This year’s F.A.M.E. Awards received over 104,000 votes, and the fans have chosen their favorites. Here are your 2008 F.A.M.E. Award winners…

Favorite Female Star: Tera Patrick

Favorite Male Star: Evan Stone

Favorite Female Rookie: Bree Olson

Favorite Oral Starlet: Penny Flame

Favorite Anal Starlet: Jenna Haze

Favorite Breasts: Ashlynn Brooke

Favorite Ass: Gina Lynn

Hottest Body: Jesse Jane

Favorite Director: Stormy Daniels

Favorite Gonzo Movie: inTERActive (Hustler/Teravision)

Favorite Feature Movie: Babysitters (Digital Playground)

Favorite Celebrity Sex Tape: One Night in Paris (Red Light District)

Favorite Studio: Evil Angel

Dirtiest Girl in Porn: Hillary Scott

Favorite Underrated Star: Brooke Haven

Thank you to all of the fans who voted and to all of the companies and stars for their support. We would especially like to thank our great hosts, Jesse Jane and Randy Spears, and all of our presenters. And gratitude goes out to our partners — , AVN, WantedList.com and Adam & Eve — and to our sponsors, MyCams.com, RudeTV.com, Pink Visual, HotMovies.com and porn-star.com for a great year.

See you in 2009!

Images courtesy of AVN.com

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“I am pleased to announce that Kaytel Video and Evil Angel have reached a settlement agreement, which effectively ends all pending litigations or potential appeals in the US and Canada.

In the end, it became only a matter of sitting down face to face with Mr. Elmaleh, which we did back in mid-December, with no mediators or attorneys.

During our meeting, which lasted close to 4 hours, we discussed everything, from the reasons and dynamics that brought us to this long and costly 2 year legal battle, to the ramifications of a potentially long and costly appeal process from both sides.

At the end of our meeting that same day, we both agreed that a fair settlement to definitely resolve both the US and Canadian actions was a much better alternative than continuing this expensive process.

It’s been now 2 months since our settlement agreement was fine-tuned and made official by our respective attorneys. Mr. Elemalah has been fair in this process and is in complete compliance with the terms of the agreement.

I wish him and his company good luck in the future. And I consider him to be a fair person with whom to do business.”

– John Stagliano of Evil Angel

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The Website and the DVD — Taking a Stand and Helping

I gave you the facts along with my diatribe yesterday in my post on the John Stagliano/Evil Angel obscenity case and ensuing indictments. If you’re anything like me, after hearing about all of this you’re hopefully asking yourself, “How can I help? What can I do to let my voice be heard? Is there anything I can do for my love of porn, and more important, my love of the right to free speech and expression?” Well there are some things you can obviously do, and here are some suggestions, as well as what Evil Angel is doing to help fight the power.

Evil Angel has started a not-for-profit organization called Defend Our Porn. They even have a website, DefendOurPorn.org (also visit their MySpace page). On this website, you can learn more about John’s case, as well as how you can help. Learn about your freedoms and what’s being done about taking them away from you.

John’s opening message on the site says it all. “America is great because the founders knew that the power of the majority had to be strictly limited to protect this wonderful concept of ‘rights.’ They knew that the rights of a minority, and especially the most important ‘minority,’ the individual, needed to be protected against the will of the majority. And the most important right that they sought to protect, the FIRST Amendment to the Constitution, is the right to free speech. That is the right to express oneself in whatever way one wished, as long as that person was not ‘forcing’ himself or his ideas on anyone else.”

In essence, no one is making anyone watch his movies. People choose to watch them because they want to for whatever reason. And if they’re watching them of their own free will, they obviously don’t find them “obscene.” By watching these movies you are expressing your preferences and exercising your right to free speech, just like he did when he made these for you.

When I spoke with Karen Stagliano, she told me that John has always fought and believed in protecting these freedoms, and not with just porn. He’s a strong believer in all of the arts. We’ve seen countless exhibits in reputable museums picketed and protested because someone out there thought they were obscene. He defends the right to see written works, paintings, and expressions of any kind.

On this site you can see what you can do, and most importantly to me, help aid in this case by raising funds and awareness. Any money, which is donated and not used towards the legal defense of the case, will be rolled over in the DefendOurPorn fund and will be earmarked for future First Amendment and obscenity prosecutions. DefendOurPorn.org contains news links about the case from numerous media outlets, a “Contact Your Congressperson” button, a PayPal page to make a donation to Stagliano’s legal fund and a guestbook.

Evil Angel will also be releasing a DVD on July 3, 2008 with proceeds going to the fund. Longtime Evil Angel director Christoph Clark suggested the DVD, and it will feature scenes donated by Evil Angel’s biggest directors, both past and present. It’s virtually a who’s who of adult. Directors and stars confirmed with scenes on the DVD as of now include: Manuel Ferrara, Tara White, Jazz Duro, Sandra Romain, John Leslie, Naomi, Jay Sin, Dana DeArmond, Holly Wellin, Belladonna, Harmony, Nikki Jayne, Jules Jordan, Christoph Clark, Cherry Jul, Nacho Vidal, Avy Scott, Joey Silvera, Sasha Grey, Rocco Siffredi, Kelly Stafford, John Stagliano, Melissa Lauren, Jonni Darkko and Annette Schwarz.

The DVD will also include a masturbation scene from Karen a/k/a Tricia Devereaux who returns to performing in a scene with Derrick Pierce. Karen told us how much she looked forward to doing this. “It’s a psychologically dominating scene that I’ve fantasized about and the thought of it turns me on. John offered to shoot camera, but I just want him to watch it with me. Jay and I are directing and it will be amazing.”

In addition to all of the directors donating their scenes, so have Evil Angel’s graphic artists, replicators and printers, and we’re sure more will step up with offers by the time the DVD is released.

What else can you do to help? We’ll give you the old standard, canned suggestion of writing. Start with your congressman and senator. Will this make a huge impact or change the face of history? Honestly, probably not. Even if Senator X or Congressman Z enjoys watching the occasional double penetration or squirting flick, he’s not going to admit it. So why write? It’s fun to put your thoughts on paper and let them all know that watching the occasional double penetration or squirting flick is fine and fun. It’s fast, cheap, easy and who wouldn’t want to talk about porn with an uptight official?

Also, send some letters to the editors of you local publications. Let them know what’s going on out there. Maybe they’ll print it and make you famous. If they do, it’ll get the word out there more, and that’s what we need. Like they say, there’s strength in numbers!

Karen adds, “It’s more about getting the word out. Not raising money. John would take this as far as it could go no matter what the cost or consequences, for the sole fact government is trying to censor what consenting adults watch. These are our freedoms and we have to protect them.”

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About John Stagliano’s and Evil Angel’s Obscenity Indictments

I want to take a little time here from letting you know about something actually important to both the adult industry and people in general, and that’s the right to free speech.

It seems to me that not enough attention is being given to the current battle Evil Angel and John Stagliano are facing. That’s not to say that Sara Suckalot’s new big blowbang, the party that Mary Jane Rottencrotch is hosting or Julie Juggies big dance appearance isn’t important. Of course they are. But this is really, really important, and this is where my joking will end.

In case you haven’t heard, John Stagliano (a.k.a. Buttman) and his companies were charged with “three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to sell and distribute DVDs containing obscene films together with a movie trailer; two counts of using a common carrier for the conveyance or delivery of DVDs containing obscene films in interstate commerce; one count of engaging in the business of selling or transferring an obscene film and a movie trailer in; one count of using an interactive computer service to display an obscene movie trailer in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, and one count seeking forfeiture of certain assets of the defendants.” In layman’s terms, he made and sold porn movies a prosecutor thinks are obscene, showed a trailer of a Belladonna movie on the Internet that they think is obscene and that an irresponsible parent might not block from their teenager, and if found guilty, John should give up whatever assets that might have come as a result of the sale of this stuff, and a grand jury agreed with the prosecutor and indicted John. Now, if he’s convicted, John faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on each of the obscenity counts (you do the math), plus another two years on one of the other counts. Oh yeah, and he faces a maximum penalty of $500,000 in fines for each of these counts.

Karen and John Stagliano

When I first heard about this case, I did my “holy shit,” and right away thought about what the Staglianos must be going through. I was going to see Karen a week or so later at Exxxotica Miami and wondered what her frame of mind would be and if she even would come. She did come and she was her usual awesome self. Then I wondered if the adult industry’s personal watchdogs, the Free Speech Coalition, who have probably received hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions (you can ask) from those in the business, did anything to help. I have heard rumblings from those in the know, they have not and that’s a damn shame if it’s true.

Let me go back a bit and say that an indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent of the charges and it is the government’s burden to prove a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. John pled not guilty at his arraignment on April 21st in Washington, DC on all these counts. He was processed and released on his own recognizance and awaits a trial which some say may not happen until sometime in early 2009.

I spoke with Karen Stagliano at length yesterday and have had conversations with her regarding this case on several other occasions since this went down. Karen is not only John’s wife, but also the publicist at Evil Angel. Some of you might also know her as “former” performer Tricia Devereaux. I know her as one of the sweetest and most intelligent people in the industry.

Karen updated me on the case and told me that Evil Angel has seen the government’s discovery. On June 12, 2008, all four of their lawyers — Paul Cambria, H. Louis Sirkin, Allan Gelbard and D.C. counsel, Robert Corn-Revere — will be in Washington for a status hearing. John was given permission to be present by phone call only during the status hearing. He is intending to phone in from Los Angeles. John’s in good hands as three of his four attorneys have tried cases in the Supreme Court. At this time they will tell the judge their planned course of action and they will come up with an estimated time when they think this will go to trial.

John has no intentions of plea-bargaining, and once this trial begins, the judge would not be likely to grant acceptance of a plea. Stagliano, as do many of us, believes in a person’s right to free speech and expression. As Karen told me, “We make our movies for the people who want to watch them. If someone in Middle America doesn’t agree with what we do and doesn’t want to watch our movies, then they don’t have to. That’s totally their choice. But there should also be a choice to watch our movies if someone enjoys them.”

How is Stagliano dealing with all of this? Hey, if any of us were facing substantial prison time, the litany of fines, and a stack of legal bills like this, I know that I for one would be shitting the proverbial brick. Hell, I’d probably be shitting a whole quarry. With the possible criminal consequences aside, even if John wins there will still probably be millions of dollars in legal and related bills. Just to put it into some sort of form for you to understand, Evil Angel’s recent copyright infringement case against a Canadian company racked up legal bills around $1,000,000 dollars. There were two attorneys working that case, and this one has four. Feel free to do the math yourselves. Some estimate millions.

“John is in a very focused frame of mind,” Karen told me about his mental status. “He thinks it’s ridiculous the government would do this. He’s going to stand up for what he knows isn’t wrong. He’s not going to stop doing what he’s doing. We don’t think anything that we’ve done is morally wrong.”

There are tens of thousands of adult movies and scenes shot for DVDs and Internet sites each and every year. Are they all obscene? Who is to decide what is technically obscene? What a housewife from Atlanta might object to, another housewife in Atlanta might play for sexual stimulation for her and her husband. Are Evil Angel’s movies in question with this case that extreme? In our jobs here we see a plethora of movies and scenes daily. Sure, some are more “extreme” than others, but these are fairly tame comparatively speaking to a sea of adult material in the world.
Other companies and individuals in the mainstream adult business have faced somewhat similar accusations by the government — Seymore Butts, Rob Black, Max Hardcore, JM Productions are just a few of the more recent ones. Evil Angel are definitely the biggest of the bunch to be indicted, and in my humble opinion, this one really hits home because I know they are good people and have become to count Karen as a personal friend. Why were they chosen from such a large pool of prospected whipping posts? Maybe they got on the radar because of their high-profile copyright case, or maybe it’s just because they’re a whale in a sea of guppies. We love to do things bigger in this country.

We as consenting adults and fans of adult entertainment have to join John and stand up for our constitutional rights. It’s our right to choose what we want to watch, say, and purchase and enjoy in our personal lives. Tomorrow, I’ll bring you a second part to my diatribe on how you can help with not only this case, but also support the position that it is our freedom to choose what we want to want to watch. In the interim, go to DefendOurPorn.org to learn a little bit more on what you can do.

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“The momentum for the F.A.M.E. Awards has been incredible,” said Dan Davis, Editor-in-Chief of Genesis magazine and spokesman for the F.A.M.E. Awards. “We have far surpassed last year’s numbers and would like to congratulate all of the finalists and thank all of the fans who have taken part in this unique process. We’re looking very forward to this year’s show which promises to be great for both the fans and stars.”

The F.A.M.E. Awards were created in 2006 by executive sponsors and show creators Genesis Magazine (www.genesismagazine.com), Adam & Eve (www.adameve.com), WantedList.com and AVN.com as a way for fans to honor their favorite adult film stars, directors, movies and companies. It is the first show where the fans take part in the entire process—from choosing the finalists to ultimately selecting the winners.

The 2008 F.A.M.E. Awards are also sponsored by Pink Visual (www.pinkvisual.com) and HotMovies.com. To sponsor the 2008 F.A.M.E. Awards or for more information about the show, please email info@thefameawards.com.

2008 FAME AWARDS FINALISTS

Favorite Female Performer

Belladonna

Eva Angelina

Jenna Haze

Jesse Jane

Sasha Grey

Stormy Daniels

Tera Patrick

Tory Lane

Favorite Male Performer

Barrett Blade

Evan Stone

James Deen

Lexington Steele

Manuel Ferrara

Randy Spears

Rocco Siffredi

Tommy Gunn

Favorite Oral Star

Gianna Michaels

Jada Fire

Jenna Haze

Jessica Drake

Penny Flame

Roxy DeVille

Sasha Grey

Sunny Lane

Favorite Anal Star

Annette Schwartz

Brianna Love

Courtney Cummz

Flower Tucci

Hillary Scott

Jenna Haze

Katsuni

Mia Rose

Favorite Breasts

Amy Ried

Ashlynn Brooke

Eva Angelina

Gianna Michaels

Mary Carey

Nina Mercedez

Stormy Daniels

Tera Patrick

Favorite Ass

Alexis Texas

Audrey Bitoni

Belladonna

Brianna Love

Gina Lynn

Jenna Haze

Katja Kassin

Teagan Presley

Hottest Body

Alektra Blue

Audrey Bitoni

Gina Lynn

Jesse Jane

Kayden Kross

Nikki Benz

Savanna Samson

Tera Patrick

Favorite Rookie Starlet

Alexis Texas

Ashlynn Brooke

Audrey Bitoni

Bobbi Starr

Bree Olson

Kayden Kross

Stoya

Tera Wray

Favorite Feature Movie

Babysitters

Broken

Debbie Does Dallas… Again

Fashionistas Safado: Berlin

Janine Loves Jenna

Not The Bradys XXX

Operation Desert Stormy

Upload

Favorite Gonzo/All-Sex Movie

Ass Worship 10

Big Wet Asses 12

Brianna Love Is Buttwoman

E for Eva

Fetish Fanatic 5

InTERActive

Interactive Sex with Jenna Haze

Jack’s Teen America 17

Favorite Director

Belladonna

Brad Armstrong

Eli Cross

John Stagliano

Jules Jordan

Paul Thomas

Robby D.

Stormy Daniels

Dirtiest Girl in Porn

Annette Schwarz

Audrey Hollander

Aurora Snow

Bree Olson

Delilah Strong

Hillary Scott

Jenna Haze

Tory Lane

Favorite Production Company

Adam & Eve Pictures

Bang Productions

Digital Playground

Evil Angel

Hustler Video/VCA

Jules Jordan Video

Naughty America

Red Light District

Vivid Video

Wicked Pictures

Favorite Celebrity Sex Tape of All-Time

1 Night in China

1 Night In Paris

Amy Fisher Caught On Tape

Janine & Vince Neil: Hardcore & Uncensored

Kim Kardashian Superstar

Pam & Tommy Lee: Hardcore

Pam and Brett Michaels

Screeched

Most Underrated Star

Brooke Haven

Gianna Lynn

Holly Wellin

Joanna Angel

Lindsey Meadows

Marie Luv

Mia Rose

Mikayla

Nautica Thorn

Trina Michaels

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So we have one day down and two to go here in beautiful South Beach. Day one of Exxxotica Miami Beach saw record setting numbers for the consumer convention which has entered its third year, and in large part to the contingent of huge stars signing at the show’s Fantasy Island booth sponsored by yours truly, Genesis!

The day started off early with a bunch of the girls from the show hitting Miami radio. Gina Lynn, Nautica Thorn and Kayden Kross went over to Power 96 to talk to the morning crew there, while Jesse Jane called into 93 Rock and Stormy Daniels, Bree Olson and Lexi Love hit sports talk station the Fan. Stormy followed it up with taping an interview with popular TV show “Deco Drive.”

All of the girls were great and they were selling DVDs, signing autographs and posing for pics for lines of fans from the time the doors opened at 4, until it was time to head back to our hotel at 11 at night. Stormy Daniels offered up a bunch of her movies including Operation Desert Stormy, Jenna Haze was on hand showing off her award-winning ass, Joanna Angel charmed the masses, Adam and Eve’s contract stars Bree Olson and Kayden Kross did much of the same, as did Nautica Thorn, Lisa Sparxxx, Moxxie Maddron, Eva Angelina and Roxy DeVille.

We also had a bunch of friends of the mag stop by the booth, including Mike South, Kitty (who appeared in our Sex Star Hunt contest a while back), Tony Batman of A! Entertainment, Karen Stagliano/Tricia Devereaux of Evil Angel, Tommy Gunn, New Sensations star Ashlynn Brooke, Danny Mountain, Lee Stone, Lexi Lamour, Zoe Britton, Nikki Rhodes, Nakita Kash, Dave Michaels of Lee Network and more. Also, big props to the folks who helped us out: Monstar, Mike Moz, Katy Zvolerin from Adam and Eve, and anyone else who I am forgetting.

We stopped over at Tera’s booth and saw our esteemed publisher who is looking as incredible as ever. She also has some brand new ink on her arm — a full sleeve tattoo! She had Sasha Grey and Charmane Star over there. We visited with Belladonna over at the Evil Angel booth, the always amazing Taylor Wane and photographer Laurien at her booth and some others.

Anyway, the girls were all signing, meeting the fans and having a great day/night all the way around. We did our “Everything You Wanted to Know About Porn” all-star panel which I moderated with the help of The Star Factory publicist Mike Moz and Tony Batman who was out in the crowd fielding the questions for our panel from the tons of fans who hit the main stage to hear.

The panel is basically a live talk show where fans can ask anyone up there anything they want. We of course got the usual questions like how you get into the biz, do they have orgasms, etc. But all the questions were great and so were our panelists: Kayden, Bree, Ashlynn, Tommy, South, Karen Stagliano, Nautica, Joanna Angel, Zoe, Lexi and Nikki. We’ll be posting some video of it later on for sure.

After the show we all headed over to Mansion for Stormy’s killer party. The place was packed, the girls danced (which is always nice to watch). A lot of fun was had for those who were lucky enough to be there in South Beach’s hottest club. We’ll leave the rest to the imagination of the after party that followed the after party!

See you guys tomorrow! Day two is gonna be great with Jesse Jane comin’ by to sign!

Be patient and we’ll get up plenty of pics and video soon!

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Genesis will be hitting the Miami Beach Convention Center April 18-20 for Exxxotica Miami. Now this is an island you wouldn’t mind being stranded on. We’ve assembled some of the largest stars in the business and have marooned them all on Fantasy Island. Come paddle your way through a sea of stars, get autographs and photos and bask in the beauty!

Scheduled to Appear:
Jesse Jane®
Stormy Daniels®
Jenna Haze
Eva Angelina
Bree Olson
Kayden Kross
Joanna Angel
Nautica Thorn
Moxxie Maddron
Roxy DeVille
Lisa Sparxxx
Donna Doll
and more special guests!

Our Editor, Dan Davis, will also be moderating a daily live Q&A panel with some of the industry’s top stars, directors, and industry professionals each day entitled, “Everything You Wanted To Know About Porn (but were afraid to ask).” Performers such as Belladonna, Stormy Daniels, Jenna Haze, Gina Lynn, Travis Knight, Tommy Gunn, Ashlynn Brooke, Joanna Angel and more will be on hand to answer any and all of your questions. We will also be talking to industry professionals such as Evil Angel’s Karen Stagliano to discuss their current battle with their impending obscenity case and your first amendment rights of free speech.

Stay tuned to GenesisOnline.com for video, photo and blog updates throughout the weekend!

Visit www.exxxoticamiami.com for more info.

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