Simone WilsonThe L.A. Coliseum scandal was already hot, in the embezzlement/bribery sense. But thanks to a 2002 porn called “The GangBang Girl #32,” reportedly shot under the lights of the taxpayer-owned USC stadium, it's now got a half-naked cheerleader as covergirl:
According to a Los Angeles Times expose this morning, the hour-and-a-half-long porn was shot on the field, in the locker rooms and even in front of the iconic Trojan tunnel. And although the L.A. Coliseum official who gave Anabolic Video Productions permission to shoot there has not been revealed…
… “people familiar with Coliseum operations” tell the Times that “gaining access to the locked stadium and firing up the field lights typically requires the approval of a high-ranking manager.”
The general manager at the time was Patrick Lynch, who's already thoroughly tangled in conflict-of-interest charges for (allegedly) taking side payments from a janitorial company and not blowing the whistle on events manager Todd DeStefano while he (allegedly) raked in more millions from rave promoters.
Lynch's lawyer denies all client responsibility to the Times, calling the porn “disgusting.”
DeStefano, the worst of the alleged embezzlers, may be a prime candidate for blame here: A recently revealed “smoking gun” of an email shows he could have been cutting deals with Coliseum renters as far back as 1999. The porn was shot in 2001.
Then there are the coliseum commissioners who were supposed to be keeping an eye out for this kind of thing, including current L.A. County Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Mark Ridley-Thomas.
What's next? Fetish porn in the L.A. City Hall rotunda? Wet T-shirt contest in the Civic Park fountain? Girl-on-girl on an LAFD fire truck? (Oh, wait.)
“The GangBang Girl #32” reportedly shows a gaggle of horny football players raging on your classic blonde cheerleader chick, and basks in the iconic scenery of the L.A. Coliseum — featuring, for instance, “a quarterback tossing warmup passes near the western end zone.”
Times reporters Paul Pringle and Rong-Gong Lin II really did their research, if you know what we mean.
From the film's own plot description:
“Incredibly beautiful KIMBERLY is the lucky cheerleader chosen to inspire the team! So there she is, right out on the 30-yard line giving her all! What a motivator she is, if this sexy cum guzzler doesn't tighten your pigskin then no one can!”
Mr. Marcus has since moved into the apparel industry.
“You can be mad all you want, but it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities,” Mr. Marcus, the ex-porn star who played the quarterback, tells the paper.
A person who answers the phone at the Anabolic Video Productions building in Chatsworth this morning tells us that someone should be in by 10 a.m. who can answer any porn-related questions.
What we all deserve to know: Who's the scumbag who apparently accepted dirty porn-industry cash so that one of L.A.'s most respectable venues could get smeared in 20 loads of lord-knows-what?
A name will come out soon, and if it's not already in the D.A. documents, it'll no doubt take a leading role. Dude can't just let a football team's worth of porn stars do the nasty on state-owned property and expect to walk away unshamed.
Mr. Marcus, meanwhile, considers “GangBang Girl #32” to be the highlight of his career.
“I've made movies for about 20 years and I've done a lot of things, but that one really stands out…. I mean, who gets to have sex on the Coliseum floor?”
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