{"id":4627,"date":"2019-01-14T00:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2019-01-14T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T08:12:47","slug":"will-lucas-name-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/will-lucas-name-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Lucas Name Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, gay porn impresario&nbsp;<strong>Michael Lucas&nbsp;<\/strong>made some news.&nbsp; First it was announced that he will retire from \u201cperforming\u201d in 2020.&nbsp; \u201cPorn stars come and go, but the best ones stay in our memories and on our hard drives for a long time until they fade away,\u201d said his publicist,&nbsp;<strong>Len Evans<\/strong>.&nbsp; But it was the next statement which raised more than a few eyebrows.&nbsp; \u201cMichael is also in search of a co-author to publish a juicy autobiography that will include a steamy chapter about a few top Hollywood celebs who paid him to have sex with them when he was an escort in the late \u201890s.\u201d&nbsp; Let\u2019s gloss over the difference between a co-author and a publisher \u2013 naming names got my attention.&nbsp; That is, until Lucas retracted the story and fired Evans.<\/p>\n<p>To fill in the blanks (something Lucas is known for), Michael&nbsp;<em>Tweeted&nbsp;<\/em>the following: \u201cThe story that ran today and attributed to me by former publicist is absolutely false.&nbsp; I spent 45 minutes on the phone explaining why I would never do that and they still felt the need to give it to you.&nbsp; Needless to say I am perplexed by their motivation and they were fired immediately.&nbsp; I am considering legal action against them.&nbsp; What is true is that I\u2019m planning to retire in 2020.&nbsp; What is absolutely false is that I would ever write or consider writing a \u2018tell all\u2019 book and naming names of my clients.&nbsp; I consider that relationship sacred and I would never violate their confidence or my integrity.&nbsp; Period.&nbsp; I have nothing but the greatest respect and gratitude for the people who trusted me with their intimate secrets and I will take those secrets to the grave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, gay porn impresario&nbsp;Michael Lucas&nbsp;made some news.&nbsp; First it was announced that he will retire from \u201cperforming\u201d in 2020.&nbsp; \u201cPorn stars come and go, but the best ones stay in our memories and on our hard drives for a long time until they fade away,\u201d said his publicist,&nbsp;Len Evans.&nbsp; But it was the next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}