Today the Registrar of Companies Mr Neville Harris has announced his intention to remove two companies formerly directed by banned director Steve Crow, from the Register under section 318(1)(b) of the Companies Act 1993 (see Company removal notices www.companies.govt.nz). They were both involved in the hardcore pornography industry and are owned by CVC Group Ltd which is directed by a San Antonio Texas based certified public accountant (CPA), Mr John Malcolm Carr. [Read more…]
Porn king Steve Crow’s assets and bankruptcy considerations
PORN KING’S ASSETS. The Sydney Morning Herald 26 August 2010
The Kiwi porn baron Steve Crow has said he would consider bankruptcy in a bid to get a major Australian supplier of sex toys and DVDs off his back. Crow, who defended himself in the High Court in Auckland yesterday is challenging a judgment of $39,000 owed to Calvista Australia. Calvista says it’s owed for goods supplied to Crow’s companies in New Zealand. Crow said Calvista had revived an old Vixen Direct account – one of his companies – after no dealings with him for six years. The Dominion Post reports that Crow, who is behind the annual Boobs on Bikes parade and Erotica Expo, was this year banned from directing or managing a company for four years. ”I do not have $39,000 in a bank account. I have assets many, many times that,” Crow said. ”The only issue is if I’m unsuccessful in this appeal … I would have to liquidate assets. The other choice is to bankrupt myself.”
http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/a-latin-lover-is-good-for-alibi-20100825-13s8o.html [Read more…]
Crow represents himself in High Court in sex toy appeal
25 August 2010 Stuff News
Kiwi pornographer Steve Crow turned lawyer for a day in the High Court at Auckland in a scrap over a whopping bill owed to a sex toy and DVD company in Australia.
Calvista Australia Pty, which has an office in Auckland, says it is owed for goods supplied to Crow’s companies in New Zealand. It had earlier won a judgment by default in the Auckland District Court for A$39,897.36 with certain conditions which meant he has to put up the money as security while he continues disputing the case.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4060652/Crow-represents-self-in-sex-toy-appeal
Steve Crow’s “Boobs on Bikes” – “puerile, dismally witless and calulatedly offensive” – Sunday NZ Herald Editorial Opinion
Writer of the Sunday NZ Herald Editorial suggests “…the [Boobs on Bikes] parade is best treated like the show-off child it so much resembles – by being ignored.” The writer is adamant that the massive billboard of a naked woman Steve, his bother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, New Plymouth, used to cynically market the Erotica Lifestyles Expo porn sleaze, was calculated to offend.
“But the billboard that expo organiser Steve Crow unveiled this week is of a different order [to the parade] altogether. By any measure, the image is objectionable in a public context and you don’t have to be a purse-lipped prude to think so.
“Puerile and dismally witless, it is also quite calculatedly offensive because it seeks not to attract those who are interested but to outrage those who are not.
“Hard-core pornography – You know it when you see it … it is beyond distasteful and truly offensive
“Crow is terribly pleased with himself because of all the publicity he’s received. But the rest of us should make it plain what we think of this sort of cynical marketing.”
For full article see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10666077
Naked Woman Billboard ruled unnacceptable – NZPA
NZPA 11/00/2010
The billboard image of a naked woman on all fours with a large arrow provocatively placed below her and preceded by the words “entrance this way” was an unacceptable way to advertise the Erotica Lifestyles Expo, the Advertising Standards Authority decided.
The Erotica Expo, promoted by [the hardcore porn company] Eden Digital and its former director, porn tycoon Steve Crow, is an adult entertainment convention held annually. Steve Crow resigned from the company in May. [John Malcolm Carr has remained on as its sole director].
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4011581/Naked-woman-billboard-ruled-unacceptable