Tattle: Feds target John Stagliano and his adult videos

ABOUT A ZILLION porn films are made every week in America, but the feds have decided to go after

John Stagliano

(creator of the Las Vegas hit "Fashionistas") and his Evil Angel empire.

A grand jury has socked Stagliano with eight obscenity violations for selling adult videos online and via unmarked packing envelopes shipped by the U.S. Postal Service. None of the films contain children. This is not a child-porn case.

Since the feds have had minimal luck over the years going after the makers of standard smut, this time they're taking a kinkier approach, targeting Stagliano for films aimed at fans of fluid fetishes.

Even though the film titles contain no dirty words, we won't name them, as this is a family newspaper. After all, some of you read Tattle while you're having breakfast.

And some of you are lactose intolerant.

"I don't sell obscenity according to how the law is defined, and I am sure in the end there will be a positive resolution to this," Stagliano told AVN.com.

If Stagliano loses, however, he could go to jail for a long time and be fined millions.

And fetish fans will have to get their fix from any one of a zillion other sources.

Lohan bodyguard says 'Pay up!'

Lindsay Lohan returns to Tattle as the defendant in civil lawsuit. She's being sued by David Kim, who says he worked as a bodyguard for Lindsay and her company, and is owed more than $55,000 in unpaid wages.

Kim filed the suit Monday in L.A. against LiLo, her Crossheart Productions and 50 unnamed defendants, alleging that the star employed him for 19 weeks then refused to pay him.

A Lindsay rep told People.com that Kim had no connection to Lohan.

Kim's suit claims he was hired from October 2006 until March 2007 by Lohan and her agents or employees based on "various oral representations and text messages."

He claimed that he is owed $4,000 a week for two weeks of 24-hour personal security, and $2,800 a week for 17 weeks of evening duty.

Kim said his duties included protecting the former redhead from fans and the paparazzi, accompanying her to industry events and obtaining VIP tables at clubs and concerts.

It shouldn't be hard to prove if Kim has had any contact with Lindsay. With all the photos taken of her, if he was guarding her, he's going to be in the background of some of them.

Tattbits

* California Insti-

tute of the Arts is naming its music school after Grammy-winning Tijuana Brass trumpeter, and co-founder of A&M Records, Herb Alpert.

That's what happens when you donate $15 million.

Had he donated the money here, you would now be reading "Herb Alpert" instead of "Tattle."

* Gossip blogger Perez Hilton (sim-

ilar to phillygossip.com blogger Dan Gross but with worse hair) will soon be doing two three-minute radio shows a day in select big cities.

"Radio Perez" will start May 5, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on its Web site.

"It will hopefully introduce me, potentially, to a whole new audience," Hilton said.

Or spur the sales of XM/Sirius.

* Frank Zappa's widow, Gail, is trying to stop a German fan club from using the Grammy-winning rocker's name for its annual "Zappanale" festival.

What about Zappapalooza?

Or Frank Fest?

Gail says the German-based Arf Society's use of Zappa's name and an accompanying logo infringe on trademarks held by the Zappa Family Trust.

The Arf Society says the trust has been aware of its use of the name since the festival was launched in 1998.

A state court in Duesseldorf began hearing the case yesterday.

* The Hollywood Reporter says that even though "High School Musical 3" hasn't started shooting in Utah for a Christmas theatrical release, Disney Channel has begun work on a script for "High School Musical 4."

In this one, there are assorted romantic entanglements and questionable feelings of self-worth, but through toe-tapping tunes and big smiles, everything works out in the end.

"Are we going to have all the cast back? Probably not," Disney Channel Worldwide President Rich Ross said. "Will we have some of them? I hope so."

Why not just have Zac and Vanessa star in "College Musical."

* Broadway better start preparing for an influx of Harry Potter fans.

No, the boy wizard isn't being turned into a musical (wait a few years on that one), but the movie Potter, Daniel Rad-cliffe, will make his Broadway debut on Sept. 5 (Tattle's dad's birthday), playing the disturbed stable boy in a revival of Peter Shaffer's "Equus."

Radcliffe earned rave reviews for his performance in the London production of the play. He also received loads of media attention for appearing naked onstage and for dating one of his co-stars.

No word yet whether he'll wave his magic wand in the Broadway version. *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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