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D&E Media, LLC, also known as DukeDollars, is a Delaware-incorporated, limited liability, American independent pornographic film company based in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.[1] It has been operating since 2003[2] and is best known for producing Internet gonzo pornography series centered on erotic humiliation, race play,[3][4] and rough sex, like Facial Abuse and Ghetto Gaggers.[5]

D&E Media content has been criticized by adult film industry personnel[6][7][8] and others,[9] though the company has also been defended and praised by prominent industry organizations and figures like AVN,[10][11] Bryan Gozzling,[12] and Steve Holmes.[13]

History

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D&E Media, as DukeDollars, has been operating since 2003[2] and is located in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.[1] The company's CEO is Donald Vollenweider,[14] and its directors include Duke "Donnie"[15] Skywalker,[2] Jimmy Hooligan,[16] and Just Dave.[17][13] The company's webmaster in 2004 was Mark Tiarra.[18] Sherm Steele was hired on as marketing director and head of affiliate management in October 2004[19] and was reported to still be with the company in June 2011.[20] Kiana was listed as a customer service representative and graphic designer, as of September 2022.[21]

DukeDollars was one of the sponsors of the Players Ball held at the Shelter Pointe Hotel in San Diego during the 2005 Cybernet Expo in April[22] and acquired a rival company, Evil Genius Cash, in August 2008.[23] It updated to "Duke Dollars Ver. 2" in 2009,[24] and its series Facial Abuse won in the category "Most Extreme" in RabbitsReviews Best of the Web 2010.[25] The company signed on with digital payment processor SegPay in 2012.[26]

Steve Holmes began visiting the sets of Facial Abuse in 2018 and performed in scenes for them for his YouTube docuseries Behind the Porn Scenes. According to Holmes, he wanted to show "a violent rough scene can be totally consensual" and that the casts and crews of such scenes are "all professionals and work as a team."[13]

D&E Media and another company, Criterion Management, were sued by a creditor, Isprime, in April 2019. The case was dismissed by the court without prejudice in December 2020.[27]

Content

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Many D&E Media series, such as the flagship one, Facial Abuse, are premised around men engaging in erotic humiliation and rough sex with women, who are often subject to choking,[28] irrumatio-induced vomiting, and verbal degradation such as, in the case of a Facial Abuse scene starring Kenzie Green, "You're a product of unprotected sex. You're an accident. Hence, y'know destiny fulfilled. Now you wanna be a whore."[29]

Allegations of misconduct

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Vanessa Belmond, who did a scene for Latina Abuse, said after the shoot, she looked like she was "beaten up" with "red marks all over my body" and "eyes [that] were so swollen that I looked like I had pink eye." According to Belmond, before the shoot, a Latina Abuse employee told her, "You're lucky you're not working for Ghetto Gaggers, we're meaner to the Black girls."[3]

Clayra Beau, who did a Facial Abuse scene, stated while she knew beforehand the shoot would entail rough sex, she was still taken aback by how violent it was, claiming the irrumatio she was subjected to prevented her from using a safeword while her non-verbal gestures to the male performers that were supposed to signal for them to stop were ignored, with Beau noting, "I was clawing at their legs and slapping their thighs and they still wouldn't let up." According to Beau, the shoot left her with injuries, but the contract Facial Abuse had her sign had clauses preventing performers from seeking reparations for emotional or physical damages they may incur during a shoot; "Therefore they could literally fuck a girl up for life and she can do nothing about it. It's as close to rape as you can get in consensual porn and puts all pornographers in danger.[30]

Felicity Feline, who did two Facial Abuse scenes in 2015, stated that while she knew beforehand the first Facial Abuse shoot would entail rough sex, she was still taken by surprise by how rough, as well as demeaning, it was, calling it a "bomb of physical abuse" in which the director and male performers tried to "break" her by asking her questions like if she was touched or molested as a child, including by family members, Feline explaining that, despite this, she did not call for filming to stop because, "If I stopped, I wouldn't get paid."[31]

In July 2016, Gene Ross of AdultFYI reported that Charlie Ann, who agreed to do a Facial Abuse scene, opted out of it at the last minute, having reportedly done so because she was misled by Duke Skywalker about multiple aspects of the shoot and one for Sperm Suckers. According to Ann, Ernie, the booker for Facial Abuse, informed her before the Facial Abuse shoot was set to begin that sex acts Ann was reassured were voluntary were now mandatory, that Ann calling for a break at any time would stop the shoot entirely without her being paid, and that Ann was contractually prohibited from filing suit "for permanent bodily harm or injury" even though the shoot "may hurt me." In response to Ann's allegations, Skywalker asserted Ann had no intention of performing for his company and merely used it to pay for travel expenses so she could visit another adult film performer named Justin "Paul" Beaver.[15]

In March 2018, Leigh Raven uploaded a video to YouTube in which she alleged she was sexually assaulted during a shoot for the Los Angeles-based series Black Payback, directed by Just Dave and co-starring Rico Strong. According to Raven, the roughness of the shoot's sex and the race play element of it were more intense than she was led to believe, her non-verbal gestures that were supposed to signal for Strong to stop were ignored, and instructions she gave about sexual positions she did not want to perform in were also ignored, causing her distress, pain, and injuries, including "a vaginal tear and a bruised cervix." Raven's video contained testimony from Riley Nixon, another actress who claimed to have been similarly mistreated during her own Black Payback shoot with Just Dave and Strong in January 2018.[32][33][34][35] Just Dave, Strong, and Tofu, a production assistant for the Raven shoot, denied Raven's version of events.[36]

Media coverage

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Clips of Facial Abuse and Latina Abuse were featured in the 2015 Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted. Anna Merlan of Jezebel called the "choking, horrifying racial slurs and racialized scenarios" of the Latina Abuse scene "vile,"[28] while the Facial Abuse segment was labelled "easily the most disturbing scene of the documentary" by Barbara Herman of the International Business Times.[37] Mark Kernes and Rachael Madori of AVN both defended Facial Abuse over how the studio was depicted in Hot Girls Wanted, the two feeling the portrayal was inaccurate and misleading, with Madori writing, "When things are said such as 'I didn't know I could tell him no' when referring to a porn shoot, I become confused. For every shoot a plethora of paperwork is reviewed and signed by the female and male talent, plainly stating that you are able to cancel and leave the set if you are made to feel uncomfortable in any way."[10][11]

Facial Abuse was renamed "Facial Assault" in From Straight A's to XXX, a 2017 made-for-TV Lifetime film based on Belle Knox. Peter Warren, in his coverage of the film for AVN, wrote on the studio's portrayal, "Facial Abuse may not be the industry norm for respecting talent's boundaries, but it's a pretty safe bet they're not conducting business on this level of illegality."[38]

Criticism

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Adult film actress and director Sinnamon Love, in a February 2008 interview with Phonte Coleman for HipHopDX, claimed to have personally engaged in "a very long discourse" with the owner of Ghetto Gaggers about comments he made about African-American pornographic film actresses and her refusal to work for the website, which Love lambasted, stating, "I think that what they're doing crosses the line between BDSM and abuse. There's a difference. BDSM is all consensual. It's the same as consensual sex. But what [Ghetto Gaggers] does is purely abusive. You can see it. You can watch the women on those films and see the mood shift. You can watch the emotion change in their faces as they go from 'I can do this' to 'what the fuck have I gotten myself into?'"[6]

In a July 2014 article about misogyny in the pornographic film industry written for HuffPost, Gail Dines singled Facial Abuse out, opining that the acts depicted in its videos were comparable to torture and that the website's own descriptions of the videos showed "no pretense that this is about consensual or mutually enjoyable sex."[9]

Facial Abuse was briefly discussed by pornographer Holly Randall and adult film actress Evelyn Claire in a November 2023 episode of the former's podcast, Holly Randall Unfiltered, during which Randall derided it as a "misogynistic, derogatory, terrible website" and "everything we're ashamed of in the adult industry."[8]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 "D & E Media, LLC". uspto.report. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Knowles, Betty (6 June 2019). "Oral Sex Celebrated Religiously on Radical Jizzlam Website". AVN. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 Kat Banyard (2016). Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality. Faber & Faber. The pursuit of porn profits determines:– what sex acts women are required to do (or, more accurately, endure). ISBN 9780571278237.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Kelli (10 March 2019). "Race Play Videos is Big Business But is it Racist?". Adult Industry News. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "Human Toilet Bowls". videotramp.com. Internet Archive. 4 August 2011. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  6. 1 2 Ewing, Aliya (1 February 2008). "Phonte Coleman and Sinnamon Love: Turntables Pt 2". hiphopdx.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 20 May 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Zicari, Robert (17 July 2016). "What Kind Of A Low Rent Skivosa Does Ghetto Gaggers?". adultfyi.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  8. 1 2 Randall, Holly. (19 November 2023). Evelyn Claire: When an Artist Becomes a Porn Star. YouTube. Event occurs at 44:00-44:35.
  9. 1 2 Dines, Gail (2 July 2014). "UCSB, Feminism and Porn". HuffPost. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  10. 1 2 Kernes, Mark (27 January 2015). "It's Sundance Film Festival Time—As In 'Time to Bash Porn'". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  11. 1 2 Madori, Rachael (26 June 2015). "Hot Girls Wanted: A Review by Rachael Madori". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Miller, Dan (24 December 2015). "'Hookup Hotshot' Bryan Gozzling Signs With Evil Angel". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 Neuwave, Robert (24 September 2018). "Veteran Actor Steve Holmes Takes Viewers Behind the Porn Scenes". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  14. ↑ "D&E Media, LLC" (PDF). Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. 3 February 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  15. 1 2 Ross, Gene (16 July 2016). "Facialabuse.com: Charlie Ann Details Shooting Conditions on GFY.com; The Company Responds: We Were Being Played the Entire Time". adultfyi.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  16. ↑ Karadimos, Harry (15 April 2015). "Belle Knox: A Feminist in the Porn Business". Northeastern Illinois University's Independent. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Martin, Peter (11 January 2019). "BlackPayback Releases Controversial Scene With Leigh Raven". Venus Adult News. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  18. ↑ Gallen, Gretchen (5 January 2004). "A New Breed Of Newbie". XBIZ. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  19. ↑ "Duke Dollars Announces New Site, New Hire". AVN. 22 October 2004. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  20. ↑ Tongue, Stewart (27 June 2011). "Content Vs. Traffic". XBIZ. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  21. ↑ "Contact Us". dukedollars.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 8 September 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
  22. ↑ Martin, Ron (21 April 2005). "Cybernet Expo 2005 Party List Announced". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  23. ↑ Yagielowicz, Stephen (7 August 2008). "Duke Dollars Acquires Evil Genius Cash". XBIZ. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  24. ↑ "Duke Dollars Releases Ver. 2". XBIZ. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  25. ↑ "RabbitsReviews Best Of The Web 2010 Winners Announced". AVN. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  26. ↑ Johnson, Bob (19 December 2012). "SegPay Reports Record Year, Mobile to Drive 2013". XBIZ. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "Isprime Llc VS D & E Media Llc". Trellis. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  28. 1 2 Merlan, Anna (12 June 2015). "In Hot Girls Wanted, Porn Isn't 'Ruining' Women. Exploitative Labor Is". Jezebel. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  29. ↑ Rebecca Saunders (2020). Bodies of Work: The Labour of Sex in the Digital Age. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 168–169. ISBN 9783030490157.
  30. ↑ Purcell, Emily (22 July 2015). "Young women are being recruited in droves to be part of a degrading sex act". Mamamia. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  31. ↑ McQueen, Madison (26 October 2022). "Shocking Confessions From 5 Ex-Porn Stars". Exodus Cry. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  32. ↑ Clark-Flory, Tracy (11 March 2018). "Porn Actors Leigh Raven and Riley Nixon Allege Abuse, Violence, and Boundary Violation on Set". Jezebel. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  33. ↑ Miller, Dan (12 March 2018). "Raven, Nixon Allege Sex Scenes Violated Consent; Strong Responds". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  34. ↑ Murphy, Meghan (13 March 2018). "The conversation about abuse in porn needs to extend beyond harm on set". Feminist Current. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  35. ↑ Hess, Amanda (5 May 2018). "Who Gets to Be Sexy?". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  36. ↑ Warren, Peter (12 April 2018). "Joint Statement Disputes Raven Assault Claims, Raven Responds". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  37. ↑ Herman, Barbara (8 June 2015). "Hot Girls Wanted On Netflix: Documentary Looks Into The Darker Corners Of 'Pro Amateur' Porn". International Business Times. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  38. ↑ Warren, Peter (13 February 2017). "On From Straight A's to XXX: A Commentary". AVN. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
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