More men are familiar with Tera Patrick than will admit in mixed company. And her renown, acknowledged or not, is a major reason why she’s been tapped to co-host the 25th annual AVN Adult Movie Awards on Saturday. “Adult is mainstream now, but the AVN awards are still the one day of the year that the performers are validated for all the hard work we put in,” said the curvy, dark-haired beauty weeks before taking the stage. This year’s ceremony at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center will also serve as validation for AVN founder Paul Fishbein. Now the company’s president, the publisher from Northeast Philadelphia has guided every step of the magazine’s rise. It’s now considered the bible of the adult video industry. In its current form, the glossy 200-plus-page monthly melange of skin-flick ads, industry-news blurbs and feature stories is much evolved from the eight-page black-and-white newsletter that Fishbein, Barry Rosenblatt and Temple classmate Irv Slifkin created back in 1983. It was long before then, however, that Fishbein realized he wanted to get into the magazine business. A fervent wrestling fan as a teenager, he cobbled together a quarterly fan zine called Universal Wrestling out of his parents’ home on Bustleton Avenue and Verree Road. While selling subscriptions for $10 a year, he also had a lucrative side business. "Porn Supremacy"

ANOTHER RAPE - DEATH - COVER-UP —

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. —  A missing 20-year-old Marine due to give birth any day is dead and authorities are trying to locate a corporal she had accused of raping her, a North Carolina sheriff said Friday. The body of Maria Lauterbach, who vanished nearly a month ago before she was to testify in a military probe, is believed to be located in a shallow grave in coastal Onslow County, said Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown at a press conference. Lauterbach alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a senior officer but that the investigation had gone sour, according to court documents. Authorities do not know where the suspect — Cpl. Cesar Armando Lauren, 21, is located. "They don't know where he is," Brown said. "He's gone." The court papers said the anticipated birth of the baby "might provide evidentiary credence to charges she lodged with military authorities that she was sexually assaulted by a senior military person." Lauterbach's roommate, Marine Sgt. Daniel Durham, isn't a suspect in the case. But authorities believe Durham to be the last person to speak with the missing woman, who may have been monitoring the case while on a training mission in California. The documents state Naval investigators had struggled to investigate Lauterbach's allegations because of inconsistencies in her account. Still, the court papers said the anticipated birth of the baby "might provide evidentiary credence to charges she lodged with military authorities that she was sexually assaulted by a senior military person."  It appears that the Marines have covered- up this story early.

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