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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom
I worked for years for Harry Mohney, owner of the Deja Vu chain, and at one point he was as mobbed up as it gets. I also worked over a decade for a woman that was a close friend/business partner of Reuben Sturman, and his reputation speaks for itself.
It was said that movies like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door made WAY more money than reported in their theatrical runs because the mob owned adult theaters that ran them severely under-reported the income. I don't think it was nearly as prevalent once the online industry took over porn, but in the early days of adult bookstores/strip clubs/porn theaters the mob absolutely had a huge hand in them...
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That's a little more what I'm talking about.
But after meeting literally hundreds of people in this industry I personally haven't met even one "mob" guy. Don't know if it was just coincidence or not.
But I never met them or saw them in the strip clubs (my ex worked for Thee Dollhouse chain as a dancer back in the 1980's) or the jack shacks (another ex).
I didn't have a lot of contact with the adult bookstore industry until the 2000's. I'm sure they had to have had a big piece of that in the day though.
Still haven't met one in the online adult business.