Jeff Stryker

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Jeff Stryker
Birthdate:	August 21 1962 ( 1962-08-21) (age 45)
Birth location:	Carmi, Illinois
Birth name:	Charles Casper Peyton
Penis size:	10"[citation needed]
Height:	5' 9"
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Brown
Orientation:	Bisexual
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Jeff Stryker (born Charles Casper Peyton on August 21, 1962 in Carmi, Illinois, U.S.) is an American porn star who has starred in bisexual, gay, and straight adult films. He currently lives in California.

Contents 1 Film career and personal life 2 Awards and tributes 3 Merchandising 4 Reaction from other celebrities 5 Legal battles 6 Stage shows 7 Selected videography 7.1 Gay 7.2 Heterosexual and bisexual 7.3 Other 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Film career and personal life

A bodybuilder since age 11, Jeff Stryker was discovered by adult film producer John Travis at age 26. Stryker soon became famous in the adult film industry for his tanned good looks, penchant for extreme dirty talk, aggressive domination of partners, and his large penis, which is promoted as being 10 inches (25 cm) long, with an unusually large girth. Mr. Stryker has been seen on television shows worldwide and is one of the most famous adult celebrities in the history of adult movies.

He is primarily known as a performer in gay films, although Jamie Loves Jeff was one of the biggest selling heterosexual adult movies of all time. For a number of years he asserted that he was not even bi-sexual in his personal life. He later described himself as "universal" depending on what movie you watch. ^[1]

The Jeff Stryker realistic dildo is noted for being the largest selling dildo in history, and many television shows have featured it throughout the world. ^[2]

He also tried his hand at other acting, notably starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror movie called After Death, (Revenge of the Zombies) in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton and was seen in other movies such as Can I be your Bratwurst Please?, and Dirty Love (available in DVD rental stores across America).

Stryker has one son, Joseph Peyton, whom he has raised independently (after a lengthy custody battle) since the child was one year old. The birth mother had her parental rights terminated so Stryker became legally both father and mother of the child as sole parent. In September 2004, his son, then 14 years old, was the victim of a hate crime when he was surrounded by nine Hispanic gang members, badly beaten and stabbed at Ulysses S. Grant High School in Van Nuys, California. Jeff was interviewed by TV reporters and stated that he believed that the attack was racially motivated. Both Jeff and his son were interviewed by NBC news in Los Angeles about the incident.^[3]

It was erroneously reported on Wikipedia that Jeff Stryker was of Armenian descent. In Provincetown magazine,^[4] Stryker is quoted as stating, "I don't have an Armenian hair on my body." ^[5] Stryker is actually of Scottish, English and German decent.

[edit] Awards and tributes

• Stryker was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame for his body of work in adult films.

• Stryker was featured in a 1991 portrait by artists Pierre et Gilles.

• Stryker was inducted into the Hustler Porn Walk of Fame (outside the West Hollywood store and cafe) on January 15th, 2004.

[edit] Merchandising

He is also noted for the “Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls,” a rubber dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis and widely sold in sex stores. The dildo was academically analysed in a paper presented at the 1995 Bowling Green State University Conference in Cultural Studies: Lesbian Pornography and Transformation: Foucault, Bourdieu, and de Certeau Make Sense of the Jeff Stryker Dildo, by Mary T. Conway, then a graduate student at Temple University. At one point Stryker sued the manufacturer and distributor of the dildo for having dealt him the short end of the stick (see below). In a 1999 salon.com article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture,^[6] in that it has been part of Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where in the prologue the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty."^[7]

Stryker has released a compact disc (Wild Buck) of country music that he performed, and in his pornographic video, Bigger Than Life, he performed a rock song of the same name.^{[citation needed]}

He has also licensed a line of Jeff Stryker products: calendars, playing cards, T-shirts, greeting cards, Stryker Lube and the Jeff Stryker Action Figure. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

[edit] Reaction from other celebrities

• Filmmaker and author John Waters called Jeff Stryker “the Cary Grant of porno.”^[12]

• Stryker is well-known to be the favorite gay porn star of American comedienne Margaret Cho. Many of her routines involve her love for his films and in her show, Assassin, she discusses in detail about the many places one can use the “Jeff Stryker” dildo. Stryker had given Cho his commercially-produced action figure.^{[citation needed]}

• In her autobiography, Traci Lords describes him as “handsome but rather dumb looking” after he gave her scornful looks backstage during a Century City Civic Center Thierry Mugler Fashion show. Jeff Stryker refused to walk down the cat walk with Miss Lords, because her claim to fame came with the cost of putting people behind bars for accepting the fake identification used to get her into porn movies. Jeff was quoted saying, "I can't respect someone who got famous by sending people to jail due to her false ID's and I sure as hell aren't walking down the cat walk with the likes of her." Mr. Mugler (fashion designer) did not argue the point.

[edit] Legal battles

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Stryker sued Health Devices Inc. and California Publishers Liquidating Corp. for over $1 million for breach of contract and piracy when they sold a bootleg dildo of his genitals without paying him sufficiently. The case was heard before a judge in Los Angeles, who eventually brokered a deal whereby the case was dismissed upon payment of $25,000 to Stryker and the return and right to reproduce all items Jeff Stryker name and image endorsed.^[6]

In 2004 and 2005, Stryker made headlines for his unsuccessful legal harassment of a Los Angeles music club and coffeehouse called “Kulak’s Woodshed,” which was located next door to his office in Valley Village.^[13] According to most sources, Stryker (Charles Peyton) began his one-man vendetta against Kulak’s and an army of patrons after he was asked to leave the small music venue/coffee house for disorderly conduct directed toward patrons. Mr. Peyton dismissed this claim as a false statement made by Kulak to distract from the Police and Building alteration charges he received for illegal construction without permits.

Stryker, who is noted for getting 10 thousand dollars a personal appearance at clubs and events, claims he would have not gone into Kulaks if someone paid him. Stryker is quoted as saying "The music sucks and they have no talent, why would I go into that dive?". Considering the fact Mr. Peyton is a recluse and statements in Daily News articles from neighbors verify that Stryker would never have entered Kulaks Woodshed, we do tend to believe this version of the story. Stryker has not only resorted to legal harassment, but has made a habit of verbally assaulting patrons as they enter the building claimed Kulak who is a 6 foot 2 inch tall man claiming to being scared for his life in a restraining order he filed against Mr. Peyton at the Burbank courthouse.

Mr. Kulak mentions in newspaper articles himself "being a juvenile delinquent as a child" and how he was forced to leave Chicago to try to get a new start in Los Angeles. On at least one occasion, Stryker demonstrated his kick-boxing martial arts routine on the sidewalk outside Kulak’s (as featured on Celebrity Justice TV show).^[14] Facts later show Mr. Peyton had worked out with martial arts on the sidewalk nightly for years before Kulak opened his illegal establishment. Mr. Peyton has been verified to have taken Private martial arts lessons 1 hour a day for over 10 years from world renowned Emil Farkas (Beverly Hills Karate Academy) who wrote the encyclopedia of martial arts. ^[15]

Throughout Stryker's career he had been represented by very famous criminal defense attorneys such as Harry Wiess ^[16] (Attorney to the Stars) and criminal defense attorney (Former mayor of West Hollywood, active city council person or West Hollywood) Mr. John Duran ^[17] attorney and close friend to Mr. Stryker has defended several cases regarding restraining orders improperly placed against Stryker in the bitter Kulaks Woodshed feud as well as several other cases which were all dismissed.

Mr. Ronald Palmieri ^[18] had defended Stryker on several cases as well as handled settlements with Vivid (owner of the Jamie Loves Jeff adult movies) and Doc Johnsons (creators of the Jeff Stryker Realistic Dildo) regarding the rights for the Jamie Loves Jeff Series and matters regarding the sales of the Jeff Stryker Realistic Dildo. The realistic dildo was the 1st dildo ever manufactured using a exact mold of a celebrities body part, and reportedly is the best selling item of its kind. A television show created by the World of Wonder (England) reported it as having been in more orifices then any other object in the history of humanity. Jamie Loves Jeff is reported to be the largest selling adult title in the history of adult films.

Attorney Victor Jacobovitz represented Strykers son in the case against LAUSD when he was attacked by gang members and handled the settlement of that case.

Stryker and Attorney Victor Jacobovitz have filed a suit against the city of Los Angeles, Wendy Greuel, John Atkins and Paul Ashley Kulak for millions of dollars for their denial of his rights and intentional emotional distress and great financial losses occurred during what he argues was a corrupt political move by the Los Angeles City Council. They denied the appeal and granted Kulak's Woodshed a Conditional Variance to Operate against a current and active Van Nuys Criminal Court order not to operate. With the Variance voided and expired in April of 2007 Paul Ashley Kulak continues operation of the club with no permits, variance nor occupancy permits and reportedly Wendy Greuel thwarts police and Los Angeles Dept of Building and Safety from closing him down. She also has city attorney Don Cocek halting any further charges for its continued operation despite it being in an area not zoned for music clubs, theaters or live entertainment venues. ^[19] Some evidence of facts are listed as well as video showing Kulak admitting he operates illegally because the rent is 55 cents a foot and he can't get a legal place for anywhere near that price. Wendy Greuel has supported Kulaks Woodshed before the Los Angeles city council who granted the variance while under court orders not to operate. ^{[20] [21]}

[edit] Stage shows

Stryker toured in a 1998–99 stage show called Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time which was an erotic comedy set in a prison. The show ended with a finale in which Stryker danced completely naked. The stage production was later spoofed in an episode of the US incarnation of "Queer as Folk", in the form of a stage production known as "Twelve Horny Jurors".^{[citation needed]}

Stryker appeared in "A Sophisticated Evening with Jeff Stryker" in Los Angeles, Summer 2006, and also in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Summer 2007. ^[22] The show was produced by comedy writer Bruce Vilanch. In that show, Stryker performed a comic monologue about his life and adventures in adult films, conducted a "porn acting demo" comedy skit with an audience member, and danced in a nude finale where he greeted the audience.

[edit] Selected videography

[edit] Gay

• Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time 2001
• Stryker 2000
• Powertool: Tenth Anniversary Edition 1998
• Jeff Stryker’s Underground 1997
• Directors’ Best: John Travis 1 1996
• Santa’s Cummin’! 1996
• J.S. Big Time 1995
• Stryker Force 1995
• The Tease 1995
• Anal Hall of Fame 1994
• Catalina Studs 1994
• The Tease 1994
• Voyeur 1993
• Wild Buck 1993
• 10 Plus 1992
• 10 Plus Volume 2 1992
• Best of All Matt Sterling 1992
• Catalina Preview Tape 5 1992
• Les Hommes (The Men) 1992
• The Best of Jeff Stryker 1991
• Busted 1991
• Catalina Classics 1991
• Catalina Down & Dirty 1991
• Classic Catalina 1991
• Cummin’ Together 1991
• In Hot Pursuit 1991
• The Look 1991
• The Best of Mike Henson 1990
• Directors’ Best: John Travis 1 1990
• Dreaming of You 1990
• Just You & Me 1990
• On the Rocks 1990
• Best of All 1989
• The Best of John Davenport 1989
• Every Which Way 1989
• It’s What’s Inside that Counts: Preview Tape 3 1989
• Powerful Sex 1989
• Powerful 2 1989
• Stryker’s Best Powerful Sex 1989
• In Hot Pursuit 1987
• Bigger Than Life 1986
• Powertool 1986

[edit] Heterosexual and bisexual

• Stryker/Ryker in "RAW" (heterosexual)
• Stryker’s Best Powerful Sex (heterosexual)
• The Switch Is On (bisexual)

[edit] Other

• Can I Be Your Bratwurst, please (non porn) by Rosa von Praunheim 1999
• How to Enlarge Your Penis 1993
• Jeff Stryker’s Favorite Sexual Positions 1992
• After Death AKA Zombie 4: After Death (non porn) 1988

Awards
Preceded by Derek Cameron & Kurt Young for Tradewinds	AVN Awards for Best Sex Scene-Gay Video (with Derek Cameron) for Jeff Stryker's Underground 1998	Succeeded by Mike Branson & Tom Chase for California Kings

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jeff Stryker’s website
• Interview with Stryker about career and personal life
• Jeff Stryker at the Notable Names Database
• Personal web site about his legal battle with his neighbor