Jeff Stryker

Jeff Stryker
Birthdate:	August 21, 1962 ( 1962-08-21) (age 47)
Birth location:	Carmi, Illinois
Birth name:	Charles Casper Peyton
Measurements:	7.5"[1]
Height:	5' 9"
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Brown
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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.

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 9 inches long, with an unusually large girth of 8.5 inches. This fact was proven with pictures in the Doc Johnson lawsuit over sales of the Jeff Stryker Realistic, new version the Jeff Stryker UR3. Source Jeff Stryker.^[2] Mr. Stryker has been seen on television shows worldwide and is one of the most famous adult celebrities in the history of adult movies. After reading the Wikipedia search on Jeff Stryker, Jeff was quoted saying "they can spell my name wrong but damn it get my penis size right".^{[citation needed]}

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 bisexual in his personal life. He later described himself as "universal" depending on what movie you watch. The phrase was used in a joking fashion^[3]

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.^[4]

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.

Stryker has two sons. Jeff was awarded custody of his oldest son, Joseph Peyton, after a lengthy custody battle which ended when the birth mother's parental rights were terminated. In September 2004, his son, then 14 years old, was the victim of a severe beating and stabbing when he was surrounded by nine Latino gang members 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.^[5] In 2006, allegedly fearing for his eldest son's safety, Jeff decided to send his son to live with his paternal grandmother whom Jeff described as a devout Christian.^[6]

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 15, 2004.

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 analyzed 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,^[7] 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."^[8]

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.^{[4][9][10][11]}

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[13]
• 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.^{[citation needed]} Jeff was quoted saying, "I can't respect someone who got famous by sending people to jail due to her false IDs and I sure as hell aren't walking down the cat walk with the likes of her."^{[citation needed]}Mr. Mugler (fashion designer) did not argue the point.

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.^[7]

In 2004 and 2005, Stryker made headlines for his unsuccessful legal attempt to stop the operation of a music club and coffeehouse called Kulak’s Woodshed, which opened in 1999 next door to Stryker's office in Valley Village. According to most sources,^{[citation needed]} Stryker began his one-man vendetta against Kulak’s and an army of patrons after he was asked to leave the small music venue/coffeehouse for disorderly conduct directed toward patrons. Striker dismissed this claim as a false statement made by Kulak to distract from the police and building alteration charges he received for construction without permits.^{[citation needed]}

Stryker, who is noted for receiving $10,000 per 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?" Kulak claimed that Stryker has not only resorted to legal harassment, but has made a habit of verbally assaulting patrons as they enter the building.

Mr. Kulak mentions in newspaper articles himself "being a juvenile delinquent as a child"^{[citation needed]}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.^{[citation needed]} 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 an encyclopedia of martial arts.^[15]

Throughout Stryker's career he had been represented by notable criminal defense attorneys such as Harry Wiess^[16] (Attorney to the Stars) and (Former mayor of West Hollywood, active city council person or West Hollywood). 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 billed as the first dildo ever manufactured using an exact mold of a celebrities body part, and reportedly is the best selling item of its kind. Jeff Stryker has complained in interviews that the dildo is, in fact, an inch longer than his actual organ, objecting to the enhancement of his dimensions.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Attorney Victor Jacobovitz represented Stryker's son in the case against the 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.^{[citation needed]} They denied the appeal and granted Kulak's Woodshed a Conditional Variance to Operate (after a previous Van Nuys Criminal Court order not to operate).

In January 2009, the L.A. Weekly reported that Stryker blames the Woodshed for preventing him from completing his autobiography. “That’s been put on perpetual hold until I can get myself back together,” he told the newspaper. “I got a $25,000 advance on it but could never complete it.” According to the L.A. Weekly, Paul Kulak claims that Stryker has made threats to him and the club's customers: “He constantly reminds me he’s a firearms expert and will hide behind his back door when I dump the trash. Once, he started making mechanical gun clicks. I could see he had a pistol in his hand as he was dry-firing it... I’m willing to risk my life to keep this [club] going.” Stryker responded to Kulak's claim and was quoted as saying, "That guy is so out there!"^[19]

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.^[20] 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.

Selected videography

Gay

• Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time 2001
• Stryker 2000 Solo Masturbation
• Powertool: Tenth Anniversary Edition 1998
• Jeff Stryker’s Underground 1997
• Santa’s Cummin’! 1996 Solo Masturbation
• J.S. Big Time 1995
• Stryker Force 1995
• The Tease 1994 Solo Masturbation
• 10 Plus 1992 Solo Masturbation
• 10 Plus Volume 2 1992 Solo Masturbation
• Busted 1991
• In Hot Pursuit 1991
• Just You & Me 1990 Solo Masturbation
• On the Rocks 1990
• In Hot Pursuit 1987
• Bigger Than Life 1986
• Powerfull 2 1987

Heterosexual and bisexual

• Stryker/Ryker in "RAW" (heterosexual)
• Stryker’s Best Powerful Sex (homosexual)
• Jamie Loves Jeff (heterosexual)
• cummin together (hetrosexual)
• Dreaming of you (hetrosexual)
• Heiress (hetrosexual)
• Jamie Loves Jeff 2 (hetrosexual)
• cyberstud" (hetrosexual)
• strykers favorite sexual positions (hetrosexual)
• Milk and Honey (hetrosexual)
• Take Me (hetrosexual)
• How to Enlarge your Penis (Hetrosexual)
• The Rebel (hetrosexual)
• The Giant (hetrosexual)
• In Your Wildest Dreams" (hetrosexual)

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

References

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