I really don't even know where to begin, so we'll start a few weeks back:
I was contacted by some people in Toronto, Canada about teaching and book signing there later in the year. Now, I have never had a good experience in Canada, or with Canadian immigration. Actually last time I went there I was detained and questioned for 2 hours and swore I would never entre the country again, so needless to say, for me to go to Canada the offer would have to be pretty good.
I started to look for work in the area to see if I could make a trip financially worthwhile and catch up with some friends. A model friend told me about whipped-pussy.com and I e-mailled them to see if they were looking for Dommes. They were, so with that we locked down dates for 3 days of shooting in Tornoto with flight paid, hotel paid and my fee for each day which I was to be paid in US dollars.
All seemed fine until a couple of weeks later when someone told me a model had worked for them for 5 days, had the shit beaten out of her and then, while flying back to her home town the owner cancelled her cheque. So this guy has the videos, has the models ID and filled in release forms and the model has nothing. Great. I found the particular models MySpace page and e-mailled her asking to act as a reference for W-P and to let me know if there was any reason I should not go, no reply. I will never understand models that do not share information about shitheads in the industry...fuck, make as much noise as possible and get them the hell out.
I decided to e-mail the owner to confirm the shoots and stipulate that I am to be paid cash daily...there's no way I'm doing 3 days to find out at the end of it there's no payment. I also decide not to do any paperwork (releases, etc) until after I am paid just as a precaution. At least this way he would ne be able to use the content.
About 5 days before leaving I hear from another friend to be careful so I phone a good friend of mine that worked for them (she had told me she didn't enjoy the experience but not that there was any money problems). It turns out she was paid only half what she was told and the Domme hired was not paid at all.
I have now outlayed $450 on my ticket to go to a Country that I dread entering so I decide to e-mail the owner again and now I stipluate I will need to be paid BEFORE any and every shoot we do. No $$$, no shoot, simple as that. He is still absolutely polite and agrees but this isn;t enough to get me on a plane so i also check with 2 models I know in Canada to see if they have ever had money problems. They both say no, they've always been paid and it's been fine. This, along with my rules get me hesitantly on the plane.
Good news, Canadian immigration let me right on by...shame what i walked into was a fiasco I have no interest in reliving. In my 10 years of adult modeling NEVER have I had shit like this happen.
20 minutes into my ride into downtown Toronto my friend (who was renting their studio to W-P) is on the phone discussing some cheque, some money problem, etc. Basically, it was clear this was not going to be an easy 3 days. This guy who owns W-P is living in a fucking fairy land....and doesn't have the $$$ to pay for his fantasy. Myself, the studio owners (that I am staying with, they;re very good friends of mine)and the other models are all waiting by the phone; are we shooting, are we not? What the hell is going on, are any of us going to get paid? Am I even going to have my flight reimbursed?
This guy just gives one excuse after another; this cheque won't clear, oh there's a problem with the payment processor on the site, etc, etc. Now, I am in business and understand unexpected costs can arise but wake up MotherFucker, you already owe other models over $10,000 (I didn't know that, oh, and another Canadian model also had a cheque bounce from him) and you knew this but you still brought me out here?
Somehow he rounds up the money to pay for the first day shooting and my airfare and hands it over in Canadian dollars. I remind him I want US, she says he can go and change it but I decide to take it in Canadian...if he walks out the door with this money I'll probably never see him again. Sure enough, when I exchanged it it was around $50 (USD) short on what we had agreed to for ONE shoot (remember, I'm booked for 3).
We shoot. Fuck, I don't know how to do a bad shoot so he gets some good footage which I absolutely resent but that's just the way it goes. Please, if you're a fan, join any other site I am on but not this one.
The next morning we are supposed to hear from the owner at 11:30am. 12:30pm rolls around, then 2:30pm, then 4:30pm, etc. So basically I am just waiting around not knowing if we're shooting or not. I could have hopped a plane back to SF but no, he keeps me 9and everyone for that fact) waiting around. Finally he calls and says we're not shooting but will be the bext day and that I will receive a kill fee for this day. I keep reminding him that I don;t want to hang around with nothing to do, if he can;t shoot then tell me and I will hop a plane home but no, he keeps me waiting, and waiting , and waiting.
The next morning (well, actually it would have been after 12noon when I called him wanting to know when we are shooting) he again give me the run around. I remind him again, I would like to go home. Don't keep me waiting for nothing so he offers me a kill fee...but now I have to wait for him to bring it over...which of course never happens.
Then I was supposed to be wired it yesterday morning, then today, etc. You get then picture. It's always going to be toomorrow, next week, etc. he'll keep stringing models he owes money too in the hope they won't destroy his reputation and so far, so good. It's worked, well not anymore. 5 years ago a producer bounced a cheque on me and to this day (because of my big, loud mouth) that producer still has to be most models in cash (or they won't work for that company). This is going to be much worse. I never told him I knew about the other models, but I do. They may choose to stay quiet in the small hope that they will get paid, I will not. As a past model it is my duty to warn others against him and his company.
Models; DO NOT WORK FOR HIM. There is no promise he can make you that will make it worth your while except for sending you your ENTIRE payment in advance and him booking your flight. This is the only way you will be guaranteed your money. Of course, he won't have the moeny to do that, and if he does he probably still wouldn;t in case a model did a no show. People that expolit others do not want to be exploited themselves after all.
Amir (owner of whipped-pussy.com) this is the sex industry, this is basic work for hire. You want pussy, you want porn, you want content, etc you pay for it. There are no "net 30 terms" here. You shoot, you pay. Simple as that. You book a girl, you pay. And seriously, lets cut the written and verbal diarrhea crap out of it now. You knew damned well you owed models money (a lot of fucking money), and you still wasted mine (and others) time, and if I hadn't have known about you and if I hadn't have demanded cash then at the end of 3 days shooting you would have written me a cheque that would have bounced and what would you have: great sex content that you didn't have to pay for. It stops now, and trust me, of all of the models you could have booked and fucked over you chose the one with the loudest, biggest mouth in the business. Oh, and as someone that has been booking all the girls in the biz myself for many years and never, ever bounced a cheque, etc they tend to listen to me.
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