Stewart
legal
December 17, 2015
A new talent agency recently launched by Michele Anne Mason (known as porn performer Kendra Lust) is already facing serious legal challenges from her former agency and business partners due to an alleged breach of contract, bargaining in bad faith, and a number of other legal claims. The new agency “Society 15” is owned by Ms. Mason’s parent company KL Group Inc., but it may have a hard time gaining any traction in the highly competitive adult talent agency sector due to her actionable missteps in its creation.
“Kendra signed on with our agency in March of 2015,” said Jack Spade of Sylvaria.com “At first she was one of the models we represented, and over a period of time she eventually became a limited partner in our agency. During that time, we did all we could to help her reach her full potential, and unfortunately our efforts were met with several underhanded decisions by her, which now require us to take legal action.”
Sylvaria alleges, among several other claims, that Kendra Lust intentionally made use of company contacts and proprietary work product of the company to build her own new brand while claiming her loyalty to Sylvaria as a model and business partner. This includes misuse of company property, malicious use of company accounts on social media to her own benefit and the detriment of the Sylvaria brand, poaching former employees, attempted spoliation of evidence including legal contract documents she signed, and a list of other unethical infractions of her fiduciary duty to the company.
Along with many other examples of evidence to support their claims, Sylvaria points to the fact that a search of the Talent Agency License Database shows that Kendra Lust’s KL Group, Inc (doing business as Society 15) License # 157608 has an expiration date of July 16th of 2016.
“A Talent Agency License is good for a period of one year, so based off the public information about her new agency, with many of the people who use to work in my office and most of her talent roster being lured away from my company while she was still working under the legally binding terms of a signed one year exclusive contract and ‘partners’ with Sylvaria. It very much looks like they filed for the license while they were still with my company” said Mr. Spade. “Especially considering that it take 60-90 days to get the first approval back for that license.”
Interested parties are encouraged to reach out any time via Sylvaria.com to learn more about this matter. “It really is a sad result, because there was a lot of great potential when we got into business together, and now I’m in the unenviable position of having to alert the business community about these events in the hope of helping them to avoid similar challenges caused by the allegedly unethical behavior of Society 15’s ownership.
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