Porn Valley- At the stroke of noon, I spoke to Bud Lee. There were no lawyers coming out of the woodwork with subpoenas. And Lee, contrary to what you might think, was quite pleasant with his assessment of recent events on the Internet.
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Lynn LeMay, the last two days, has been using Lee’s head for a bowling ball. Lee says LeMay is bending the truth about their business deal in Lemayzing Pictures. Check that. Lee was actually more direct about it. He says LeMay’s lying. And to hear Lee talk, LeMay’s practically a nutcase from the Bette Davis school in Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte.
“The most important thing I can say about this situation is that Lynn and I did not have an exclusive contract or arrangement,” Lee is saying.
“She knew from the very beginning when I went to work with her April of last year that I was going to be working for other people.”
Which seems to be a significant point that LeMay chose to ignore if this is true. To which Lee says he doesn’t know why that is, other than this episode being a figment of LeMay’s imagination.
“Joel [LeMay’s invester] and I are the ones that dealt with one another on a business basis more or less,” explains Lee.
“Joel came up with a contract [a non-exclusive] for me to sign. But I never signed it.”
I asked Lee why that was. Lee begins talking about a deal that besides the salary involved a percentage of the gross vs. a percentage of the net.
“They wanted me to do a net amount. I know what companies do. They always find a way not to have a net amount left over. We were going back and forth on that and never got around to signing it. It’s never been signed- by me, by Joel, by her or anybody.”
“The contract says it was a non-exclusive?”
“Yes,” replies Lee.
“You still have a copy of that?”
“Yes I do as a matter of fact,” Lee also answers.
“You can ask Joel,” Lee continues. “Joel will tell you the truth. One of the things that Joel is starting to learn is that the only person I’ve ever met who can lie more and better than Hyapatia Lee is Lynn LeMay. She is a world champion liar.
“And Kat Kleevage can say whatever she wants in defense of her, but she sat at the XBiz awards in a both right next to me and said why are you leaving Lynn? I said I’m not. Kat goes Lynn says you are. I go Lynn and I haven’t discussed anything like that. And to this day Lynn has not called on the phone to fire me or sent me an e-mail.”
According to what LeMay told me this morning, Joel had taken Lee to a lunch in Santa Monica on April 1 to tell him that the company budget could no longer support Lee’s $4,000 a month salary. Lee differs in his account. He says Joel never took him to lunch.
I tell Lee this is becoming Alice in Wonderland.
“Because you’re talking to a person that’s in a different dimension than the rest of us,” says Lee.
Confronted with the Santa Monica lunch story, Lee basically laughs.
“That’s funny,” he replies. “I have conversations with Joel regularly two or three times a week. I asked him am I no longer with the company? He said there’s no more work to do. I said, okay, if there is work to do again am I still part of it? He goes that hasn’t been determined.”
But Lee denies there had been a lunch.
“She lies constantly, I’m telling you,” says Lee. “Here’s a perfect example. She said, yes, I was on the checking account and could write checks. I never wrote a check that I did not get permission from her, first, to write. Ever. Not one time. I said the reason I’m asking for this extra money in December is because my son’s tuition is due and I need the extra money. She goes no problem.”
Lee even recalls the circumstances when he asked LeMay about it.
“I was sitting in the Wal-Mart parking lot off the 118 freeway in Porter Ranch when I had that conversation with her,” he recalls. “Here’s the problem she has with me. I’ve got a photographic memory. I remember everything distinctly.”
“And I didn’t go home for Christmas and I can prove that beyond the shadow of a doubt,” Lee adds. “Because I didn’t have the money to do that.”
According to Lee, the Sin City movie he shot with LeMay’s camera has been out for two months but claims that LeMay gave him permission to use it.
“I asked permission to take the camera,” insists Lee. “She gave me permission. She also said to me is there any money in it for us in the rental of the camera? I said they’re really close on the budget. I’m just trying to do this to keep my bills paid, not really. She said anytime in the future if you can get some money for it, that would be great.
“She lets her boyfriend Eddie use the camera for all kinds of projects and he never has to pay rent on the camera. But that’s fine. That’s their relationship. I don’t care.”
“But I’ve had many conversations with Lynn about everything she’s saying I didn’t do. And she never owned my ass. That’s bullshit. I was not under an exclusive contract or arrangement with her in any way shape or form, and she knew it from the very beginning. I told her I cannot survive on this much money. I have to be able to do other jobs and she said, no, I understand that.
“In fact she used her boyfriend Eddie as an example of, yeah, Eddie has to do the same thing. Even though he works for me, he has to go out and work other jobs, too.”
I tell Lee I’m baffled over how his and LeMay’s stories would differ so radically in account.
“You’re surprised by that?” Lee asks.
“Well there’s bending the truth and there’s breaking it over your knee and sticking it up someone’s ass,” I tell Lee.
“Yes she is, exactly, correct,” Lee agrees. “I’ve never lied to her about anything. I didn’t tell her the truth in the beginning when we were trying to find someone to distribute the product.
“Some of the companies I went in to talk to said, Bud, what happens when you leave the company and we have to deal with her? No thanks. We don’t deal with porn stars making new companies. And these were people Lynn directed me to, saying oh, they’re really good buddies of mine. They asked why are you doing this. I said let’s give her a chance. She might have a chance.”
“Everybody wanted to do a 50-50 deal,” recalls Lee explaining why it took so long to find distribution. “I didn’t want to do that. That makes no sense. It has to be 70-30 at least to make it worthwhile.”
Lee simply says his $4,000 a month check wouldn’t pay his overhead.
“It doesn’t pay my bills, and Lynn knew I was shooting for Sin City. I came straight out and told her. I didn’t sneak around.”
Lee says his main goal at Lemayzing was to help Joel recoup his money.
“If it built a business for Lynn that was fine for me. That was great. But I couldn’t see this guy losing all those hundreds of thousands of dollars. But I hope it will still work out and everything will go okay for them. But I’m not the reason business isn’t working for her. Trust me. The things she’s saying are outright lies. And I’m willing to take a lie detector test. And she’ll probably take enough pills that she can take one too.”
For the record, Lee says his time in the business is 27 years, not the 23 LeMay says.
“I started making movies and writing movies in 1981 in this business,” he points out. “I completed writing the first version of The Young Like It Hot in March of 1981. That’s the problem. Hyapatia comes to me and says we’ve been divorced since 1992.
“I go that’s funny we didn’t file for divorce until 1993 and it wasn’t done until July of 1994.”
“But you forget, somewhere in between Hyapatia committed suicide,” I remind Bud.
“That’s true,” he laughs. “She’s dead. But I think the truth and most female adult film stars are strangers, if you will.”
Lee mentions that he got a call from LeMay’s former webmaster Leonard. Which is news to me because I hadn’t realized that Leonard was now the former webmaster.
“He said I have a problem with Lynn can you help me,” Lee continues. “I said what’s your problem. He goes she won’t let me in the house to get any of my possessions. My clothing is there. My computers are there. I have a job that I can go and do. She says you owe me, Leonard, and I’m keeping this stuff because you owe me. He told me she sits around the house doing lines with Kat and claims that she’s dying of cancer.
“‘She just screams and yells at me and told me she’s going to call the police if I show up at the house.’”
According to Lee, Leonard told him he was the one who called the police that he needs to get his stuff.
“‘They told me I need to hire a lawyer,’” Lee is quoting Leonard as saying.
“I said if I were you I’d call Joel and just say I need some help can you help me. Joel has promised me again and again that she would not be on line doing this stuff that she did yesterday and today.”
Lee says he also assured Joel that he would not say anything negative about LeMay, either, if she’ll stay off the Internet and not talk shit about Lee.
“Because I know what she’s going to say,” states Lee. “She’s going to blame the failure of the company on me. Which is funny because I’m the only one who brought any income into the company. The only one.
“She hasn’t brought in one dime and neither anyone else who works there. I did. This is someone who’s trying to convince the world that they’ve been taken advantage of and screwed when they just didn’t pay attention to business. One time she told me I have nothing to do. I said go to school and learn business. She goes is that yours or Joel’s suggestion? I said, actually, it’s both our suggestion. Then I would give her something to do and she’d turn it over to matter. She thought her job was to delegate when in my opinion was that her responsibility was to be the first person in the office and work her ass off and be the last person to leave because it’s her company.”
“But she didn’t see it that way. She constantly spent money unchecked. She never took into account anything. She’d take it out of the business account. Joel should have a lot of concern and I talked to him about these things.”
“She came in one day and said Joel found out you’re on the bank account and went nuts. ‘He freaked out how crazy am I that I’m giving away my power.’ I went, really? That’s funny because Joel was present at the meeting when we decided that and he said good idea.”
“I called Joel and said I’m sorry that you’re upset about me being put on the bank account. He goes what are you talking about? I go Lynn said you were furious. He goes, what? I don’t give a shit. He said in fact that gives him a check and balance so he knows what she’s doing with the money.”
“There’s a lot of discrepancies in what she said.”
Lee also goes on to say that LeMay’s story about him calling Clyde DeWitt is a fabrication and that it was Joel he had talked to.
“I haven’t spoken to Clyde.”
Lee also says his relationship with Nick Manning is now solid and that he continues to pay off a judgment Anita Cannibal has against him.
Lee admits much of that was his own fault and that we was out of town at the time for the court date.