He started his career as a porn director and producer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when sellers of pornographic movies, including Falcon refused to mail them to customers in many southeastern states for legal reasons.
In addition, he said in an interview, that gay porn movies were "so bad" that he decided to begin making them himself.
Although the charges were later dropped, Higgins decided to go on a "world tour" looking for a better legal environment for his films.
After rejecting Australia and Thailand as new venues, he settled in Amsterdam, where his distributor was, and later relocated to Prague, a less expensive city.
[citation needed] Higgins died on December 21, 2019, of a heart attack.