By Peter Berton LOS ANGELES – Adult performer Chanel Preston has won numerous industry awards over the past three years … but can she take her success to the bank?

MONTREAL – Australian dollars have joined the list of currency options at alternative payment network Paxum. The e-wallet platform also enables peer-to-peer, wire and check money transfers in U.S. and Canadian dollars, euros and British pounds. “We are pleased to strengthen our...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – One of two men sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome 2007 slaying of gay porn producer Bryan Kocis has asked for a new trial on the grounds his former lover committed the crime. Harlow Cuadra, 31, is serving a life sentence in the State Correctional...

By Peter Berton LOS ANGELES – Brian Gross’ BSG PR agency doesn’t promote only adult entertainment. In fact, he maintains strong ties to the mainstream. That may explain, at least in part, why Gross’ adult client list reads like a Who’s Who of porn’s power players: Adam &...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Affiliate program Pimproll has secured the URL Porn.xxx, a bookend to the company’s existing property Porn.com. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Pimproll reportedly paid about $9.5 million to acquire Porn.com in mid-2007. The...

CYBERSPACE – When internationally known erotica photographer Denys Defrancesco founded the DDF Network of adult websites, he did so already possessing 30 years worth of celebrated adult content. Working with a small staff, Defrancesco proved it was possible to create sticky...

VENICE, Calif. – Barely four months after launching her first membership website, exotic performer Mitsuko Doll has revamped the entire property, adding more streaming videos, photos and other components. The new-and-improved MitsukoDoll.com was designed to give fans more of what...

SAN FRANCISCO – With Bree Olson’s inaugural year as the face of new-age phone-sex service Verified Call coming to a close, the company has begun searching for a new spokesmodel. According to President Kurt Vogner, the competition is wide open. The next spokesmodel could be...

LOS ANGELES – Affiliates who push traffic to HollyRandall.com must change their linking codes immediately if they wish to be paid for sales, according to a statement distributed over the weekend by the site’s new manager, MetArt. MetArt acquired the photographer’s eponymous site...

PITTSBURGH – Three months after the company debuted, SEOForAdult has been acquired by a startup. Founder Wright Williams announced the deal over the weekend, naming ElevenSEO as the new owner. According to Williams, the proprietary back-linking engine he created was the impetus...