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Originally Posted by Mutt
it wasn't an agent, it was Rico from Panchodog. JayRock found a model named Meggan in Texas, and I introduced him to Rico who has run some of the most successful solo girl sites on the Net - KatieFey.com, FelicityFey.com, AndiPink.com, ArielRebel.com. Rico signed the girl to a contract for a solo girl site and spent 40K on her as Meggan Powers. Jay was new to LA and Meggan was staying with him, Jay asked Rico if Meggan could shoot for Stephen Hicks or Ron Harris, i forget which, she shot for both. Jay dropped her off and by the time he returned the agent in question was at the location and voila - she became his talent and was booked around and then signed to a VIVID Girl contract as Meggan Malone. She never shot again for the solo site she had signed a valid legal contract for.
I'd blame the photographer as much as the model poacher - you send a girl to a set there should be no other agent on the premises while she is there.
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Mutt, it's impossible to police that and unrealistic to think that a producer, photographer or anyone can prevent a model from speaking to other models or agents in the course of their work and possibly getting tempted to seek new opportunities elsewhere. If your friend spent $40k to build a whole site around a model and if he insisted on exclusivity then the only plausible way to try to enforce that exclusivity would be with an exclusive services contract, just like Vivid themselves uses. If he didn't bother getting her to sign a contract like that then he was foolish to fail to do so. If he *did* get her to sign a contract like that then he was foolish not to hire one of the savvy industry attorney's to bring action against Vivid for tortious interference or whatever other strategies the attorney might devise.