Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Was There an Agreement?

Confidential informant #2 states that Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes both stated that there was some type of contractual problem with Corrigan, however a "verbal agreement" was made pursuant to the meeting.

Then Joe makes a reference to this 'agreement' in an e-mail sent to Grant Roy: "on 03/03/07, at a time registered at 1014 am, the following message was forwarded via "myspace.com/harlowcuadra" to Grant Roy; "hey grant its harlow so when we gonna start filming? U know we had an agreement Joe"

Joe goes on to say in several additional email communications with Grant: "you need to make some kind of contact with us before I tell them you hired us joe"; "and we all know what u said to us at the avn in vegas and we have it on tape recorder and out conversation a le Cirque is recorded as well dont fuck with us"; and finally "we are going to visit san diego this week or next and we need to meet we hope to see u soon"

On 04/18/07, Harlow posts a rather long comment on his blog about the Vegas trip... trust me, it's a lot of reading, but one thing you'll note that's lacking is any mention of their being an 'agreement' between Sean/Grant and Harlow/Joe:

"My friends and mostly Mom thought it would be a good idea to go about this particular blog entry in a question answer format. Here it goes: How I ended up in the middle of it all. So who contacted who first? Why offer Brent so much cash? Sometime around mid 2006 Someone at LSG Media, sent an email to my Men4RentNow.com escort add. It was basically an application “for your chance to work with Brent Corrigan himself @ brentcorriganonline.com”. it was extremely pretentious so I ignored it. At the time I had no clue who Brent Corrigan was. Weeks later we started getting guys lined up for a big movie project, that required lots of guys. I used mostly myspace to do my scouting. While looking at a possible candidates friends list I spotted a familiar face. I couldn't exactly remember where I saw this face before. I sent it a private message with my recruiting for porn spam. To my surprise he emailed right back with an extremely bitchy response “I will no longer be used by the studios” blah blah blah. It was a boring day so I decided to fuck with him online and see what he said. Basically I responded back with something like “tell me your terms and we will work something out“. not to my surprise more bitchy comments followed. Brent eventually calmed down and basically wanted residual income along with other benefits. Keep in mind that I had no clue who Brent Corrigan was. Here is this bratty kid telling me that he wants half. After some research(alexa ranking, blog popularity), I consulted with my powers that be. I myspaced him the figure of 10k, he was appalled. Fine I went up to 30k(things then got serious). Brent still hinted at residual income. But I simply responded that if he got any money upfront there would be NO residual! Our only reason behind offering him the lump sum is that I did not want to deal with paper work, related with residual, and to minimize the drama. From that point on mark took over negotiations, and everyone settled on a full collaboration filming complex, that I will just spare you guys those little details. ok How was the Vegas meeting brought up? The Vegas meeting was something that came up completely out of the Blue. The night before AVN , Brent came online(aim) stoked about his trip to Vegas. “I am surprised your not going Harlow” Brent said and how it was all a big industry party or something like that. Keep in mind that I had just returned from the SEMA show, so I wasn’t exactly gung ho about going right back.

Brent asked if I could meet him there ”ill show you around”. I told him that I would if he would have dinner with me. Figured that if I could include some type of business matter into it, Mark would be a willing sponsor of the trip(It helped that he wanted to see the blue man group).


Brent agreed and off to sin city we went. What happened in Vegas? We arrived with barely enough time to get dressed and make it over to le cirque, although Mark insisted on stopping by one of the bars in the Bellagio(they lacked scotch aboard the plane). After some good Macallan 28, it was dinner time. What happened next is not really worth writing about. The short and sweet version; we got drunk-barely ate anything-didn’t even have dessert (all my friends know I love dessert). Brent got up to take a piss about nine times.Couple laughs here and there. O I broke 2 crystal champaigne glasses toasting Grant that cost an extra 300 bucks on the bill :-/. We all then decided to leave before they kicked us out. Once out side I had mark take some pics of us mostly for use on myspace. Brent invited us to go clubbing, but due to so much booze and jet lag we declined. The next morning Brent and I exchanged many text messages, basically he was all alone in his hotel room and needed the plunder of the stud wonder. Unfortunately a hairy Ex marine, made his way into my room at 5am and had affectively pilfered through all my loads. What was your first impression of Brent Corrigan?Brent’s cute no doubt about that. Total talk time over the phone most likely added up to 30min. A few text messages here and some emails there. The best three words to describe him would be complicated little shit. What happened after Vegas? Communication after Vegas was few. Brent was busy filming things for his own site but as far as we knew it was all set for the GAYVN, in San Francisco. Where do you stand with Brent Corrigan and Grant Roy? Not sure. I can barely remember the last time we had any communication. Grant turned into Howard Hughes and Brent is as elusive as a unicorn. Plus if all the stuff on the blogs is true about there new company woes , then it may be a looong time before I ever hear back. Would you still film with LSG? That’s a tough one. Everyone will scream conspiracy or something if we where even seen in a room together. Lets wait for some time to go by and we shall see."

... and now returning to the affidavit, Grant Roy states: "that he and Lockhart subsequently met with Cuadra and Kerekes (aka Trent) for dinner at "Le Cirque", restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel. The foursome discussed conducting business at some point and possibly "trading (pornographic) scenes". Roy advised that LSG could not embark in such an endeavor at that time as they were embroiled in pending litigation with Cobra Video, and more specifically, Bryan Kocis. Cuadra then asked questions such as; "what if Bryan left the country, and what if he went to Canada". Roy stated that Lockhart "had a few drinks in him and didn't understand what Harlow was talking about", and stated; "then he'd only come back". Kerekes then stated that "Harlow knows someone who would do anything for him". Roy stated that as he looked at Harlow, Roy knew that Harlow was talking about killing the victim. Roy then stated to Cuadra that they (Roy and Lockhart) didn't need Kocis to leave the country, and the conversation was switched to another subject."

... again... no mention of a verbal agreement.

Was there really a verbal agreement made, or was this a figment of Joe's imagination? Who told confidential informant #2 that there was a verbal agreement? If Harlow and Joe do have the conversation in Vegas recorded... where is it? If there was an agreement, why wasn't it mentioned during the infamous Blacks Beach jaunt? And finally, what was the agreement?