As tout le monde knows, Levi Johnston — the Alaskan hunk who fathered Sarah Palin’s grandchild, and who came thisclose to becoming the Republican VP nominee’s son-in-law — recently posed for Playgirl. To the disappointment of many, he refrained from full-frontal nudity (but did bare his bum for the cameras).
To check out the pics, visit [Not Safe for Work (NSFW)] Playgirl.com [NSFW]. For collected expert evaluations of the photos — Levi got some flak for overly hairy armpits, among other shortcomings — check out Us Weekly.
Not surprisingly, given his good looks and celebrity, Levi Johnston has received a number of other business propositions as well. He was recently offered a six-figure sum to appear in erotic videos by [NSFW] Corbin Fisher [NSFW], one of the world’s premier gay pornography companies.
No, dear ATL readers, this is not an excuse for your above-signed writer to offer you his personal gay porn recommendations. There is actually a legal connection.
Here’s your assignment. Read over the actual offer letter that Corbin Fisher sent to Levi Johnston (after the jump).
Pretend that Johnston is your client. How would you advise him? Review and flyspeck the offer letter. Do you see any terms in it that might be problematic for your client?
Should Johnston accept the Corbin Fisher offer, reject it, or make a counteroffer? If he makes a counteroffer, what should he include as the proposed terms? What considerations should he keep in mind in negotiating towards a more complete contract?
Okay, enough teasing; let’s see the goods. Check out the Corbin Fisher offer letter, after the jump.
The two-page Corbin Fisher offer letter appears below. You can enter your observations and advice in the comments. Next week we will do a round-up of our favorite comments — and let you know how Levi Johnston responded in real life.
(Disclosure: As you can see from the letter, Corbin Fisher is represented by noted lawyer and legal blogger Marc Randazza. Randazza also represented Above the Law when we were recently sued, in the short-lived lawsuit of Jones v. Minkin.)
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[NSFW] Playgirl.com [NSFW]
Levi Johnston Criticized for Having “Hairy Armpits” in Playgirl [Us Weekly]
Levi Johnston not ‘full frontal’ naked in ‘Playgirl’ spread, says spokesman [New York Daily News]
“gay pron”
gay prawn?
First to say first
Actually, this was a fairly gratutitous romp through your homoerotic fantasies. Thanks for taking us along and dropping that incidental legal question at the end. It was fun.
Glad to see that Marc is taking his legal writing to the next level.
Actually, this was a fairly gratuitous romp through your homoerotic fantasies. Thanks for taking us along and dropping that incidental legal question at the end. It was fun.
Is he required to return the $25,000 if he is unable to masturbate to completion on camera?
Slow news day huh? Now I have to go bleach the filth from my eyes after reading that proposal.
Actually, this was a fairly gratuitous romp through your homoerotic fantasies. Thanks for taking us along and dropping that incidental legal question at the end. It was fun.
No, dear ATL readers, this is not an excuse for your above-signed writer to offer you his personal gay pron recommendations. There is actually a legal connection.
He look like Donny Osmond.
Lat, the more posts of yours I see, the more I get the distinct impression that your are a homosexual gay.
11 – well, duh.
” [T]his is not an excuse for your above-signed writer to offer you his personal gay pron recommendations.”
Yes it is. Fag.
Inside joke, No. 1.
“[B]leach the filth from my eyes,” No. 7? What was it that offended you? The word “masturbation”? Maybe you should be playing somewhere else.
And No. 3-5-8, please read the instructions just above the comments box. Thx.
1 – you’re an idiot. If you don’t understand the misspelling, god help you. And given the merciless teasing that Lat endures on the site for his preferences, I’d say this was a fairly bold and amusing post.
Bleached anus is the password, not, Fidelio.
With the links to porn Lat, is this post an excuse for you getting caught looking at pron at work. “No, I wasn’t looking a “pron” I was simply “researching” for my next legal post!”
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Thx!
This is not even an offer letter.
Lat, did you even read this before you posted it?
It is simply what they “envision” the parties agreeing to at some point in the future.
Are all gays really this gay?
Why was this posted? Easy. Randazza helped Lat earlier with D Marvin Jones’ lawsuit. To repay the favor, Lat is publicizing this offer from Randazza’s client. The client probably knows that even a degenerate like Levi won’t agree to be sold on a gay porn dvd and really just wants the publicity from being a tasteful, erotic company. Writing this letter and having ATL publicize it through the Randazza connection helps to accomplish that.
After reading this post, I don’t think I’ll be able to masturbate to completion for a long time.
corbin fisher =?= korbin dallas
Wait, this guy is getting paid $100k plus profits for something I do for FREE almost every day? Saying no to this would be absolutely insane.
Sent via She-Male Only
Levi’s Johnson
c/o Sex E. Buttlove
CUMPENISATION
SPERMS OF THE PROJECT
Queerly,
Mike Rancidass
Not an offer, right? Finished off with “move negotiations to the next level.”
It’s an invitation to negotiate.
Also, he gets no percent of online sales. Who buys DVD’s anymore?
Regarding the misspelling of “gay porn” as “gay pron”:
Many, many comments ago on ATL I said that I had observed spelling errors and grammatical mistakes from all three of ATL’s wonderful editors. David Lat’s recent (and terribly minor) misspelling of the word “porn” as “pron” exemplifies this.
All publications (whether online or offline) battle with typos, stylistic lapses, fact-checking gaffes, and other errors.
One way to combat these errors is to hire a copy editor who will also serve as comments-moderator.
This copy editor would vet each post every hour on the hour (or every two hours) by all three ATL editors for grammatical errors and syntactical mistakes (without altering the writer’s style).
The copy editor would also fact-check particularly controversial claims.
In a fashion similar to BoingBoing dot net, the copy editor would also moderate the comments on particularly controversial posts to weed out certain kinds of utterances. (This would require that ATL conceptualize a more fully realized comment policy for the screening of imprecations, invectives, and imbecilities.)
If ATL takes my suggestion, it would be one of the few (if not the only) top-visited sites to employ an actual copy editor.
Such an addition would raise ATL’s ethos (meaning, in the ancient Rhetorical definition of the term, its credibility).
Who cares if this crap is NSFW? 50% of your readership is students and the other half is unemployed.
15 here: Could I please edit my earlier comment? 1 & 27 – you’re both idiots. Would you please go look up “pron,” especially its customary usage on “safe for work” sites as an acceptable misspelling that will sneak through filters, and then reconsider your postings? The ignorance displayed in these comments is astounding sometimes.
Somebody should tell Randazza you are not supposed to put “Esq.” after your own name, only when addressing someone else.
25: LOL. Very nice.
Hey, Mark. Ever heard of noun-verb agreement? Didn’t think so.
God bless Levi for doing to his ex, what I’ve always wanted to do to my exes.
I think many (most?) male, unemployed, straight, and happily married lawyers would gladly accept this offer.
I was beginning to wonder whether a movie of a dude choking it was erotic until I got to paragraph 4.
Also, FIVE DAYS to film this shit? Really?
28,
What about the other 1/3?
Does anyone know if this was a fairly gratuitous romp through Lat’s homoerotic fantasies?
Should we give thanks for him taking us along and dropping that incidental legal question at the end?
Was it fun?
Please advise, thx.
I hope to God 27 is kidding.
Spank you, 31.
-25
5% of *DVD* sales? Who the hell watches porn on DVD?
Maury Ballstein: “The [gay porn director]’s got your nuts in a vice! He’s offering you three percent for every pair of underwear sold! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?!?”
Kids: “Screw Him! Hold out for more!”
A glaring omission from this comp package is percentage of sales for tickets sold in XXX theaters.
Lat’s perverted fantasy is a three-way with Adam Lambert and Levi.
Do DVD sales include Blew-Ray?
I can’t wait till Sasha Obama poses for Playboy. Is that wrong? Although, it’s always the younger one that turn out to be the wild child.
There is a preliminary question here: What type of movie is this? Is it going to be a solo/jackoff type situation, or is it going to be more “action packed?”
If he is actually going to have sex in this movie, is it going to be with a girl (corbin actually makes straight porn for gay eyes…for some reason), “bisexual” (where he’ll pound both a girl and a dude), or gay? If it’s going to be bisexual, he’ll most likely be having bareback sex with the guy (if you look at corbin’s recent bisexual porns, you’ll see this) . . . so is that worth more?? (I mean, there would be two factors to deal with when determining adequate price for the bisexual porn here: 1)the bareback factor (raising compensation) / 2)the presence of a girl (automatically lowering his compensation))
We just need more information!! (And a free preview…)
He needs to trim his pits.
In addition to everything already noted, the letter doesn’t specify where the location of the shoot will be, what class of travel, what class of accommodations…he’ll be sent Air Alaska, coach class with 2 huge “security” guys on either side of him to keep him from escaping, and filmed in a nondescript motel room in the seedy suburbs of LA, from which he will not be allowed to leave (for “security” reasons) until the 5 days are up.
It also doesn’t address IP rights in the work or whether Corbin Fisher can sell/distribute in ways/means other than as specified, whereas royalties are only for DVD sales.
It doesn’t specify whether Levi will have any input into the “interviews” or whether they can force him to say what they want him to say or they won’t pay him.
It doesn’t specify what happens with “out-takes.” Oh, that money shot wasn’t spurty enough for our highly classy erotic film company, try again this evening, we need more footage.
how can i get a job as corbin fisher’s next general counsel? or better yet, sean cody?!?!
Dear 29:
If “pron” was an acceptable misspelling, then why did Lat change it to “porn” ???????????
Biggest problem is 5% of dvd sales, whereas needs 5% of all sales in connection with the “shoot” (internet streams, dvd, bluray, etc).
50 -
Because you are an idiot.
um, ok….
I’d also want a piece of whatever ad-generated revenue they get from any online content.
For 5 days of work, “work” being jerking off in front of a camera, this is a pretty good deal.
And yes this is an offer letter you nincompoops.
If we learned anything from the writer’s strike, we learned that the number of people getting content on physical media is going down (giggity!), not up (giggity! giggity!) — if he wants to get paid, he needs to get on the digital distribution train (giggity! giggity!).
He should reverse the payouts and get a lump sum on the DVD sales and a recurring percentage on the sales of images and video. He should also get a percentage of new subscriptions directly attributed to his addition to the site (I didn’t look, but I assume membership isn’t free).
Finally, he should try to secure a lump payment to go to that porn show in Vegas to do appearances. He should also create a revenue stream for signed DVDs and other memorabilia (hockey jerseys maybe?).
“Use ‘p0rn’ to avoid Google searches, use ‘pr0n’ for anything with crustaceans, and ‘porn’ for anything involving your mom.”
http://twitter.com/FakeAPStylebook/status/5269935680
Anyone look the lawyer up? He is GULC ‘00 grad …not too shabby.
I’m confused. I came to this site to learn what is occurring in law firms, and I see this? I am a Christian and I have an 8 year old son who looks over my shoulder when I am on the Internet and this post is corrupting him. What kind of an American are you to post something like this? What are you, queer or something? How dare you disparage the family of a great American Patriot like Governor Palin with this trash. You are a Godless person and you shall have to answer to God and Jesus. Shame on you for posting this smut!
46, read the post. He has to participate in 3 solo scenes and whack off.
The 5% revenue stream on the sales could be substantial. I’d do some research into what kind of scrilla this could pull in. May not be substantial with piracy and all.
That said, I’d push for at least 500 large and 20% of revenues. The guy already has a trashy reputation – wacking off on camera can’t hurt too much more. Plus he gets another dig at Palin. In fact, maybe he should bargain for a money shot onto a Palin look-alike, possibly a transgendered individual in drag.
Levi, I am available if you need an agent.
I had no idea the vocal minority of this site’s readers were so absurdly simple, gay-panicked and dim. Oh my GOD, a GAY PORN COMPANY, so scary!
Come back sometime when you aren’t practicing in Waukegan or Tucson or whatever.
Just to be clear, the whole gay porn issue began during the Bush Administration and was inherited by Obama. In addition, the whole gay marriage controversy was started during the Bush Administration. Thus Obama cannot be blamed for gay porn or his stance against homosexual marriage.
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Did you notice that the letter was sent to C/O an attorney… I am assuming Rex Butler represents Levi Johnston.. check out this lawyer’s website: http://www.rexattysvideo.com/pages/rex.html.. wow, he is going to make a lot more money off representing Johnston than his Anchorage criminal defense practice…
29 – thank you!
25 and 28 FTW!
MRS. LAT — WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS POST?
Lat, stop turning the gay dial up to 11. Its too gay.
How would President Pelosi’s proposed value added tax apply to gay porn?
Someone should ask why Biography channel profiles do not include spanking the monkey. I mean, I can see now that masturbating to completion is a totally logical part of anyone’s profile, expecially if someone who wants to show their athleticism and sparkling personality.
Heh. 69 comments. Fitting.
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27 – you, sir, are retarded.
61 is just telling it like O tells it to the flock.
Thank you 61. I am glad you exist.
58 FTW. Hilarious.
he shoulkd be repersented by FAEGRE
What’s wrong with masturbating onto a camera?
All I did was read Above the Law and now my ass is burning. Why?
59 is the only making any sense here.
59 is the only making any sense here.
Two quick comments:
1. What are Lat’s gay porn recommendations? This is an important question.
2. How do I become in-house counsel for Corbin Fisher?
3. Their in-house counsel broke a hyphen on two different lines, style nazis report for duty.
4. three videos over five days? that last video is going to have a pretty weak “completion.” he should negotiate it to be spread out more before hairy armpits are his only critique.
Those were 4 comments
21- wow. you have no business sense if you think this is a goal to increase their sales. do you even know what their typical clientele is?
Well, after saying there would be full frontals in Playgirl and they didn’t do it, it strikes me that Levi’s penis might be too small for a good porn flick. On the other hand, regardless of size, having the opportunity to show it for the first time ought to be worth more than $100k.
I think if he can get the right price simply for three solo acts, he should do it. He might embarrass his son when he is grown up, but he has already done that.
80 – 2 comments, 2 questions. That is all.
– Not 79
This is just a little too queer faggish for me. Anyone named Levi must be queer. I guess this means that Sarah Palin’s daughter got fucked by a queer, which means she probably took it up the ass at some point along the way.
Lots of junior associates are getting paid 6 figures to jerk off these days- what’s the big deal?
And here so many of us have wasted all this time and energy on law school. Should have just spent it at the gym instead, if there’s that much money in doing naked things on camera. Have you people seen the guys on Corbin Fisher?! Screw the internet. I need to go do some crunches.
And I thoroughly endorse the idea of his “completing” on to a transgendered Sarah Palin look-alike.
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I’d rewrite the deal from scratch. One mill, straight up, 1 scene, fist yourself, but tastefully.
Better yet, one scene, Levi and Sarah fucking, while Sarah speaks into the camera about the glory of god.
I like boobs.
Am I in the wrong section?
V5 SECURED 3L!
90, I’m a leg man myself.
I shaved my balls for this?
‘Pron’ is an intentional mispelling and extremely common joke in computer culture. It’s unbelievable how many people didn’t get it. To be correct, the only true mispelling is that it should have been spelled with a zero (pr0n). He probably changed it instead of explaining because there are too many n00bs here to bother with.
I say a resounding YES…Levi should make all the MOOLAH he can from this whole ordeal and shove it right in the face of the GOP!!! Levi take it and negotiate upward….the ball is in YOUR court….May as well become an IN-DEMAND Pornstar and make MILLIONS!!!
Why is it that when a man jacks off on film it is classified as gay porn? Is it gay because it is man-on-man action? Presumably, homosexual men and heterosexual women could watch and enjoy the film.
No surprise Lat poasted this….
“Why is it that when a man jacks off on film it is classified as gay porn?”
Because masturbation is inherently gay.
Fuck, 100,000 bones? If I were him, I’d do it. I mean honestly, what else does the little fucker have to do?
58,
Lick anus.
just like to note that I opened this at work and the url that came up was levi_johnston_gay_porn. Yeah, thanks ATL.
prOn = prawn = distant relative of Kash’s lobster?
This is gay.
I’d recommend also considering whether or not he could make a great deal more money by producing and releasing such materials on his own. If he were just a good looking guy, professional production quality might matter more, but what is being sold is his celebrity. And more specifically, the nature of his celebrity holds a premium to the target market considering that his appearance in adult media is all the more sensational given his link to a prominent darling champion of social conservatism. In this respect, production values aren’t going to be that important to those who will be paying to see him perform autoerotic sex acts. As long as they can see it clearly, they’ll pay. So, I’d say set up a web cam, learn some software, and jack your way off to the bank. Well, at the very least, I’d say that he could command twice as much plus royalty on all sales. And by the way, Levi, when you get this big chunk of money, invest it correctly—don’t buy a bunch of stupid junk. Your celebrity status has a major time limit rivaled only by the time limit on your youthful body. Strike while you’re still in the news and use the money wisely to create multiple streams of income. When the time limit on your celebrity is up, you’re back to being an undereducated unemployed guy with a child support payment.