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Is Obscenity Trial Judge Just a Porn-Loving Target of Disgruntled Lawyer?

The twists just keep on coming in the now-suspended Obscenity Trial of the Century, in which defendant and celebrated poo-vid helmer Ira Isaacs has taken a back seat to the trial's own judge — Alex Kozinski, himself recently revealed (by a grudge-holding lawyer, natch, but we'll get to that) to be a connoisseur of impeccable barnyard porn and transsexual slidshows on his publicly available Web site. This obviously isn't sitting well with the judiciary or even with Kozinski himself, a Supreme Court short-lister who said Thursday he would cooperate with an investigation of his own alleged wrongdoing:

Kozinski suspended until Monday the obscenity trial of a Hollywood adult filmmaker after the prosecutor requested time to explore "a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a . . . sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here."

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Pervert Jurors Wanted For Obscenity Trial of the Century

Going AWOL might be worth the jail time if you're starting jury duty this week and must report to the federal courthouse today for an assignment — jury selection is underway for the trial of Ira Isaacs, the scat-animal-porn "shock-art" entrepreneur facing obscenity charges for distributing hit titles like Laurie's Toilet Show, Gang Bang Horse (Pony Sex Game) and Hollywood Scat Amateurs No. 7. That said, if today's latest fetish-beat dispatch in the LA Times is any indication, Isaacs' success suggests finding a jury of his peers might be easier than prosecutors originally thought:

In a statistic that some may find every bit as shocking as his work, Isaacs said he was selling about 1,000 videos per month at $30 apiece before being raided by the FBI early last year. The number has since dropped to between 700 and 800 per month, but they still generate enough money to pay the rent on a house with a pool in the Hollywood Hills.

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L.A. Courts Literally Go To Shit As Notorious Director Faces Obscenity Trial

Defamer would like to take just a moment to salute a true American hero — a local filmmaker whose vision, dedication and utter depravity have resulted in some of the bravest and most honest films of our time. His name is Ira Isaacs; you may know him as the maker of such "shock art" (i.e. fetish porn) masterworks as Laurie's Toilet Show, Gang Bang Horse (Pony Sex Game) and Hollywood Scat Amateurs No. 7, and soon you may also know him as the man sent up the river in what Radar today describes as perhaps "the most extreme obscenity trial in U.S. history." More »

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Deflowering Katee Holmes II: Deeper Inside The Virgin

We knew that we could count on our glory-hole-probing sister site Fleshbot to update us on the much-buzzed-about career of porn up-and-comer Katee Holmes, whose noble plan to honor her famous namesake by offering up her virtue on camera was announced in Page Six earlier this week. More »

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Pirates of The Carribean 69: Elizabeth Does The Flying Dutchman

If you're anything like us, somewhere around the tenth inscrutable story development in this past summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, your mind drifted off to a simpler, more satisfying place, where complicated matters involving magical compasses and jars full of dirt gave way to fantasies about the sweaty couplings that must have been going on below decks on the Flying Dutchman (a ship itself named for an arcane sexual practice so disgusting that we will refrain from describing it in this space). Our porn-scrutinizing sister site Fleshbot this morning notes [link NSFW] that the folks at Sinful Comics [link NSFW] have caught the attention of an "outraged" Disney by filling in these egregious plot holes with artistic renderings of all the hot, tentacle-cocked-ghost-on-pirate-wench action the studio's version coyly omitted, featuring a Keira Knightley stand-in bazoomed even more generously than she was in the advertising materials for King Arthur. It's never too early on a Monday morning for some lovingly illustrated slashfic involving a Johnny Depp/Orlando Bloom/Knightley three-way! More »