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A recent convert to "white nationalism," Luke Ford is destined to be found dead with a rope around his neck in a semen-splattered basement. Fingerprints of his gay-bitch-boyfriend, Mike South, aka "tabercil," will be found there. This is what the Internet has brought us, boys and girls. Are you happy with it? Both of these tragic cases should be shot on sight.
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'''Luke Carey Ford'''<ref>http://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l12.html</ref> (born 28 May 1966, in [[Kurri Kurri, New South Wales]], [[Australia]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[wikt:Blogger|blogger]], and former [[pornography]] [[gossip columnist]] known for his disclosures and traditionalist [[Jew]]ish religious views.<!--# Porn Stripped of Gossip Maven Wired article on Ford's temporary retirement by Noah Shachtman, 13 August 2001--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/07/13/ford | title=The Matt Drudge of porn | author=Michelle Goldberg | publisher=[[Salon.com]] | accessdate=2010-11-28}}</ref>

==Personal==
Ford moved to [[California]] in 1977. His father, [[Desmond Ford]], was a noted [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] theologian, and was the center of a [[Glacier View controversy|theological controversy]] in the late 1970s and '80s. His mother, Gwen Ford, died of [[bone cancer]] in March 1970, when Ford was three years old.

After leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ford explored [[atheism]]. Ford states that he was converted through the Los Angeles [[Beth_din|Beis Din]].<ref>[http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=10709 Lukeford.net]</ref> Ford says he observes the [[Shabbat|Jewish Sabbath]], attends [[synagogue]] regularly, and keeps [[kosher]]. He has been asked to leave at least two different congregations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/08/46001|title=Porn Stripped of Gossip Maven|accessdate=2007-06-14|author= Noah Shachtman|date=13 August 2001|publisher=[[Wired magazine|Wired]]}}</ref> Ford wrote about his religious ostracism in ''XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul''.

Ford has suffered from [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], which kept him bedridden for a time in his 20s.<ref name="ojr">{{cite web|url=http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017968399.php|title=Luke Ford: Another Brash Web Columnist|date=9 July 1998|accessdate=2007-03-10}}</ref>

==Professional==
Ford studied economics at [[UCLA]] but did not graduate. Instead, he worked as an [[investigative journalist]] for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the [[pornography]] industry, and started to write a book, which would become ''A History of X''.

In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed and acted in ''What Women Want'', a pornographic video (not related to the [[Mel Gibson]] [[What Women Want|movie of the same name]]). It was not a success. Ford is credited as "Dick Dundee".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20040608151715/http://www.lukeford.com/photos/content_1-26-96.htm Web.archive.org]</ref>

In 1997, Ford started his pornography gossip website, LukeFord.com. It was criticized for being badly organized, but contained a large amount of information; Ford would take a tape recorder nearly wherever he went, and transcribed many conversations.

Ford exposed a 1998 [[HIV]] outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of [[actor]]s (including [[Tricia Devereaux]], [[Brooke Ashley]] and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor [[Marc Wallice]].<ref name="ojr"/> Ashley eventually [[lawsuit|sued]] Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of ''The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang''.

Discretion has never been a Ford strong suit. In his own words "I'm not a businessman. I'm not a conventional journalist. I'm a story teller/entertainer/lunatic."<ref name="hated">{{cite web|url=http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,40829-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1|title='The Most Hated Man in Web Porn'|accessdate=2007-06-14|author= Noah Shachtman|date=1 February 2001|publisher=[[Wired magazine|Wired]]}}</ref> Porn stars such as [[Asia Carrera]] and [[Brandy Alexandre]] have criticized errors and inaccuracy on his site. But its impact was undeniable, and he was referred to as ''the [[Matt Drudge]] of porn''.<ref name="ojr"/>

Ford was sued for [[defamation]] multiple times by people in the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (as well as the [[Federal Trade Commission]]) accused of dishonesty; [[Christi Lake]], whom he mislabeled in a [[bestiality]] photo; and Laurie Holmes (widow of [[John Holmes (pornographic actor)|John Holmes]]), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Ford has said that he has been sued five times to date: one suit was dropped, another was thrown out, another was settled when his insurance company paid $100,000, and the last two were settled when he removed some of his statements without making a retraction.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup23jul23,0,7322888.story?page=2&coll=la-opinion-center | title=Rumor romp | accessdate=2007-07-23 | author=Luke Ford | date=23 July 2007 | publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' called him "The Most Hated Man in Web Porn".<ref name="hated"/> He was physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for ''[[Hustler]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.adultvideonews.com/archives/200003/loose/loose0300.html | title=Loose Lips | accessdate=2007-06-14 | publisher=[[AVN (magazine)|AVN]] | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20010410162059/http://www.adultvideonews.com/archives/200003/loose/loose0300.html | archivedate=2001-04-10 | quote=In an outdoor confrontation with gossip columnist Luke Ford, Albo bitch slapped Ford and chased him outside around the Hustler building.}}</ref>

In August 2001, after urgings of his [[rabbi]], Ford sold his main website,lukeford.com to Netvideogirls.com for $25,000, and created lukeford.net which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. One year later, after nearly going broke, he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com with many of his old archives.<ref name="ladn">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_6067495|title=Luke Ford: the outsider|accessdate=2007-06-14|author=Tony Castro|date=5 June 2007|publisher=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]}}</ref> On 23 October 2007, Ford announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xbiz.com/news/85553|title=Luke Ford Selling LukeisBack.com, Distancing From Adult|accessdate=2007-10-24|author=Anne Winter|date=24 October 2007|publisher=XBiz.com}}</ref> "Any writing I do on the porn industry from now on will be for publications with no porn advertising," Ford said. Those owners (whose names have not been divulged) ran the site until June 2008 but walked away from the site saying that writing the site was too much work for the money earned.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://lukeisback.com/?p=1639|title= LukeIsback.com is For Sale|accessdate= 2008-08-22|author= Luke Ford|date= 2008-06-11|publisher= lukeisback.com}}</ref> It was sold a second time, with the new owner being long-time industry observer Cindy Loftus.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://lukeisback.com/?p=1794|title= Not Luke is…|accessdate= 2008-08-22|author= Cindi Loftus|date= 2008-07-20|publisher= lukeisback.com}}</ref>

AVN Hall of Famer [[Bill Margold]] has said that "Luke Ford is exactly what we deserve... Luke's not really a blogger as much as is an internet journalist".<ref name="ladn"/>

== Bibliography ==
*''A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film''. Prometheus Books, 1999. ISBN 1-57392-678-7

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Luke Ford photos}}

===Websites run by Ford===
*[http://www.lukeford.net/ Official website]
*[http://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l1.html Autobiography at official website]
*[http://www.lukeisback.com/ Luke Is Back! Porn News] 2002–2007
*[http://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/ Your Moral Leader] blog about Judaism and moral issues
*[http://lukeford.buzznet.com/user/ Nearer My God To Thee] Buzznet site with many photos

=== Other ===
*[http://booble.com/nation.html Luke's weekly report on Booble Nation] (site where Luke Ford used to contribute)
*Emmanuelle Richard, [http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017968399.php "Luke Ford: Another Brash Web Columnist"], ''Online Journalism Review'', 9 July 1997
*Nancy Beiles, [http://www.forward.com/issues/2000/00.01.07/fastforward.html "Porn Muckraker and Son of a Preacher Man: Luke Ford Holds Forth on Converting, Dennis Prager and the Trials of the Triple-X Industry"], [[The Forward]], 7 January 2000
*Noah Shachtman, [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46001,00.html "Porn Stripped of Gossip Maven"], [[Wired magazine]], 13 August 2001
*Dan Kapelovitz, [http://www.laweekly.com/la-people-2006/the-xxxorcist/13191/ "LA People 2006: The Xxxorcist"], [[LA Weekly]], 19 April 2006
*Brad A. Greenberg, [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18014 "Interview with a serial blogger"], ''JewishJournal.com'', 3 August 2007
*{{IMDb name|0285760}} – Appearances in ''What Women Want'' and pornography documentaries

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For other people named Luke Ford (blogger), see Luke Ford (blogger) (disambiguation).
Luke Ford
Luke Ford, circa 2000
Born (1966-05-28) 28 May 1966 (age 58)
Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter

Luke Carey Ford[1] (born 28 May 1966, in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia) is an American writer, blogger, and former pornography gossip columnist known for his disclosures and traditionalist Jewish religious views.[2]

Personal

Ford moved to California in 1977. His father, Desmond Ford, was a noted Seventh-day Adventist theologian, and was the center of a theological controversy in the late 1970s and '80s. His mother, Gwen Ford, died of bone cancer in March 1970, when Ford was three years old.

After leaving the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ford explored atheism. Ford states that he was converted through the Los Angeles Beis Din.[3] Ford says he observes the Jewish Sabbath, attends synagogue regularly, and keeps kosher. He has been asked to leave at least two different congregations.[4] Ford wrote about his religious ostracism in XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul.

Ford has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, which kept him bedridden for a time in his 20s.[5]

Professional

Ford studied economics at UCLA but did not graduate. Instead, he worked as an investigative journalist for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry, and started to write a book, which would become A History of X.

In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed and acted in What Women Want, a pornographic video (not related to the Mel Gibson movie of the same name). It was not a success. Ford is credited as "Dick Dundee".[6]

In 1997, Ford started his pornography gossip website, LukeFord.com. It was criticized for being badly organized, but contained a large amount of information; Ford would take a tape recorder nearly wherever he went, and transcribed many conversations.

Ford exposed a 1998 HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors (including Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice.[5] Ashley eventually sued Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang.

Discretion has never been a Ford strong suit. In his own words "I'm not a businessman. I'm not a conventional journalist. I'm a story teller/entertainer/lunatic."[7] Porn stars such as Asia Carrera and Brandy Alexandre have criticized errors and inaccuracy on his site. But its impact was undeniable, and he was referred to as the Matt Drudge of porn.[5]

Ford was sued for defamation multiple times by people in the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (as well as the Federal Trade Commission) accused of dishonesty; Christi Lake, whom he mislabeled in a bestiality photo; and Laurie Holmes (widow of John Holmes), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Ford has said that he has been sued five times to date: one suit was dropped, another was thrown out, another was settled when his insurance company paid $100,000, and the last two were settled when he removed some of his statements without making a retraction.[8] Wired called him "The Most Hated Man in Web Porn".[7] He was physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for Hustler.[9]

In August 2001, after urgings of his rabbi, Ford sold his main website,lukeford.com to Netvideogirls.com for $25,000, and created lukeford.net which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. One year later, after nearly going broke, he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com with many of his old archives.[10] On 23 October 2007, Ford announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party.[11] "Any writing I do on the porn industry from now on will be for publications with no porn advertising," Ford said. Those owners (whose names have not been divulged) ran the site until June 2008 but walked away from the site saying that writing the site was too much work for the money earned.[12] It was sold a second time, with the new owner being long-time industry observer Cindy Loftus.[13]

AVN Hall of Famer Bill Margold has said that "Luke Ford is exactly what we deserve... Luke's not really a blogger as much as is an internet journalist".[10]

Bibliography

  • A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Prometheus Books, 1999. ISBN 1-57392-678-7

References

  1. ^ http://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l12.html
  2. ^ Michelle Goldberg. "The Matt Drudge of porn". Salon.com. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
  3. ^ Lukeford.net
  4. ^ Noah Shachtman (13 August 2001). "Porn Stripped of Gossip Maven". Wired. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  5. ^ a b c "Luke Ford: Another Brash Web Columnist". 9 July 1998. Retrieved 10 March 2007.
  6. ^ Web.archive.org
  7. ^ a b Noah Shachtman (1 February 2001). "'The Most Hated Man in Web Porn'". Wired. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  8. ^ Luke Ford (23 July 2007). "Rumor romp". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 July 2007.
  9. ^ "Loose Lips". AVN. Archived from the original on 10 April 2001. Retrieved 14 June 2007. In an outdoor confrontation with gossip columnist Luke Ford, Albo bitch slapped Ford and chased him outside around the Hustler building.
  10. ^ a b Tony Castro (5 June 2007). "Luke Ford: the outsider". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  11. ^ Anne Winter (24 October 2007). "Luke Ford Selling LukeisBack.com, Distancing From Adult". XBiz.com. Retrieved 24 October 2007.
  12. ^ Luke Ford (11 June 2008). "LukeIsback.com is For Sale". lukeisback.com. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
  13. ^ Cindi Loftus (20 July 2008). "Not Luke is…". lukeisback.com. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
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