Charles Peyton, otherwise known as gay porn institution Jeff Stryker, might ultimately be successful in closing down North Hollywood neighbor Kulak’s Woodshed after several years of city appeals, restraining orders, and name-calling exchanges with his foe.
Kulak’s Woodshed is a smallish folk club located next door to Peyton/Stryker’s office, from which he markets his movies and maintains his website. The Woodshed, operated by Paul Kulak, has until the end of December to make improvements that Peyton brought to the city’s attention, or it must vacate the premises.
Read the original story here.
Peyton didn’t immediately respond to an interview request, but this week commented on several aspects of the first article. It has been edited slightly (full version here). It appears that Peyton denies ever entering the club.
I did not try and play “Pop Ya in the Pooper” (at Kulak’s Woodshed). I charge $10,000 an appearance. Why would I play in a dirt hole that I was already suing before the song even came out?
I was supposed to have been banned from a club I wouldn’t have went in if they did pay me, back in 2001 (if you follow the Kulak notes). “Pooper” wasn’t even made yet.
And that song was a comedy that I played for JimmyJoe who paid me $400,000
over the year I made it in.Kulak charged me with violation of a (restraining order) for the sixth time; (Kulak is) 6’2″ and works out every day; why would he be scared of little old me? I may have 40 criminal charges on my record (only because charges never leave a man’s record) but I have no convictions,
so that means I was falsely accused a lot.To make things short and sweet, I am a well known recluse, I get paid $10,000 to appear in clubs, I don’t go to no talent places to listen to garbage and I have never (gone) into his place, that’s what is so funny, (Kulak is) a freak…. It’s easier for him to garnish a mob when he says it’s Porn against Music. Fact is this area is no zoned for nightclubs (look at his recent guilty plea on my site) and I do not want one next door to my business office that I have had for 12
years. I have two attorney firms representing me in suing him and the city in excess of a million bucks and the whole story is on the site.(Kulak) got people to file false police reports against me and cost me over 10 grand already, defending false charges placed by him and his liars. My criminal attorney is John Duran (and) has proven all of the claims to be false.
In Burbank court the judge told (Kulak) if he brought more false claims to his court, someone is going to JAIL.
The (restraining order) states, I can’t attack him, I had no problem with that. I never attacked the freak to begin with; if I had they would still be scrapping his ass off the pavement… He really looks foolish being 6’2″ and works out every day, claiming he is scared for his
life from little ole me. Unfortunately the guy’s a stalker and he wants to be famous, so like many others they try and pit themselves against me to be considered an equal.(Kulak is) on probation now for zoning charges, he is not supposed to be there.
Plus, the guy’s running on donations (tax free) but is not licensed to accept donations so this Chicago-born con man is upset I am not allowing him to keep his ”Music Man” operation going next door.
You have to hand it to him, he has conned (L.A. District 2 Councilwoman) Wendy Greuel into denying me my rights and torturing me for five years now (why? Because I am of Porn, spawn of the devil).
He has already had the variance voided and all of the accusations I made have been proven true, next my attorneys sue the building owner and the city and I buy another few homes (in) other states. Typical, that’s why the insiders of the Adult industry know me as “The Litigator”. I don’t like getting screwed, I am a top!
When I first contacted Paul Kulak for this story, I reached a woman listed as his public relations contact. When I told her that I wrote for adult publications, she refused to speak with me. I said something about Intolerance being counterintuitive to the folkie aesthetic. She hastened to tell me that Peyton sold Stryker-brand pornography “within 400 feet of a school”.
Kulak himself called me back later and I did not get the impression from him that he had any problem with what Peyton did for a living. I can’t say anything about the rest of what Peyton says (the conclusions seem apparent) other than that the Porn vs. Music angle seems to be something Peyton invented.
“We can’t move fast enough for the Judge,” Kulak said, when I asked him if there were legal possibilities of his club staying in that location after December 31. I asked him what he would do if things didn’t change in two weeks.
“I don’t even want to think about it,” he said.
Previously: Jeff Stryker: Folk as Queer
See also: Charles Peyton, Kulak’s Woodshed
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