Phil Prince

Phil Prince was born Philip Joseph Prince in the Bronx borough of New York City. With a French & English father and an Irish mother, Phil grew up in a strongly Irish neighborhood. After his mother died when he was 12, he lost interest in school and left home at 13, heading for the Irish enclave of H ... ell's Kitchen in Manhattan, being taken in by the Irish mob and eventually also working with the Italian mob. Marrying a Puerto Rican stripper Teresa, the couple began performing live sex shows for the Avon Theaters, a chain of east-coast sex theaters based in NYC. Teresa was murdered in 1977, and Phil increasingly took various management work for the Avon Theaters. Replacing Avon's first in-house director Joe Davian, who directed films in the late 70s, Phil eventually started writing and directing low-budget, increasingly extreme BDSM-themed porn movies for Avon in the early 1980s - films that became key exhibits of the Meese Commission on pornography in 1986. On June 6, 1984, Prince was involved in a drug-money-related shooting that sent him to prison for four and a half years, after which he became a truck driver until a tank-trailer explosion injured him in 2008 and forced him to retire. Phil Prince died at home in upstate NY in 2018, at the age of 65. read more