Today's Blind Items - Around The World

Over the years there have been a wide variety of tenants of a mid century modern building that shares a parking lot with a 7-Eleven. Currently it is a design studio. It is just a mile or two from Hollywood and was at one point in time the location of one of the biggest distributors of illegal porn anywhere in the world. Back in the day before the owner of the company died, it was a production studio. They didn't do any filming there. They just did editing. The company had a legit show that actually appeared on all three networks at the time. The show, which copied the formula of several other shows at the time, involved lots of travel to some of the poorer countries of the world. While one crew would go shoot what would air back home, several other crews would scour markets and clubs and schools for teens and young women to shoot porn. Often they would pay just a couple of bucks and get two hours of footage. They didn't care about ages of the women. Every so often they would make sure they got someone they knew for sure was legal and get an i.d., but for the most part, they didn't care. The company shot thousands of hours of porn during the few years their network show aired. The networks had no idea what was going on, but back home in LA, one team of editors would be working on the network show, while other editors would be working on the porn. They would then send the film our to be duplicated and then it was sent all over the country and the world. They also had certain niche films for very important clients around the country who often put in special requests. The company made millions of dollars. Then, when the show ended, the porn business ended. The head of the production company kept it all a secret.