After Chase Bank’s discriminative move to close numerous accounts held by porn workers, financial giant Wells Fargo offered the enraged adult entertainment industry a warm welcome.
“We recently reviewed your account and determined that we will be closing it on May 11, 2014.”
This is the generic opening line hundreds of infuriated porn industry representatives recently read in the unexpected account closure letters that JPMorgan Chase Bank has reportedly sent out over the past month.
Among the affected count famous names such as Penthouse Pets and award winning adult actresses Teagan Presley (Chase is also closing her husband’s personal account as well as their two business accounts) and Chanel Preston, fetish model and MILF Performer of the Year nominee Veronica Avluv, porn star Layton Benton (in a direct call to “TMZ Live”, she has said she discovered her account was closed as she unsuccessfully tried to withdraw cash from an ATM), rising starlet Dakota Skye, celebrated male pornographic performer Keiron Lee and adult movie director David Lord.
The letters don’t cite any reason for closing the accounts, and the bank’s reps have declined to give any comments on the scandal. There are only unofficial explanations to what happened: Chase branch employees have told Teagan it is because of her profession, while her husband’s (Joshua Lehman) telephone query earned the reply that his wife was “an infamous” adult star.
Infuriated with Chase bank’s unequivocal act of discrimination, adult entertainment industry representatives have already contacted porn-lawyer Michael Fattorosi. He is to explore the possibilities of taking legal retaliation against the financial institute.
Seizing the opportunity, Wells Fargo, one of the “Big Four banks” of the United States, has expressed its willingness to shelter the porn industry and its workers. “Of course we encourage these industry workers to come to us with their business and we will gladly help them” – a Wells Fargo speaker told TMZ.
Here is a legendary tweet by Kirsten Price, in which the AVN awardee reveals Chase Bank executives’ dark sexual secrets:
@KeiranLee @davidlordxxx @Chase Yup. They suck big hairy balls.
— Kirsten Price (@Kirsten_Price) April 23, 2014
If you want to support the adult industry in their protest against Chase Bank’s discriminatory account closures, there is an online petition that you can sign.