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John M Carr – director of Eden Digital Ltd, a hardcore porn promoter

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John Malcolm Carr (see photo links below) is sole director of Eden Digital Ltd (formerly called Vixen TV Ltd) which imports and distributes hardcore pornography sleaze publications into New Zealand.

Photo 1: http://www.carr.co.nz/images/jmc.jpg

Photo 2: http://www.bankler.com/AboutUs/JohnMCarr/tabid/130/Default.aspx

Photo 3: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmalcolmcarr

His former co-director Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow was recently banned for four years from being a company director, or being involved in the management or promotion of a company, by the Ministry of Economic Development. Eden Digital Ltd is currently distributor of many hardcore porn DVD titles including four recently classified R18 by the Office of Film and Literature Classification in its June 2010 List of Decisions. All have been given the descriptive note “Contains explicit sex scenes”. The censors required one of these DVDs originating from the United States to be cut to remove its depiction of objectionable content that promotes urination in conjunction with sexual activity. The DVD in its excised version contains an additional component not present in the unexcised version – a Notice promoting the hardcore NZ porn magazine NZX founded and promoted by “Porn King” Steve Crow.

John M Carr, who holds US citizenship and owns a number of NZ registered companies, has had a financial interest in the importation and promotion of hardcore porn sleaze for many years, working closely with his friend Steve Crow, who until his recent 4-year ban, co-directed CVC Group Ltd with him. CVC Group Ltd, directed by John M. Carr, owns Eden Digital Ltd. Eden Digital Ltd has its registered office at 2/18b Triton Drive, Albany, Auckland 1025 – a property owned by PJ Digital Ltd, a company directed and owned by John Malcolm Carr. Mr Carr gives his own residential address for the latter company as Flat 14 Remuera Mews, 31 Green Lane East, Remuera, Auckland, 1050 (Checketts McKay Trustees Ltd is the trustee of this property). PJ Digital Ltd has its registered office at Unit 13, 33 -35 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, Auckland , New Zealand.

Good News: Steve Crow – his porn empire shrivels

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Media Release: 11 July 2009 (updated)

No. 1 Story http://business.scoop.co.nz/2009/07/13/update-on-steve-crow-and-porn-empire-collapse/

“I’m quite happy for you to call me a pornographer [and] a sleazeball, whatever you want to call me. But keep it factual.” Steve Crow (Quoted in NZ Listener 2004).

FOUR of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. Critics of his hard-core putrid porn promotion will be crowing loudly, but creditors, including about 30 New Zealand companies, will not be. The shrivelling of his now anaemic porno empire has left him impotent he claims to recompense any of his many unsecured creditors who are owed at least $714,000. In addition his companies owe at least $323,753 to the IRD. The debt will probably increase once the final liquidator’s reports are completed.

Crow says ‘I don’t have any obligation to recompense creditors of the liquidated companies” (Dominion Post 8/07/09). On TV One’s Close Up “Porn Industry Going Bust?” – he tried to downplay the debts, saying that most of the money was owed to creditors outside New Zealand who were still acting benevolently towards him. Surrounded by busty porn stars and with his new girfriend Rachel Whitewell at his side, his message was – its business or bust!

Lloyd J. Hayward of accountants Meltzer Mason Heath is the liquidator appointed for all of his three failed companies.

The first company, Vixen Direct Ltd, an importer and distributor of hard-core porno sleaze, had its name changed by Crow on 1 May 2009 to Z4K74D Ltd (Co. No. 514464), just before the liquidator was appointed on 27 May 2009. [Read more…]