said I was going to hell and I thought I might as well..."

Luke: "Were you a dancer?"

Jasmine: "When I was much younger."

Luke: "That was sending you to hell?"

Jasmine: "No, tattoos."

She's got a small one on her lower back and one in Japanese writing on her neck that means "Lady master."

Jasmine: "It means master of my own fate. I'm the one that controls what I choose to do."

Luke: "Was it a good decision to do porn?"

Jasmine: "It has its pitfalls. What do you do when you're done with porn? You can't put it on a resume. Who's going to take that seriously? If you have children, what happens when your oldest child sees you in a movie?

"I keep a low profile. When I'm out in public, I don't dress like a porn girl. I'm a member of the PTA."

Luke: "When does this all come crashing down?"

Jasmine: "I hope I will be out [of porn] before it ever does."

I would not normally get away with pressing someone for such insights but Jasmine is smart and playful and she seems to enjoy my probing.

Jasmine: "I want to retire before I hate it. In the next year."

Luke: "Have you had any bad experiences in the porn industry?"

Jasmine: "I've been lucky. I don't work with someone I don't know or who someone I know doesn't know."

Jasmine's roommate is ex-porn girl Nicole London, who also has kids. Nicole's ex-husband Anthony Crane resides in jail for threatening her. He's not supposed to get out for another six years.

Jasmine says Anthony has written a poem about how he believes Jasmine betrayed him.

Jasmine had her first child when she was 17. She has a separate biological father for each of her three kids.

Luke: "How old were you when you lost your virginity?"

Jasmine: "I was 14 when I first decided to have sex."

Luke: "Did you have sex before that?"

Jasmine, quietly: "Yes."

Luke: "Family member?"

Jasmine: "No. Not all hicks are like that. I was a military brat. We moved around a lot."

Luke: "Did you go to church every Sunday?"

Jasmine: "No, not until I was 22. It was non-denominational with a rock band and everything. The preacher was a big fat man who rode a Harley."

Luke: "Have you ever had sex with a preacher?"

Jasmine: "No. I figured I have to save something for my later years. I try to [sexually] stay away from preachers, small children and animals."

Luke: "Your relationship with your family?"

Jasmine: "Wonderful. My family knows what I do. When I found out I was nominated this year, I had to call my Mom and give her fair warning because I knew if I didn't tell her, my ex-husband would. There was a little piece of her that was slightly excited about it."

Luke: "Does your ex-husband follow your career carefully?"

Jasmine: "Only to cause me problems. He emails family members the backs of boxcovers I've done. He's not a nice person."

Luke: "I could imagine it is not easy seeing your wife..."

Jasmine: "Ex-wife. Please. He's on his third wife now."

Luke: "But you are still his property."

Jasmine: "No."

Luke: "Don't you take a Biblical approach to these things?"

Jasmine: "No. That's probably why we're divorced. Luckily it's a community-property state in Texas, so I was able to get myself back."

Luke: "Do you know who fathered your children?"

Jasmine: "Yes."

Jasmine estimates she slept with ten men before she was 20 and 40 men in her life. She says she's done about 40 porn videos.

Luke: "What do you like the most about the industry?"

Jasmine: "It's much more honest than people give it credit for."

Videographer Ron Sullivan gathers the troops for a pep talk. "We want to shoot the truth whenever we can. When we start the group sex, don't do the kind of sex you think all men that watch porn want to hear and see. I don't want to hear what you always do with other girls (exaggerated screaming). Don't be nice. Don't even smile."

The girls talk back, interrupting Ron.

Ron: "Shut up. Because it's a movie, I want to keep it larger than life. If you laugh and have too much fun, it trivializes the viewer. The viewer takes this stuff very seriously, therefore you have to take it seriously. How do they interpret that you take it seriously? If you smile and laugh, you don't look serious. I would rather see two people stare at each other and not say a word than do a lot of that rapping sh--. What we don't see and we don't hear, we feel more. Give our audience something to do. Deny them something so they can do the rest.

"What we need now is a leader, a submissive, and someone who is being initiated."

Jasmine, a switch, plays one of only two submissives who are initiated. Brooke Hunter volunteers to be a leader.

Kat Kleevage: "I don't like my nipples pinched or bit."

Brooke, holding her breasts: "My babies are new, so, please..."

Ron: "Don't try to pinch my nipples either."

Jasmine has huge nipples.

Luke: "Your kids must've been happy."

Jasmine: "They were when they were breast feeding (until they teethed)."

Luke: "What are your PTA meetings like?"

Jasmine: "Interesting. I even bake for their bake sales. Nobody asks what I do for a living. They just see me as a Mom."

Jasmine claims she got pregnant, all three times, while on birth control.

She says she's a good mom and has no porn in her house.

I meet Amethiest Stone, who entered the industry in 1997. She took three years off and returned in November. She has over 300 movie credits.

Luke: "Why did you return?"

Amethiest: "This is my home."

Ron's trying to shoot and my interview is interfering. I get in the way all day, annoying Ron and photographer Bill Diehl. Sorry guys.

Ron to the girls: "Don't look in the camera any time. This is not gonzo."

Amethiest says guys from her high school have parties where they watch her porn videos. "I go home now and they will call me by my real name but they'll ask me Amethiest questions. I will never be my real name again."

Jasmine: "Exactly. I went home last Christmas and my brother and I went to this club to go dancing. This guy who works with him at the newspaper used to work part-time at the porn shop I used to work at. My brother didn't have a clue. My Mom knew. This guy walks up to me, pulls me off to the side, and says, 'I just want to tell you that I really respect your work, Jasmine.'"

Amethiest: "At least he had the decency to pull you aside. I was so angry the first time a friend called Amethiest."

Jasmine: "My old manager and the owners from the porn shop came up to the booth I was signing at at CES and spoke to me and got autographs and pictures."

Luke: "Why did you work at a porn shop?"

Jasmine: "It was in West Texas. My ex-husband really liked porn. German fisting and little girls were his favorite."

Ron preaches to the girls: "Do not have sex for me and do not have sex for the person you're doing it to. Have sex for yourself. Be selfish and take."

Amethiest took a trip to Germany with Max Hardcore in 1998. When she wouldn't have sex with him off camera, he left her behind without a plane ticket.

She says he's obsessed with her and has pictures of her up in his office along with a compilation tape of her exploits.

The girls are freezing. There's no heat at the shooting stage. It's about 60 degrees inside and out.

Almost all the girls and the porners smoke cigarettes.

Though giggly and playful with me, Jasmine tends to be a wallflower on set. She sits back with her books. Her school reports said she did not know how to play well with others.

Jas laughs: "That's why Nicole London and I get along so well."

Girls keep giggling and making jokes during the sex. One girl in particular. It annoys Ron.

Ron barks: "Come on girls, get serious now. Don't make jokes. Don't trivialize it.

"That was a great shot until you broke up laughing. Now do it again.

"I don't want to hear how much fun you're having. I want to see frustration."

The scene finishes around 1PM. The next set of girls come around.

Gary, Dynamite's hubby and Rob's production manager, is shooting his own line of handjobs for Goliath Productions. He shoots scenes in the back and many of the girls do one. It makes the place crowded and busy and nerves begin to show.

I meet Alexis On Fire. She says I look cuter than she expected and I blush.

I meet Dalny Marga, who threatened to sue the Screen Actors Guild in 1998 to force them to accept her porn credits as credits that allow her into the union. Eventually she found work as an extra, as did I in 1994, and got into SAG. She says the union wrote her a letter allowing her to do X-rated films. Normally SAG actors are not allowed to work in non-union projects.

Rob talks to Randy Lions, a fresh-faced innocent looking young woman. "You are going to tell this to Mr. Jim Holliday - that Rob Spallone told you to call. He's booking for February. I'm shooting January and February. I've told them you are calling."

High-Pitched Eric has told Kat Kleevage to call him Friday morning to go on the Howard Stern Show.

Kat: "I said no. We already sat on the phone once [and Howard never took them]. If you want me, call me."

Luke: "How did you like Saturday's gangbang?"

Kat: "It was a disgusting success. It's not something that everybody wants to do. Everybody was so nice. I got my purse stolen. That's ok. I was in shock because they all got wood. They were amateurs. We had a good time. I don't know if I would do it again. I dare somebody to break my record."

A longtime stripper, Kat entered porn in December of 2001 through her friendship with porn stud Rick Masters.

Kat: "Everybody in porn is super-nice to you, even the girls. When you are a dancer, the girls are bitchy. In porn, everyone's cool."

Luke: "What was it like Saturday when High Pitched Eric got on top of you?"

Kat: "He doesn't know how to have sex. Seriously. I'm probably the only girl he's been with other than Dynamite."

Duc to Jasmine: "Would you have sex with eight tons of men?"

Jasmine: "No."

Luke: "Because you're a bigot?"

Jas: "No. Because I'm tiny and I don't want to get hurt."

Duc to Kat: "Did you have orgasms Saturday?"

Kat: "No, I'm sorry."

I wander into the make-up room.

Amethiest says she has a 165 IQ.

Luke: "Have you won any spelling bees?"

Amethiest: "No. I don't spell well. I was the senior account executive for the third largest component distributor in the world when I left the industry. I have a 401K and IRAs set up."

Luke: "What are you doing in this industry?"

Amethiest: "Having fun. Electronics is not what it used to be. The money is not as great as it was four years ago. I wasn't having fun there and I decided to come home to my friends and family [in porn] and make some good money."

Luke: "Is this a dysfunctional family?"

Dynamite: "Yes. The porno industry is a great big dysfunctional family. And I love it."

Amethiest: "Yes. We all love it."

Kaylynn is looking for a girl to bring home to her husband to share together.

Amethiest: "I'll teach you how to pick up women in bars. I'm really good at it. Everything happens in the girls bathroom."

Luke: "Are you guys primarily hetero or bi?"

Kaylynn: "We're not swingers. He's not out there to get laid. He just wants to meet someone cool and have fun. But I've been too scared."

Kaylynn and Amethiest kiss.

Amethiest: "Nice burger breath baby."

I meet Ed, a big black guy.

Ed: "Back in 1998, I was trying to kick him off a set with my ex Nikki Taylor. For Michael Adams. Because I didn't know who you were."

Luke: "I remember. You scared the hell out of me."

I chat with Alexis On Fire.

Alexis: "I was a stripper for more years than I want to say. I've been a performer all my life. I have a bachelor's degree in dance. I'm a trained dancer. I like teaching and working with people. Even though I'm not teaching dance anymore, I'm using everything I know."

Alexis did her first porn video with Nina Hartley in 1998 at the Lifestyles Convention in Las Vegas. Alexis moved to LA a year ago to concentrate on porn.

"The next year I went back and taught a workshop at the Lifestyles Convention called How To Strip For Your Lover. I taught housewives how to strip for their husbands. At the end of the workshop, the husbands came in and sat down and the wives stripped for them.

"There was a girl who had been in a bad car accident. She was physically limited. She couldn't wear heels. She was stripping for her husband. She was crying after, so happy that she could do this. As a teacher, those are the moments you want to have.

"I've done more fetish films than adult. I was condom-only for a long time."

Rob goes to Jim South's weekly poker game tonight.

Rob boasts: "I got front-row tickets to wrestling thanks to Steve Austin."

I chat with Crystal, who looks young and innocent.

Rob: "You don't look like a porno girl. You look like the girl next door."

Crystal: "I am."

Rob: "Yeah right, lying on your back with all the guys jumping on you. What is your daughter going to think? This tape never gets erased."

Crystal: "I have a son. He'll think - Be a proud mom."

Rob: "What will his classmates think?"

Crystal: "Your Mom's a MILF - Mom I'd Like To F---."

None of us have heard of that great expression.

Rob to Dalny Marga: "You look like a porno girl."

I meet Jen Padova, a tiny girl in a bikini.

Jen: "I've been in the industry three years but I don't work a lot like most girls do. I started out exploring my own sexuality in my bedroom, taking pictures of myself and posting them on the internet."

Rob comes over to Jen: "Have you done pictures?"

Jen: "Yes."

Bill Diehl, stills photographer: "Are you sure you did Rob's pictures?"

Jen throws a fit: "I don't know what the hell I did."

Bill: "You were going to change your outfit."

Jen: "Why do I need to do three different pretty girls? I did stills for the handjob and I did those over there for you wearing this."

Jen has a temper. She's in tears and stamping her little feet. "Let's go. I'm sick of this sh-t. We're not getting paid much. They keep pushing for more and more pictures."

Alexis attempts a motherly intervention. "Hey, it's ok. I'll back you up. I'll talk to Rob."

Suddenly the room is filled with tension.

Rob: "Tony Montana used to beat the s--- out of Crystal Gold. She came to my office at 9AM one day and begged for a bottle of vodka. I sent out for a bottle. Within a half hour, she drank the whole bottle. She was crying. She said Tony had put his hand up there and ripped everything out."

Tony Eveready is sipping brandy from a small bottle covered in a brown paper bag.

Rob: "How was the last scene?"

Luke: "I didn't watch it. I was reading a book."

Rob: "Are you gay?"

Luke: "I don't want to look at people having sex."

At 2:45PM, director Ron Sullivan gives the new set of seven girls his speech. "I don't want this laughing happy pleasant thing. I hate it when you girls break down and laugh because the guy watching the movie is taking it seriously. If you laugh at it, he thinks you're making fun of yourselves and the user. I want to see long twisted stares.

"I said this 75 times over here [today's first shoot] and one girl just wouldn't hear. It took me three hours to shoot the thing because she kept breaking up."

I see porn girl Michelle Raven. I see Tony Eveready. I remember an email I received 7/26/00. Michelle Raven wrote at that time to Mike South, I think: "Tony [Eveready] beat the sh-t out of me three weeks ago and I was in the hospital. The cops are still trying to find him. On top of that, he stole my computer, printer, scanner and all the extras. They are charging him with a felony for beating me. Now I just have to wait until they get him."

Not sure if it is the same Michelle Raven.

At 3PM, I get in the way of poor Bill Diehl for the third time today and I decide it's time for me to leave.

Jen eventually leaves the shoot and is replaced.