From the LAT to Us Weekly, With Gay Porn In Between: The Martha Flores Story 36602

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What’s a little gay porn among friends? Jann Wenner apparently doesn’t have a problem with it, though, truth be told, we’re not sure whether we’d expect him to have a huge fucking problem with it or encourage all staffers to have a little homo smut on their resume. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Word arrived at Jossip HQ that frequent Jossip HQ punching bag (Us Weekly) could give Jossip HQ watercooler chatters more to talk about than Kitson lawsuits and publicist intimidation. Turns out, Us‘ newest high profile hire – Martha Flores, West Coast news director, working under West Coast exec editor Ken Baker – has a history in the fudge packing biz.

From what we understand, while Martha was still at the Los Angeles Times she put some money into Male Box DVD (NSFW), to help launch the Netflix-esque DVD delivery service that lets homos have their raunch flicks mailed to them in indiscriminate envelopes. After she left the LAT, she worked full-time at Male Box, which produces high-brow titles like Nacho Vidal In Face Fuckers, Black Hunks With White Punks, and Have Some Cannelloni, Tony. Then in the spring, Martha left the company (for reasons unknown), relaxed over the summer, then took up the job hunt in the fall — before finally landing, ahem, under Baker.

So are we about to start a major scan-dal? Unfortunately not. We hear Us Weekly was well aware of Martha’s past. She even put her DVD days on her resume, and all parties involved had quite a nice chat about her background in making sure all of West Hollywood was stocked with their fetish films.

So no, no manpussy out of the bag — just an opportunity to prove we’re mature by not putting “gay porn peddler” in the headline. Let’s just chalk this one up to Wenner Media encouraging a, uh, a diverse workplace.