Sounds like it could be frivolous to me, hard to tell. What are your thoughts? I've never seen their content has anyone else?
Somehow he was making $40k a month profit they say'
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A man who operated the Phoenix adult film studio New Media Studios actually was deceiving women into prostituting themselves by convincing them he operated a legitimate business, a Maricopa County prosecutor said Wednesday during opening statements in the man's criminal trial.
Deputy County Attorney Vanessa Cuevas, however, compared the business to putting "lipstick on a pig.'' She told the jury that no one was producing pornography at New Media Studios.Cuevas told jurors that Hartwell deceived the women, "to get them to sell their bodies for financial gain." Authorities previously said the business was raking in about $40,000 a month in profit.
Cuevas said a woman who worked for New Media Studios told authorities she was choked and gagged while she was forced to perform oral sex on Hartwell until vomiting.
William James Hartwell, owner of New Media Studios, which operated in an industrial area of Phoenix, is charged with operating a house of prostitution, sex trafficking and sexual assault. Hartwell, 56, says the sex acts that were recorded and photographed at the studio were constitutionally protected free speech because it operated as a legal adult film studio.
Porn or prostitution? Trial underway for Phoenix studio owner