Don Chairez’s campaign for the Nevada Supreme Court is getting some unwanted exposure: Photos of his 21-year-old daughter have surfaced on Playboy.com.

The story went public Wednesday when ESPN affiliate KWWN-AM, 1100, and several prominent sports Web sites reported that Monica Chairez, a Las Vegas model, had posed for Playboy.

It was the second political controversy in recent weeks involving a Playboy model.

The Nevada Appeal in Carson City published photos last week of Gov. Jim Gibbons embracing a woman and holding hands at the Reno Rodeo. Reports identified the woman as Leslie Durant, a former Playboy model who was married to Reno Mayor Pete Sferrazza in the mid-1980s.

Gibbons, who has been in a divorce battle with his wife, Dawn, told reporters that Durant was a longtime friend.

Angered that her Playboy connection was being aired, Chairez’s daughter fired off threatening text messages to her ex-boyfriend, Pauly Howard. In an interview with Vegas Confidential, Howard said Monica Chairez and her boyfriend accused him of revealing her Playboy connection.

“I had nothing to do with it,” said Howard, 31. “I have no control over the blogs. She’s the one who posed. Being in Playboy has always been a dream of hers.”

Howard, who said he dated Monica Chairez for about two years, said she threatened to file a restraining order against the radio station and create a Web site with embarrassing sexual details about the sports-talk host.

Don Chairez is a former Clark County District Court judge who lost a bid for state attorney general in 2006. A request for comment left on his telephone was not returned by deadline.

A former Clark County deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1994, he was appointed judge in 1994 by Gov. Bob Miller.

According to his Internet bio, Chairez “wasted no time” in taking the lead “when smut peddlers were creating a nuisance on the Las Vegas Strip.”

The bio said Chairez “was the first to rule that the aggressive smut peddlers were trespassing on private property and were not exercising free speech protected by the First Amendment.”

Chairez is one of four candidates running for the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice William Maupin. An August primary will narrow the list to two, followed by a November runoff.

Howard said he and Chairez’s daughter parted ways earlier this year when she “wanted to move in and get engaged.”optical networks

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Las Vegas- Scratch the NBA, but add “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis to Steve Wynn’s short list — short on funds that is.

Wynn Las Vegas, which sued June 12 seeking payment for an outstanding bill for a fundraiser that took place during last year’s All-Star Weekend, has been paid in full by an unnamed party, property spokeswoman Jennifer Dunne said Monday.

But on Friday, the Strip resort sued Francis, saying the 35-year-old owner of the video franchise featuring college students in sexually provocative situations, owes the company $2 million in unpaid gambling debts dating back to February 2007.

Francis, who has not been formally served the court papers, said through a representative Monday that he has no debt with the resort.

“As far as Mr. Francis is concerned, his obligations to the Wynn hotel have been fully lived up to per prior agreements,” said Ronn Torossian, a spokesman for Mantra Entertainment, Francis’ production company.

A Wynn Las Vegas representative declined to comment on the lawsuit.

News of the lawsuit against Francis comes a day after Wynn Las Vegas said it erroneously named subsidiaries of the National Basketball Association as defendants in its June 12 lawsuit seeking to recover $50,000 for the Alonzo Mourning Charities fundraiser.

Mourning, a former NBA star, is a co-defendant in that lawsuit.

Wynn’s attorneys, who were preparing to amend the lawsuit when it received payment for the outstanding bill, will now file a request to dismiss that lawsuit, Dunne said.

“Wynn Las Vegas and the NBA have enjoyed a long-standing, productive business relationship,” Dunne said. “Wynn Las Vegas will continue to support the NBA in their endeavors and regrets any inconvenience this error may have caused.”

According to the lawsuit, Wynn Las Vegas extended $2.5 million in credit to Francis on Feb. 16, 2007, and an additional $300,000 two days later.

Francis made a $800,000 payment later that month, but the rest has yet to be paid, according to court papers filed in Clark County District Court.

The lawsuit is just the latest legal trouble facing Francis.

Francis is free on $1.5 million bail pending a trial on tax evasion charges in Reno.

Francis was booked into Washoe County Jail in June 2007 on two counts of federal tax evasion. He decided to remain in jail in Nevada rather than be sent back to Florida, where he faced charges of child abuse and prostitution.

He was released in March after pleading no contest to several charges under an agreement that allowed him to walk free after nearly a year in jail.

He pleaded no contest to one count of felony child abuse and two counts of misdemeanor prostitution. He also pleaded no contest to two additional child abuse counts on behalf of his company, Mantra Films.

Francis also pleaded guilty in a 2007 case to having sleeping pills and cash in his cell at Bay County Jail.

The charges stem from a case involving the filming of underage girls during spring break in 2003 in Panama City, Fla.

Francis makes an estimated $29 million a year on his “Girls Gone Wild” videos.

The federal charges claim Francis’ companies claimed approximately $20 million in fraudulent business deductions. He is also accused of using offshore accounts to hide income.

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>компютриS — In a growing trend among French college students, a student at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities has sparked controversy by appearing in adult movies to stay solvent.
The 26-year-old student, who performs with the stage name Rachel, answered a newspaper advertisement looking for adult talent. She wound up under the wing of French adult director John B. Root, whose official website can be found at Explicite-Art.com.

Rachel makes about 1,200 pounds, or about $1,800, per month, which covers her lifestye in one of Paris’ most chic districts, as well as her tuition and other school costs.

Before she landed her gig in adult, Rachel said she had family and drug problems. She’s since brought those under control.

“I am neither a feminist nor submissive, but I am challenging myself and I’m challenging society,” she said.

Naturally, many at her school have shunned her, though her art philosophy tutor has stood by her.

“When the big cheeses at the University found out she was in X-rated films, they turned the other way,” the tutor said. “Their silence was scornful,” Francois Aubral told the newspaper Le Parisien. “But this girl is very sensitive and intelligent.”

Rachel is working on a dissertation on the Amazons of Greek myth, while one of her adult titles in set to hit the airwaves on France’s Canal Plus.

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Rep. John Rogers, D-Birmingham, tried for the fifth year to repeal Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys, but he couldn’t get the House to take action on his proposal.

“The same sponsor, and the same dead bill,” said Sherri Williams, who operates Pleasures adult shops in Huntsville and Decatur.

Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys withstood a legal challenge by Williams. But adult stores are still able to sell vibrators and similar products because Alabama’s law allows an exception for people who say they are making purchases for medical reasons.

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MONTCLAIR, Calif. — After two years of planning, the site of the former Apple Adult Book Store here will become the home of Mision El Redentor Pentecostal Church.

Pastor Urias Mendoza and his wife Heather purchased the property April 2006 with the goal of demolishing the building and putting a church on the property. Now, Heather Mendoza said, blueprints are complete, and she and her husband are waiting for final approval to start building the church.

“We’re in our final stages, and there are just a few T’s to be crossed and I’s to be dotted, and we can finally begin tearing down the walls,” Mendoza said.

The Mendozas and the parishioners of Mision El Redentor have been holding worship services at Upland High School.

“The school has been very nice and supportive to allow us to meet there for two years,” Heather said. “While it’s not a church, we make the best out of it knowing it’s a transition.

“This is a big project, but that’s really when our faith kicks in. People question why we bought this land, because it sits on the site of the adult bookstore, and we say, ‘Why not?”

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NEW YORK – Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but some gentlemen prefer to keep secrets.

A sex tape – a sex filmstrip, really – featuring Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has been unearthed only to disappear again into the collection of a wealthy New York businessman who spent $1.5 million.

Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan discovered the film while researching a documentary on Monroe. His research brought him in contact with an FBI informant who first told the federal agency about the film, which depicts Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man.

The FBI confiscated the footage, but not before the informant made a copy of it, which is what eventually went on sale this week, according to the New York Post.

Why was the FBI involved? According to Morgan, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover nabbed the 15 minutes of 16mm film in a vain effort to prove that the man was either John F. or Robert F. Kennedy. Morgan said he based his statements on declassified FBI documents and interviews.

Morgan brokered the sale of the film to an unidentified New York businessman, who bought the tape to keep it secret and safe.

“He said he’s just going to lock it up,” Morgan said. “He said, ‘I’m not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I’m not going to sell it — out of respect.’”

The film was probably shot in the 50s and most likely before Monroe’s ascent to stardom. In the film, Monroe performs oral sex on a man whose head remains just out of frame.

According to Morgan, baseball star Joe DiMaggio once offered the FBI informant $25,000 for the film. The informant declined.

The FBI informant who originally copied the film has since died. The informant’s son kept the copy, which Morgan said he watched himself.

“You see instantly that it’s Marilyn Monroe — she has the famous mole,” Morgan said. “She’s smiling, she’s very charming, she’s very radiant, but she’s known for being radiant.”

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A bill that would tax adult video, phone sex lines and sex toys is getting support from the Alabama Education Association, from teachers worried that a new bill offering tax incentives for mainstream production in Alabama may cut into money available to support education.Richard Lindsey, the chairman of the House Education Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that passage of the Entertainment Industry Incentive Act of 2008, which is designed to lure motion picture production to Alabama, is linked to passage of a 30 percent tax on proceeds from “adult telephone conversation” and “visual pornography.”

The tax incentives would be offered to production companies that incur between $500,000 and $10 million in production expenditures. The Senate legislation authorizes an income tax credit equal to 25 percent of production expenditures plus a credit on payroll paid to Alabama residents.

The legislation also would grant state sales and lodging tax exemptions to production companies that spend more than $150,000 in Alabama.

AEA Executive Secretary Paul Hubbert said the incentives will cost Alabama taxes that go to education.

“The revenue generated by adult entertainment would offset the loss in the first few years in the incentive tax,” Hubbert said. “People who buy Penthouse and people who buy Playboy magazine will pay the tax.”

According to the Tuscaloosa News, the proposed legislation taxes visual pornography films, videos or other electronically distributed material, and also phone sex services like 900 numbers. It does not include adult magazines.

Lindsey announced he would not call for a vote on the film incentive bill or the pornography tax bill until this week.

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WWW- Air America Radio suspended afternoon host Randi Rhodes for making obscenity remarks made during a March 22 radio show in San Francisco about Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.

“Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station,” Air America Chairman Charlie Kireker said.

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NEW YORK — Adult virtual world developer Utherverse.com CEO Brian Shuster has been banned from speaking at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference (VWC). Though he had been asked to speak on several panels at the show, according to Shuster, representatives later told him that he would not be able to participate due to adult content.“I’m astounded here, listening to the speakers and panelists where they have conducted surveys of virtual worlds, and they say, ‘What attracts you to a virtual world? What would make you want to participate?’ — and conspicuously omitted are adult activities,” Shuster told XBIZ.

“It’s like there’s a huge censorship ban over this entire convention where no one is allowed to mention adult. It’s the number one reason that users go to Second Life, by heads and shoulders.”

Shuster, who developed adult virtual worlds RedLightCenter.com and sister website Virtual-Vancouver.com, said he has spoken at seminars and on panels at various other trade shows and this is the first time that he has been banned from speaking to an industry audience.

In fact, at last year’s ideaCity conference held in Toronto, Shuster was chided by show sponsors for not being more explicit while speaking on a panel, where he was asked to discuss the future of adult content in virtual worlds.

He pointed out also that, at the VCW show this morning, speakers at a marketing seminar said that user surveys have indicated that 80 percent of virtual world participants are 18 and over.

Founded in 2002, Utherverse is an adult 3D virtual reality universe. Its first online product, RedLightCenter.com, is based on Amsterdam’s infamous red light district. Virtual-Vancouver.com is a music-based virtual world community.

While Red Light Center offers adult activities, both worlds feature nightclubs, hotels, movie theaters, stores, and community events. Eventually, the company would like to create numerous interlinked virtual worlds.

Specifically designed to appeal to the 21-49 year-old demographic, Shuster said that multiple protocols make RedLightCenter.com an adult-only “safe” virtual world space. Users must pass through age verification to access adult activities, and there is a staff of “protectors” who are also active world participants that patrol the site and report any suspicious activity that indicates that a minor might have slipped through. Those suspect accounts are banned immediately.

Also, users are not permitted to use outside programming to build their avatars, which must pass through an approval process with Utherverse’s art department. Programming has been installed to make sure that avatars remain age appropriate in appearance.

Shuster said that extra diligence is needed in these areas because RedLightCenter.com is an adult-only website, and as such, is subject to scrutiny. However, he thinks that VWC show organizers are missing the point of virtual worlds altogether by excluding adult content from being discussed.

“Users go into virtual worlds so they can interact with other adult users and expand their relationships and capabilities beyond what they can do in reality — being able to expand their capabilities or find a mate if they’re unable to do that in the real world at that time,” Shuster said. “That’s why a world like ours is the only successful and profitable world that isn’t a game.

“You know, I’ve been in the adult industry for a while, and I’ve seen attitudes changing quite a bit, so this has been kind of a shock to me to see this sort of regression,” he added. “Technology has been developed with the adult industry being the forefront, typically.”

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TORONTO — “John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches” is set to be released by Bear Manor Media in August. The biography is a collaboration between two first-time authors, Jennifer Sugar and Jill Nelson.Neither of the women were adult film fans or had a background in the adult industry prior to starting the project. The authors told XBIZ the project was born out of curiosity surrounding Holmes’ legend and also the star’s well-publicized fall from grace.

“It was a twist of fate,” Sugar said, who explained that she was inspired after seeing the 2003 movie “Wonderland.”

“After the movie, the true crime aspect of the story initially intrigued me,” Sugar said. “But I felt there was more to the story about the murders and also about John. I decided to write a book since there wasn’t one in print — although ‘Porn King,’ his autobiography, is still available as an e-book.”

Nelson said that her interest also was piqued by “Wonderland,” which starred Val Kilmer as Holmes.

“Part of my fascination was due to the fact that I had relatively zero knowledge about the adult film industry,” Nelson said. “Prior to watching the movie — and like many other mainstream people — I had preconceived notions about the industry and the people in it.”

In August 2004, Sugar attended an event celebrating Holmes’ birthday and met several Golden Age adult celebrities, including Bill Margold, Cass Paley, Rhonda Jo Petty, Bill Amerson and photographer Kenji. From there, she began networking to research Holmes’ story.

Eventually, Sugar, who was a full-time college student at the time, enlisted the help of Nelson to complete the massive project.

Sugar and Nelson conducted in-depth research in an effort to present what they say is a fair and multidimensional portrait of Holmes as a performer and as a man.

Included in the book are interviews with several adult industry personalities, including Holmes’ widow Laurie, former Los Angeles Police Department detectives Tom Lange and Frank Tomlinson, Vivid contract director Paul Thomas, Ron Jeremy, Seka, Marilyn Chambers, Candida Royalle, Petty, AIM’s Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Holmes documentary director Julia St. Vincent and Margold, among others.

Amerson, who was featured in special interview footage for “Wonderland” as the talent agent that discovered Holmes, and Bob Chinn, who directed Holmes in the famous Johnny Wadd series, were also interviewed.

Sugar and Nelson pointed out that with a larger-than-life iconic figure like Holmes, it was not always possible to pinpoint accurate or consistent information.

“According to our research and the people we’ve spoken with, John Holmes was a chameleon; he had the ability to be whatever people wanted him to be at any given time,” Nelson said. “He could be very crafty, and he was street-smart, but he was also bright, funny and as most people know, he had the ability to fabricate and tell entertaining stories that would go beyond the realm of believability.

“He enjoyed seeing how far he could push the boundaries, which is probably one of the reasons he told outlandish tales,” Nelson added. “More importantly, he was smart in the sense that he knew how to sell his product, and the lies he told were actually a great marketing tool, as they served to perpetuate his legend.”

“It was difficult to prove some things that people had said, and the more research we did, it seemed as if many stories had changed over the years since John’s death, at least in subtle ways,” Sugar said. “I think a great thing about Holmes’ life story is there are so many questions that will never be answered, so we just laid it all out there for our readers to consider.”

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