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Luke Ford (blogger)

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265:, Ford sold his main website, lukeford.com to Netvideogirls.com for $ 25,000, and created lukeford.net which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. One year later, after nearly going broke, he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com with many of his old archives. On October 23, 2007, Ford announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party. "Any writing I do on the porn industry from now on will be for publications with no porn advertising," Ford said. Those owners (whose names have not been divulged) ran the site until June 2008 but walked away from the site saying that writing the site was too much work for the money earned. It was sold a second time, with the new owner being long-time industry observer Cindy Loftus. 246:), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Ford has said that he has been sued five times to date: one suit was dropped, another was thrown out, another was settled when his insurance company paid $ 100,000, and the last two were settled when he removed some of his statements without making a retraction. 205:
for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry, and started to write a book, which became
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In 1997, Ford started his pornography gossip website, LukeFord.com. He said, "I'm not a businessman. I'm not a conventional journalist. I'm a story teller/entertainer/lunatic."
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has said that "Luke Ford is exactly what we deserve... Luke's not really a blogger as much as is an internet journalist". Ford was also in the 2012 documentary
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In an outdoor confrontation with gossip columnist Luke Ford, Albo bitch slapped Ford and chased him outside around the Hustler building.
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in the late 1970s and '80s. His mother, Gwen Ford, published a book when he was two years old, but died of
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called him "The Most Hated Man in Web Porn". He was physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for
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multiple times by people in the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (as well as the
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In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed and acted in
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After leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ford explored
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Luke Ford

Kurri Kurri
New South Wales
Australia
University of California at Los Angeles
Desmond Ford
gossip columnist
Desmond Ford
Seventh-day Adventist
theological controversy
bone cancer
atheism
Judaism
Beis Din
Jewish Sabbath
kosher
narcissistic personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder
UCLA
investigative journalist
defamation
Federal Trade Commission
Christi Lake
bestiality
Laurie Holmes
John Holmes
Wired
Hustler
rabbi

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