I hear they lost their law suit and an injunction has been placed on their homes to pay the vendors product they were distributing, seems they were switching around the books so the producers royalties wouldn’t match, now they are booking talent sideways and screwing them, by not paying them after signing their model releases, rumor has it they haven’t been showing up at their offices as much recently due to all the karma hitting them.
The producer that won the lawsuit against Anarchy (5th Element, Python, and others) is a gentleman named Ron Atkins of Nasty Pixxx.
Before entering the courtroom doors Anarchy tried to settle last minute yet Ron knew he had plenty of proof. Ron won and now there’s an injunction on the family’s homes.
I hear that the female talent Anarchy stiffed was Nina Stevens with doublexxxposure.com.
On top of that Scott Michaels — artist for (Voyeur, Combat Zone, Northstar, Smash and others) — was owed thousands of dollars for covers he designed for Anarchy. He says they refused to pay him. The matter is going to court.
Anarchy labels include 5th Element and Python.
Come on you guys. Anyone who knows them or knows the way they do business is going to get screwed! (Just ask D. Sturman) that’s how they got there start is by F-ing him in the first place. I do not do business with them never have, I do know some people that have in the past and not one of those people have had anything good to say. They will ask you to go shoot movies, when the talent (male & female), location, camera person/director and even the PA comes in to get a check the scramble around and make excuses. And when you finally do get it like a month or two later you have a 50/50 no an 80/20 chance it will be good. It is so bad the local check chasing places know the company and will not take them. From what I hear no one really knows who runs the place, the father, the mother the two brothers all say that they are in control, they fight for it. What I don’t understand is how do you control something that is out control? The thing is they have screwed a lot of good people even friends of mine. I just do not think it is right. I do not know what kind of deal Ron had with them, I know 5 th Element is a distribution co. so be careful out there.
I was the designer that got screwed. I took them to a small claims court and lost. The judge sided Anarchy because they “stretch the truth” about signing off on projects that I turned in and I didn’t have proof that I did turned it in. Also I did lose money thru 5th Element/Jewel De’Nyle. Jewel and Oren said as soon as I turned in all her items I would get paid but it never happened. I did it in good faith and it came back to haunt me. I did learn something from court. My suggestion for anybody doing business is make sure people sign off on the project and make sure you keep it somewhere safe.