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Scott Michael Esposito Interview

3/23/05

I call my advertiser (son of Michael Esposito of Gentlemen's Video) Wednesday morning.

Duke: "How did you get into the adult industry?"

Scott, born in 1971: "My dad has been in the industry [since 1977]... Five years ago, I started from the bottom [at Gentlemen's Video] and worked my way through. I did everything, from cleaning up, shipping, getting product, sales, accounts payable, accounts receivable... He had me do everything from top to bottom. Right now we're heading up DVDs. We do our own replication. We head up our own internet too."

Esposito sites include: Bossbitches2.com, Trannies2.com, Squirterz.com, Banginthebiway.com, GentsDVD.com, Sxxx.com, Rednail.com, KingDVD.com.

Duke: "Out of everything you've done in the industry, what have you enjoyed the most and the least?"

Scott: "I've enjoyed that I've known a lot of the people in the industry for a long time. They've known me since I was a kid. I have a good rapport with people who are higher-up in a lot of major companies. It makes it easier for us to get product from them and it helps us with sales. My least favorite thing was starting out and running around being a gopher. That was tough for me -- starting at the bottom.

"[Prior to porn,] I worked in the restaurant industry in New York City for 15 years.

"I've been around the adult industry pretty much my entire life. I knew it as a business. My dad always taught me that side of it. Anything I've gone into, I've always looked at it as a business. Dealing with people is basically the same [in any business].

"The hours in our industry are better than the hours in the restaurant industry. Growing up in New York, bars were open until 4am. Some nights you work until 5am and you've got to be back at 10am.

"I have a set lifestyle now. Monday through Saturday I'll work. I know I'll have a day off. I know I'll have my evenings free."

Duke: "This industry is easier to make a living at?"

Scott: "Definitely."

Duke: "Has anyone threatened your life within the industry?"

Scott laughs: "No."

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

Scott: "No."

Divorced, he's single.

Duke: "By what age did you realize what industry your father was working in?"

Scott: "Quite a young age.

"It makes it a lot easier for me. I know my father. We're not a fly-by-night company. But we keep under the radar as well because of the niches that we do. We don't do the so-called pretty girl stuff.

"I moved to Los Angeles in late 1998. I grew up in [Copiague, Long Island,] New York. I got married. My then-wife and I moved to Arizona in 1995. When we split up, I came right to LA. My father offered me an opportunity to learn inside-and-out... The technology was on the verge of changing with DVDs. I helped bring him along.

"Nothing surprises me in the industry. It's always been able to adapt."

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

Scott: "I always wanted to do what made me happy. That's what my mother and father taught me."

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

Scott chuckles. "An interesting bunch of characters. Rough-and-tumble. Street kids. Hung out all over New York. Never really got into a lot of trouble, knock on wood... I graduated. I got out. A lot of my friends didn't. A lot of them ended up in various places."

Duke: "Like prison?"

Scott: "Umm... I'd prefer to say that they ended up in various places. You can take it as that. It became evident, the older I got, that I wanted to move away because most of the people in my neighborhood lived in their parent's house until their parents retired. And they lived in that house and had kids. It isn't a bad thing. It was just something I knew I didn't want to do.

"It was an interesting mix of people and it taught me how to deal with a lot of situations early in life.

"My father moved to LA in June of 1976. I stayed in New York with my mother. My mother and father split up. I would see my father three times a year. I'd come out during the entire summer and during the holidays in December and April."

Duke: "What's the most amazing thing you've seen in the adult business?"

Scott: "When I first went to [CES] in Las Vegas. I was about 18. In one booth, you'd see Vanessa Del Rio and Hulk Hogan was three booths down. Around the way was Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It had a comic book vendor and movie stars and athletes and adult. You could have everything. I spent three days in awe, just walking around meeting everybody from porn stars to regular movie stars.

"I've always managed to get my dad to take me to the shows."

Duke: "What's your favorite kind of porn?"

Scott: "I definitely like pretty girls with pretty girls."

Duke: "Do you appear in Banginthebiway?"

Scott: "I do not."

Duke: "It sure looks like you."

Scott: "I'm going to have to send Rob [Spallone] down to your office.

"How did you become such good friends with Rob? How did you stay such good friends with Rob for all these years?"

Duke: "He enjoys the drama I create. He collects people who amuse him. He collects retarded people, homeless people..."

Scott: "He's the only guy I know who can be in the Daily News on the front page in an article. If there's anything about the adult industry, there's Rob. It's like he has every reporter in his back pocket.

"There are a few people in this industry who are genuine caring people. When you know these people, like my father, Rob, Vinny [DeStephano], for a long time, you know what their character is. People look at our industry and they don't see what kind of people we are. They just look at it as pornography. But we're family. I try to have dinner with my dad every Sunday. When I tell people what I do, they look at me. But when they get to know me, [they see] that I'm just a regular guy. I stay out of trouble."

Duke: "You're single and ready to mingle and Banginthebiway."

Scott: "Stop with that. I'm going to send you midget transsexual porn every day."