Mixing Business with Porn and Charity: John M Carr and Steve Crow

Many will now know that American citizen John M Carr is co-director, along with “Porn King” Steve Crow, of Eden Digital Ltd, a NZ registered company that sponsored and bank-rolled the recent “Boobs on Bikes” porn sleaze promo on Queen Street, Auckland, and its three-day follow-up Erotica Lifestyles Expo held at the ASB Showgrounds in Auckland (25-27 September 2009). Busty porn stars, including one billed as having the biggest augmented breasts in the world, were funded by Mr Carr’s company to travel to New Zealand from all over the US, to expose themselves on our city streets and promote hardcore porn.

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Liquidators receive complaints regarding Steve Crow’s Erotica Lifestyles Expo 2009 operated by Eden Digital Ltd.

The Liquidator of four companies directed by Steve Crow, Lloyd J Hayward of Meltzer Mason Heath,  received complaints from creditors regarding Erotica Lifestyles Expo 2009 operated by Eden Digital Ltd, a porn company directed by Crow and US based tax consultant and property developer John Malcolm Carr. Mr Carr is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (Professional Association) based in the US, which owns four NZ registered companies that he directs. The Expo promoting hard core porn & sleaze was held at the ASB Auckland Showgrounds from 25-27 September 2009.

Lloyd J. Haward, in his 6 monthly Liquidator’s Report on Malibu Media (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) dated 30/11/09 , records that the complaints from creditors were “referred to the National Enforcement Unit at the  Ministry of Economic Development.” This is where the Society, which is not a creditor, has lodged its formal complains against the actions of company directors Crow and Carr. Read more

Carr Consulting P.A. Porn Company Director John M. Carr and his Companies’ US shareholder connections unmasked

The Society’s latest Newsletter (Issue 110, Dec. 2009), among other things, addresses the questions:

Who is funding the New Zealand porn industry linked to “porn entrepreneur” Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow? Who is company director John Malcolm Carr, an American citizen who is Principal of Carr Consulting P.A. (Professional Association) and who co-directs porn company Eden Digital Ltd and its mother company CVC Group Ltd along with “NZ Porn King” Mr Crow? Is there a porn money trail leading from the US to Godzone? Why are unsecured creditors of four  porn companies formerly directed by Steve Crow, currently in liquidation as widely reported, unable to be paid? Why was the NZ porn industry linked to an apparently fictitious US shareholder identity – “Cuchara Inc, San Antonio, Texas” – a defuct Texas corporation – entered on the NZ Companies Office Register for nine years by company director John Malcolm Carr? [Until 16/12/09 "Cuchara Inc" was listed as owning 4 NZ registered companies Mr Carr currently directs: Velocity Partners Ltd, First Virtual Deposit & Nominee Co. Ltd, PJ Digital Ltd and Shelf Company No 10 Ltd that owns a 3 million dollar property at Pakiri Beach, Wellsford]. Why is the National Enforcement Unit of the NZ Companies Office (NEU) currently investigating companies directed by Mr Carr and Mr Crow? Why is the Overseas Investment Office currently investigating the purchase of a $3,000,000 “sensitive” coastal property at Pakiri Beach on 4 October 2005 by the NZ registered company Shelf Company No 10 Ltd -  directed by John M. Carr and owned 100% until 16/12/09 by “Cuchara Inc” (San Antonio, Texas)? What matters relating to shareholder “Cuchara Inc” are currently being investigated and pursued with John M Carr by the NEU?

The following diagram taken from the Society’s December Newsletter (available in PDF format from this website), is available in high-resolution PDF format here. [N.B. Just two days after the December SPCS Newsletter was published on our website Mr John M Carr changed all four company shareholdings of "Cuchara Inc" to "Carr Consulting P.A." and changed its address from 22588 Scenic Loop Rd, San Antonio,  TX 78230-2253, US to 14/31 Greenlane Rd, Remuera, Auckland. WHY?].

$420,000+ p.a. (estimate) to fund salaries of Censors Bill Hastings and Nicola McCully for 2009/10

After over 15 years being paid big bucks by the tax-payer to watch hardcore adult porn, the perversions of child sex offenders and rapists, and gratuitous violence, Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his deputy Nicola McCully – want a further 3 years in the “dirty job” watching more objectionable content, 80% of which is hardcore adult porn. What do these two censors have in common besides massive salaries ? Read more

Porn King Steve Crow, Vixen Direct Ltd, Phoenix Companies and Criminal Sanctions

The Companies Act 1993 defines a phoenix company as being, in relation to a failed company, a company that at any time before or within five years after the commencement of the liquidation of a failed company, is known by a name that is also a pre-liquidation name of a failed company or is a similar name. When phoenix company arrangements are established in which the new company created bears a similar name, similar assets and similar management structure to a failed company, the purposes of such companies are usually part of a scheme either to circumvent obligations to creditors of the failed company (avoid debts owed) or to mislead the public into believing they are dealing with the same entity as previous, possibly as part of an attempt to mislead creditors of the previous company.

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Big News: More irrelevant ‘research’ from the Families Commission

 Source:  http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-irrelevant-research-from-families.html 27/09/09

Family First has alerted the media – unfortunately embargoed till Friday – about the latest research from the Families Commission. It has labelled a report on gay and lesbian parenting as unnecessary, advocacy research, a complete waste of taxpayer money, and reveals nothing new that isn’t faced by other blended families.

They ‘re right on one thing. It is advocacy research. So who are the two researchers who compiled this report?

One lesbian researches queer theory from Canterbury University, the other has published many journal articles on challenging heteronormativity and is doing a thesis on experiences of lesbians and gay men who create family through assisted reproductive technologies – no doubt this tax-payer funded research has helped with her research towards her PhD, despite the Blues Skies Fund that funded the research noting that grants do “not fund degrees”.

So this is not unbiased research – it is insider advocacy research, conducted by those who say they live lives “outside the norms of heterosexuality” [what's wrong with the word "lesbian"?] with a pre-determined agenda – to normalise gay relationships and to advocate for a change in adoption laws, and laws surrounding how many parents can be on birth certificates. Nothing wrong with that, but some people would not be happy with their taxpayers dollars being spent on this. [For more go to...]

 http://big-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-irrelevant-research-from-families.html

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Steve Crow and salacious, sordid, tawdry and boring porn sleaze (Erotica Expo) versus Triumphs of human imagination that "raise the human spirit" (World of Wearable Art).

Editorial: A sight to raise the human spirit (The Dominion Post Last 26/09/2009)

OPINION: Two impresarios featured in the news this week: [Stephen Peter Crow and Suzie Moncrieff] 

One panders to salacious instincts; the other lifts the human spirit. One is pornographer Steve Crow, the other is World of WearableArt founder Suzie Moncrieff. No prizes for guessing which is which.

Fortunately for Wellington, Mr Crow chose Auckland for his latest Boobs on Bikes parade a publicity stunt that no longer even has the virtue of being novel. Read more

ASB Showgrounds host Porn Promo Sleaze and Steve Crow’s Insolvent Erotica Expo

The Society has raised serious concerns directly with ASB Showgrounds CEO Mark Frankham and his management team over their decision to allow the venue to be hired by an insolvent hardcore porn promo company – Erotica Expo Ltd – that was placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009 under the name Malibu Media Ltd. In a hostile move designed to stiffle freedom of expression, its former director Porn King Steve Crow threatens to throw any person out of the porn sleaze ASB venue who dares to record any image using a camera, video or pxt phone; and threatens to strip them of any electronic device film/memory card, should such images be recorded. The Society’s letter has yet to be answered by the management board which the Society has been informed has met to consider its concerns and will do so again on Monday next week. Management will be aware that it is a serious breach of the Companies Act 1993 for a company director to attempt to carry on trading when his company is in liquidation and/or use the name of an unregistered company for the purposes of trading. The Society’s letter to ASB Showground management is set out below.

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ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow

The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned.

(see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ).

Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or still images will immediately be thrown out from the porn fest says big boss Porn King Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and all images recorded will be forcibly removed.

The Society is asking: Why has ASB Showgrounds management allowed a company in liquidation to enter into such an arrangement? Some media commentators predict it will attract no more than a few hundred people with a sexual dysfunction or those seeking titillation from porn sleaze and extravagantly priced sex toys or seeking AIDS for the impotent or promiscuous. 

Liquidator, Lloyd Hayward of Accountants Meltzer Mason and Heath, in his report dated 3 June 2009 and available on the Companies website, states that Malibu Media Ltd (In Liq) (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) owes unsecured creditors and shareholders $145,665 and $18,649 to IRD. He reports that the company Steve Crow directed failed mainly because of very poor attendances at the most recent Erotica Lifestyles Expos held in Wellington and Christchurch (see Co. No. 1275425 www.companies.govt.nz). These debts together with those of three other porn companies that were directed by Steve Crow, all of which have been placed into liquidation, amount to over 1.3 million dollars. The Liquidator has confirmed that there is nothing left for creditors.

Currently there is no registered company by the name “Erotica Expo Ltd”. Crow changed the name of the company he directed – Erotica Expo Ltd (Co. No.1275425) – to Malibu Media Ltd, on 1 May 2009, one month before it was placed in liquidation; no doubt to try and hide the financial failure being linked to the brand name “Erotica Expo Ltd” which he continues to use in breach of the Companies Act 1993.

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Complaint lodged with Commerce Commission over false advertising of Erotica Lifestyles Expo by Steve Crow. Cancelled event tickets still on sale.

The Complaint sent to the Commerce Commission dated 18 September states:

In an article published on Monday 14th September 2009 in the Taranaki Daily News and published on the Stuff News Website, it was reported that “Boobs on Bikes and the Erotica Lifestyles Expo are NOT coming to New Plymouth this year following a public backlash.” [Emphasis added].

(See: http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2864885/Backlash-ends-sexpo-plans)

Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow – aka “Porn King”), described as “Erotica’s owner and porn mogul”, is quoted as stating “from Auckland” the day before the report was published, that “with all the controversy we’ve been copping and all the negatives from everywhere, it’s not happening now.” The negatives highlighted in the article involve his double-crossing of RSA members. The reporter asked him why he was advertising the former RSA clubrooms as the venue for a money-making strip venue, when he’d given his word to the people of New Plymouth that it would never be used for promoting the sex industry. That promise was given to over 100 people at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and reported on in the Taranaki Daily News last month.

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Negative backlash ends Steve Crow’s New Plymouth Sleaze Porn Promo 2009. Erotica Expo Lifestyles & Boobs on Bikes Dead

Backlash Ends Sexpo Plans

Lyn Humphreys – Taranaki Daily News

15 September 2009

Boobs on Bikes and the Erotica Lifestyles Expo are not coming to New Plymouth this year following a public backlash.

“It was going to happen but with all the controversy we’ve been copping and all the negatives from everywhere, it’s not happening now,” Erotica’s owner and porn mogul Steve Crow said from Auckland yesterday.

Steve Crow and his Inglewood brother, David Crow, bought the New Plymouth and Districts RSA at Strandon and also bailed out the debt-ridden club last year.

The two are planning an extensive development for the site, named the Te Ara project.

Amid negative reaction, Steve Crow last month promised the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce that the site would not be converted into a brothel, strip club, adult shop or “anything at all to do with the sex industry”.

But Mr Crow’s Erotica lifestyles expo website advertises a three-day expo at New Plymouth’s Te Ara at 434 Devon St East for $20 a head in November. When contacted by the Taranaki Daily News yesterday, Mr Crow admitted that the expo, which would have been at Te Ara, included strip shows.

However, recent bad publicity and a public backlash from New Plymouth people have caused him to pull the pin.

“I just think it’s going to backfire if we do,” Mr Crow said.

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Porn King Steve Crow abandons Ellerslie porn epicentre. New erotica residential perch and all company offices moved to Albany

Today Porn King company director Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) registered on the Companies website a change in his residential address to 27 Northwood Avenue, Albany [North Shore City 0632], “effective 1 August 2009” . (This new director’s residential address is now listed for all four companies he directs: HWGA Co Ltd, CVC Group Ltd, Eden Digital Ltd and Vixen Publications Ltd). Steve Crow’s previous residential address was recorded as 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie, and amazingly all four of his cuurent registered companies plus four now in liquidation, had this same address listed as their respective registered company office for many years. Apparently all hardcore porn operations – Steve Crow’s specialty – involving distribution, production, importing, talent auditions, photo shoots etc – were being delivered for years from the comforts of his own cosy residence at 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie – and this from a man who tells the media he has no interest whatsoever in the XXX material that earns him a living. This is the same man who went up against the Health Minister Hon. Annette King and the Waikato Hospital Board arguing that he had a right to film a wannabe porn star “Nikki” giving birth in a public hospital and use the film footage of the baby’s birth in one of his hardcore porn films. He demanded that a tax-payer funded facilty support his porn shoot.

Albany residents will be truly transfixed to learn that the Porn King has moved all four of his porn company registered offices to 2/18b Triton Drive, Albany, [Rosedale, Auckland 0632] having moved from 45 Stanhope Rd, Ellerslie. (addres change for Vixen Publications Ltd is effective from 21 September 2009). This is huge news on a par with news that Steve Crow is funding porn star “Chelsea Charms” to bring her augmented super mammary assets to Auckland for a street porn sleaze promo erotica expo circus parade. It is stunning!  The hardcore porn epicenter of New Zealand has now moved from 45 Stanhope Road to Albany and the King of Porn/Porn guru is now in residence in a salubrious single residential location  in Albany. With four of his porn companies currently in liquidation this momentous news of a residential mega-shift in sleaze perch for Mr Crow will be of huge interest to many in the adult entertainment business and to his company’s many creditors.

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Creditor fury over debt-ridden directors David and Steve Crow of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and 435 Devon St Ltd

Creditor fury at Crow show. By Rob Maetzig – Taranaki Daily News 29/08/09

A group of businessmen are furious the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce helped allow a debt-ridden man to be involved in a presentation on a major commercial development project for New Plymouth.

David Crow is the director of Buildwise Ltd, an Inglewood building company that has been placed into liquidation owing several hundred thousand dollars to at least 57 creditors, most from Taranaki. On Wednesday night he fronted up with his brother Steve at a Taranaki Chamber of Commerce function to give a presentation on multi-million dollar development plans for the New Plymouth RSA property.

The pair bought the premises for $1.9 million in July last year and are planning a $20 million commercial development called the Te Ara Complex. This has infuriated several business owners who are owed large amounts of money by Buildwise.

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Porn King Steve Crow Double Crosses RSA Members over Erotica Lifestyles Expo venue – RSA stalwarts ‘turn in their graves’

Porn King Steve Crow was a guest speaker at the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business After 5 function at the New Plymouth RSA on Wednesday 26th August 2009. It appears that he failed to tell the whole truth when he told more than 100 people in attendance that the RSA Strandon Clubrooms at 435 Devon Street East, purchased by a company of which he is the major shareholder (50%) and was co-director of up until his resignation on 12 November 2008, would never be used for “anything at all to do with the sex industry”. However, since the 27th of August he has been advertising the “Te Ara Centre” (the new title he has given to the RSA Clubrooms), as the venue for his forthcoming three day Sleaze Porn Promo Show in November, which he markets as Erotica Lifestyles Expo via a website. His risible claims of honest transparency with RSA members and the business community were quoted in the Taranaki Daily News:

“Let’s firstly put a few rumours to bed, and then explain what our plans are for this beautiful site. What we are not doing is converting the place into a brothel, or a strip club, or an adult shop, or anything at all to do with the sex industry… And the Crows are also not taking all the money out of the project. Now that’s a real joke. The fact is we’ve already put a lot of money into this project, and we have committed a lot more.”

Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow), his brother David Bruce Crow and wife Carolyn Rose Crow, are all part of a business partnership – 435 Devon Limited (Co. No. 1951732) – that bought the RSA’s property for $1.9 million when both men were directors.

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Porn King Steve Crow, David Crow, Vixen Digital Ltd, Crow Holdings Ltd, name changes, liquidation, strike-outs, failure and financial impotence

Vixen Digital Limited (Co. No. 812698) was incorporated on 31 May 1996 with “Porn King” Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and his brother David Bruce Crow as directors. It remained a registered company until it was struck off the Register of Companies on 23 January 1998. David Crow resigned as director on 26 June 1997 and the company was struck off when Steve Crow was the sole director. About ten months before it was struck off and three months before David Crow resigned, the company name was changed to “Vixen Old Ltd”. (This was no doubt an attempt to preserve the ‘integrity’ of the company name Vixen Direct Ltd).

Crow Holdings Limited (Co. No. 594846) directed by Steve Crow owned 50% of Vixen Digital Ltd shares when it was struck off and Ezisoft Computer Systems Ltd (ESC) owned the remaining 50%.  ESC had two directors at the time – David Crow and his wife Carolyn Rose Crow who is a major shareholder. Vixen Digital Ltd company directors – the Crow brothers – failed to register any Annual Returns over the period that the company was registered and failed to register any Certificate of shareholder(s), based on Companies Office records.

Crow Holdings Ltd was placed into liquidation on February 2000 and struck of the register of Companies on 8 March 2001, both actions taking place when Stephen Crow was its sole director.

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Company Directors Porn King Steve Crow and Dermott Malley, Porn Industry, Truth Weekly Tabloid, share transfer and company liquidation

Porn King Steve Crow was appointed co-director on 8 December 2005 of a company directed by Dermott Malley, and Linzi Frances Malley – Computer Shopper (NZ) Ltd (Co. No. 514464) – that is now in liquidation. According to the Liquidator’s Report dated 28 May 2009, it owes $163,550 to Second Ranking Preferential Creditor – the IRD – and $262,528 to over 40 unsecured creditors, with other debts yet to be assessed.

Dermott Malley and his wife were directors of the company from 14 May 1992 to 1 September 2006 and Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) served with them as co-director for 11 months before becoming sole director after they resigned. Under Crow’s leadership the company became insolvent and Crow recommended to shareholders, that it be placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009. The Company is 100% owned by CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), of which Crow is currently one of three directors and Dermott Malley is a former director (see below).

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Porn King Steve Crow’s Business Relationship Meltdown: Erotica Lifestyles Expo support companies go bust

“…major cost over-runs… combined with lower than expected attendances [and] the break-up of the business relationship of the company directors, meant that the directors withdrew their continuing support.” Liquidator’s Report  (Meltzer Mason Heath).

From Remuera real estate with love  – to liquidated porn sleaze companies……

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Porn King Steve Crow: More complaints raised over Shareholding Records

Steve Crow, Shareholding Records involving Les Obstacles de L’Amour Ltd and its shareholder Tantrums China White Ltd directed by Ms Fiona Elizabeth McLean Gibb – Stephen Peter Crow’s ex-partner.

The Society has submitted more complaints to the National Enforcement Unit concerning company director Steve Crow. The following summary deals with one example of his poor shareholding records.

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Porn King Steve Crow moves company operations from 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie to 2/18B Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland.

On Thursday 27 August 2009 at 16:57:19 Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow, aka “Porn King”) formally notified the Registrar of Companies, via an on-line entry on the Companies website, that he is changing the registered office and address for service of HWGA Co Ltd (Co. No. 661946), of which he is sole director, from 45 Stanhope Road, Ellerslie, Auckland to 2/18B Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland, effective 3 September 2009.

He has filed the same notifications with respect to Sidefx Ltd (Co. No. 1391203) of which he is sole director; Eden Digital Ltd (Co. No. 2122974), which he co-directs with multimillionaire property developer and tax accountant John Malcolm Carr; and CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), which he co-directs with John Malcolm Carr and accountant Shirish Daddaram Vagal. Read more

CVC Group Ltd director Mr John Malcolm Carr and the Companies Act 1993

Concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit (Report dated 19/08/09) over information registered on the Companies Office website by CVC Group Ltd director John Malcolm Carr relating to a number of companies he directs. Mr Carr has close links with fellow CVC Group Ltd director Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow aka “NZ Porn King”)

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CVC Group Ltd directors alleged offences against Companies Act 1993

The following concerns have been raised by the Society with the National Enforcement Unit concerning CVC Group Ltd (Co. No.1738154) directed by Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow – aka “Mr Porn King” or “Mr Porn NZ”), “multi-millionaire property developer and tax accountant” John Malcolm Carr of 14/31 Greenlane Rd East, Auckland City and Shirish Dattaram Vagal of 306 Bucklands Beach Rd, Bucklands Beach, Auckland (Society Report dated 10/08/09).

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“Porn King” Steve Crow now sole director of HWGA Co Ltd

The following issues relating to “Porn King” Company Director Steve Crow and HWGA Co Ltd have been brought to the attention of the National Enforcement Unit by the Society (Report dated 20/08/09). It now has only one director: Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and would appear from its adopted Constitution to be unable to function properly.

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Dermott Malley and NZ Truth Topless Model

Tabloid paper NZ Truth… Editor-in-chief Dermott Malley said: “Sex will always sell in the media but NZ Truth readers want more – more ….entertainment… investigative stories… [etc.]“. The topless model has … become a poster in the centre of the paper’s liftout magazine [pp. 19-24]. “The huge [colour] poster will bring readers the most alluring and exotic models from around the world,” Malley said.

- NZPA 18 March 2009 [Go to link for full article] 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274104/End-of-era-for-page-3-girl

http://www.attn.co.nz/57_1507.htm

Examples of titillating entertainment ‘journalism’ in NZ Truth, the Society is critical of, include the sensationalising of Porn King Steve Crow’s triumphs in sleaze porno promotion.

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Porn King Steve Crow, 435 Devon Ltd, Buildwise Ltd (In liq), RSA Strandon Clubrooms and the Companies Act 1993.

27 July, 2007

On 11 June 2007 the company 435 Devon Ltd (Co. No. 1951732) was incorporated. and registered with the Companies Office with David Bruce Crow as sole director. Its registered office was recorded as 418 Bedford Rd North, R.D.6 Inglewood. The Companies Office records based on details filed on-line by David Crow show that his brother Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow aka “Porn King” or “Mr Porn”) was appointed a director on 25 February 2008 and then resigned on 12 November 2008. Read more

Porn King Steve Crow and brother David Crow – Companies in liquidation – New Plymouth RSA has jitters and seeks to protect its assets.

RSA moves to protect assets 

By Leighton Keith – Taranaki Daily News

New Plymouth’s RSA is taking steps to protect its assets after companies owned by the men [Stephen Peter Crow and David Bruce Crow] who bailed out the financially troubled organisation have gone broke.

Auckland businessman Steve Crow and his brother David, of Inglewood, bought the Strandon clubrooms for $1.9 million in July 2008, as part of a rescue package to save the organisation which was in danger of going broke. [The property is owned by 435 Devon Ltd (Co. No. 1951732), which is jointly owned by Steve Crow (5,000 shares), David Crow (1,000 shares) and David's wife, Carolyn Rose Crow (4,000 shares). The Company is directed by David Crow. Steve was a director until he resigned on 12 November 2008]. 

Since then a softening in the porn industry has seen several of Steve Crow’s companies [Z4K74D Ltd formerly Vixen Direct Ltd; Malibu Media Ltd, formerly Erotica Expo Ltd; Eden Media Ltd; Les Obstacles de L'Amour Ltd] go into liquidation and earlier this month David’s building company, Buildwise Ltd, was placed in liquidation.

[See "Contractors hit as Builder (David Bruce Crow) goes Bust Taranaki Daily News 4 July 2009]

The brothers intended to put a $20 million development on the site.

[For more on this failed porn company director and his brother go to....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/2669384/RSA-moves-to-protect-assets ]

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Twenty-eight further alleged breaches of the Companies Act 1993 by Porn Company Director Steve Crow

Media Release 22 July 2009

The Society has filed a further 28 complaints against Company Director Stephen Peter Crow with the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the Enforcement Unit. It alleges he has committed 28 breaches of the Companies Act 1993 as a director of CVC Group Ltd and sole director of Vixen Publications Ltd in his use on official company documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” (Co No.2122974 – formerly Vixen TV Ltd,) which was incorporated on 23 April 2008 and first registered as “Eden Digital Ltd” following a name change on 26 March 2009. Read more

Steve Crow’s ‘Sergeant at Arms’ resigns as Company Director

Press Release 16 July 2009

This morning Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow)  – NZ “Porn King” – had his former wife, Senior Police Sergeant Gaylene Sharon Rogers, resign as co-director of HWGA Co Ltd (Co. No 661946), according to the Companies Office on-line records. This leaves HWGA Co Ltd, which has its registered office at 45 Stanhope Rd, Ellerslie, Auckland, with only one director – Steve Crow. Read more

Steve Crow, Porn and Companies Act Offences

Media Release 15 July 2009

No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/15/steve-crow-porn-companies-act-offences/

The Society has today filed 16 complaints against Porn Company Director Steve Crow with both the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the National Enforcement Unit, pertaining to 16 breaches of the Companies Act 1993. These alleged offences relate to his use on official documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” over a period of five years, before such an entity was ever registered with the Companies Office.

The name “Eden Digital Ltd” was first registered on 26 March 2009 out of a name change of a former company – Vixen TV Ltd – of which Crow was the sole director. Crow has boasted to media that “Eden Digital Ltd” has arisen like a phoenix from the ashes of two of his other companies that have been placed into liquidation – Vixen Direct Ltd and Erotica Expo Ltd – and that they continue to trade as the newly formed company.

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Good News: Steve Crow – his porn empire shrivels

Media Release: 11 July 2009 (updated)

No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/13/update-on-steve-crow-and-porn-empire-collapse/

“I’m quite happy for you to call me a pornographer [and] a sleazeball, whatever you want to call me. But keep it factual.” Steve Crow (Quoted in NZ Listener 2004).

FOUR of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. Critics of his hard-core putrid porn promotion will be crowing loudly, but creditors, including about 30 New Zealand companies, will not be. The shrivelling of his now anaemic porno empire has left him impotent he claims to recompense any of his many unsecured creditors who are owed at least $714,000. In addition his companies owe at least $323,753 to the IRD. The debt will probably increase once the final liquidator’s reports are completed.

Crow says ‘I don’t have any obligation to recompense creditors of the liquidated companies” (Dominion Post 8/07/09). On TV One’s Close Up “Porn Industry Going Bust?” – he tried to downplay the debts, saying that most of the money was owed to creditors outside New Zealand who were still acting benevolently towards him. Surrounded by busty porn stars and with his new girfriend Rachel Whitewell at his side, his message was – its business or bust!

Lloyd J. Hayward of accountants Meltzer Mason Heath is the liquidator appointed for all of his three failed companies.

The first company, Vixen Direct Ltd, an importer and distributor of hard-core porno sleaze, had its name changed by Crow on 1 May 2009 to Z4K74D Ltd (Co. No. 514464), just before the liquidator was appointed on 27 May 2009. Read more

Shameful Decision by Judge Kevin Phillips in Bondage/Sadomasochism Dungeon case involving the scarification of teenage girls by Mr "Dragon"

The Society is appalled that a Christchurch District Court Judge has only sentenced Richard Jeffrey Barker, 52, to nine months home detention and reparation payments, for scarring two teenage girls, aged 15 and 17, during bondage and discipline sessions involving “blood play” – staged in a specially built “bondage/sadomasochism” facility in a Linwood house. The girls wore leather bras and knickers and gothic-style dresses at the time of the offences and candles and horror movies were part of the dungeon scene. The judge found that the 17-year-old had taken party pills and nitrous oxide at the house.

On 25 November Barker was convicted by Judge Kevin Phillips of “wounding” both girls “with intent to injure” and was required to pay $5,000 to each of his victims by December 20, 2008. The court was told that the scarring by the use of a scalpel had had a serious impact on both victims and the reparation payments were to be made for the emotional harm caused to the children.  Barker says he met the girls through friends and daughters of friends in Christchurch’s bondage, discipline and sado-masochism scene (BDSM).

In one incident on January 2, 2007, a 15-year-old girl was chained with her arms outstretched while Barker used a scalpel to design a dragon cut into her shoulder.

In another incident on December 20, 2006, a 17-year old teenage girl in a leather corset was chained up while Barker, flogged her with a “cat of many tails” whip. According to the NZ Herald, she was “suspended” standing with her arms outstretched between two loops of rope while Barker cut the first lines of a “corset”, from her waist and up between the girl’s breasts. He then made cuts on the girl’s wrists and showed her how to smear the blood on a large mirror with her arms outstretched to create a “blood angel”, a gothic reflection of the snow angels children make on winter days.

Barker claimed all the scarification was strictly consensual, the practice was merely a “hobby” he engaged in and that he had no sexual contact with the girls. The police laid four charges for sexual indecencies against Barker but the Judge dismissed all of these. However, he did note that there had been offending by Barker for dishonesty in 1985, convictions for drug offences in 1995 and indecency convictions in 1996.

The Press reported that Barker’s “Lindwood house bondage playland” had several “themed rooms”, including a “medical” room with a surgeon’s table and dental chair and a “dungeon” with a rack for tying up people.

The Society is outraged at the failure of Judge Phillips to issue a sentence commensurate with the gravity of Barker’s offending and one that will send a much clearer signal that society will not tolerate or deal leniantly with adults who intentionally injure and wound our precious young persons, or who inflict emotional harm on them and morally corrupt them through any activities involving sexual perversions such as sadomasochism, etc. (It is noteworthy that our censorship laws recognise that children and young people, as well as adults, can suffer serious harm when exposed to publications containing sexual violence and other objectionable content).

In justifyng the sentencing he imposed on Barker, Judge Phillips stated:

“Young people need to be protected not only from themselves but from situations where someone of more maturity can take inappropriate decisions for them.”

The Society finds these PC-weasel words (“inappropriate decisions”) offensive, given the circumstances. It believes Judges have a statutory and moral duty to address the true nature of the crimes committed against young people by those who manipulate young people, wound them with the ntent to injure, and have a history of committing sexual indecencies against children.

The court impact reports relating to the two victims revealed that one girl had been scarred physically, mentally and emotionally and suffered depression, anxiety, paranoia and panic attacks. The other suffered shame and fear and was on anti-psychotic medication.

Christchurch parents with young girls can sleep tight in the knowledge that Barker is not currently living at the house where the sick “bondage/sadomasochism” dungeon – now dismantled – was built. If they loitter in the streets near Barker’s present abode, they can be assured that he will not have exactly the same “playland” fitted out with chains and torture racks used in his recent offences, to lure them into. One hopes he is not busy building a new playland for sadomasochism for consenting adults while on home detention. In nine months time it could well be business as usual except that having learnt an important ‘lesson’ from the wise Judge Phillips – that his female clients will need to be 18 years of age or older and his racks a little longer to accomodate older and longer legged-clients.

One outspoken Member of Parliament for children’s ‘rights’ Green Party MP Sue Bradford would have no problems with this playland arrangement. She has stated:

“Personally, I have no problem with sadomasochism carried out between consenting adults using safe sex practices – what I do have a problem with is a legacy of hidden sexual violence practised on children and young people under a mantle of so-called discipline.”

http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/speech10204.html

The Society would like to know why an MP would choose to publicly condone sadomasochism – a sexual perversion that fosters sexual gratification derived from so-called fantasy/horror violence and why Judge Kevin Phillips has issued such a shameful decision that fails to properly address the gravity of the offences committed by Barker.

It has been reported that Barker intends to appeal against Judge Phillip’s decision.

References:

Linwood house bondage playland

Ian Steward – The Press

Wednesday, 03 September 2008

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4678612a6009.html 

Man who cut girls denies guilt

The Press

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4772632a6009.html

 

 

 

 

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