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FROM: Tim Evanson (tevanson@erols.com) SUBJECT: Jeff Browning story breaks in AVN! DATE: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:00:57 -0500 ORGANIZATION: Tim Evanson's Home Page (coming soon!)Hi there... And to think RAME broke this first!!:
"Gay Adult Star Found With Fake Ids" Hollywood-- As Yogi Berra used to say, "It's deja vu all over again." This time around the Traci Lords scandal has a male counterpart in the gay video community. Jeff Browning, a Hollywood B-model and porn star with more than 40 video titles to his name, has been discovered to have three false California drivers licenses. Browning may have been using these documents to perform in adult videos while underage. As a result, adult video companies have been recalling all of Browning's videos that were made before August 1995, when Browning legitimately turned 18. In addition to performing in gay videos, Browning maintains a web site on the internet at http://www.jeffbrowning.com and is listed in many search engines as an adult performer. Browning's currently selling clips of his videos under the title "The Best of Jeff Browning" for $29.95 plus $4.95 shipping from his website. He takes his scenes from titles such as "Oh, So Tender," "Baby Cakes," "Junior Varsity," "Lovespell," "Seduction," "Le Jet Weekend," and "Tiger Cub Club." Representatives from companies producing those videos say there is no authorization for Browning to sell those clips. On his internet site, which has registered more than 42,000 hits, Browning describes himself as being, "18 years old, 5'7", 135 lbs., Italian, Latin and French." There is a non-explicit picture of Browning on his site. According to VCA Pictures' Russ Hampshire, Browning "obtained and used false identification to gain access into the industry." Browning, according to Hampshire, also goes by the "real" names Danny Torres, Dan Pelayo and Daniel Martinez Pelayo. VCA's HIS Video Gold production of "Stiff," as well as Browning titles that they distribute, including "Top Executive" and "As the Bed Turns", are no longer being manufactured or distributed. Hampshire has asked video stores to "please pull these titles immediately if you have them in stock, and call your sales rep for further information." Browning also appears in a number of compilation videos, including "Nuts and Butts" from Vivid and the Leisure Time "XXX Six Hour" series, which Browning has pictured on his web page. Now 19, Browning is trying to resume his career in the adult industry, but his recently-signed agent, Giorgio Falconi, said, "At this point I have not been able to get him any work." Falconi gets a percentage from models only if he finds them work, but the models are free to negotiate their own deals and make money in other ways, such as on the internet. Browning, when reached by AVN, said he was advised by an attorney to refrain from comment. He would not, however, reveal the name of his attorney. Browning has also been in contact with Los Angeles police about the charges of working underage. According to some speculation, he may have been granted immunity to point fingers at people in the adult industry. This might include supplying names of those who may have helped him falsify identification. The identifications were obtained when Browning used a phony birth certificate to get a new license, claims one source. One video company noticed that Browning's IDs didn't match and questioned their authenticity. Falcon Video suspected the false identification half a year ago and subsequently cut Browning's scene from Chi Chi LaRue's video "Face Down." "This guy really perpetrated a fraud on the adult industry," said prominent First Amendment attorney Paul Cambria, who represents several major adult producers, including Vivid, which owns several of Browning's titles. "He broke the law to get the government to issue an illegal ID," added Cambria. "The adult companies have immediately taken steps to deal with the problem. They didn't break the law. He did." Browning has been asked not to attend industry functions because of the identifications' flap. Gary Philipp, editor of "Skinflicks" magazine, which inadvertently published Browning photos in 1995, said he heard about the scandal nearly a year ago. Sabin, publisher of the "Gay Video Guide," said, "It's appalling that we have done everything in our power to keep this kind of thing from happening. It's the magazines and video companies that get blamed when some kid like this goes out and gets a fake ID. He's the one who broke the law, he's the one who should be prosecuted! What else can we do?" A source close to Browning, who also advised him not to sell videos on the internet, said Browning plans on directing and producing his own video line. To that extent, Browning solicits "new fresh faces" on his website for his upcoming "Jeff Browning Productions." In his ads, Browning seeks all types of races, tops and bottoms, age 18-30, smooth to hairy with good personality. He asks for two recent photos (nude preferred) sent to him via e-mail to casting@jeffbrowning.com. Browning was discovered by the late Derek Powers, who was murdered earlier this year by two gay models. Powers originally put him in Puppy Productions videos which were distributed by Mercury Media. On the heels of the Browning disclosure, the Free Speech Coalition issued the following industry-wide alert: The Free Speech Coalition regretfully announces that an underage actor has defrauded the adult entertainment industry using actual, legally issued state and federal identification documents belong to others in order to act in gay adult movies. Using the name Jeff Browning, the actor whose real name and birth date are Aaron Lance Denno, August 24, 1977, used each of the following names as his legal name: Daniel Pelayo, Daniel Martinez Pelayo, and Danny Torres. All these names and supporting identification belonged to other people. This apparently criminal conduct on the part of Aaron Lance Denno requires that all parties possessing any movies in which he appears remove all copies of those titles from their shelves immediately and contact their distribution source or manufacturer. In addition, it is urgent that anyone possessing any copy of any such movie contact an attorney immediately." Titles in which Jeff Browning has appeared are listed below. However, it's unclear which videos he may have been underage in at the time of the production.
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