3/27/05
I exchanged emails and phone messages with Mandy Taylor a couple of weeks ago during the Missy Monroe - Genesis Skye feud.
I finally speak to Mandy for the first time this afternoon. I'd left her a message and sent her a couple of emails to arrange an interview.
Mandy: "I've been debating whether to call or not because I'm not going to be going back out to California."
Duke: "That's ok."
Mandy: "I'm just going to be doing Mid-West stuff. Amateur stuff from now on."
Duke: "I'd still like to talk to you."
Mandy: "Ok. Ask away."
Duke: "When you were a little girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Mandy: "A doctor."
Duke: "What happened to that dream?"
Mandy: "I moved out at 17 and needed to pay bills. I turned 18 and started porn."
Duke: "What did your family expect you to become?"
Mandy: "They expected me to become a nurse at the least. They're still expecting that.
"I was a very good student in highschool but the last year I didn't go. I met a boyfriend [her current fiance, they're marrying in August]. I've always liked men and sex more than anything else.
"He lived an hour-and-a-half south of me. I decided I needed to be an hour-and-a-half south instead of home. I got my GED."
Duke: "Did you go to college?"
Mandy: "A little bit. I started classes but I never finished. All my traveling. I'd much rather do that.
"I don't have a driver's license. When you're 16, you can get a temporary license. That's what I have.
"I was a very bad child. I used to get smoking fine. Where I'm from [in Wisconsin], if you get caught smoking, it's a $150 fine. I got caught smoking many times. I refused to pay the fines because I'm really stubborn. Now they won't let me get my license until I pay off all my fines (about $3,000). I put stuff off. I'm bad."
Duke: "What kind of crowd did you hang out with in highschool?"
Mandy: "The skaters and people who ditched classes to go outside and smoke cigarettes and smoke pot [started at 15 but quit by 18]."
Duke: "What were your best classes?"
Mandy: "Math and science. Straight As all the way."
Duke: "How old were you the first time you had sex?"
Mandy: "Twelve. Nothing happened really. I got a boyfriend. Everybody else was doing it."
Mandy doesn't like shopping for clothes. "I hate shopping. It's horrible. Long lines and everything. I don't like to be in stores where it is crowded and all these people around. I get agitated standing in line while people count their change. I'm a quiet person.
"Porn is a lot easier than meeting someone random on the street."
Mandy has appeared in 18 porn movies and done over 100 amateur websites as well as calendars and car shows. She began as a webcam girl in 2001.
Duke: "What's the craziest thing someone has had you do professionally?"
Mandy: "Jim Lane stuck me in a dog cage in a five-guy blowbang. The guys were making monkey noises. He's a crazy director. He's awesome."
Duke: "You look like a touch chick. I bet you could give a good punch."
Mandy: "I've had a few run-ins. I'm calm and mellow now, but back in the day I got in a lot of trouble. I was sanctioned in jail [at age 15] for ten days in juvenile detention for not paying a smoking fine. Some blonde bimbo there decided to throw her lunch tray over my head because I was too mouthy. It started a huge fight. Her friend jumped in. The judge wanted to make an example of us. He gave me two battery-to-inmates, which are felonies.
"I had to wear a bracelet around my ankle for almost a year.
"I saw the girl and she had to wait on me. She was a waitress. Then she lost that job and she was bagging my groceries last week. She has a nice scar under her eye. I bit her under her eye. There were two girls on top of me. It was an all-out chick fight.
"She was glaring at me. I didn't know if she was going to throw my groceries at my head. She didn't ask me if I wanted paper or plastic."
Duke: "How much time did you spend in prison or juvenile detention, whatever it is called?"
Mandy: "Probably four months. Ever since I was 17, I haven't gotten into any trouble. Nothing criminal."
Duke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"
Mandy: "I love blowjobs. I hate all the drama."
Duke: "But you are right there in the middle."
Mandy: "It's all the jaded people. It's insane."
Duke: "What were the repercussions to you from the Missy Monroe controversy?"
Mandy: "I don't think any. I don't think anyone's blacklisted in porn. There are people who steal company checks and they're still working. If anything, it gave me more exposure."
Duke: "How come you are not coming back to Los Angeles to make movies?"
Mandy: "I don't like to travel. I just spent three weeks out there. Three weeks is way too long to be away from home. There's too much drama [in LA]. I like to be home in the Mid-West."
Mandy has had her website for eight months. "I'm not smart enough to build a members area and I don't want to give my money away to someone to build it."
Taylor spends her spare time gaming. "A lot of my clients come from gaming.
"I want to go back to school and become a nurse, like my fiance."
Duke: "How has being a porn star affected the way other people react to you?"
Taylor: "Not many people around me know what I do. My neighborhood just found out two months ago. They won't allow their kids over here anymore. My fiance has a six-year old daughter. She plays with all the neighbor's kids. But since the guy I walk my dog with found me on a website, he showed it to everybody at the bar up the road. They all passed it around, including to my future mother-in-law. Nobody wants their kids over here anymore because I'm dangerous."
Duke: "Do people shun you?"
Taylor: "I never really talk to them anyway. You don't hear a lot of kids running rampant through the house anyway. It's a good trade-off."
Duke: "Did you lose any friends over it?"
Taylor: "Nope. All my friends are totally accepting of it."
Duke: "Does your fiance know what you do?"
Taylor: "Oh yes. He's done a few of these with me. I have a travel partner, Ashleigh Aska. She doesn't do professional porn but stuff back here. We'll drive 16 hours to New York or to Missouri or Indiana..."
Duke: "How did you select the name 'Mandy Taylor'?"
Taylor: "I started off as Vanessa. I worked for a site called PantyhoseAddict. They refused to put Vanessa as my name because I didn't look like a Vanessa. So they decided to call me Mandy. I went with it and picked a last name out of the phone book."
Duke: "Has anyone in the industry tried to scam you?"
Taylor: "I had a suitcase pimp when I first went out there who was a real piece of work -- James Dominic."
Duke: "What does he do?"
Taylor: "He spends his time threatening to break girls' legs or send their porn home to their parents. He claims to be an agent. He is the best friend of Renee at New Sensations. Whenever I have a go-see with Renee, she glares at me and is really mean. So I won't step foot in that building."
Duke: "Who else has been creepy?"
Taylor: "Leonard at PGI (Pretty Girl International). Shane and Beth at PGI are awesome. But Leonard, who is technically the driver, tells people he owns PGI. I went out to California with Genesis Skye and another girl, Danielle Stokes. He would take us on his little drug runs. He would play his favorites. I was his favorite for a while until I started telling Shane I didn't want to go on Leonard's little drug runs. Leonard badmouths people. He's bald and creepy."
Duke: "Did anyone try to have sex with you on your go-sees?"
Taylor: "No. Someone asked me if I would blow Leonard. Leonard was in the office. I started laughing really loud. I don't think Leonard liked that."
Duke: "Anyone bounce a check to you?"
Taylor: "No. Thank G-d."
Mandy says she was with at least 20 men before she turned 18.
Duke: "Would you say you're a slut?"
Mandy: "Most definitely. In my personal life, I'm only with one person. But workwise, I'm a slut."
Duke: "For how long can you see yourself doing sex on camera?"
Mandy: "Until my p----- don't work no more. As long as people want to keep paying me, I'll keep doing it."
Mandy, 22, has never been outside the United States.
Mandy: "There's this one crazy girl, Sarah Calls. She tried to run me over with her car in highschool because I slept with her boyfriend on Homecoming night. I wasn't allowed to go to Homecoming because I had gotten into trouble at school. Her boyfriend lived down the block from me. We went over there and were drinking.
"The next year, I transferred into her school. She got pregnant. So a crazy pregnant woman tried to run me over in her car. But she never laid a hand on me. Good reflexes."
Duke: "How did your parents react when you became a porn star?"
Mandy: "My dad thinks it's cool. He thinks I might become some big mainstream person. I think he's a nutcase. That's how all porn works, right? I have no acting skills, yet I'm going to become some mainstream thing? Yeah. I just let him think that and he's happy about it.
"My mom pretends it doesn't happen."
Duke: "They must've been worried to death about you when you were a teenager. You sound like you were big trouble."
Mandy: "Yes. My parents divorced when I was two. I don't remember my parents being together.
"I was a pain in the ass. I'd go out windows and stuff. I lived mostly with my dad because I didn't get along with my mom. My dad remarried and divorced again.
"Growing up, I was stubborn. He wanted to be the boss of the house. He couldn't realize that I was the boss of the house. We fought a lot. But ever since I moved out, we've had the best relationship in the world."
Duke: "Does he watch your movies?"
Mandy: "No. That would be creepy. I don't tell them what my porno name is. My fiance watches my movies. He likes them. He critiques them all the time. That I should've been talking more, or that wasn't a good position or that outfit didn't make me look good."
Duke: "Do you get recognized?"
Mandy: "Once or twice. I was sitting in the airport bar and this creepy guy grabbed my arm. He thought we should go have a quickie in the bathroom. I told him I had to go catch my flight. Hmm, I'm not sitting in airport bars anymore."
Duke: "Do women get jealous or catty?"
Mandy: "I have only a few friends who are girls (Genesis Skye, Ashley Aska, and a few non-porno friends). I don't generally get along with women. All my friends are guys.
"I'm not the type to sit and talk about make-up and boys and all that crap. I find their little habits annoying."
Duke: "Do you notice any similar traits among girls who do porn?"
Mandy: "Most of them started having sex at a younger age. Almost everybody in porn smokes pot. You'd have to say that most porno women were molested.
"I don't spend much time talking to the girls. I was at this Sybian shoot and I wanted to hit each one of the girls. There were seven of them. All they could talk about was becoming a home-maker and marrying a surgeon.
"I squirted gallons on that [Sybian] thing. And I normally don't squirt in my movies. I recommend everyone buy one for their girlfriend or wife."
Mandy and her fiance found Genesis Skye in a Yahoo chatroom. They asked her to model. They brought her into their bedroom. The rest is history.
5/19/05
Genesis Skye: No Call, No Show, No Woman, No Cry
Mandy Taylor, who discovered Genesis Skye, posts on XPT:
How freaking lovely. Was supposed to be here at 3pm... now 4:30pm and still no call. Costed us all money over here.
Yeapeers..... That's why I'm in such a great mood right now.... I normally wouldn't post about it but hell thought such betrayal that I felt the want to.
I have come to the conclusion she is rude and inconsiderate. And as far as I am concerned our friendship is over. Friends dont f--- over friends. Oh well I have plenty more.
Monstar asks Mandy: Does this change your outlook on the Missy Monroe thing?
Mandy responds:
Doesn't change what I said about the missy thing in the least. Everything I said was true. And I never saw her do anything but pot and whippits.
She is most likely partying yes..its her birthday... her 21st.. what she is doing I have no clue. Would love to hear the excuse though. And I am 45mins from where she is in Wisconsin and she has been to my house and its a relatively short drive.
She knew people were taking off of work and driving 4hours to shoot today just because she is in town. She called me needing $$.
Valid reason from her? hehehheheh Thats being optimistic! Her laundry list of reasons are usually... I slept to late... broke up with boyfriend...phone died... car problems... traffic. She has always been late but has never no call no showed till now. But I doubt theres a good reason. Oh and the time i was locked out of her house and had to sit outside from 10pm till 9am... She couldnt be bothered to answer her phone during the whole time bc she was partying... good reason!
All I know is i have NEVER EVER been booked for a shoot and cancelled or missed it. I have always managed to be where i am supposed to every day for the last 4yrs of my tiny career. I may not do alot of movies but I do about 4photo shoots a wk on average for the past 4yrs.... Amazing how i make it to them.
I can assure you she is fine and healthy and living and is just being a huge immature ass and not calling and doing what Genesis does best. If she was in a garbage bag right now I could prob careless. Im not about to deal with the "Im a porn star and a princess" and cant make it.
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Please God, I beg thee, have this thread reach its full potential. Make it as good as I know it can be. Thank you.
Monstar writes: "Somewhere in a darkend lair, while "even the night's are better" softly plays in the background, Ol' Luke just smiled."
5/22/05
Ok, first off... the reason I haven't called is because I'm not going to listen to you bitch and bitch for hours. If everyone wants to sit on a f---ing board and talk s---, let them! Post whatever you want on lukeisback.com No big f---ing deal. Why don't you all pick up the phone and call the bar that my phone sat at for 2 days. Hence why all you got was voicemail. I also talked to Chris from Cyberstation the day I got my phone back. He was actually worried. All I have to say is how I love the fact that everyone is so quick to jump to a conclusion belted out by someone who knows nothing. You all sit here talking s--- about people you don't even know... and monkey... you never borrowed me ANY money. The only person who's ever borrowed me money is Brett. And I also never begged for work. I thought it'd be fun to come home and do some shoots like old times. It was $200- possible $400 shoot. If it means that much to Mandy I will give her the f---ing money. As for everything else... Believe what you will. Rumors are fun for a while so talk away!
Porn star Mandy Taylor responds:
It does mean that much because you were inconsiderate. I tried calling you a million times. I told you the day before.... The photographer is taking off of work just to shoot you and driving 4hours .. So ok he makes 29$ bucks an hour times 12hrs he works...So $348.... How about that gas money then? And the money spent on tapes n s---. Money I lost Gen? I didnt shoot that day and I didnt webcam... So you got $300 for me too? YOU PROMISED YOU would not screw me over. And you lied to me. You never had any intentions of coming. And you should have called reguardless if i was bitching. Live up to your actions. Im not posting runmors... Im posting you didnt show. And thats the truth.
** Was planning a $600 shoot Gen, would know if u called me that day. For 1.5hrs of ur time.**