Porn Valley- A German magazine called Sueddeutsche Zeitung ran a controversial article stating that Jessica Dee had been the victim of a heavy handed firing from Platinum X https://www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=7819. Or, at least it’s been interpreted that way. In the following threads which have been posted on www.adultdvdtalk.com, not only do Steve Holmes and Jewel De’Nyle offer comment, but the actual author of the German piece as well.
Steve Holmes: I met the SZ Magazin reporter in L.A. and we hang out for a couple of days. A very nice guy. But the way he tells the story is not true. He might have misunderstood something in the short time he was here.
This is bullshit and Larry would never say that. John Stagliano is the best example that you can have a career after being infected.
You should also know something about the structure of PXP. It is mainly a distribution company. Jewel De’Nyle, John Strong, Manuel Ferrara, Michael Stefano, Sean Michaels, Brandon Iron and me are independent producers. We cover all the cost and turn in a finished product for distribution. We all have certain slots for release. Manuel and Michael left to RLD but still own the movies they shot for PXP.
Jewel gave Jessica a chance to direct some of the movies Jewel owns. She never worked for PXP. She worked for Jewel.
I like Jessica Dee a lot as a person and I feel sorry for her situation. I was neither involved in hiring nor firing of her but I can understand both decisions. Jewel wanted to give her a chance but Jessica couldn’t live up to the expectations.
I personally use Darren James as PA and behind the scenes camera man when I shoot in L.A. A very nice and talented guy.
Goethe said: “Denn was du schwarz auf weiß besitzt kannst du getrost nach Hause tragen”. That doesn’t mean it’s always true.
Jewel De’Nyle writes: I’m very pissed off about this article that could be further from the truth about any of us at PXP. Jessica did movies for David Joseph he owned them and no longer wanted her to shoot for him instead he decided to have one of his RLD do it for him. I am having Jessica now shoot for me as I said before no one is shooting for me at this time not even myself as I have about 15 movies on the shelf that I need to put out and re-coop funds for before I go on another shooting spree. I have Kylie, Jessica, Mason and Myself that make movies that I own. We offered to get Jessica a job elsewhere to do something during her time off to make some extra money to help pay for whatever she needed and I told her if she got to low on money to call me and I’d make and exception and have her shoot something so she wouldn’t be broke.
I still own my part of PXP and David is my partner so stop assuming you know what’s going on from some journalist that loves to twist things to make our business look like shit. I’m very displeased you would even think I’d be so thoughtless
Philipp, the author of the SZ piece writes: This is the reporter who wrote the story. I came into this forum because some misinterpretations regarding my article are starting to concern me.
It strucks me as very strange how many of you express allegations and strong opinions about the story although only very few have actually be able to read it.
I don’t think you can base your judgement about the story — or even worse: about the behaviour of characters in the story — on a very casually translated summary.
I’m not going to justify the story’s accuracy and it is not important whether people like my reporting or not. But what really is important that you understand what is really said about the characters in the story. Especially regarding Larry at PXP, there have been serious misinterpretations:
Larry (BTW, nor anyone else in the story) is NOT portrayed a cold, heartless, fucked-up executive who just fires Jessica. He’s rather the guy who, whether he likes it or not, is thrown into the situation to be the one to tell Jessica that she has a stop filming. He doesn’t like it but he has to.
Let’s look at the details in the text: Larry is introduced as the one who told Jessica. Then the text says: “When he said, that he looked down on his boots”, indicating that Larry doesn’t feel comfortable at all to tell Jessica because he feels sorry for her. Jessica starts crying and Larry can’t stand it — not because he’s this heartless asshole but of course because it makes him sad as well. Because he cares. That’s why he murmurs (not complains!) “Always this crying.” It’s just a little different from what was translated before but it makes a whole lotta difference.
Same goes to what Larry says about HIV. He says the adult industry is a tolerant business. Everybody can try his/her luck here. Then he says he’s met in the business manager, academics, immigrants even former criminals and ex-models. Then he says: Only one sort of people is hard to bear for the adult business. People with HIV. This is not Larry’s cold opinion, it doesn’t indicate that he doesn’t like this people. It is a matter of fact statement that at least five other sources confirmed to me. If you contracted the virus, it’s getting difficult for you in the business.
A bit later in the story, Larry says how surprised everbody was when Jessica finished her first film, Throat Yoghurt. This quote is a first hint on what Larry later on will state as the reason for PXP or RLD to stop Jessica. The reporter asks: Why couldn’t she continue?
Larrys says because she’s filmed four movies right after it. She was too fast. The films would have to be stored and the talent would get old.
I don’t know whether this is the true reason but this what Larry said and I can tell that he gave this information to the best of his knowledge.
Further on, we learn about Larry’s background, a paragraph that portrays him as a family man who pinned photographs of his children on the wall and, of course, has his issues with his daughter having worked as talent. He used to be Sheriff and also a state representative. He doesn’t watch the movies that have Jewel in it and that’s why he better not go to the bathroom since there (at least when I visited it) lies a copy of Adam Film Work XXX that has a several-page-spread with Jewel.
The paragraph ends with the quote by Larry saying that as talent Jessica was good, uncomplicated and not picky but one could tell from how Larry said it that he would have preferred to talk about agricultural reform in the State of Colorado. Everyone who Larry knows that is true.
I went thru all this in such great detail because Larry is one of the finest men I met during my reporting. He cared a lot about Jessica and showed great compassion.
Everybody who reads whatever else from my story (or its rough interpretation) is wrong.
Apart from that, I am convinced that the story is accurate in its facts (sorry, Steve, that I got your kids’ age wrong, somehow it was in my notebook) and even more important, FAIR towards everyone. I invite everyone who feels otherwise to send me an email.
I have very much enjoyed reporting the story and meeting each single person in the valley, especially Jessica, Larry and Steve Holmes, all of whom I owe a lot.