There has to be more to the story than this. Why pay $1M for this video? No doubt there are thousands of Vivid videos currently on torrent right now. It seems they could just go after those people.
I doubt it. Porn companies do do this (it happened to someone I know), but they generally don’t collect that much money. Even when people settle, the lawyer takes their cut. Plus, the courts are starting to catch on to this scam and people are counter suing, so this is not the course of action most porn companies use to get money anymore. It’s usually not worth the effort
I would bet this is more so a matter of both parties agreeing to say that the deal is worth a million when the reality is it will pay far less. Kinda like NFL contracts. That said, Vivid will likely make a good amount of money due to web traffic and video sales. Probably not enough to justify paying her that much, but maybe they think it’s worth it as an investment.
I could believe they made a deal “worth” $1M. They pay $X up front and then Y% of the profits until $1M is reached. If the video is wildly successful, then she makes $1M. Otherwise, it’s dependent on what the sales are.
I suppose Grandad took the grandkid to the park after dropping off Mom at the lawyers’ office for her negotiations. At least I hope it was something like that. 'Cause there’s family values and then there’s family values, y’know.
I’d like to think that. But according to the report, “The rookie porn actress was even spotted entering a negotiations meeting with her father and daughter.” That seems pretty unambiguous that her daughter was there in the room.
James Deen is on track to become a relatively household name - perhaps the next legendary male of porn. My somewhat degenerate but generally integrated friends and I are familiar with him and his, ahem, work. As far as the semi-mainstream is concerned, before this he did ‘The Canyons’ with Lindsey Lohan, and in searching for that I found this video of him saying that wearing condoms violates his first amendment rights. Interesting. Aside from that, I’m familiar with him from a few sexy videos he’s done, including one made to look like a homemade scene involving two bored girls and a pool…
In the world of the porn star, any publicity is definitely good publicity.
Or at least in the office. In which case, may I add:
Ew
Just showing up with my legal-adult offspring to back them up in negotiations for sale of something called “Backdoor Teen Mom”, would make me feel kind of squirmy. Nevermind bringing the preschooler along. They’d potentially expose themselves to some nice people with clipboards showing up asking questions.
Oh, come on now. He or she mentioned Jews, Feminists, and Zionists. What more proof of rational good intent could you ask for? For fuck’s sake, the ALL CAPS on the IMPORTANT WORDS were right there. It’s like you didn’t even notice the repeated references to anuses.
Apparently the first day access of the Vivid site not only blew Kim K’s record out of the water (2 million views vice 600,000) but also crashed the servers for seven minutes.
( there is no way to type or read that sentence without innuendo…)
I wonder whether the interest was in her or her costar.