JM Productions
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| Industry | Pornography |
| Founder | Jeff Steward |
| Headquarters | Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Tony Malice (producer & publicist) |
| Products | Pornographic films |
| Owner | Jeff Steward & Mike Norton |
| Website | http://jerkoffzone.com |
JM (Jeff Mike) Productions is a hardcore pornographic film production and distribution company based in Chatsworth, California. The studio's material is controversial, with its films often featuring erotic humiliation and rough sex. JM has faced legal charges of obscenity in the U.S., and the studio has also won many adult industry awards.
The company was founded by Jeff Steward. On 21 May 2001, the company's offices were raided by twenty officers from the LAPD. They confiscated several bukkake-themed videos. In response, Steward stated: "Some guy swims in feces on MTV, and that's OK? But for a girl to swallow eighty loads of cum is obscene? I don't think so." On the evening of the raid, Jim Powers was in North Hollywood shooting another bukkake film. In reference to what he considered the injustice of the raid, he announced to the men involved: "We're doing this for all of America".
On 31 May 2006, the company, Jeff Steward, Mike Norton, and distributor Five Star Video were indicted for distribution of obscenity by the Department of Justice. The defendants faced a maximum sentence of five years for each of the obscenity counts. Jeff Steward was defended by lawyer Al Gelbard, who also represented Evil Angel in its obscenity trial. In his opening arguments at the trial, the prosecutor cited "the sacred place of mothers in society", in reference to the treatment of the film's actresses. On 16 October 2007, all obscenity charges against JM and Jeff Steward were dropped, due to lack of evidence that JM had sold the films to Five Star. Cast interviews demonstrating that actresses appearing in roles that simulated abuse or degradation did so willingly played a role in the acquittal. A Phoenix jury later found Five Star guilty of interstate transportation of obscene materials, due to it having posted Gag Factor 18 to an FBI agent in Virginia.
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