On Set With Cherry Boxxx's 'Daisy: I'm In Charge'

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I drive 50-minutes to the top of Chatsworth. The final mile is a long twisting drive up a steep hill. The mansion is surrounded by boulders and spectacular views.

The first girl I meet is Mason Storm, a stunning Miami resident of Puerto Rican origin. She only stands 4'9" (I thought 4'10" was the minimum height requirement in porn) yet boasts D-cup inflated breasts.

Rick Davis directs. He runs a tight ship. He gets the talent in and out of their scenes -- usually within an hour.

Daisy Fuentez is the star, performing in three of the movie's six scenes.

I sit down on the couch with Mason Storm.

Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Mason: "Really? I had no idea. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up."

Duke: "What were you dreaming about?"

Mason: "I remember joking in highschool that I was eventually going to do porn but I never thought I was going to go through with it.

"[I wanted to do] anything with animals. I thought about being a vet. I had a lot of pets growing up [in Miami] -- dogs, cats, goats, quail, chickens, fish, horses, cows."

Mason is the middle of three sisters. "I'm the favorite."

Duke: "What did your family expect of you?"

Mason: "Anything. With them, I'm all or nothing. I'm very honest with them. They are very supportive. They laugh about it."

Duke: "They didn't have any expectations?"

Mason: "They were just hoping that I turned out ok and not f---ed up on drugs, which I didn't."

Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Mason: "Let's put it this way: I was enrolled in highschool but I never quite attended. The beach was so close that I couldn't bring myself to go. I liked having a good time.

"I got kicked out of highschool [in eleventh grade] with a 4.0 average. I would show up on Fridays to take my tests and ace."

Like about half of the porn stars I interview, Mason Storm got her GED (passed a highschool equivalency exam).

People who get their GED, according to statistics, achieve the same level of life success as those who drop out of highschool and never get their GED.

This is no slam on Mason or any porn star who has a GED. I just hear this so often ("but I got my GED"), I needed to point out that as far as life works, getting a GED makes no difference from straight dropping out.

Duke: "What kind of people were you hanging out with?"

Mason: "Just fun people. We liked to go to 1235, a big club when I was in highschool. I was a big party girl a long time ago."

Duke: "Not anymore?"

Mason: "No. I'm mellow and laid back.

"I'm an aggressive woman sexually but realistically I'm quite shy."

Duke: "What did you do after highschool?"

Mason: "I had a daughter. I was married. Got divorced [after two-and-a-half years]."

Duke: "How did you get into this industry?"

Mason: "I like sex."

Duke: "But how did you get into [porn]?"

Mason: "I was a dancer for nine years [from age 21]. Features [porn stars] would come in and I would talk to them. Taylor Renee was really cool. She told me to contact this agent. He got me some magazine shoots. Through the years it progressed."

Mason did her first hardcore scene in Miami in 1999. She moved to Los Angeles in late 2004 for six months and then moved back to Miami. She says she's done about 100 movies.

Duke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"

Mason: "I like that people in this industry tend to be more realistic than normal people. I don't like the extreme that it is going to now. I'm into good ol' fashioned sucking and f---ing."

Duke: "Has anyone tried to manipulate you into doing something you didn't want to do?"

Mason: "No. I'm too stubborn and too Hispanic to tolerate it. One person did [try to manipulate Mason] and they got an earful for it. Anybody else that has, I just don't deal with. I work for the same companies all the time."

Looking at director Rick Davis, I ask Mason: "How does Rick treat you?"

Mason laughs: "If I was straight, I'd marry Rick."

Duke: "When did you become not straight?"

Mason laughs: "Highschool.

"I've always been attracted to both sexes.

"I'm a very dominant female. More so with men. That's not really the norm in the Hispanic neighborhood for the woman to wear the pants. That's why I've come to focus more on women. But men, I have fun with them."

Duke: "How has working as a [stripper] and a porn star affected you?"

Mason: "I'm more mentally adapted to deal with serious issues. Because this is so jaded. It makes you hard. It makes me more able to function in my own [spa] business back home and more able to deal with people who don't deal with different types of people every day. Since I've seen and done so much, it makes me more willing to accept people."

Mason looks into me with her big eyes and I tremble.

Duke: "Men are so easily manipulated."

Mason: "I've always known that. Since I was a child. It can be something as puppy dog eyes to get what you want, an icecream or something. It is very easy to do and I try very hard not to do it."

Duke: "Is it easy for you to turn off your porn star/stripper personna?"

Mason: "Absolutely."

Mason jumps as an insect crawls on our couch. I kill it.

Mason: "Spiders I don't mind. I've played with tarantulas. But roaches, fleas or mosquitos, yech.

"It's easy for me to switch in and out. I'm tend to be the one who stands in the back of the room."

Duke: "If you go into a room where you don't know anyone?"

Mason: "I sit at a table and probably have a book and bury myself in the book."

Duke: "Do more men hit on you than women?"

Mason: "It's equal for me."

Duke: "Do you hang out in lesbian bars?"

Mason: "No. I'm quite a boring person. I watch movies at home. I love Blockbuster. I read a lot of books.

"I've been in a relationship with a woman for four years now. She's not in the industry but she knows everybody."

Duke: "When strangers ask you what you do for a living, what do you say?"

Mason: "I own a spa in Miami."

Duke: "So this is just for fun?"

Mason: "No. This is enabling me to own several businesses and my own property."

Mason got her implants October 18, 2001. She went from a B-cup to a D-cup. "It was one of the best investments of my life." She measures 34-24-34.

Duke: "Did you notice a change in the way men related to you after your implants?"

Mason: "Yeah. I get free work on my car now."

Mason has a tattoo on her bottom. I assume it covers up the name of her ex-husband.

Shane Collins did Daisy in the first scene. Now Grant Michaels is supposed to work with Mason Storm. But Grant is feverish and can't get it done. He leaves the set. A replacement man is hurriedly called in. Vegas drives up within an hour but the production is runnning behind.

Brianna Love Interview

Brianna is 19-years-old. She only does girl-girl. She's blonde with a big booty and microscopic breasts. She has a perky personality.

Dusty Urban is back working for Kevin Beechum after a three-year vacation, drug rehab. He's known Kevin since sixth grade. They went to work for Tommy Sinnoppoli in 1983.

Dusty has bought boobs for several porn girls, including his ex-girlfriend Shay Sweet, former Sin City contract girl.

Her agent is Thomas Hope of XTCModeling.com. He split from Exotic Star Connection on December 26, 2003. He then took 20 girls to the AEE in Las Vegas in January 2004, launching his new company.

Like many people in the industry, Thomas confuses me for the first 20-minutes with Scott Fayner, putative owner of l-keford.com.

"I have very few locals," says Thomas. "Almost all my girls come from different states."

Thomas also owns the promotional company VIP Entertainment. "When I got in [as a talent agent], I already knew everybody from that. I went from talking to the guy in charge of marketing to the guy in charge of talent. I had a backdoor entry, so it was easy for me.

"I got up this morning at 7 to get a girl to work. I forgot that the shoot was tomorrow and not today. I drove all the way to Calabassas with the girl to have Ricky [Davis] say, we're in Chatsworth today and her shoot is at noon.

"I fought through the traffic to go from Northridge to the hotel, pick up the girl, and go to Calabassas.

"I seldom make mistakes like that, so the girls don't say anything.

"I'm the early agent. My call times are always early because I'm known to be the agent who's up early. Because this guy is irresponsible, he gets to sleep until 11 and take his girl in at 12. But I have every 8:30am calltime.

"Rick Davis is the only guy I double-book. By the time the girls starts to enjoy herself, it's over. So I take the girl from this set to another one. She says, that was just an appetizer. I'm starving now."

Thomas has Lona Leigh with him. She's never been shot before. "K-Beech is the company I bring the new talent. The girl's first experience makes the whole business. Rick Davis uses guys that girls will do for free. When they leave, they're smiling.

"I tell them beforehand, you are going to have a nice shoot. It's going to be fast. The guy is going to be hot. Enjoy it, but don't assume that this is what this industry is about. Because you are going to go to the next shoot. It's going to be six hours. The guy is not going to be as hot. The director's not going to be as polite. You're not going to like the cameraman, the PA, and the producer. And the pay won't be as good.

"Girls get all excited being around [director] Corey [Jordan]. That's why Jill Kelly married him.

"I don't do double-anything. The companies that mostly shoot that stuff, I don't mess with. One company [wanted a girl for something kinky stuff]. I said, I don't want you to ever call me again. Remove my number from your Roladex.

"I will book a girl for a BJ scene, but I get calls for throat-gagging. I don't send my girls to vomit. I don't know who's buying those tapes."

Duke: "Do you have people who try to take advantage of your talent?"

Thomas: "Look at me. I don't look like a person people are going to try to take advantage of. I don't have that problem. The people who disrespect Thomas Hope in this business are people who have never seen me. I had problems at the beginning when I was just a name and no face."

I sit outside with Brianna Love. There's a chill wind and she's only wearing lingerie.

It's time to hit the marijuana pipe for some warmth.

She moved around constantly as a child and quickly learned how to get along with people.

Duke: "How did you become a [stripper]?"

Brianna: "I worked in a little town in Missouri. The first night I moved there, I decided to try something new. I danced. I was good at it. There were no lap dances. It was all pole dancing. I was really dancing.

"Then I figured if I was going to dance, Las Vegas would make me more money. So I moved there. Then I decided to do some porn."

Duke: "How do you think your constant moving around as a kid affected you?"

Brianna: "I'm adventurous. I'm not afraid to take new risks. I've seen a lot of things and I've met a lot of people. I have a confused accent and I have an interesting personality. I get along with people well and I adapt to new surroundings well. That's made this industry easier for me."

Duke: "How has working as a dancer and a porn star affected your view of men?"

Brianna: "Not at all, except that I realize how silly they are at times.

"I was cute when I was younger. I've always liked men. I've always been a bad girl. I've always understood men. They're not hard to figure out. Fill their bellies and keep them horny."

Brianna lost her virginity at age 14. In highschool, "I was generally with one person. I was with more girls than guys. My first experience was with a girl."

Duke: "What made you take the step into porn?"

Brianna: "I realized that whatever I want to do takes money. I've always been wild and crazy. I'm good at it. I enjoy it. It's something that can open up a lot of other avenues for my career."

Porn is famous for the many different avenues it opens up for people's careers. There's one feeder program to medical school, another one for rocket science... From bukkake to investment banking in ten easy steps. My next book.

Duke: "What do you mean? Feature dancing?"

Brianna: "Acting. I've been in school plays and church things. No official [acting] classes but I'm pretty good."

Duke: "What kind of student were you in highschool?"

Brianna: "A good one. I was in every club -- dancing, German, band, singing. Anything I could do I was in and was one of the best of. I graduated a year earlier.

"I moved out of my home at 15. I lived on my own. I worked fulltime as a waitress."

Brianna has always wanted to be a singer and a dancer. "I write music, but that's on the backburner now."

Duke: "What were you expected to become?"

Brianna: "The perfect go-to-nursing-school-marry-a-radiologist-have-money-retire-early-in-the-Mid-West. I was always what I was not expected to be. I tried to take some nursing classes and I fainted. So, blood and gore is not my avenue."

Duke: "What themes predominate in your song writing?"

Brianna: "Mostly I write love songs or just frustrating songs. That's how I've always expressed myself -- through my writing. That's why you have a journal -- to say things you are not close enough to anyone to say. Most of my writing is poems. That's what songs are -- poems set to a beat."

Brianna has five younger brothers and sisters. "They all love me but I don't see them that often."

Duke: "Why were you alone so much?"

Brianna: "Because I didn't get along at home. My mom's single. We're best friends but we clash heads when we're together. I had to be the shoulder that was lent on growing up. It caught up with me. There was a point where I said: I know I can handle my own life, but this is too much for me. We had an agreement and we've been friends since then.

"My mom knows everything I do. She's understanding. She knows that everything I do is for a reason."

Brianna has always been blonde. "I've always been goofy. If I enter a room and I'm goofy, it's kinda acceptable. I've always been the class clown. I'm one of the klutziest people you will ever meet. I don't think I would look right with any other color."

Brianna began keeping her diary at age eight. Her mom read it, leaving Brianna feeling violated. "She told me the story, when I was younger, my mom read my journal and it hurt my feelings. And then she did it to me. Once I knew she was reading my journal, I would only write down things I knew she would want to hear.

"I've written thousands of pages.

"My mom was strict. My bad was sneaking out at night so I could be out until 1am like everyone else.

"I plan to always have a home in Las Vegas, but I'm sure that eventually California will become my home also."

Brianna, who has no tattoos, sang in many different churches as a child. Once she became a stripper, she stopped going to church.

Brianna can shoot a gun and knows how to hunt.

She invests most of her money with a company she works for in Vegas. In return, she gets a percentage of the profit from throwing parties.

............

Daisy Fuentez comes out for her still shoot. A few minutes in, the photographer asks her to spit out her gum in his hand. After she does so, he walks over and deposits the gum on the table.

Brianna joins Daisy in front of the camera. The photographer lays down a blanket.

"It's an ugly blanket," says Brianna.

"We're not going to focus on the blanket," he replies. "We're going to focus on your p----."

I overhear various porners talking about taking steroids to enhance their workouts.

Lona Leigh Interview

She's from San Francisco, where she works as a stripper. She has a dancing background.

She got into porn with a stripper she worked with at Centerfolds.

Lona has natural C-cup breasts. They sprouted just before she turned 16. She says I can touch them. I'm afraid that I would like that too much, and I decline.

Lona lost her virginity at 17. "I was a straight-A student. I was a goody good. I think it was that Christian upbringing. Baptist. Going to church every week for your whole life made me want to go out of it and go crazy and not be a good girl any more. I went to a private Christian college in Michigan and I left after six weeks."

Daisy Fuentez Interview

We sit on a couch in the bedroom. She wears jeans. She stands 5'4", weighs 102 pounds, and measures 34B-24-34. She has six tattoos including one of the name of her boyfriend.

Daisy, 21: "When I was a kid, I wanted to be either an actress or a dancer."

She has a distinct Mexican accent. She's lived almost all her life in East LA and the Valley. Her ancestry is three-quarters Mexican and one-quarter Filipino.

Duke: "What kind of expectations did your family have for you?"

Daisy: "A dancer or a stripper. Any time I would hear music, I'd be dancing."

Daisy didn't take dance classes except for some Spanish dance classes. "Not hip-hop or pop. I learned that by going out to clubs [at age 15]."

Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"

Daisy: "A Latin crowd. A lot of Mexicans. I grew up with athletes. I was involved with volleyball, basketball and track. Sports was my number one class in school."

Duke: "What kind of student were you?"

Daisy: "I had a difficult time in highschool. I had a difficult time throughout my whole schooltime. I was real slow. I didn't want to work. I never concentrated. I was always side-tracked by something. I never got my work done. There were times when I was in the mood. If it was something that I liked. My favorite subject was English. I used to like to write poetry. I got a good grade in that, but that's it. Math and everything else..."

Duke: "Did you get into trouble in highschool?"

Daisy: "Yeah. I was always suspended. I was always fighting. I was a bully. I used to love to pick fights [with girls]."

I look her over. She's only 5'4 and weighs about 100 pounds. It's hard for me to picture her as a bully.

Duke: "Why did you do that?"

Daisy: "I guess I had a lot of anger in myself. I was always picking at everybody.

"I was jealous of my older sister. When I went to her same school, she would ignore me instead of being my big sister. I would draw all kinds of attention to myself. Get in fights and stuff like that."

Daisy has an older brother and older sister and a younger brother and younger sister.

Duke: "Are your parents together?"

Daisy: "I grew up with my godparents. They're like my mom and dad."

Duke: "Do you think that might've been a reason you were so angry?"

Daisy: "Yeah. Now I've accepted it. I only had three years with my birth mom. Then I went and lived with my godparents."

Daisy dropped out of highschool just before graduation. "I went to summer school [in 2000] so I could get my highschool diploma. I only needed 30 credits more. I ended up just quitting.

"I ran away and lived with my [older] sister and her boyfriend. I didn't want to be at home. I was just running the streets. I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't working. I wasn't going to school. I was just hanging out with my friends, always partying.

"I'd live off my sister, be good for a couple of days, and then be gone for the weekend.

"When I was 18, I was on my own. I was living with a friend. I got approached by an agent, Wesley Pipes.

"I was walking with a friend in my neighborhood. He had a girl come up to us and say he was an agent and that I was very pretty and he could get me work as a model. I just had to be 18.

"I was a week away from my 18th birthday. I was really in need of money, so I just said f--- it and did it a week after my 18th birthday.

"I was only with Wesley Pipes for a couple of months and then I moved to Naughty Modeling. I got a contract [in May 2003] with Video Team for a year.

"I went to cosmetology school for eight months. I did good. I liked doing it. I got what I wanted out of it. I just wanted to learn the basics -- highlights, cut hair, basic make-up, pedicure, manicure. I'm back in the industry. I'm working maybe four times a month. That's all I want to work.

"I worked with Wesley maybe twice but he was really big. I couldn't take him all the way."

Duke: "Have you found that people try to manipulate you into doing things that you don't want to do?"

Daisy: "I'm really strong with my decisions. I don't put myself in situations where I don't have a choice."

Daisy only once got a bad check. "I've had checks and I've never cashed them. They're still sitting in my drawer. I was going through some old envelopes and I found two checks. One is for $600 and one is for $200. I don't know if I can cash them because they're from the year 2002. I don't even know if those companies exist any more."

Duke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"

Daisy: "I love being in front of the camera. I love showing my body. The thing I hate about porn shoots is just waiting all the time. Early call-times. I'm not a morning person."

Duke: "What do you spend your money on?"

Daisy: "I buy a lot of clothes. Now I'm spending a lot of money on my [Mercedes]. I just bought brand new TVs for my car. I just bought an in-dash Alpine TV for my front-dash. I'm getting my head-rest TVs [for the people in the back seat] put in this week. I'm saving to buy a house."

Daisy has never dated anybody in the industry. "It's not my thing. It's all business to me. I associate with the people. I like to talk to everybody. I'm very nice. But I don't look for that in the industry because it causes a lot of conflict."

Duke: "How do the guys you date deal with you being a porn star?"

Daisy: "I let them know ahead of time so if they have a problem with it, they can just walk out. I started doing porn before I met him, so either love it or leave it. I do take into consideration what my boyfriend wants. That's why I just do the basics. I don't do an A. I don't do any outrageous movies."

Daisy frequents a bar in Pasadena where she gets recognized. Alexis Amore also goes there. "All the security guards at the club love us. Me and her don't really talk.

"I've never had a problem. I've never had a stalker. I'm really exclusive. I don't go out and say I'm a porn star.

"This year I took my boyfriend to the AVN Awards. I told him, I want you to see what it is like.

"I was signing at the New Sensations booth. He said, 'Ohmig-d, I didn't realize you were so famous. You have so many people calling your name. Everywhere you walk, it is Daisy this, and Daisy that.' He was excited for me.

"I had a jealous boyfriend before. He hated that I got all the attention.

"When I go to work, that's it. I do no extra favors."

Justin Magnum Interview

I meet Grant Michaels brother Justin, 29, on the Cherry Boxxx set Wednesday March 30.

They grew up in Rhodesia. Grant moved here in 1997. Justin in 1999. They worked construction and competed in body building before moving into porn.

Justin has done about 150 scenes and Grant about 75.

Duke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"

Justin: "Firstly, a motorcyle professional. But we really didn't have the tracks and my parents didn't want me to race. So then [from age 14 on], Mr. Universe. I worked out about three hours a day. Grant was winning all the conquests. I wanted to be like him. We did well over there and came over here and won a few titles, but it was all steroids over here. Drug abuse. Politics. And no future. A dead-end sport. I wasn't enjoying it any more. Grueling workouts and no fruits. I realized it was a loser sport like my dad had said.

"Started desert racing with motorcycles and got back into Motorcross at 27. Now I race amateur Motorcross. That's my passion. When I'm not racing, I ride bicycles long distance (about 300 miles a week) to stay in shape and do this to support my hobbies. I do lightweights once a week."

Grant entered porn first. "He was dating Kim Chambers. Sweet girl. She got him in. She introduced us to all the right people. We went to AVN 2004 and bumped into Rick Davis, who I knew from Golds Gym eight years ago. He was probably the first person we met after we got off the plane. We went straight to Golds Gym [in North Hollywood] and met Rick. We became friends. I didn't even know he was in the business. He was training people.

"Rick Davis is the one who hooked me up [in porn]. I've probably done 80 scenes for Rick Davis and Cherry Boxxx. Every single week for over a year."

Duke: "Have you dated anyone in the industry?"

Justin: "Nah. They're good for fun.

"I should be careful what I say.

"Fun to date, but not in a relationship sense. I have a girlfriend out of the business. She's a mainstream model. She doesn't like what I do but I don't really talk about it. I keep it separate."

Duke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"

Justin: "I love 99% of it. I don't like disorganized companies who take forever to shoot. I enjoy most of my scenes but when you've got to be on a set for eight hours, and then you suddenly have to perform in the seventh hour, it's difficult. I like working for gonzo companies. You make almost the same money. It's a small crew and it's fast and efficient. Like Cherry Boxxx."

Duke: "How has working in this industry changed you?"

Justin: "It's changed me in that I can separate my emotions from sex. It's like sport-f---ing, where I enjoy it, but it is physical, and I completely separate it mentally and emotionally. My girlfriend [of nine months] gives me my normal mainstream life -- holding hands, candle-lit dinners. It gives me the intimacy and this gives me all my sexual fantasies. Like any man, I like variety. And that's the thing I like about this business the most. Blondes, brunettes, Asians, different shapes and sizes. Three or four times a week. But I love my girlfriend. I have intimacy with her and I have sex at work. It's weird but it works. I've never been happier."

Duke: "Your girlfriend must be amazing. Not many women could tolerate you working in this industry."

Justin: "I downplay it. She doesn't go on the Internet and she doesn't watch TV. She has two kids who keep her busy. I can't keep her in the dark. I say, 'I've got a photoshoot today.' She pictures nude shoots with Spice Channel. She downplays it in her mind and I downplay it too. I never talk about work in detail otherwise she would freak out. She thinks I work once a week whereas I work three-to-four times a week.

"I'm also a personal trainer. I've got three high-end clients. So I pump up the training more.

"It's a great question. I don't know if she will be able to deal with it for a long period of time. Me and Grant want to open our own internet company. It should be up in the next six-to-eight weeks. It's porn gonzo. It's comedy. There are some really original ideas. We'll be using the best-looking girls. Brand new girls who haven't been seen before. Funny stuff.

"Hopefully I can move away from being the talent and be the talent occasionally. I've got to move away from being the talent. I don't want to be a talent lifer. I just don't know if I can have a wife and kids and a future in my 40s if I'm still doing this.

"I like to stay away from the nasty stuff. It messes with my head. The gangbangs. I don't really like doing boy-boy-girl. I like simple boy-girl."

Duke: "How much would they have to pay you to do boy-boy?"

Justin: "They pay me about six to do boy-boy-girl. I've only done it about six times."

Duke: "Just boy-boy, no girl?"

Justin laughs: "I wouldn't do it. If I could do it, it would haunt me. It would be like MacBeth killing the king. I wouldn't be able to sleep after that."