QCrimes: Corbin Fisher Wants To Force Jake Lyons To Support Queer RIghts… Or Else!
Remember Jake Lyons? He once did a hot solo scene for Corbin Fisher as Greg. Then Lyons took those photos and posted them on his escort profile. When Corbin Fisher got wind of it, they threatened to sue him for over a million dollars. A Florida federal court judge said Lyons only owed them $54,000, but perhaps they realized that any guy selling his ass on the internet probably doesn’t have that sort of money because they’ve decided to let this whole copyright infringement thing go if Lyons will just donate $5,400 to the non-profit queer rights organization Equality Florida.
This may sounds like a case of Corbin Fisher trying to save itself from looking bad (ie. Industry Goliath versus David the twink). But according to their lawyer Marc Randazza, Lyons brought this upon himself by acting like a total turd burglar:
“All we wanted him to do was tell us how the images wound up on that website (since he insisted that he did not do it) and to promise not to try and impersonate Corbin Fisher ever again. I’d call that a pretty generous deal. Unfortunately, Lyons didn’t want to resolve it that easily, continued to impersonate Corbin Fisher to promote his prostitution services, and we were forced to file suit in order to put a stop to it. We didn’t want to do it that way, but we were left with no choice.”
Randazza added, “Even after we filed the suit, we were willing to drop it if Lyons acted reasonably. But, his behavior only got worse—he kept making appointments to meet with us, and then would flake out on them. He kept agreeing to resolve the thing, and then would change his mind at the last minute.”
Randazza said that Lyons is “a pathological liar” who created the mess the company faces today.
“He would blame and name other individuals, business, producers and industry parties as being responsible for posting the pictures and being behind some conspiracy against him, but then would change his story when we would simply ask for information about how he alleged the images ended up being used improperly.”
The attorney also said Lyons claimed that his escorting was netting him millions of dollars a year, and would re-post images and escort ads we were getting removed and taken down.
“At every opportunity leading up to our filing suit, he had countless opportunities to resolve the issue amicably and easily, yet went out of his way to aggravate things and escalate matters, leaving us with no alternative but to file suit to stop him,” Randazza said.
In Lyons’ own defense he says
“First of all, I did not create that men4rentnow profile; that was done by my agent, Bailey,” Lyons explained. “Bailey has a business relationship with men4rentnow, and Bailey also has a business relationship with Corbin Fisher. I believe Corbin Fisher paid Bailey to create the profile, and out of the money they paid Bailey, Bailey paid men4rentnow, in order for Corbin Fisher to sue me.”
… He continued, “Corbin Fisher used a crowbar to break into my house so they could steal my MySpace log in, just so they could change my profile to say I lived in Orlando, when actually I lived in Wilton Manors. They changed it to say Orlando so they could sue me in Orlando federal court.”
Whether or not federal courts use MySpace profiles to determine proof of residency is unclear. Also, why would Corbin Fisher go to such extreme measures, and why would Lyons’ agent betray him? According to Lyons, it all came down to money.
“Every once and a while, Corbin Fisher likes to pick models and make public examples of them. Remember when this story first came out? It hit the top of the blogs. What do you think readers think when they see news about cute models? They think, ‘I should get a membership to that site.’ So it drives up sales. Money talks. Plain and simple.”
Lyons went on to announce that he’ll soon be filing for bankruptcy—which would absolve him of any debt and garnishments—and will be producing his own porn on his own website, JakeLyons.com.
We’re not so sure about Lyons’ story but one wonders whether Corbin Fisher has set out a smear campaign against Lyons or whether are they just telling it like it is. And will Lyons cough up the dough or will Corbin Fisher have to start garnishing his wages from other studios to get the criminal twink to pay up? A judge will decide that early this next year if Lyons doesn’t start compulsively supporting gay rights now.
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