HMG Celebrity News – The much-hyped sex debut of Montana Fishburne has shown many observers how much the sex industry has grown in both profile and power in just over ten years. And Vivid Entertainment CEO, Steven Hirsch is on top of the pile.

Formed in 1984, Vivid’s growing range of porn parodies and celebrity sex tapes now pulls in over $100-million a year, in an industry with annual grosses of around $13-billion. That outstrips even Hollywood, which averages just $10.6-billion.

Vivid gained, and keenly protects its place at the top of this highly competitive, absurdly lucrative game by working in league with the tabloids and selling celebrity sex tapes that are often wildly hyped and promoted by TMZ.

“We’ve done celebrities for years but have recently bought more as public appetite has increased,” Hirsch told the Reporter. “The days of generic adult films are gone because there are so many websites for that stuff.”

Montana Fishburne’s debut DVD is a perfect example of Vivid’s methods – launched in a firestorm of manufactured scandal they sold 25,000 disks in three weeks at $45 a box, earning Steve’s group over $1-million. And they’re still counting.

And the impassable line that used to separate Hollywood from the porn world has now been so blurred that former porn stars like Riley Steele (from ‘Piranha 3D’) and Sasha Grey (’Entourage’) have made new careers in the ‘respectable’ media.

“The media and consumers like this stuff!” oozes one porn-business source. “Paris didn’t lose anything, and Kim Kardashian escalated her fame.”

And with so much cash rolling in you can bet the voyeurs at Vivid are a long way from done – Next on their sales list of sleaze is a XXX version of Superman, and porn-flavored rip-offs of movies like Grease, the 1971 Stanley Kubrick classic ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and even ‘The Godfather.’

The mind honestly reels…

HMG Celebrity News – Chris Klein has gotten off with the minimum for a second DUI offender — 96 hours in jail (time he has already served), after he was busted again on suspicion of driving while drunk.

This time around Chris was caught at 3.13am on the 101 Freeway near Sherman Oaks, where the police report says he was;

“Observed weaving from the #3 lane into the #2 and #4 lane, westbound at Woodman Ave.”

Chris’s blood-alcohol level at .24 was pretty much three times the legal limit of ‘.08′.  Chris was arrested in 2004 for the same reasons, and was eventually convicted of DUI. He could have received up to 1 year in jail this time, but the judge recognized he had taken steps to get better by checking into a rehab clinic where he stayed for 2 months, nearly immediately after his arrest. Still he will be under probation for the next 4 years and and is required to drive a car with an alcohol interlock device.

Best known as “Oz” from 1999’s ‘American Pie,’ the Illinois native has featured in several more films, and also has the unwelcome distinction of being the man whom Katie Holmes dumped in 2005 after five years together to marry Tom Cruise.

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