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<text id=91TT2448>
<title>
Nov. 04, 1991: American Notes:Trials
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 37
TRIALS
The Porn King Gets Off
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<p> Reuben Sturman has built an empire that reportedly grosses
$1 million a day from the sale of lewd magazines, videos and
"marital aids," but federal prosecutors aren't letting him enjoy
his wealth. Identified in a 1986 presidential report as the
world's leading purveyor of X-rated materials, Sturman, 67, has
been the target of three federal obscenity prosecutions. Last
week a Las Vegas jury was unable to reach a verdict in
Sturman's most recent trial, on nine counts of racketeering,
conspiracy and obscenity, and found him not guilty of one charge
of transporting an indecent videotape across state lines.
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<p> In nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors
could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6,
which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes
incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who
attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject
of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously
seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15
million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion
conviction.
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