SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Assembly Bill 332, a controversial measure to mandate condom usage on porn sets statewide, was among 144 bills the California Assembly Appropriations Committee shelved on Friday, citing a desire to spare the state the potential expense of administration,...

MIAMI – Cuba’s best known adult export, Angelina Castro, plans to kick off her latest project with a little help from an unusual source: her grandmother. Beginning at 2 p.m. ET Sunday, Castro’s grandmother will co-host a two-hour live event designed to test the mettle of...

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Though the 2014 AVN Show is more than seven months away, AVN Media Network has launched the annual confab’s website and opened registration to members of the adult entertainment industry. Fans, too, already may purchase ticket online. Set to take place...

CYBERSPACE – A new variant of the Citadel malware designed to steal login credentials from clients of payment platform Payza and its subsidiary AlertPay has been discovered “in the wild.” Both platforms are employed by adult affiliate programs, websites and traffic networks. In a...

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...

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...

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...