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Originally my caption on this photo read "Michael Fattorosi and the black help" but the black help here turned out to be Michael's partner O.J. My bad.

Buck Adams is ecstatically happy. He's hugging everyone in sight, including me. "Thank you for making me famous," he says.

Taryn Thomas just did her first scene in a year. Her agent is Black Widow.

I apologize to her for publishing that she was in the loony bin.

She accepts my apology.

Her best friend said that on Playboy radio a few months ago, but over the past year, Taryn says she's only been in rehab and in the hospital for E-coli.

Here's a .wav file of my interview with Nyomi Banxxx.

Standing 5'9, Nyomi measures 36D-25-39.

She grew up in Chicago, wanting to become a dancer on Broadway.

"I was in mainstream before I crossed over the dark side [in February 2007]."

"I went to high school and college. I graduated [with a degree in social work]. I played basketball and track on a scholarship."

"In high school, I was Dear Abby."

"I was a social worker for six years."

"I used to sell cars too."

"I'm also a screenwriter."

"I'm pretty boring."

"My parents didn't expect me to be in porn. My mom wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated."

"When I crossed over last year to do porn, she didn't like it, but now she understands that I have a plan. I'm going to make myself a household name. I knew the image I wanted to portray."

"I got into [porn] for the money... I just want a couple of million...before my body gets old and saggy... I paid my dues in mainstream and it was hard... The family needs money."

Nyomi's done about 55 scenes. She's never worked as a stripper.

"I hate the stereotyping [of porn stars]. When people find out what you do, they automatically assume that you're a freak and on drugs. That you come from a broken home. That you've been molested and raped, that's why you're in it."

She lost friends from her entry into porn. "It was really painful. I thought that they knew me. It's not what I do, it's who I am."

Luke: Can you empathize with how appalling this must be for them?

Nyomi: "No, I can't, because I have a fiance who truly understands what I do."

"It was hard for me getting in the industry, coming from a very religious [Bapist]background."

"In the mid-West, we only know the bad stuff [about porn]. When I first came here [to L.A. two years ago], that was my perception."

"When I got here, I saw no drugs on set. I saw nothing but business."

Luke: "If you had never moved to L.A., you probably would never have moved into porn?"

Nyomi: "Probably not. That's probably what my grandmother's saying right now."

Luke: "Did you sing in church?"

Nyomi laughs. "Yes, I did."

"I have mixed feelings about religion. I have my own relationship with God. I have some things with the Bible that I don't agree with.... There are so many Bibles... I just know the miracles He's done with me and my family... When the day I die I go up to the Pearly Gates and he says, 'You're not getting in,' I'll say OK, I know why, and walk away."

"I like a romantic man with a little bit of thug in him."

"I've never received [racism] from a white person. When I moved to L.A., I received it from a Mexican."

I interview Michael Fattarosi's girlfriend Vanessa Blue.

"I have a couple of restraining orders against me," she jokes. "You better watch out or you might have to get one too."

Lexington Steele's longtime girlfriend, she's been in porn since 1996 and has appeared in about 200 scenes.

A couple of years ago, Vanessa ran her own talent agency for black women. It dissolved after two women.

Vanessa says that many of the girls she represented were lying to her.

Kevin Blatt does a Dr. Phil taping Feb. 20. Here's a picture of him at the Grammys with Paris Hilton.

KB publicized her Red Light District sex tape.

Tank emails:

What's going on with the Paige Taylor pics is infatuation. She's taken a shine to you, and the come-on means you point and shoot.

I wonder if she is aware of the way other people in the porn biz view you especially after the Holly issue. The difference between her gaze and say Hillary Scott is rather telling and for me interesting. It gets at aspects of "using" but from two different sides.

It amazes me that after all this time people dont latch on to what your photo work is about - that they don't ask themselves or you why you take pics like that. They place their own judgement before looking for a reason. It really gets at how we judge ourselves and each other.

I think there was much truth to what you were saying around the Holly issue but perhaps not the correct time and/or maybe place to say it.

Holly Randall posts: "I need a Monkey-style photo thread to make my rehabilitation really take. Monkey, you wouldn't want me to relapse just because you aren't here to make me laugh, now would you? Imagine the guilt that would weigh upon your shoulders!"

Attorney Michael Fattorosi writes:

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