Adult Film Maker Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion

One of the San Fernando Valley’s most financially successful adult film maker has pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion in connection with a scheme to skim money from his Indiana mail-order video business.

Mark Carriere, also known as Mark Curtis, 36, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana to filing a false tax return for 1987, when he said his income was $767,687. As part of a plea bargain, Carriere admitted that his income was “substantially greater than that.”

In return for the guilty plea, the government agreed to drop six other counts of tax evasion stemming from an Internal Revenue Service investigation of Carriere’s tax returns for 1986-88. In 1989, federal agents raided the Indiana mail-order business, Multi-Media Distributing Co., and seized four safes containing $548,409 in cash.