Elegant Angel Productions is an independent pornographic film studio located in Canoga Park, California and owned by Patrick Collins.
[6] On 27 May 1997, he shot dead Glendale police officer Charles A. Lazzaretto and wounded two others at the company's warehouse in Chatsworth.
[2] Collins then refocused the company on producing niche-themed pornography, and discontinued some series that had more ambiguous themes and were not selling well.
[9] Production was also halted for a month in early 2004 when the studio joined the moratorium on filming caused by Darren James's HIV infection.
[3] In August 2004 the company opposed calls from Democratic California Assembly member Paul Koretz for the adult industry to use condoms.
[10] In response to the HIV outbreak in the industry in March the same year, Koretz had threatened to instigate legislation requiring mandatory condom use.
[4] In 1993 Collins bribed a Hungarian transport official to allow him to film Buttwoman Does Budapest on the city's busiest Number 18 tram, as it travelled through the Taban Park neighborhood.
[19] The film starred Collins' wife Tianna, and features public sex scenes in front of the city's main tourist attractions.
[2] More recent series include Blow it Out Your Ass, which focusses on milk enemas and anal creampies, and the snowballing line, Sperm Swappers.
[2] Actresses who have starred in EA films include; Cytherea, Flower Tucci, Brianna Love, Jada Fire, Alexis Texas, and Riley Reign.
[23] The studios original directors were Collins, and the young team of Rob Black, Tom Byron and Van Damage.
[2] In 1997, Black, Byron, and Damage left Elegant Angel to establish Extreme Associates as a separate company.