Rebranding. It’s one of the buzzwords of the 21st century. In Porn Valley, “starlet rebranding” is currently all the rage. And Vouyer Media is more than happy to lend its hand to a worthy cause, which is why it is introducing a finer, nastier and more svelte Chayse Evans in Anal Is My Middle Name.

Vouyer is the perfect place for Evans to rebrand herself as porn’s reigning princess of pulchritude. Ever since the company captured one of Sasha Grey’s first anal scenes for In Thru the Back Door, the company’s titles have regularly received nominations from AVN in such awards categories as Best Anal-Themed Release and Best Anal-Themed Series.

Anal Is My Middle Name teams cover girl Evans with Germanic sensation Sascha. And though Evans is a hard act to follow, Mina Leigh, Charlotte Vale, Harmony, Eve Nicholson, Allison Pierce and the dynamic duo of Leona Dulce and Mimi Allen give it their best shot.

A gorgeous O-card features Chayse Evans at her most athletic, and the three-and-a-half hours of nonstop backdoor action is captured in seductive, glistening 16×9 widescreen HD videography. For updates and more information, visit VouyerMedia.Com. To view trailers and behind-the-scenes clips, go to YouTube.Com/VouyerMedia.

WrestlingInc.com has named the newest Vivid Girl, Lia, its Girl of the Month for February.

Lia, who is the newest exclusive Vivid Girl, already has an established fanbase from the popularity of her solo girl site lia19.com and her debut movie for Vivid, Lia’s First Time. The recently released movie is available in stores and on shopvivid.com.

“Lia has a refreshing naturalness about her that we thought would appeal to our audience,” said Raj Giri of WrestlingInc. “She’s genuinely into sports and is attracted to athletes, which work for us because they are equally attracted to her.”

WrestlingInc is a popular site for fans of the sport with over nine million visitors each month.

In her interview on the site, Lia reveals how she made her solo site successful, what it was like for her to make her first adult movie, and how she feels about girls, guys and golf. A photo gallery of Lia is featured along with her interview.

New Starlet Kagney Linn Karter has announced the launch of an all-new website.

The Missouri native has been busy working with adult website innovation company Brand Danger preparing her state-of-the-art web home, kagneylinnkarter.com, for this week’s debut.

“We’re going to have tons of hot photos, scenes, live shows and lots of nasty ass-smacking and cocksucking,” Karter said from the set of Star Trek XXX 2, the last movie she will shoot for Hustler before she enters into her exclusive contract with Zero Tolerance.

“It took us a long time to get this site just the way we wanted it,” she continued. “I didn’t want to put out some half-ass site just to have something out there. I’m extremely happy with what Brian [Brand Danger’s owner] has put together. It does everything I wanted and more.”

Karter also won the award for Best POV Sex Scene on Jan. 9 at the 27th annual AVN Awards Show in Las Vegas.

Fleshlight and Digital Playground have paired up once again to make contract star Riley Steele even more accessible to fans.

The new lotus-textured, exact replica of her famously tight pussy is now available in Fleshlight’s new realistic flesh tone.

In her venture into the world of Fleshlight, Steele’s naughty bits were molded for the sleeve, which features her autograph and the popular Lotus texture inside the Real Feel Super Skin sleeve. The Fleshlight comes with a pearlesque, sturdy canister that resembles a flashlight.

In addition to the new sleeve, Fleshlight is also offering a discount on some of its Fleshlubes.

If you’ve wanted to experience the intense cooling sensation of Fleshlube Ice or the deep warming of Fleshlube Fire, there’s never been a better time than now. For a limited time only, get a Fleshlube Fire and Ice combo pack for the low price of $9.95, a savings of more than $15.

For more information, or to order, visit Fleshlight.com.

Veteran adult producer Rob Rotten and his Punx Productions Inc. studios have announced the creation of the Punx Productions Hall of Fame. The first three inductees will be revealed on his company’s website on Jan. 29. Rotten and a panel of industry veterans narrowed the list to three from over 20 candidates. New inductees will be announced annually.

Each will receive a celebratory plaque and be added to the Hall of Fame roster on the Punx Productions site. Rotten stressed “a no-nonsense backbone” to his new awards showcase.

“I’m announcing my Punx Productions Hall of Fame now because everyone just got slapped around by the toxic, hours-long commercial that is the Golden Globes,” said Rotten, who has been a producer, director and adult performer for over 10 years. “Only real contenders and real talent will hope to receive a Punx award—and not because they needed a ratings boost to sell/rent the most DVD’s possible.

He added, “I’m not interested in the bottom-line, where’s the talent? That’s the Rotten spirit.”

Rotten said he plans to make this an annual celebration of worthy talent in the industry, and hopes to garner enough support and enthusiasm behind ‘the Rottens’ to have each year become “bigger and badder” than the last.

Check PunxProductions.com on Friday for the inaugural honorees.

Rotten told AVN that he is not focusing just on talent or directors for the honor. He is also considering “behind-the-scenes people who never get any recognition.”

The Punx Productions Hall of Fame plaque is bound by four steel rivets that holds a sheet of glass on top of it with engravings.

LA Direct Models has signed adult star Jenny Hendrix to an exclusive contract.

Hendrix has been in the adult industry for five years and starred in just over 100 XXX films and numerous mainstream projects.

“I think it is more important than ever to be very selective with the type and amount of content that is available to your fans and there is no doubt that LA Direct Models was the great jumpstart to building the Jenny Hendrix brand,” Hendrix said. “I am very pleased to rejoin forces with LA Direct Models to take my career to the next level.”

Hendrix is also looking forward to broadening her work with feature dancing through the associated dance agency, Lee Network of Los Angeles.

“Direct Models is delighted that Jenny has returned to the fold at the agency and we look forward to assisting her to achieve her full potential in the industry, long term professional guidance, and career goal achievement is a specialty of Direct Models and it is with this in mind that we look forward to some productive times ahead for Jenny.” said Derek Hay, founder of LA Direct Models.

Fans can see Hendrix’s latest starring role as Tori Spelling in Hustler Video’s This Ain’t Beverly Hills 90210 XXX directed by Axel Braun. She is also set to be starring in Vivid Entertainment Group’s upcoming project, Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, which will also be directed by Braun.

See more of Jenny at myspace.com/jennyhendrix or follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/jennyhendrix.

According to news reports, actress Erica Boyer was killed on New Year’s Eve in a traffic accident near her home in Panama City Beach, Florida, where she had been living since her retirement from the adult industry in 1994. She was 53 years old, and is reportedly survived by one son.

The Panama City News-Herald has reported that Amanda Jensen, Boyer’s real name, was traveling south on Front Beach Road (U.S. Highway 98) near Second Street, and while attempting to cross Front Beach Road was struck by a 2001 four-door Hyundai being driven by an off-duty officer in the Florida Highway Patrol, Gregory Lowe of Fort Walton Beach. She was killed instantly. The accident occurred at 8:20 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and is currently under investigation by the Highway Patrol.

According to the Internet Adult Film Database, Boyer began her XXX career in a little-seen 1974 movie, Cowgirls In Chains, but waited another five years before fully taking the plunge into adult acting. From that point, she worked regularly for another 25 years, during which period she racked up the vast majority of her 184 features. However, she did come out of retirement briefly in the early 2000s.

“The only time I ever worked with Erica was when she found out I was making a movie with Marilyn [Chambers],” recalled actress/director Veronica Hart. “She flipped; she said, ‘I have to do a scene with her.’ It’s something she’d wanted to do all her life, and she basically came out of retirement to do a scene with Marilyn, because she just loved her so much.”

The movie was Dark Chambers, the second of a trio of movies Chambers did for VCA beginning in 1999, and Boyer’s final on-camera appearance.

“She was just so nice and so sweet,” Hart continued. “She was living in Florida. Everybody had only the nicest things to say about her. She was just a gem to work with, and she was so thrilled to work with Marilyn, and I was so happy to be able to put them together.”

Boyer was known primarily for her girl/girl scenes, and reportedly, that was her preference off-camera as well.

Asked in a 1989 interview whether there were any real lesbians in the adult industry, bisexual actress Nina Hartley replied, “There used to be two: Erica Boyer and Barbara Dare. While for many years they had lesbian relationships off camera for emotional support and identified themselves as lesbians, each recently got married to a man. Obviously, they were basically bisexual and just hadn’t found the right man yet. They still enjoy sex with women very much, and there will always be that love and affection for women. But at this point in time, they have bonded with a man.”

Indeed, at the first X-Rated Critics’ Organization (XRCO) Awards show, Boyer was given the “Lascivious Lesbian” award for her performance with Robin Everett in Bob Chinn’s Body Girls. VCA’s Every Woman Has A Fantasy also won that year for “Most Erotic Film of the Year,” in which Boyer had essayed a solo, a girl/girl and a threeway scene for the film.

But it appears that Boyer’s sexuality—and in fact, her life—was more complicated than that.

“She was a wonderful, wonderful, crazy, incredible woman,” recalled director F.J. Lincoln. “I don’t ever think I’ve heard her use a cross word against anybody. I know everybody’s going to tell you she wasn’t reliable, and that part is true: You would hire her and then think of an alternate because she wouldn’t always come to work … but when she did, she was incredible, and her and I almost ran away in Europe. We worked in italy and then we went to Germany, and we had money, and she said, ‘Fuck it, let’s not go home; let’s just roam Europe till we run out of money,’ and I guess if I’d been ten years younger, I would have said, ‘Yeah.’”

“She was primarily a lesbian,” he continued, “but when I first met Brad Armstrong, it was at Erica’s. She invited me onto her patio and Brad was there. He was her latest boyfriend.”

Boyer was also a free spirit when it came to psychedelics.

“We were all doing mushrooms once,” Lincoln remembered, “and she had this thing, when she would do mushrooms, she would change her clothes like ten times during the night, and her makeup too. Our apartments were adjacent, on top of a bar in Ventura, and all of a sudden we heard her scream, and we went running into the other apartment to see what was wrong, and she was standing there crying and saying, ‘I shrunk! I shrunk!’ What she had done is put on this giant sweatshirt which made her arms where the elbows go and the bottom of it went almost to her feet—and it was a gag, a joke, but that was the kind of person she was.”

“She was absolutely hilarious, and sexual, too,” he continued. “We were staying in Germany in this old castle, and it was when Interview With The Vampire had just come out, the book, and all day, she was reading me little excerpts, especially the excerpts where the little girl vampire, her mind grows, she gets older but her body stays the same, and she starts seducing her victims.”

“That night, I went upstairs to my little pointy-roof bedroom,” he continued, “and I got in bed, ready to go to sleep, and there’s a knock on the door, and she’s standing there in this little cotton nightgown with pigtails, holding a teddy bear, and she says to me, ‘I’m really afraid and I can’t sleep; can I say in here with you?’ And I said, ‘Sure, why not?’ And she got in the bed and she turned herself so all I could see was her beautiful neck, and I became a vampire. We started to get together, and I realized how incredibly inventive this woman was, and she was just so much fun to be with. This is really a loss.”

Besides her acting talents, Boyer is also credited with scripting VCA’s The New Barbarians 1 & 2 in 1990.

Kagney Linn Karter has signed an exclusive performing contract with Zero Tolerance Entertainment.

Karter joins the ZT roster roughly two months after the company signed multiple AVN Award nominee Sara Sloane to an exclusive deal.

“Kagney’s appeal is undeniable and signing her to a contract is a major coup for us,” said Zero Tolerance president and founder Greg Alves. “In a relatively short period of time, she has become incredibly popular, and we feel confident that with our marketing team and production schedule Kagney will become a household name.”

Karter’s rise to prominence since entering the adult industry in fall 2008 might very well be described as meteoric, having seen her face become a ubiquitous staple on adult movie boxes, as well as on the cover of Penthouse magazine’s June issue as its Pet of the Month. To hear her tell it, though, this contract is her greatest achievement yet.

“To sign a contract with Zero Tolerance is truly a dream come true,” Karter said. “I’ve long considered them to be the preeminent company in XXX and for them to pursue me and welcome me with open arms … I couldn’t be happier. Together, we’re going to do some great things!”

Karter can currently be seen in Zero Tolerance’s Double Decker Sandwich 13 and Blonde Bombs, as well as sister label Third Degree Films’ Kagney Linn Karter: Superhero Sex Therapist.

“I’d like to thank my outstanding PR team [Rising Star PR] for helping to get the word out on all my hard work this year and making my star power and presence well known,” Karter added. “2010 is going to be an amazing year with some huge projects for me, and Kagney Linn Karter isn’t going nowhere!”

Digital Playground and Fleshlight have announced the Riley Steele Fleshlight.

Nominated for Best New Starlet at the 2010 AVN Awards, Steele is becoming one of the biggest stars in the industry. Steele signed as a contract girl with Digital Playground in early 2008, and made her debut in the blockbuster hit Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge.

Steele met DP contract girl Jesse Jane (who also has her own Fleshlight) at a Hustler Hollywood signing for Pirates, and got a business card from her that she eventually used to contact Digital Playground founder Joone. He had her in for a meeting, and she signed with the company that very same day.

In her venture into the world of Fleshlight, Steele’s naughty bits were molded for the sleeve, which features her autograph and the popular Lotus texture inside the Real Feel Super Skin sleeve. The Fleshlight comes with a pearlesque, sturdy canister that resembles a flashlight.

The Riley Steele Fleshlight retails for $79.95.

For more information, visit FleshlightGirls.com.

Mallory Rae Murphy made an extraordinary porn debut on July 24 when she lost her virginity to Evan Stone in her first sex scene.

The Dallas native who turned 18 on May 20 hand-picked Stone for the assignment.

“It’s my own movie. Michael Raven shot it, documentary style, all about the whole event. It’s being edited now,” Murphy said. “We’re going to film a little more B-roll for it and tack that onto it.”

Murphy selected the two-time AVN Male Performer of the Year Stone based on his picture.

“I got a manila folder of different guys. I really wish they gave me penis as opposed to headshots but whatever. I got hurt but it’s OK you’re supposed to,” Murphy said.

Stone, a 10-year veteran who is one of the busiest men in porn, said he thought his old friend Raven was joking when he called him about the scene.

“I said, ‘Dude are you kidding me, is this April’s Fools Day for Evan Stone?’” said the 2009 AVN Best Actor winner who is also from Dallas. “… I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it, if I wanted to be the one. Just kidding, it was awesome.”

The former captain of her high school debate team said that a mutual friend of her and Michael Raven’s got her into the business.

“How it all kind of transpired was right place, right time. I had just ended a six-year relationship with a Mormon and I’m Jewish,” said Murphy, who is also part Czech. “There wasn’t any special reason I was holding onto it. Once we started talked about it they said, ‘Are you serious? Would you be willing to prove that you still are?’”

Murphy said that she left home when she was 16 and that giving up her virginity on camera made business sense too.

“Financially, it was the smartest thing for me to do,” she said. “I felt more in control of the situation than a normal girl would losing it in the backseat after prom. I called the shots. It was a great experience.”

She continued, “I was a freaking a legal assistant and not making enough money and was on my own and my friend came to me with the idea. He had ties to the industry and eventually flew me out here.”

The 5-foot-8 Murphy formerly modeled bikinis for Swim & Sport and also appeared in a Welch’s grape juice commercial as a kid. Now represented by LA Direct Models, the starlet said she is “very, very selective” with her scenes. She has done 18 so far.

“I turn down a good three-fourths of anything I get offered,” Murphy told AVN. “I’ve worked for Wicked, Penthouse, Hustler, Erik Everhard, Porn Pros, Reality Kings. I’ve shot for Brazzers.”

Murphy cites Everhard as her favorite male talent and Jessica Drake as one of her “favorite people.” Jules Jordan Video recently released Everhard’s Jailbait 7, and Murphy can also be seen in Diabolic’s New to the Game 6.

She told AVN her first time was “at a pretty house in Topanga Canyon, way, way up there. Texas is all flat so that was kind of nice. They were kind of interviewing me and I got on the phone and called some of my childhood friends and told them what I was doing.”

She added, “So they were documenting me freaking out for a little while.”

The consummate pro Stone helped put her mind at ease.

“I asked her, I took her off to the side and said, ‘Are you sure this is what you want to do?’ She said, ‘yes, let’s just do it,’” Stone recalled. “So I talked to her and got her all calmed down. She was very nervous, but she seemed like she got her act together. She didn’t seem like she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. So I fed her a bunch. She refused them so I took them all.”

Stone revealed that he gave Murphy one final chance to call it all off. “Right up to the last second I whispered in her ear and she stuck it in. I tried to stop her, I tried. I did everything I could to stop her,” Stone claimed, adding he banged a total of three virgins that he knew about before Murphy. “I’m still ready to try out some more. I still don’t think I have it right.”

Murphy said prior to going all the way with Stone that she gave her ex-boyfriend “an occasional blowjob.”

“My mom always told me it was crucial not to be the girl in the backseat. I had more power not giving it up,” she said.

In high school, Murphy not only was a master debater, she also competed in wrestling and was president of her DECA marketing club. She won the state debate title as a sophomore with her arguments about “George Bush’s fiscal indiscipline policy.”

In between sex scenes, Murphy is continuing her education, taking a full load of college courses online through Texas Tech University with a focus on economics and marketing.

Ultimately, she said she would like to open “a sex bakery” in San Francisco “and name desserts after male talent who have impacted me career wise.”

“I want it in San Francisco because it’s acceptable there. I already bought the name to it.”

Murphy’s debut is due out in 2010 through Michael Raven’s production company.