Stoya’s business partner has defended their decision to keep scenes featuring James Deen on their pay per view website after he allegedly raped her.
The adult film actress accused Deen, an adult film actor, of raping her in a series of tweets on Sunday. Deen has strenuously denied all of the allegations against him as “false and defamatory”.
Stoya runs her own website with Kayden Kross, a fellow performer, where viewers pay a fee to access episodic adult videos. The site was launched in March this year and some of the scenes feature Deen. Kross said they were filmed during his relationship with Stoya.
Kross said she was not forewarned that Stoya was going to go public with her allegations, but fully supported her decision to do so.
“The fact is this news about James is news to the public, but not news to us,” she wrote in a blog post on her website. “We took this into consideration back when we were building the site. While we made the decision back then not to hire him going forward, we can’t undo the fact that he is featured in some of the scenes that Stoya directed during their relationship.
“We also can’t undo the fact that some of our licensors have shot James in their own projects. He is an able and popular performer. Stoya considered not releasing any of the content that she owned that featured James, but it was content that, if taken away from the whole, would have harmed the project that is her directorial debut.”
She also reiterated her support for Stoya, adding: "I will continue to support her as she navigates the attention that her story has generated."
Deen has been dropped by a number of major pornography companies after the allegations from Stoya and two other adult film stars who came forward and alleged he tried to sexually assault them.
In a series of tweets responding to allegations on Sunday, he wrote: “There have been some egregious claims made against me on social media. I want to assure my friends, fans and colleagues that these allegations are both false and defamatory. I respect women and I know and respect limits both professionally and privately.”
