Adult performers’ union APAG has released a statement announcing they are cooperating with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in their investigation of an illegal butt implant surgery operation that may have affected adult entertainers.
LAPD insiders who oppose the 2020 Los Angeles budget reforms — prompted by the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide #BlackLivesMatters protests last summer against several documented incidents of police brutality — began a press campaign this week alleging that the reforms will prevent the department from investigating high-profile cases such as the sexual assault investigation against Ron Jeremy.
LAPD homicide has reached out to the podcast "TDPS Presents Christopher and Eric" following a recent episode that examined the unsolved 1990 murder of William Arnold Newton, also known as gay adult performer Billy London. The hosts, novelists Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, uncovered a potential bombshell of a lead and spoke exclusively to XBIZ in November to encourage industry members who may have additional information to reach out.
An LAPD detective provided Justice Department attorneys with new evidence that fetish filmmaker and distributor Ira Isaacs was selling newly advertised and released "obscene" films shortly after he was convicted last May, according to court papers filed yesterday.
Immoral Productions received a citation from the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday night for filming without a permit, CEO Dan Leal confirmed to XBIZ.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesman told XBIZ there were two attempts to subdue the late adult performer Sledge Hammer, aka Marland Anderson, with a Taser in the wee hours of last Monday morning, but that both attempts did not work to control him.
Girls Gone Wild chief Joe Francis was arrested yesterday after surrendering to police and charged with multiple misdemeanors stemming from an alleged altercation with three girls after a Hollywood party last January.
With the John Stagliano obscenity trial now history, many in the adult industry community have shifted their attention to one of the witnesses for the prosecution — the LAPD's Det. Michael Ozaki.
