How Did a Porn Flick Get Filmed in a Taxpayer-Owned Stadium?
- Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:41pm by
Becket Adams
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Did you know that along with being the home of the USC Trojans, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field, which was built as a memorial to World War I veterans, has hosted two Summer Olympics, Pope John Paul II, and was the place where John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination?
Pretty impressive, right?
Well, what if we told you that this taxpayer-owned field also boasts of being the shooting location for a 2001 porno?
Wait — what?
“The filming at the taxpayer-owned stadium was done at night, with the Coliseum’s towering lights blazing and its rows of distinctive red and white seats framing many of the scenes,” the Los Angeles Times’ Paul Pringle and Rong-Gong Lin II writes.
“The video also shows the stadium’s signature tunnel, which the Trojan team charges through at the start of games, as well as a sliver of the iconic peristyle, the arched entrance to the Coliseum,” the Times adds.
The football-themed porno was filmed in one night, according to one cast member. Scenes were filmed on the field and in the locker room (although, apparently, the latter didn’t make it into the final cut).
What’s odd is that, according to one of the “actors” involved, while the porno was being shot, a Sheriff’s Department helicopter circled a few times, hovered there for a moment, and then left.
The “actor” says he remembers looking up and thinking: “There’s going to be, like, this intercom saying, ‘Hey, this is the … Sheriff’s Department, you guys must cease.’
“But none of that came. They just circled, like they were trying to see what was going on,” the “actor” said.
The Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles Police Department, which has jurisdiction over the Coliseum, say they don’t remember anything about a porno shoot.
“How the crew got permission to use the national historic landmark…is unclear,” the Times reports.
Yeah, wait a minute! If it’s a taxpayer-owned stadium, who gave the crew permission to film there? That is, what would be the standard operating procedure to get access to a place like that?
“The Coliseum is jointly run by the city, county and state, which owns the land. A spokesman for the California attorney general’s office said Tuesday that he did not know if it is illegal to film pornography on state property,” the Times reports.
But that goes against state agencies like the California Department of Parks and Recreation which explicitly bans the filming of pornos on properties they control.
The Times has more:
Gaining access to the locked stadium and firing up the field lights typically requires the approval of a high-ranking manager…An attorney for the top Coliseum executive at the time the video was made said his client knew nothing about the production.
The Coliseum executive in charge at the time of the shooting was Patrick Lynch; he resigned last year and was indicted this year in a massive corruption case.
“That’s disgusting,” Lynch’s attorney, Tony Capozzola, said of the porn shoot. “He would never allow that.”
Really? Why was Lynch indicted?
“Lynch has pleaded guilty to conflict of interest in a deal that required him to return $385,000 in alleged kickbacks he received from a Coliseum contractor,” the Times reports.
“Ex-events manager Todd DeStefano has pleaded not guilty to charges that include bribery, embezzlement and conspiracy. Four other men also have been indicted in the case.”
Oh. Well, that might explain some of this.
Pope John Paul II visited L.A. in 1987 and said Mass for a crowd of 100,000
at the Memorial Coliseum (image courtesy Daily News).
“The indictments followed more than a year of Times reports on Coliseum financial irregularities and lax oversight by its nine-member governing commission, which includes four elected officials. Managers were engaged in side deals with concert promoters and others who did business at the Coliseum,” the report adds.
“Executives spent tens of thousands of dollars in public funds on massages, golf tournaments, luxury cars and other perks.”
Corruption, kickbacks, embezzlement, bribery… Yeah, we’d say that’s the type of environment that would overlook the shooting of a porno in a taxpayer-owned stadium.
Final fun fact: the commission has been so overrun with corruption that it’s near insolvency. The commission voted in May to turn control of the field over to USC.
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kourage
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:03pmJust great. I go to one USC home game every year at the Coliseum and now I can’t look at the field without thinking “that’s where they shot a porno”.
And NWO/Bilderberg nuts: go back to the basement with Alex Jones. The truth may have no agenda, but the Illuminati aren’t rewriting it and Popular Mechanics is not run by the CIA.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:01pmAs it belongs to the state, they are upset because of the loss of potential revenue.
Report Post »xd45fan
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:38pmwhat’s the name of the movie?
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on June 2, 2012 at 12:03amYes, what is the name?
But on a serious note, it‘s not like it’s sanctafied land! Pornos are shot in more controversial locations (churches, cathedrals, schools, hospitals, etc. (I am not reffering to sets, either)). What’s the big deal?
You wouldn’t know that you were ever on a one-time porno set, unless you’ve seen the actual porn movie! I will let you digest that one . . .
Report Post »reportanddeport
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 5:34pmGLENN BECK, whyyyyyyyy are you wasting your web space and our time with this NON-story? This happened ELEVEN YEARS AGO. And even if it happened YESTERDAY, why do you keep banging the drum on this? Glenn Beck, you are marginally influential because you waste people’s time with your goody-two-shoes antics and crying jigs. GROW A SET OF CAHONES AND A SPINE AND ACT LIKE A MAN, not a nun or a do-gooder crybaby.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:05pmFirst, why do you address your comments to Glenn Beck? Between his internet and radio shows, do you really think he’s reading your petty little musings? Highly doubtful. Second, if the story is such a waste of time, then why do YOU waste YOUR time reading it and posting a comment? Third, it’s a free site. Until YOU start paying to view the content, you can shut up and go read elsewhere. You sound like an idiot.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:20pmsoybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:51pm
why would the government own a stadium? Glad I dont live in VA
The-Monk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:36pm
Ca….
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either one…be glad.
roach
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:40pmWho cares, its just a porn. OMG SOMEONE HAD SEX AND FILMED IT IN A STADIUM. RAAWWWRR. get over it.
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:05pmI think we have bigger issues to focus on right now.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 4:09pmIt also, was in 2001 when this happened.
Report Post »45Sentinel
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:18pmWho cares about porn? Wake-up America. Graduates are trying to pray in these stadiums!!
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
Nice how that “tolerance” thing is working out.
Report Post »easye2984
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:34pmUh, where’s the video? We need to see proof.
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:44pm^ lol
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:54pmWhy not they allow everything else in California except business ability to survive their taxes.
Report Post »h20sue
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:50pmI’ll tell you how this happened! It happened because some liberal idiot allowed it.
Report Post »Find the moron and put him in jail with the face eaters! USA is gone because of the foreigner (aliens) who have been allowed to enter “our country”. Take prayer out of schools, distroy the 10 commandments, take away In God We Trust on all federal walls, and what do you get? Socialism!
Go ahead, allow these Mosque to be built and watch us all blow into pieces. You get what you ask for and baby….these people are going to make certain they take us over. It’s a matter of time! Heaven help us, our children, and our grandchildren. Our government doesn’t have a hand on anything and crime is growing a rapid rate. I hate listening to any of the major TV news stations as they are all liberal and Obama is in charge of everything. Too left, much too left, including, but not excluding:
Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno, DAVID LETTERMAN (ESPECIALLY), AND Jimmy Kimmel. You want to hear anything positive from the “right” don’t watch TV!
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:42pmHey, it’s Californificatia, anyone surprised? That and the coach looking the other way while players got gifts and money.
Report Post »ginger100
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:28pmOnly in California
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:31pmGray Davis.
Report Post »hi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:06pmA lib comment about Clinton with porn stars was that there is nothing wrong with Clinton posing with The women. Porn is their career.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:43pmA good author could write a best selling book about the corruption and money grab in all departments of L.A. especially the film industry’s permit offices. Thousands if not millions of dollars have floated through the hands of this office and the L A School Board (who donate big dollars to School Board Campaign accounts -receiving the right to collect fees for filming in their schools, something that once was done school by school…hundreds of thousands of dollars going to one board now). The Taxpayers own a lot of these locations, but nothing ever gets back to general account for tax payer relief. Everything gets scoffed off to Board Members or County Commissioner, Permit Office personnel. Once it was estimated to be as high as $55M a year! ANY GOV. ENTITY that gets to collect money “on behalf of the Taxpayers” but who has NO OVERSIGHT ends up stealing money from taxpayers. IF it happens in the film industry, it happens in every department that is charged with issuing permits “on behalf of taxpayers”. PS No permits should ever be issued to PORN anything on taxpayer paid for/supported property.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:03pmNot much here … normal government corruption at any level…
What I would like to do know is why is The Blaze not reporting on the Bilderberg meeting that is starting?
Report Post »DarthMims
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:29pmBecause the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News already cover that. I hear Bigfoot is supposed to be attending this meeting.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:46pmRemarkably, the RT or RUSSIAN TIMES gives us more information on our OWN country than any other news agency!
Report Post »code green
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:52pmThe Bilderbergs take credit for the European Union and the Euro. Agenda 21 is a threat for the whole world. Hell ya cover these elite POS s. It is journalistic maleficence not to.
Report Post »Never poo hoo the threat of One World Order, that is their goal.
Come on Beck get with it, you aren’t afraid of Soros. Cover these bast#&ds in your “White House” set.
taxpro4u03
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 3:40pmNo MONEY in it – tough to exploit the trough from whence the feed comes, anyway. The FEAR only works when its coming from the other side of the aisle… ;-) Tough to explore BOTH sides with the same zeal and remain ‘credible.’
Report Post »ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:01pmUh, it’s California. Keep moving,folks, nothing here to see…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:58pmIf there was a Porn University (PU)… I think… it would give Degrees in Public & Government Administation!
Report Post »DarthMims
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:27pmThat would be “Pubic Administration”.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:57pmWhoops. They must have ben libs,because you don’t need an I.D. to have acccess to anything borderwise,or anywhere else.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 12:51pmwhy would the government own a stadium? Glad I dont live in VA
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 1:36pmCa…..
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