I was chatting this weekend with a successful Hollywood screenwriter-director. He said, "I often hear that porn is a bigger industry than Hollywood, yet none of the pornographers I meet are rich. And when I go to the places that rich people hang out, there are never porn people. Nor do these rich people know pornographers."
Yeah, these rich mother fuckas don’t want to be sayins they got their money in the porn game so they just lie.
A DUH!!
Well, a great deal of people in Hollywood made their money doing porn, or they used it as a stepping stone to mainstream. Here is a couple who produced/directed porn;
Frances Ford Coppola
Wes Craven
Now look at the recent success story of someone who did porn who is now a mainstream Hollywood director -GREGORY DARK.
Saying there are no rich pornographers is ridiculous. You don’t think Steven Hirsch, Chris Alexander, Steve Orenstein and David Joseph have palatial estates and expensive cars?
Sure there are wealthy pornographers. They live with the same stigma as everybody else in the industry.
temple
I don’t think that there are that many rich people in porn, but I do think that there are a lot of people that never had much of an income, and once they start making a middle class income they think they are rich.
It all depends on how you distinguish “rich.” There is probably no one in porn who’s going to make the Forbes list. But there is a good number whose total annual earnings would put them into the top 5% of incomes.
I’m sure they’re rich in satisfaction over a job well done.