We agreed on the deal as we had been friends for so long, and I introduced her to the main producers in the adult biz over here, so 50/50 was a natural agreement. We spoke about me being her agent for a while, but we decided to build the site instead as I felt awkward taking money from her that way...
I shoot all the content except the b/g, as that's the one style she doesn't feel comfortable doing with me behind the camera. We have a friend who shoots that and he does it on a content share basis or he pays her, gives us the stills for the site and we promote the film when it's released on Dvd.
As I said, Sahara is a full time model and as well as the films she's shot so far, she also appears on UK satellite tv at least once a week in a hardcore g/g show. Any money she makes from the site is a bonus to her normal work, which earns her $11000-14000 a month. The only prob I have is explaining that what she see's on the CCBill stats as gross sales isn't what we get in the end... LOL. I wish CCBill would make the last column the amount we will receive after deductions.. AC/EGS Pay had that as a feature when they were processors, as we webmasters pointed it out while it was still in beta would be a good idea
In the UK there are a few webmasters who work with models successfully running a solo site on a 50/50 basis... Maybe it's just a UK thing. One friend of mine looks after quite a few of them and never has a problem. In fact he's now stopped taking on more models as he works all hours of the day as it is.