Extreme Associates
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Extreme Associates, formerly known as Extreme and Extreme 2.0, is a pornographic film producer, featuring a catalog of DVD
titles and Internet
content. It is owned by Rob Zicari
("Rob Black") and his wife Janet Romano
("Lizzy Borden"). The studio's material is controversial, with its films often featuring erotic humiliation
and rough sex
. Extreme has faced legal charges of obscenity
in the U.S. It is associated with another adult film company, Evolution Erotica
.
Extreme Associates evolved from Rob Zicari
's former company, Extreme Video. It became known as Extreme Associates in 1997 when Zicari, Tom Byron
and Van Damage
broke away from Patrick Collins
' Elegant Angel
and formed their own company. Tom Byron and Van Damage have since left the company. Janet Romano started to work for Zicari in 1998, first as an actress and then as a director.
In 2003, it was indicted by the U.S. federal government on obscenity
charges. The company is known for being controversial, as it has engaged in public relations wars with Vivid Video, Patrick Collins and his company Elegant Angel, Paul Fishbein and his publication Adult Video News, and Larry Flynt
.
Extreme Associates has been featured on America's Most Wanted
, Nightline with Ted Koppel
and The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart
, and also in publications such as TIME Magazine and Details Magazine
. The company is the subject of the documentaries: PBS Frontline: American Porn (2002) and The Porn King vs. The President, and co-owner Lizzy Borden
recently stated that there are more documentaries about the company in the process of being filmed.
Extreme Associates operated a professional wrestling
promotion called Xtreme Pro Wrestling
(XPW) from 1999 to 2003.
In March 2006 Extreme became the exclusive U.S. distributor for Shots Video Netherlands. The Dutch company is responsible for series like Men’s Lounge, Bi Sex, Clinic Sex and Deep Throat Anal. Shots had been the exclusive European distributor for Extreme Associates since 2004.
In April 2006 Extreme films were added to AdultRental.com's video on demand service.
Starting in May 2006 the studio's content could be downloaded to the iPod
and PSP
.
In February 2007 Extreme signed a deal to be the exclusive distributor of all-black studio Baller Nation's films.
In September 2007 the company announced it would be halting DVD
sales, and would be distributing content exclusively through its video on demand
service, ExtremeVOD.com, which was launched in February 2006. The decision was taken due to the general downturn in porn DVD sales, and the refusal of some retailers to stock the studio's films.
Extreme posts approximately one hour's worth of free content on numerous "porn tube" websites every month, in the form of clips lasting just a few minutes. Black thinks the various 'Porn 2.0
' user-generated content
sites are useful for spreading brand awareness, even if it is difficult to measure how much this increases sales.
s, was covered in the PBS Frontline documentary American Porn which aired on February 7, 2002; the makers of the documentary were repulsed and walked off the set. Zicari was interviewed in the documentary; he defended the company's content and challenged Attorney General
John Ashcroft
to take action against him. Zicari stated in an interview for the program, "We've got tons of stuff they technically could arrest us for. I'm not out there saying I want to be the test case. But I will be the test case. I would welcome that. I would welcome the publicity. I would welcome everything, to make a point in, I guess, our society". These scenes possibly led to the subsequent undercover operation by federal authorities.
On April 8, 2003, the premises of Extreme Associates were raided by federal agents, and five videos were seized. The United States Postal Inspection Service
and the Pornography Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
's Organized Crime and Vice Division had conducted the investigation leading to the indictment. On September 5, 2002 a U.S. postal inspector had joined the Extreme website. Postal inspectors then viewed clips on the site, and ordered three videotapes which were sent to a postal agent in Pittsburgh. On August 6, 2003 Black, Borden and the company were indicted by a federal grand jury
in Pittsburgh on ten counts of the production and distribution by mail and the Internet of obscene pornographic materials. Zicari and Romano faced a maximum total sentence of fifty years in prison, a fine of $2,500,000, or both. Extreme Associates, Inc. faced a maximum total sentence of a term of probation of fifty years and a fine of $5,000,000. The prosecution also sought forfeiture of the films charged in the indictment, all gross profits from the
distribution of the films, and all property used to facilitate the alleged crimes, including the domain name extremeassociates.com. At the time it was the first major federal obscenity prosecution in ten years.
Zicari's company is located in North Hollywood near Los Angeles
, however the indictment and trial took place in the Western District of Pennsylvania
, from where undercover agents had ordered the offending materials, and video clips had been downloaded. Extreme also posted videotapes and DVDs to a distributor in the district. It has been alleged the authorities chose this area of Pennsylvania
because they believed a conviction for obscenity would be easier to achieve in that socially conservative district than in California, as a jury would be more likely to agree the material offended the standards of its local community, which is part of the Miller Test
used to judge obscenity in the U.S.
The trial has been seen as a test case of the acceptable limits of pornography.Mary Beth Buchanan
was the federal prosecutor in the case. In an interview on 60 Minutes
she said, "We have just had a proliferation of this type of material that has been getting increasingly worse and worse. And that's why it's important to enforce the law, and to show the producers that there are limits. There are limits to what they can sell and distribute throughout the country" Ms. Buchanan has also stated that "The lack of enforcement of federal obscenity laws during the 1990s has led to a proliferation of obscenity throughout the United States, such as the violent and degrading material charged in this case." Buchanan has said that Zicari's comments on the Frontline program "helped us to determine that this was not a producer who was trying to comply with the law"
Zicari remained in business during the trial; he continued to market and sell the five tapes that are at the center of the prosecution as The Federal Five, with a portion of the sales price going to his defense fund. Note that buyers of those materials do not break the law, since mere possession of obscenity (unlike production and distribution) is not illegal. The involved movies are
The prosecution also charged the defendants with transmitting six obscene video clips over the Internet through the extremeassociates.com website. The six video clips were entitled "valeriejospit", "jewel", "PZ Summer Breeze", "dp-gangbang-7gen-X", "miacum" and "analasspirations1", and ranged in length from 37 seconds to two minutes, 54 seconds.
During a hearing in November 2004, Zicari's lawyer H. Louis Sirkin argued that the right to privacy gave individuals the constitutional right to view offending materials in private, a right which cannot be meaningfully exercised without a corresponding right of companies to distribute such materials. The prosecution countered that an individual's right to privacy is unrelated to a company's right to commercial distribution.
The defense moved to dismiss the indictments on the grounds that federal obscenity statutes violated the constitutional guarantees of privacy and liberty that were protected by the due process
clause. Referencing Lawrence v. Texas
and Stanley v. Georgia
the defense argued there is a fundamental right to sexual privacy which includes the right to possess and view sexually explicit material in one's own home. The defense argued that this right was not affected by the fact that the material does not have any literary or artistic merit, and that since the federal obscenity laws imposed a complete ban on materials which people have the right to possess, they were unconstitutional.
On January 20, 2005, District Court
Judge
Gary L. Lancaster
dropped the charges, agreeing with the defense that the federal anti-obscenity statutes were unconstitutional
, as they violated a person's fundamental right to possess and view whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. As a fundamental right had been violated, the government had to establish that a compelling state interest was involved. The prosecution argued that the government had a legitimate interest in protecting adults from unwitting exposure to obscenity, and protecting children from exposure to obscenity. These arguments were rejected by the court, which also ruled that the federal obscenity laws were not narrow enough to meet these interests, and could not justify a complete ban on obscene material. Lancaster ruled that children and unwitting adults are protected from the content because the website requires a credit card to join, and because software is available by which parents can restrict children's access to Internet pornography. The court did agree with the government that Lawrence had not created a new broad fundamental right to engage in any private sexual conduct. Instead the court relied on Stanley, which had established there was a fundamental right to private possession of obscene material. The court did rely on Lawrence for its assertion that the government could not use public morality as a legitimate state interest which justified the infringement of consensual, adult, private sexual conduct. The court also made reference to the dissenting opinion of Justice Scalia, who said that Lawrence had questioned the validity of U.S. obscenity laws, since the government could not enforce a moral code of conduct. Judge Lancaster also cited numerous constitutional scholars who had observed that the Lawrence ruling calls federal obscenity laws into question.
The Department of Justice (at the time headed by Alberto Gonzales
) announced on February 16, 2005 that it would appeal the ruling. That appeal was filed with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
on April 11, 2005, argued on October 19, 2005, and decided on December 8, 2005. The appeals court reversed the lower court and reinstated the suit against Zicari and Romano, ruling that the lower court had erred in setting aside the federal obscenity statutes, which had been repeatedly upheld in Supreme Court decisions.
On March 11, 2009 Extreme Associates and its owners plead guilty to the reinstated obscenity charges to avoid trial effectively shutting down the company. Extreme Associates also apparently took its website down concurrent with the plea.
and one-off films including;
Anal Blitzkrieg, Ass Clowns, Ass-Hole O Mio, Big Fat F.N. Tits, Black Cock Smokers, Cock Smokers, Cock Suckers, Cocktails, Creampie Milkshakes, Cum Catchers, Depravity in Deutschland, Euro Cuntz, Extreme Amateurs, Extreme Brazil, Extreme Gang Bang, Extreme Teen, Extremely Yours, Face Down Ass Up, Filth Files, Filthy Lil' Porn-A-Bees, From the Balcony, Fuck Pigs, Geisha Gash, German Whore Fare, Ghetto Bitches, Go Fuck Yerself, Goo Gallery, Great American Ass, House of Whores, In The Days of Whore, Last Breath, Let Us Prey, Lewd Archives, Lower Extremities, Luciano's Lucky Ladies, Man Smokers, Oral Hygiene, S.I.D.S., Slap Happy, Spank Those Bitches, Spare Parts, The Adventures Of Mammary Man And Jugg Woman, The Adventures Of Porno Man, Whack Attack and What Lurks in the Shadows.
on the Internet. The studio's content has been described as "extremely violent", "shocking", "slasher porn" and "patently offensive
". In an interview with Salon.com
Borden said of Extreme's content, "It's disgusting but I like to watch it because it's shocking". Borden and Zicari compare their films to slasher films and some reality television
, which people watch in order to be shocked. Talking to ABC News
about his films, Zicari said, "You might not like what you had just seen. It might have disturbed you, it might have repulsed you, it might have given you all sorts of emotions. But are you going to limit and be that person that has the right to say 200 million other citizens cannot watch that because you don't like it?"
series, created and directed by Brandon Iron
and distributed by EA. The scenes are filmed in a gonzo
style and feature male dominance
. Iron is the sole male performer in all scenes. Each scene features Iron with one female performer who performs fellatio
. Iron holds the female performer's head stationary with his hands, while continually slap
ping her in the face and verbally abusing her as she continues fellating him. In many scenes, the woman vomits as a result of being gagged by Iron's penis. Iron initially offered the series to 34 companies before Black agreed to distribute it.
Actresses who have worked for Extreme Associates include Alana Evans
, Alexandra Nice
, Amber Lynn
, Anastasia Blue
, Ashlyn Gere
, Bridget the Midget
, Heather Gables
, Iroc, Jasmin St. Claire
, Jessica Darlin
, Jewel De'Nyle
, Juanita Chong, Kendra Jade, Kristi Myst
, Lizzy Borden
(who is also a producer and director), Monique DeMoan
, Nikita Denise
, Stryc-9, Tiffany Mynx
, and Veronica Caine (formerly Barrett Moore). Pro wrestler Nicole Bass
did some non-sex bondage videos for Extreme in 2000.
Kristi Myst broke down during the filming of In The Days of Whore. After having had anal sex for several hours with three men she was told that she had to do anal with another seven men, although she had not agreed to this before the shoot. At this point Myst began crying and wanted to walk off the set and quit the business rather than complete her scene. She eventually relented after being consoled by Tom Byron. Brandon Iron
who was present has said the incident was "the foulest thing I have ever witnessed" on a porn shoot.
Ashlyn Gere performed in several films after making a comeback from retirement. She appeared in titles including House of Whores and the Extremely Yours: Ashlyn Gere compilation.
Gia Paloma
had a contract with the studio until she left in May 2006. She was formerly married to EA director Coffee Ron. Kristi Myst also used to be an EA contract girl. Paris Gables is currently the company's main contract star, and has also directed. Gables initially went under contract in January 2005. By February 2006 she had appeared in almost a dozen films, and agreed to a one-year contract extension.
Extreme's current directors are Rob Black
, Lizzy Borden
, Shane Bugbee
, Mark Zane (also known as Alias), Ivan E. Rection, Chris Justice (also known as Chris Evans), Coffee Ron, and Thomas Zupko. Extreme's former directors include Matt Zane
, Ashlyn Gere
, David Luger, Derek Newblood, Gene Ross, Jane Waters, Luis Cypher (also known as Bobby Darlin), Luciano (Michael Stefano
), Scott Snot, Slain Wayne (Eric Brummer), Smiley Johnson, Tiffany Mynx
, Tom Byron
, Brandon Iron and Van Damage
.
Michael Stefano began his directing career with Extreme Associates in the mid-1990s under the name Luciano, before leaving to direct for Red Light District Video
and other studios.
Thomas Zupko initially directed for the company from 2000 till 2003. His debut film was In the Days of Whore. After leaving he worked for Elegant Angel
, Sin City
and Hustler Video
, before returning to Extreme as a contract director in May 2006. The first film of his second stint was Lisa Ann Defiled.
Church of Satan
member Shane Bugbee directs the satanism-themed Club Satan series. The first title, Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath was released in early 2007. Several crew-members
and performers walked off the set of the film when an actor was asked to ejaculate
upon and then smash a model of Jesus Christ's head. Actor Rick Masters said that Bugbee had "gone too far".
, and often pays performers late. He also criticizes the allegation on Extreme's website that Jewel De'Nyle's father committed incest
, and alleges that Extreme evades tax by paying retailers and distributors cash in hand.
President of Adult Video News Paul Fishbein has said EA produces "horrible, unwatchable, disgusting, aberrant movies"
DVD
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titles and Internet
Internet
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content. It is owned by Rob Zicari
Rob Zicari
Robert D. Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black is an American pornographer and former professional wrestling promoter. Together with his wife Janet Romano he owns the porn company Extreme Associates....
("Rob Black") and his wife Janet Romano
Janet Romano
Janet Romano-Zicari, better known as Lizzy Borden, is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet...
("Lizzy Borden"). The studio's material is controversial, with its films often featuring erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation
Erotic humiliation is the consensual use of psychological humiliation in a sexual context, whereby one person gains arousal or erotic excitement from the powerful emotions of being humiliated and demeaned, or of humiliating another; often in conjunction with sexual stimulation of one or both...
and rough sex
Rough Sex
Rough Sex is a single by Lords Of Acid, and was released in 1992. Remixes of "Rough Sex" were done by Joey Beltram, and the CD includes "Take Control" as a B-side...
. Extreme has faced legal charges of obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...
in the U.S. It is associated with another adult film company, Evolution Erotica
Evolution Erotica
Evolution Erotica is an pornographic film production company, with a catalog of DVD titles and internet content. It is owned by Tom Byron, who also owns Tom Byron Pictures. Both studio's films are distributed by Byron's Evolution Distribution. Ricky D formerly worked as an editor for Evolution, and...
.
History
Rob Zicari
Robert D. Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black is an American pornographer and former professional wrestling promoter. Together with his wife Janet Romano he owns the porn company Extreme Associates....
's former company, Extreme Video. It became known as Extreme Associates in 1997 when Zicari, Tom Byron
Tom Byron
Tom Byron is an American pornographic actor and director. He is of Italian descent and is an alumnus of the University of Houston. He has also been credited as Tom Byrom, Tim Byron, Tom Bryon, Tom Bryan, and Tommy Byron...
and Van Damage
Van Damage
Van Damage , a former soldier in an elite Special Forces unit, is a former American Porn Star and also an acclaimed director, cameraman and producer in the pornography industry...
broke away from Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins (film)
Patrick Collins is an American pornographic film producer and director.He is the owner of Elegant Angel Productions and a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.-Adult film career:...
' Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel Productions is a pornographic film studio located in Canoga Park, California and owned by Patrick Collins. The company is considered one of the early pioneers of Gonzo pornography, and its films have won numerous awards.-History:...
and formed their own company. Tom Byron and Van Damage have since left the company. Janet Romano started to work for Zicari in 1998, first as an actress and then as a director.
In 2003, it was indicted by the U.S. federal government on obscenity
Obscenity
An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious...
charges. The company is known for being controversial, as it has engaged in public relations wars with Vivid Video, Patrick Collins and his company Elegant Angel, Paul Fishbein and his publication Adult Video News, and Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. is an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications . In 2003, Arena magazine listed him as the number one on the "50 Powerful People in Porn" list....
.
Extreme Associates has been featured on America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...
, Nightline with Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
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and The Daily Show
The Daily Show
The Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...
with Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian...
, and also in publications such as TIME Magazine and Details Magazine
Details (magazine)
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. The company is the subject of the documentaries: PBS Frontline: American Porn (2002) and The Porn King vs. The President, and co-owner Lizzy Borden
Janet Romano
Janet Romano-Zicari, better known as Lizzy Borden, is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet...
recently stated that there are more documentaries about the company in the process of being filmed.
Extreme Associates operated a professional wrestling
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
promotion called Xtreme Pro Wrestling
Xtreme Pro Wrestling
Xtreme Pro Wrestling is an independent professional wrestling promotion formerly owned by Extreme Associates CEO and director Rob Zicari, who appeared on shows under the name Rob Black. Zicari appeared on-camera as owner alongside his wife Lizzy Borden. The promotion focuses on hardcore wrestling,...
(XPW) from 1999 to 2003.
In March 2006 Extreme became the exclusive U.S. distributor for Shots Video Netherlands. The Dutch company is responsible for series like Men’s Lounge, Bi Sex, Clinic Sex and Deep Throat Anal. Shots had been the exclusive European distributor for Extreme Associates since 2004.
In April 2006 Extreme films were added to AdultRental.com's video on demand service.
Starting in May 2006 the studio's content could be downloaded to the iPod
IPod
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and PSP
PlayStation Portable
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.
In February 2007 Extreme signed a deal to be the exclusive distributor of all-black studio Baller Nation's films.
In September 2007 the company announced it would be halting DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
sales, and would be distributing content exclusively through its video on demand
Video on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...
service, ExtremeVOD.com, which was launched in February 2006. The decision was taken due to the general downturn in porn DVD sales, and the refusal of some retailers to stock the studio's films.
Extreme posts approximately one hour's worth of free content on numerous "porn tube" websites every month, in the form of clips lasting just a few minutes. Black thinks the various 'Porn 2.0
Porn 2.0
Porn 2.0, named after the Web 2.0 is a concept of internet-based websites featuring user-generated content. These ideas are sometimes described as intermediate social networking mediums using dynamics contents such as user-based categorizing, webcam hosting in ?tube as opposed to static contents in...
' user-generated content
User-generated content
User generated content covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles...
sites are useful for spreading brand awareness, even if it is difficult to measure how much this increases sales.
Obscenity prosecution
The filming of Lizzy Borden's movie Forced Entry, which included several simulated rapeRape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
s, was covered in the PBS Frontline documentary American Porn which aired on February 7, 2002; the makers of the documentary were repulsed and walked off the set. Zicari was interviewed in the documentary; he defended the company's content and challenged Attorney General
United States Attorney General
The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...
to take action against him. Zicari stated in an interview for the program, "We've got tons of stuff they technically could arrest us for. I'm not out there saying I want to be the test case. But I will be the test case. I would welcome that. I would welcome the publicity. I would welcome everything, to make a point in, I guess, our society". These scenes possibly led to the subsequent undercover operation by federal authorities.
On April 8, 2003, the premises of Extreme Associates were raided by federal agents, and five videos were seized. The United States Postal Inspection Service
United States Postal Inspection Service
The United States Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service. Its jurisdiction is defined as "crimes that may adversely affect or fraudulently use the U.S...
and the Pornography Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
's Organized Crime and Vice Division had conducted the investigation leading to the indictment. On September 5, 2002 a U.S. postal inspector had joined the Extreme website. Postal inspectors then viewed clips on the site, and ordered three videotapes which were sent to a postal agent in Pittsburgh. On August 6, 2003 Black, Borden and the company were indicted by a federal grand jury
Grand jury
A grand jury is a type of jury that determines whether a criminal indictment will issue. Currently, only the United States retains grand juries, although some other common law jurisdictions formerly employed them, and most other jurisdictions employ some other type of preliminary hearing...
in Pittsburgh on ten counts of the production and distribution by mail and the Internet of obscene pornographic materials. Zicari and Romano faced a maximum total sentence of fifty years in prison, a fine of $2,500,000, or both. Extreme Associates, Inc. faced a maximum total sentence of a term of probation of fifty years and a fine of $5,000,000. The prosecution also sought forfeiture of the films charged in the indictment, all gross profits from the
distribution of the films, and all property used to facilitate the alleged crimes, including the domain name extremeassociates.com. At the time it was the first major federal obscenity prosecution in ten years.
Zicari's company is located in North Hollywood near Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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, however the indictment and trial took place in the Western District of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sits in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. The Honorable Judge Gary L. Lancaster is currently Chief Judge of the Western Pennsylvania District...
, from where undercover agents had ordered the offending materials, and video clips had been downloaded. Extreme also posted videotapes and DVDs to a distributor in the district. It has been alleged the authorities chose this area of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
because they believed a conviction for obscenity would be easier to achieve in that socially conservative district than in California, as a jury would be more likely to agree the material offended the standards of its local community, which is part of the Miller Test
Miller test
The Miller test , is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.-History and details:The Miller test was developed in the...
used to judge obscenity in the U.S.
Mary Beth Buchanan
Mary Beth Buchanan, née Kotcella, , was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was nominated by George W...
was the federal prosecutor in the case. In an interview on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....
she said, "We have just had a proliferation of this type of material that has been getting increasingly worse and worse. And that's why it's important to enforce the law, and to show the producers that there are limits. There are limits to what they can sell and distribute throughout the country" Ms. Buchanan has also stated that "The lack of enforcement of federal obscenity laws during the 1990s has led to a proliferation of obscenity throughout the United States, such as the violent and degrading material charged in this case." Buchanan has said that Zicari's comments on the Frontline program "helped us to determine that this was not a producer who was trying to comply with the law"
Zicari remained in business during the trial; he continued to market and sell the five tapes that are at the center of the prosecution as The Federal Five, with a portion of the sales price going to his defense fund. Note that buyers of those materials do not break the law, since mere possession of obscenity (unlike production and distribution) is not illegal. The involved movies are
- Extreme Teen 24: contains a scene of a naive supposed young girl being talked into having sex by an older man. The actress involved was over 18, however dressed and acted like a young girl.
- Cocktails 2: various scenes of women drinking vomit, saliva and other bodily fluids. It was the director's cutDirector's cutA director's cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials, comic book or video games, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit...
version of the film that was cited in the case. - Ass Clowns 3: a female journalist is being raped by a gang led by Osama bin LadenOsama bin LadenOsama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
; the journalist is freed and the gang members killed. The director's cut version also contains a scene where Jesus steps off the cross and has sex with an angel. - 1001 Ways to Eat My Jizz: Forced Entry: The film depicts the beating, rape and murder of women by a serial killer, who is eventually killed by a mob of vigilantes. There are three scenes which graphically portray rape and murder, and women are also spat on. Extreme's website called it their "most controversial movie" and "a stunningly disturbing look at a serial killer, satanic rituals, and the depths of human depravity." Forced Entry was directed by Lizzy Borden and released in 2002. Again it was the director's cut version of the film that was cited in the case.
The prosecution also charged the defendants with transmitting six obscene video clips over the Internet through the extremeassociates.com website. The six video clips were entitled "valeriejospit", "jewel", "PZ Summer Breeze", "dp-gangbang-7gen-X", "miacum" and "analasspirations1", and ranged in length from 37 seconds to two minutes, 54 seconds.
During a hearing in November 2004, Zicari's lawyer H. Louis Sirkin argued that the right to privacy gave individuals the constitutional right to view offending materials in private, a right which cannot be meaningfully exercised without a corresponding right of companies to distribute such materials. The prosecution countered that an individual's right to privacy is unrelated to a company's right to commercial distribution.
The defense moved to dismiss the indictments on the grounds that federal obscenity statutes violated the constitutional guarantees of privacy and liberty that were protected by the due process
Due process
Due process is the legal code that the state must venerate all of the legal rights that are owed to a person under the principle. Due process balances the power of the state law of the land and thus protects individual persons from it...
clause. Referencing Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 , is a landmark United States Supreme Court case. In the 6-3 ruling, the Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by proxy, invalidated sodomy laws in the thirteen other states where they remained in existence, thereby making same-sex sexual activity legal in...
and Stanley v. Georgia
Stanley v. Georgia
Stanley v. Georgia, , was a United States Supreme Court decision that helped to establish an implied "right to privacy" in U.S. law.The Georgia home of Robert Eli Stanley, a suspected and previously convicted bookmaker, was searched by police with a federal warrant to seize betting paraphernalia...
the defense argued there is a fundamental right to sexual privacy which includes the right to possess and view sexually explicit material in one's own home. The defense argued that this right was not affected by the fact that the material does not have any literary or artistic merit, and that since the federal obscenity laws imposed a complete ban on materials which people have the right to possess, they were unconstitutional.
On January 20, 2005, District Court
United States district court
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
Judge
Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
Gary L. Lancaster
Gary L. Lancaster
Gary L. Lancaster is a United States federal judge.Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Lancaster received a B.S. from Slippery Rock State College in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1974. He was a Regional counsel, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission from 1974...
dropped the charges, agreeing with the defense that the federal anti-obscenity statutes were unconstitutional
Constitutionality
Constitutionality is the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution. Acts that are not in accordance with the rules laid down in the constitution are deemed to be ultra vires.-See also:*ultra vires*Company law*Constitutional law...
, as they violated a person's fundamental right to possess and view whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. As a fundamental right had been violated, the government had to establish that a compelling state interest was involved. The prosecution argued that the government had a legitimate interest in protecting adults from unwitting exposure to obscenity, and protecting children from exposure to obscenity. These arguments were rejected by the court, which also ruled that the federal obscenity laws were not narrow enough to meet these interests, and could not justify a complete ban on obscene material. Lancaster ruled that children and unwitting adults are protected from the content because the website requires a credit card to join, and because software is available by which parents can restrict children's access to Internet pornography. The court did agree with the government that Lawrence had not created a new broad fundamental right to engage in any private sexual conduct. Instead the court relied on Stanley, which had established there was a fundamental right to private possession of obscene material. The court did rely on Lawrence for its assertion that the government could not use public morality as a legitimate state interest which justified the infringement of consensual, adult, private sexual conduct. The court also made reference to the dissenting opinion of Justice Scalia, who said that Lawrence had questioned the validity of U.S. obscenity laws, since the government could not enforce a moral code of conduct. Judge Lancaster also cited numerous constitutional scholars who had observed that the Lawrence ruling calls federal obscenity laws into question.
The Department of Justice (at the time headed by Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Attorney General in U.S. history and the highest-ranking Hispanic government official ever...
) announced on February 16, 2005 that it would appeal the ruling. That appeal was filed with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts:* District of Delaware* District of New Jersey...
on April 11, 2005, argued on October 19, 2005, and decided on December 8, 2005. The appeals court reversed the lower court and reinstated the suit against Zicari and Romano, ruling that the lower court had erred in setting aside the federal obscenity statutes, which had been repeatedly upheld in Supreme Court decisions.
On March 11, 2009 Extreme Associates and its owners plead guilty to the reinstated obscenity charges to avoid trial effectively shutting down the company. Extreme Associates also apparently took its website down concurrent with the plea.
Films
The studio has produced film seriesFilm series
A film series is a collection of related films in succession. Their relationship is not fixed, but generally share a common diegetic world. Sometimes the work is conceived as a multiple-film work, for example the Three Colours series, but in most cases the success of the original film inspires...
and one-off films including;
Anal Blitzkrieg, Ass Clowns, Ass-Hole O Mio, Big Fat F.N. Tits, Black Cock Smokers, Cock Smokers, Cock Suckers, Cocktails, Creampie Milkshakes, Cum Catchers, Depravity in Deutschland, Euro Cuntz, Extreme Amateurs, Extreme Brazil, Extreme Gang Bang, Extreme Teen, Extremely Yours, Face Down Ass Up, Filth Files, Filthy Lil' Porn-A-Bees, From the Balcony, Fuck Pigs, Geisha Gash, German Whore Fare, Ghetto Bitches, Go Fuck Yerself, Goo Gallery, Great American Ass, House of Whores, In The Days of Whore, Last Breath, Let Us Prey, Lewd Archives, Lower Extremities, Luciano's Lucky Ladies, Man Smokers, Oral Hygiene, S.I.D.S., Slap Happy, Spank Those Bitches, Spare Parts, The Adventures Of Mammary Man And Jugg Woman, The Adventures Of Porno Man, Whack Attack and What Lurks in the Shadows.
Nature of content
Extreme Associates bills itself as having the hardest hardcore pornographyHardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...
on the Internet. The studio's content has been described as "extremely violent", "shocking", "slasher porn" and "patently offensive
Patently offensive
Patently offensive is a term used in United States law regarding obscenity and the First Amendment.The phrase "patently offensive" first appeared in Roth v. United States, referring to any obscene acts or materials that are considered to be openly, plainly, or clearly visible as offensive to the...
". In an interview with Salon.com
Salon.com
Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
Borden said of Extreme's content, "It's disgusting but I like to watch it because it's shocking". Borden and Zicari compare their films to slasher films and some reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
, which people watch in order to be shocked. Talking to ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
about his films, Zicari said, "You might not like what you had just seen. It might have disturbed you, it might have repulsed you, it might have given you all sorts of emotions. But are you going to limit and be that person that has the right to say 200 million other citizens cannot watch that because you don't like it?"
Slap Happy
Slap Happy is a rough sexRough Sex
Rough Sex is a single by Lords Of Acid, and was released in 1992. Remixes of "Rough Sex" were done by Joey Beltram, and the CD includes "Take Control" as a B-side...
series, created and directed by Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron is a Canadian pornographic actor and director.-Performer:Iron's first film was with Ashley Nicole in Bonfire of the Panties in 1991, however he did not start performing on a full time basis until 1997....
and distributed by EA. The scenes are filmed in a gonzo
Gonzo pornography
Gonzo pornography is a style of pornographic film that attempts to place the viewer directly into the scene. The name is a reference to gonzo journalism, in which the reporter is part of the event taking place...
style and feature male dominance
Male dominance
Male dominance, or maledom, refers to BDSM activities where the dominant partner is male.Maledom scenarios are common in BDSM fiction, including works such as the Story of O and the works of John Norman and Adrian Hunter...
. Iron is the sole male performer in all scenes. Each scene features Iron with one female performer who performs fellatio
Fellatio
Fellatio is an act of oral stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner. It involves the stimulation of the penis by the use of the mouth, tongue, or throat. The person who performs fellatio can be referred to as the giving partner, and the other person is the receiving partner...
. Iron holds the female performer's head stationary with his hands, while continually slap
Slap
A slap or "smack" is a broad stroke made with the open hand or the back of the hand, as opposed to a punch that is made with a closed fist. Slaps are frequently made across the face, but can be also made across hands or any other body part, and can use either the palm of the hand or the back of the...
ping her in the face and verbally abusing her as she continues fellating him. In many scenes, the woman vomits as a result of being gagged by Iron's penis. Iron initially offered the series to 34 companies before Black agreed to distribute it.
Actresses
Alana Evans
Alana Evans is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jenna Talia .-Career:...
, Alexandra Nice
Alexandra Nice
Alexandra Nice is the stage name of a pornographic actress.-Awards:*2000 AVN Award nominee – Best All-Girl Sex Scene, Video – Slutwoman...
, Amber Lynn
Amber Lynn
Amber Lynn is an American pornographic film actress, Model and exotic dancer.- Early life :...
, Anastasia Blue
Anastasia Blue
Anastasia Blue was the stage name of Elena Behm, an American pornographic actress. She was married to Gabriel Behm and lived in Bremerton, Washington in the last years of her life....
, Ashlyn Gere
Ashlyn Gere
Ashlyn Gere is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress who performed in both heterosexual and lesbian films...
, Bridget the Midget
Bridget Powers
Bridget Powers is the pseudonym of an American erotic film actress with dwarfism. She is often credited as "Bridget the Midget" or with the alternate spelling "Bridget Powerz".-Biography:...
, Heather Gables
Heather Gables
Heather Gables is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in 2004 at the age of 21.-Biography:...
, Iroc, Jasmin St. Claire
Jasmin St. Claire
Jasmin St. Claire is a former pornographic actress who is best known for starring in "gang bang" pornographic movies, in which she has sex with large numbers of men continuously. She is also known for her work as a professional wrestling personality, most notably for ECW...
, Jessica Darlin
Jessica Darlin
Jessica Darlin is a former American pornographic actress.Adopted as a child, Darlin grew up in Coral Springs, Florida and went to a private school and describes herself in her teen years as "pretty much the little party girl...
, Jewel De'Nyle
Jewel De'Nyle
Jewel De'Nyle is a former American pornographic actress and director. She is of Spanish, Sicilian, English, and Blackfoot Native American ancestry....
, Juanita Chong, Kendra Jade, Kristi Myst
Kristi Myst
Kristi Myst is a former American pornographic actress. Kristi Myst is a native of Simi Valley, California.- Entrance into porn :...
, Lizzy Borden
Janet Romano
Janet Romano-Zicari, better known as Lizzy Borden, is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet...
(who is also a producer and director), Monique DeMoan
Monique DeMoan
Monique DeMoan is an American pornographic actress who has appeared in over 160 films since 1993. She grew up in North Hollywood and Studio City, California, and got into the adult film business at age 20, after contacting porn producer Ed Powers. She chose her stage name because her mother is...
, Nikita Denise
Nikita Denise
Nikita Denise is a Czech pornographic actress and adult film director.Denise moved from her native Czech Republic to Toronto in 1998 and began working on the Canadian strip club circuit. After meeting Jill Kelly at a local signing, she was given the phone number for Jim South...
, Stryc-9, Tiffany Mynx
Tiffany Mynx
Tiffany Mynx is an American pornographic actress and film director.- Adult film career :In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles, where she lived with her grandmother, and started to work as an exotic dancer...
, and Veronica Caine (formerly Barrett Moore). Pro wrestler Nicole Bass
Nicole Bass
Nicole Bass-Fuchs is an American bodybuilder, actress, pornographic dominatrix actress, professional wrestler and valet previously working for companies such as Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation, XPW, and the National Wrestling Alliance.-Bodybuilding career:Nicole Bass...
did some non-sex bondage videos for Extreme in 2000.
Kristi Myst broke down during the filming of In The Days of Whore. After having had anal sex for several hours with three men she was told that she had to do anal with another seven men, although she had not agreed to this before the shoot. At this point Myst began crying and wanted to walk off the set and quit the business rather than complete her scene. She eventually relented after being consoled by Tom Byron. Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron is a Canadian pornographic actor and director.-Performer:Iron's first film was with Ashley Nicole in Bonfire of the Panties in 1991, however he did not start performing on a full time basis until 1997....
who was present has said the incident was "the foulest thing I have ever witnessed" on a porn shoot.
Ashlyn Gere performed in several films after making a comeback from retirement. She appeared in titles including House of Whores and the Extremely Yours: Ashlyn Gere compilation.
Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma is a former American pornographic actress and director.-Biography:Paloma grew up in Walnut, California and is of Italian ancestry. Her stage name comes from Gia, a 1998 movie in which Angelina Jolie played model Gia Carangi, and Paloma, the Spanish word for dove and the name of Pablo...
had a contract with the studio until she left in May 2006. She was formerly married to EA director Coffee Ron. Kristi Myst also used to be an EA contract girl. Paris Gables is currently the company's main contract star, and has also directed. Gables initially went under contract in January 2005. By February 2006 she had appeared in almost a dozen films, and agreed to a one-year contract extension.
Directors
Rob Zicari
Robert D. Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black is an American pornographer and former professional wrestling promoter. Together with his wife Janet Romano he owns the porn company Extreme Associates....
, Lizzy Borden
Janet Romano
Janet Romano-Zicari, better known as Lizzy Borden, is an American former pornographic actress and professional wrestling valet...
, Shane Bugbee
Shane Bugbee
Shane Bugbee is an underground artist, publisher, multi-media communicator, filmmaker and event promoter.He has been criticized for allegedly exploiting the death of Dana Plato of Diff'rent Strokes by releasing a CD recording of her "dying breath".In 1986 he established Michael Hunt Publishing,...
, Mark Zane (also known as Alias), Ivan E. Rection, Chris Justice (also known as Chris Evans), Coffee Ron, and Thomas Zupko. Extreme's former directors include Matt Zane
Matt Zane
Matt "The Lord" Zane is an American musician, suspension artist, actor, poet and author.He is currently the lead singer of new industrial rock project "Lotus Rising" with world-renowned crossover cellist and electric cellist, Tina Guo....
, Ashlyn Gere
Ashlyn Gere
Ashlyn Gere is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress who performed in both heterosexual and lesbian films...
, David Luger, Derek Newblood, Gene Ross, Jane Waters, Luis Cypher (also known as Bobby Darlin), Luciano (Michael Stefano
Michael Stefano
Michael Stefano is a retired Italian-American pornographic actor and director. Before entering pornography, Michael held a variety of jobs in the restaurant and hotel industries. While working as a bartender in 1997, he met a couple with a connection in porn and would appear in his first film...
), Scott Snot, Slain Wayne (Eric Brummer), Smiley Johnson, Tiffany Mynx
Tiffany Mynx
Tiffany Mynx is an American pornographic actress and film director.- Adult film career :In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles, where she lived with her grandmother, and started to work as an exotic dancer...
, Tom Byron
Tom Byron
Tom Byron is an American pornographic actor and director. He is of Italian descent and is an alumnus of the University of Houston. He has also been credited as Tom Byrom, Tim Byron, Tom Bryon, Tom Bryan, and Tommy Byron...
, Brandon Iron and Van Damage
Van Damage
Van Damage , a former soldier in an elite Special Forces unit, is a former American Porn Star and also an acclaimed director, cameraman and producer in the pornography industry...
.
Michael Stefano began his directing career with Extreme Associates in the mid-1990s under the name Luciano, before leaving to direct for Red Light District Video
Red Light District Video
Red Light District Video is an American pornographic film studio headquartered in Chatsworth, California.-History:The company was founded in 2001 by industry veteran Dion Giarrusso and his half-brother David Joseph, who co-owned the company. Giarrusso had previously worked as general manager of...
and other studios.
Thomas Zupko initially directed for the company from 2000 till 2003. His debut film was In the Days of Whore. After leaving he worked for Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel
Elegant Angel Productions is a pornographic film studio located in Canoga Park, California and owned by Patrick Collins. The company is considered one of the early pioneers of Gonzo pornography, and its films have won numerous awards.-History:...
, Sin City
Sin City (studio)
Sin City is an American pornographic film studio. The company is owned by David Sturman, who is the son of Reuben Sturman. David's son Jared is the General Manager. In 2007 it signed a two-year exclusive contract with Tory Lane to perform in and direct films...
and Hustler Video
Hustler Video
thumb|right|240px|Hustler Booth at the [[AVN Adult Entertainment Expo]] at the [[Sands Expo|Sands Convention Center]], Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2010Hustler Video is an American pornographic film studio...
, before returning to Extreme as a contract director in May 2006. The first film of his second stint was Lisa Ann Defiled.
Church of Satan
Church of Satan
The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self, as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey.- History :...
member Shane Bugbee directs the satanism-themed Club Satan series. The first title, Club Satan: The Witches Sabbath was released in early 2007. Several crew-members
Film crew
Television crew positions are derived from those of film crew positions.A film crew is a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the Actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for...
and performers walked off the set of the film when an actor was asked to ejaculate
Ejaculation
Ejaculation is the ejecting of semen from the male reproductory tract, and is usually accompanied by orgasm. It is usually the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential component of natural conception. In rare cases ejaculation occurs because of prostatic disease...
upon and then smash a model of Jesus Christ's head. Actor Rick Masters said that Bugbee had "gone too far".
Criticism
Brandon Iron alleges that Rob Black asked him to direct Slap Happy 5 when he had not paid him for any of the previous four films. Iron also alleges that Extreme has often knowingly paid performers with bad chequesNon-sufficient funds
Non-sufficient funds is a term used in the banking industry to indicate that a demand for payment cannot be honored because insufficient funds are available in the account on which the instrument was drawn. In simplified terms, a cheque has been presented for clearance, but the amount written on...
, and often pays performers late. He also criticizes the allegation on Extreme's website that Jewel De'Nyle's father committed incest
Incest
Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...
, and alleges that Extreme evades tax by paying retailers and distributors cash in hand.
President of Adult Video News Paul Fishbein has said EA produces "horrible, unwatchable, disgusting, aberrant movies"
Awards
The following is a selection of major awards EA has won:- 1998 XRCO Award - 'Best Gonzo Series' for Whack Attack
- 1999 AVN Award - 'Best Gonzo Release' for Whack Attack 2
- 2000 AVN Award - 'Best Anal Sex Scene - Video' for Anastasia Blue & Lexington SteeleLexington SteeleClifton Todd Britt , better known as Lexington Steele, is an American award-winning pornographic actor, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. He is the first actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times.- Education, career prior to...
in Whack Attack 6 - 2000 XRCO Award - 'Best Group Sex Scene' for Kristi Myst's gangbang in In The Days of Whore
- 2001 AVN Award - 'Best Vignette Release' for Terrors From the Clit 2
- 2001 AVN award - 'Most Outrageous Sex Scene' for Tyce BuneTyce BuneTyce Bune is a pornographic actor and director. He has blond hair and no chest hair. In his pelvic region, he has a crudely drawn tattoo of a broken heart....
and Bridgette KerkoveBridgette KerkoveBridgette Kerkove is an American pornographic actress, director and producer.Kerkove entered the adult industry in 1998 and performed in hundreds of titles in her career. She started directing in 2001, working for companies such as Metro Studios and No Boundaries...
in In The Days of Whore - 2001 AVN Award - 'Best Anal Sex Scene - Video' for Kristi Myst in In The Days of Whore
- 2006 AVN award - 'Reuben SturmanReuben SturmanReuben Sturman was an American pornographer and businessman from Ohio. He was featured as a subject in Eric Schlosser's 2003 book on underground economies Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market....
Award' for Rob and Janet Zicari.
External links
- extremeassociates.com - Extreme Associates' official web site
- extremevod.com
- extremeassociatesvip.com
- Extreme Associates on Myspace
- BordensBlogs.com - the official blog of Extreme co-owner Lizzy Borden
- American Porn documentary by Frontline (first aired in 2002, updated in 2004), watchable online.
- Extreme Associates at the Internet Move Database