Last week when the news broke about Jesse James Hollywood, I say to myself, I’ve seen this guy before. Now I know where. It was on porn sets

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — An American fugitive hiding in Brazil sought employment as pimp and talent scout for pornographic movies, O Dia reported Tuesday.

However, neither profession proved lucrative for Jesse James Hollywood, 25, who was arrested last week on murder charges stemming from the August 2000 death of then 15-year-old Nick Markowitz.

Hollywood was immediately deported last week and arraigned on murder charges in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Hollywood’s father John Michael — currently being held on a fugitive from justice warrant in California — told officials they could find Jesse James in the beach town of Saquarema some 60 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, where he had been living the last few years with his now pregnant girlfriend.

To make ends meet, Hollywood reportedly received $1,200 a month from his parents and occasionally taught English lessons.

LA Daily News reports: — After four years on the lam, former West Hills resident Jesse James Hollywood, 25, appeared briefly Friday in Santa Barbara Superior Court, where he faces capital murder charges in the kidnapping and killing of 15-year-old Nick Markowitz.

Hollywood’s attorney, James E. Blatt of Encino, who has been retained by the suspect’s parents, requested a continuance until April 4 and said his client would plead not guilty.

“I have 26 boxes of discovery information to review,” Blatt said outside the courtroom,

According to authorities, Hollywood and several accomplices, four of whom are serving sentences for their involvement, kidnapped Markowitz in August 2000, just blocks from his West Hills home, in retaliation for a drug debt owed by the victim’s younger brother, Ben.

Nick Markowitz was brought to a Santa Barbara home, where he stayed with his captors for two days, and was later driven to a popular hiking spot under cover of darkness, bound, gagged, hit over the head with a shovel. He was shot nine times with a semi-automatic weapon. His decomposing body was discovered by hikers.

Lambasting the characterization by Santa Barbara Sheriff Jim Anderson and prosecutors of Hollywood as the “mastermind” behind the crime, Blatt told reporters, “Have you ever seen a 20 year-old mastermind? He was not the shooter. He was not at the scene.”

After the arrests of four of his friends, Hollywood led authorities on a two-week-long chase through Nevada and Colorado, then back to California. He was last seen at the West Hills home of a longtime family friend, before he was tracked to the coastal town of Saquerema, Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro, earlier this week.

The case and Hollywood’s mug shot were profiled on several television shows throughout the nation providing hundreds of leads, but the ultimate lead came from the family themselves. Ben Markowitz learned from friends that Hollywood had indicated he would use Brazil as a hide-out if he ever got in trouble.

Hollywood was dining with his pregnant girlfriend at the time of his capture by Brazil’s Federal Police. Blatt confirmed their baby is due in three months.

Blatt was first brought into the case more than four years ago, when a Santa Barbara grand jury indicted Hollywood for capital murder. Since then, Hollywood’s parents have separated, and Blatt was contacted by the suspect’s mother, Laurie Hollywood, shortly after her son was arrested Tuesday. Blatt characterized Laurie Hollywood as a single mother who was trying to live a respectable life.

Blatt said he had spoken to Hollywood’s father, John “Jack” Hollywood at the Los Angles County Jail, where he is being held on an outstanding warrant from Arizona.

Nick’s parents, Jeff and Susan Markowitz, were informed of Hollywood’s capture late Tuesday afternoon. Sheriff’s Lt. Sonny LeGault, a detective in the case, met with them at Jeff Markowitz’s office in the San Fernando Valley.

According to Jeff Markowitz, a $70,000 reward, composed of $20,000 from the FBI and $50,000 from the Markowitz family, had been offered. “I don’t know what happened down there, and what might apply.”

Whenever a suspect flees an area, the jury instructions indicate jurors can use that to determine a consciousness of guilt, but Blatt said he was optimistic and confident that Santa Barbara jurors would hold judgment for “when the truth comes out.”

“We’re prepared for this (upcoming trial) emotionally. We’ve been lucky because a lot of people haven’t seen the justice served like we have. And we’re grateful for that,” Jeff Markowitz told reporters.

Susan Markowitz, who wore a framed pin of Nick’s picture on her lapel, added: “This is the most senseless murder of the century.”

Four other individuals, most of whom grew up together in West Hills suburb, already are serving sentences.

The confessed shooter, Ryan Hoyt, now 24, currently sits on Death Row at San Quentin. Graham Pressley, 17 at the time of the killing, was tried as an adult but sentenced to five years in Juvenile Hall. Jesse Rugge was found not guilty of murder by a Santa Barbara jury, but was given a life sentence for aggravated kidnapping. William Skidmore pleaded guilty to felony kidnapping and is serving a nine-year sentence.