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ASB Showgrounds, Erotica Expo Ltd in Liquidation & Role of Porn King Steve Crow

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The ASB Showgrounds in Auckland has allowed a failed hardcore porn company that has been declared insolvent and consequently placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009, to organise a three-day porn promotion sleaze event where all cameras, videos and ptx phones are banned.

(see: http://www.bvents.com/event/166191-erotica-lifestyles-expo ).

Any person[s] found within the venue taking video or still images will immediately be thrown out from the porn fest says big boss Porn King Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) and all images recorded will be forcibly removed.

The Society is asking: Why has ASB Showgrounds management allowed a company in liquidation to enter into such an arrangement? Some media commentators predict it will attract no more than a few hundred people with a sexual dysfunction or those seeking titillation from porn sleaze and extravagantly priced sex toys or seeking AIDS for the impotent or promiscuous. 

Liquidator, Lloyd Hayward of Accountants Meltzer Mason and Heath, in his report dated 3 June 2009 and available on the Companies website, states that Malibu Media Ltd (In Liq) (formerly Erotica Expo Ltd) owes unsecured creditors and shareholders $145,665 and $18,649 to IRD. He reports that the company Steve Crow directed failed mainly because of very poor attendances at the most recent Erotica Lifestyles Expos held in Wellington and Christchurch (see Co. No. 1275425 www.companies.govt.nz). These debts together with those of three other porn companies that were directed by Steve Crow, all of which have been placed into liquidation, amount to over 1.3 million dollars. The Liquidator has confirmed that there is nothing left for creditors.

Currently there is no registered company by the name “Erotica Expo Ltd”. Crow changed the name of the company he directed – Erotica Expo Ltd (Co. No.1275425) – to Malibu Media Ltd, on 1 May 2009, one month before it was placed in liquidation; no doubt to try and hide the financial failure being linked to the brand name “Erotica Expo Ltd” which he continues to use in breach of the Companies Act 1993.

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Negative backlash ends Steve Crow’s New Plymouth Sleaze Porn Promo 2009. Erotica Expo Lifestyles & Boobs on Bikes Dead

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Backlash Ends Sexpo Plans

Lyn Humphreys – Taranaki Daily News

15 September 2009

Boobs on Bikes and the Erotica Lifestyles Expo are not coming to New Plymouth this year following a public backlash.

“It was going to happen but with all the controversy we’ve been copping and all the negatives from everywhere, it’s not happening now,” Erotica’s owner and porn mogul Steve Crow said from Auckland yesterday.

Steve Crow and his Inglewood brother, David Crow, bought the New Plymouth and Districts RSA at Strandon and also bailed out the debt-ridden club last year.

The two are planning an extensive development for the site, named the Te Ara project.

Amid negative reaction, Steve Crow last month promised the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce that the site would not be converted into a brothel, strip club, adult shop or “anything at all to do with the sex industry”.

But Mr Crow’s Erotica lifestyles expo website advertises a three-day expo at New Plymouth’s Te Ara at 434 Devon St East for $20 a head in November. When contacted by the Taranaki Daily News yesterday, Mr Crow admitted that the expo, which would have been at Te Ara, included strip shows.

However, recent bad publicity and a public backlash from New Plymouth people have caused him to pull the pin.

“I just think it’s going to backfire if we do,” Mr Crow said.

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Creditor fury over debt-ridden directors David and Steve Crow of Buildwise Ltd (In Liq) and 435 Devon St Ltd

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Creditor fury at Crow show. By Rob Maetzig – Taranaki Daily News 29/08/09

A group of businessmen are furious the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce helped allow a debt-ridden man to be involved in a presentation on a major commercial development project for New Plymouth.

David Crow is the director of Buildwise Ltd, an Inglewood building company that has been placed into liquidation owing several hundred thousand dollars to at least 57 creditors, most from Taranaki. On Wednesday night he fronted up with his brother Steve at a Taranaki Chamber of Commerce function to give a presentation on multi-million dollar development plans for the New Plymouth RSA property.

The pair bought the premises for $1.9 million in July last year and are planning a $20 million commercial development called the Te Ara Complex. This has infuriated several business owners who are owed large amounts of money by Buildwise.

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Porn King Steve Crow Double Crosses RSA Members over Erotica Lifestyles Expo venue – RSA stalwarts ‘turn in their graves’

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Porn King Steve Crow was a guest speaker at the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business After 5 function at the New Plymouth RSA on Wednesday 26th August 2009. It appears that he failed to tell the whole truth when he told more than 100 people in attendance that the RSA Strandon Clubrooms at 435 Devon Street East, purchased by a company of which he is the major shareholder (50%) and was co-director of up until his resignation on 12 November 2008, would never be used for “anything at all to do with the sex industry”. However, since the 27th of August he has been advertising the “Te Ara Centre” (the new title he has given to the RSA Clubrooms), as the venue for his forthcoming three day Sleaze Porn Promo Show in November, which he markets as Erotica Lifestyles Expo via a website. His risible claims of honest transparency with RSA members and the business community were quoted in the Taranaki Daily News:

“Let’s firstly put a few rumours to bed, and then explain what our plans are for this beautiful site. What we are not doing is converting the place into a brothel, or a strip club, or an adult shop, or anything at all to do with the sex industry… And the Crows are also not taking all the money out of the project. Now that’s a real joke. The fact is we’ve already put a lot of money into this project, and we have committed a lot more.”

Photo: Stuff News

Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow), [photo above] his brother David Bruce Crow [top right] and wife Carolyn Rose Crow, are all part of a business partnership – 435 Devon Limited (Co. No. 1951732) – that bought the RSA’s property for $1.9 million when both men were directors.

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Company Directors Porn King Steve Crow and Dermott Malley, Porn Industry, Truth Weekly Tabloid, share transfer and company liquidation

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Porn King Steve Crow was appointed co-director on 8 December 2005 of a company directed by Dermott Malley, and Linzi Frances Malley – Computer Shopper (NZ) Ltd (Co. No. 514464) – that is now in liquidation. According to the Liquidator’s Report dated 28 May 2009, it owes $163,550 to Second Ranking Preferential Creditor – the IRD – and $262,528 to over 40 unsecured creditors, with other debts yet to be assessed.

Dermott Malley and his wife were directors of the company from 14 May 1992 to 1 September 2006 and Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) served with them as co-director for 11 months before becoming sole director after they resigned. Under Crow’s leadership the company became insolvent and Crow recommended to shareholders, that it be placed into liquidation on 27 May 2009. The Company is 100% owned by CVC Group Ltd (Co. No. 1738154), of which Crow is currently one of three directors and Dermott Malley is a former director (see below).

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