Elegant Angel
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| Private | |
| Industry | Pornography |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder |
Patrick Collins John Stagliano |
| Headquarters | Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, U.S |
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Area served
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United States, Europe |
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Key people
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Patrick Collins, (Co-founder, owner, President) Graham Travis, (General Manager) |
| Products | Pornographic films |
| Owner | Patrick Collins |
| Divisions | Elegant Angel Europe |
| Website | www.elegantangel.com |
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Footnotes / references |
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Elegant Angel Productions is a pornographic film studio located in Canoga Park, California and owned by Patrick Collins. The company is considered one of the early pioneers of gonzo pornography, and its films have won numerous awards.
Elegant Angel (EA) was founded in 1990 by Collins in partnership with pornographic film maker John Stagliano as a subsidiary of Stagliano's Evil Angel Video.
The two labels soon became a pioneer of Gonzo pornography, along with other producers such as Rodney Moore and Ed Powers. Stagliano had pioneered the Gonzo genre in the late 1980s.
In 1996, Collins established Elegant Angel as a separate company, and in 1998 it ended all cooperation with Evil Angel. His departure from Evil Angel has been called "less than amicable", and he and Stagliano are apparently "ex-friend[s]". At the time Collins said that Stagliano "couldn't run a business, and would fail without him". According to Stagliano, "Patrick's a bully", "and he wasn't doing his job properly". "I should have fired him years ago".
On 27 May 1997 Elegant Angel employee Israel Chapa Gonzalez shot dead Glendale police officer Charles A. Lazzaretto and wounded two others at the company's warehouse in Chatsworth.
In 2003 the company attempted to switch from Gonzo to producing "Feature" films. However, by early 2004 it was clear the change had proved "unsuccessful and costly", according to General Manager Graham Travis. At the same time the company experienced technical problems with its DVD authoring, and lacked a common brand identity on its DVD covers. During this period the studio did not have a website, or any full-time Public relations liaison. With difficulties mounting in 2004, rumors began to circulate that the company was up for sale.
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