Porn Valley- In my recent chat the other day with Eric Hunter, Shy Love’s ex-husband, I had to ask him a question that had been nagging me.
At the time Defiance was operating and Keith O’Connor was its general manager, O’Connor seemed to have a huge bug up his ass about Shy.
“Yes, he couldn’t fucking stand her,” Hunter agrees. “I would have to say that Keith who was a fair business man minus the fact that he can blow his top some times, is actually a nice guy. He had every reason to not like her. But if you do the research, you could probably come up with 70 or 80 people that she has threatened in the past year to sue or go to the press that she doesn’t like.
“And she’s threatened to sue me on more occasions than my entire life. Her threats are consistent. But she doesn’t have any money and lawyers aren’t going to help you because they think you’re hot and they don’t help you to fuck you. Because after you’ve fucked them a few times then they’re like I’m still working 80 hours on this idiot and there’s no blowjob in the world worth that.”
That parenthetical rant aside, I again ask Hunter about the O’Connor situation.
“I think part of it was the I am Shy Love syndrome,” Hunter suspects. Love and Hunter co-directed several films for Defiance.
“I directed two films for Defiance, one was called Justine’s Red Letter and one was called Slick Chicks Black Dicks. That’s my yellow car with girls getting fucked on. Shy would be the one to pick out the outfits and tell the girls the positions. But when it came down to watching the monitors, she never had an interest in learning that until she thought we weren’t going to be together any more.
“In the beginning, she would find people and hire them, and I would run the show so we would get a good movie. And those two movies were great. Justine’s Red Letter got nominated. And they didn’t put my name as director of Slick Chicks, Black Dicks. But we bitched about that a little bit.”
My recollection from conversations with O’Connor was that there was drama in that someone else had to come in and finish up Justine’s Red Letter. Not to Hunter’s recall, however.
“I thought that Shy got fired,” I tell Hunter.
“I’m not sure, I think… there was a scene with Taylor Rain and Evan Stone,” Hunter recalls.
“I’m not sure but I believe Taylor doesn’t like to do girls. And right as the scene started Taylor left the scene. I’m not sure if they ended up using that scene but we finished the movie. If you play the movie it says directed by Shy Love and Eric Hunter [which it does].”
Still, I recall O’Connor telling me Love was removed from that project.
“To be honest with you my memory is fuzzy on what caused the problems between Shy and Keith,” states Hunter.
“But it was a big problem. They really didn’t get along very well. I’m trying to remember what he did to make her angry but whatever it was, it wasn’t worth how angry they got at each other. But I stayed on the sidelines.”
Hunter says he even rented an office at Defiance’s Calabasas office.
“Keith and I butted heads when I was trying to defend my wife,” states Hunter.
“But I learned that she keeps making her own fires I can’t keep putting out. But that’s all over. Like when she had screaming matches with Derek at LA Direct Models, I would have to call and smooth that out. I’m really good at damage control.”