Mark Spiegler (born 1958/1959) is an American

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for pornographic actresses and founder of Spiegler Girls, which is often regarded as being among the adult film industry's top agencies. Spiegler was inducted into the

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and attended Hollywood High School. He is Jewish. He graduated from California State University, Northridge with a

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degree in economics and became a

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afterward.

Career

Spiegler began working in the adult film industry as a

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in the 1980s, while in the 1990s he worked as a producer on 96 pornographic films. Spiegler began working as an agent after French pornographic actress Lisa Crawford asked him to represent her. In 1999, he began working as an agent for Topp Models, but in 2003 he founded his own agency, Spiegler Girls, which is a member of the Licensed Adult Talent Agency Trade Association (LATATA). Spiegler refers to himself as the "Patron of the Tarts" on his business cards. He has also been referred to as the "

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of porn" by several mainstream media outlets, such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. '' LA Weekly'' referred to him as the " Ari Gold of porn". Spiegler has appeared on ''

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'', ''

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'' and the German documentary film ''

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''. Spiegler has also appeared on the ''No Jumper''

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hosted by

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. In February 2009, Spiegler filed a $3 million lawsuit for

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against pornographic film director Skeeter Kerkove, who alleged that Spiegler received oral sex from four of his clients (Jayna Oso,

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, Melissa Lauren and Katsuni) in exchange for finding them work, but all four performers signed declarations, stating that the allegations made by Kerkove were false and Spiegler won $85,000 in damages in December 2010.

References

External links

Spiegler Girls
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