COLT Studio Group
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Overview
It has produced all-male eroticaErotica
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for over 40 years. Started in New York City
New York City
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in 1967, moved to Los Angeles
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for twenty five years and is now based in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
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. COLT Studio Group is the umbrella company for other brands such as:
- COLT Studio - If the look is Masculine, the name is COLT!
- Buckshot Productions - Clean boys doing dirty things!
- COLT Minute Man Solo Series - Bigger IS Better!
- Olympus Studio - The Best of Both Worlds!
- The Legendary Bodies Series - The Pinnacle of Masculine Erotica!
- COLT Gear
- Buckshot Toys
- COLT Leather
- COLT Basics
- COLT Mobile
- COLT Cash
- COLT Publications (magazines, note cards and calendars)
COLT also produces and distributes content online through its website and adult video retailers worldwide. The company licenses the COLT and Buckshot trademark for the COLT Gear, Buckshot Toys novelty line as well as COLT Leather apparel, COLT Calendars, COLT and Buckshot Magazines, and soon to be COLT Bars worldwide. COLT is known as the "Playboy
Playboy
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" of all-male erotica.
COLT Studio was founded by photographer Jim French
Jim French (photographer)
Jim French is an American photographer who under the pseudonym Rip Colt created Colt Studio to publish, what were to become, his iconic homoerotic images in the books, magazines and calendars that presented French's work exclusively and set a new standard for idealized masculinity in...
. French sold the company to John Rutherford and his life-partner Tom Settle (dba Prowest Media).
In 2003 John Rutherford, previously of Falcon Studios, and his life-partner Tom Settle (dba Prowest Media) purchased the company and changed the name to COLT Studio Group.
In 2007, COLT Studio Group celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
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signed a proclamation declaring February 23, 2007 as "Colt Studio Day" in celebration of this anniversary. This proclamation was very controversial, attracting criticism from conservative commentators including Fox News'
Fox News Channel
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Bill O'Reilly
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On June 3, 2010, Prowest Media filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and owners Rutherford and Settle concurrently filed for chapter 7 protection.; the largest creditor in the one Prowest filing is COLT founder, Jim French
Jim French
James French may refer to:* James R. French, American aerospace engineer* James French , American criminal, last Oklahoma pre-Furman execution* Jim French , New Mexican cowboy...
, with a (ALLEGED) secured debt of $1.45 million listed.http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=129755
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