Martha's Vineyard artist reaches settlement with pornography company

Martha's Vineyard artist reaches settlement with pornography company
Martha's Vineyard artist reaches settlement with pornography company

An artist whose luxury Martha Vineyard home was turned into a porn set without her consent has reached a settlement with the porn company. 

Leah Bassett, of Aquinnah, Massachusetts, sued Mile High Distribution Inc. in March 2018 after discovering her $1.2million home had been used for at least 30 gay pornos including Schoolboy Fantasies and Daddy's Big Boy between 2014 and 2015.

She also sued her tenant Joshua Spafford, a porn photographer, and porn star Monica Jensen - aka Nica Noelle - who works as an associate at Mile High Distribution Inc.

She sought unspecified damages claiming a breach of contract, improper use of the premises, copyright infringement and infliction of emotional distress.

The case was scheduled to go to trial on August 5, according to the Martha's Vineyard Times, but was canceled as a result of a July 23 settlement.

Details of the settlement have not been released, but it was apparently reached after all parties met for an alternative dispute resolution via video conference, Instinct Magazine reports.

The parties are now in a 60-day cooling off period, according to the Boston Globe.  

DailyMail.com has reached out to both parties' attorneys for more information.

Homeowner Leah Bassett sued former tenant Joshua Spafford in 2018 over claims he used the home to film porn, with actors having sex in every room of the house she built with her father in Aquinnah, Massachusetts (pictured)

Homeowner Leah Bassett sued former tenant Joshua Spafford in 2018 over claims he used the home to film porn, with actors having sex in every room of the house she built with her father in Aquinnah, Massachusetts (pictured)

One of the films allegedly shot in the house was 'Schoolboy Fantasies 2'

One of the films allegedly shot in the house was 'Schoolboy Fantasies 2'

The film featured some of Bassett's original artwork in the background

The film featured some of Bassett's original artwork in the background

Bassett first sued Jensen, Mile High Media and John Blitt - doing business as Icon Male and Transsensual - in 2018, three years after she rented out her beachside home in the western end of Martha's Vineyard to a Joshua Spafford.

They reportedly used her home for more than 30 explicit films between October 4, 2014 and May 15, 2015, the Times reports, with her original artwork in the background of films like 'Forgive Me Father, Volume 2' and 'Daddy's Big Boy.'

'When I returned to my house... it felt empty, cold and dead,' Bassett wrote in an affidavit. 'There were strangers' belongings hanging in the closets, rotting food left in the kitchen and the visions of what I had seen on the internet popping into my mind at every turn.' 

She said she 'independently made the highly disturbing discovery that her personal residence had been used during the leasehold for the commercial production of graphic pornography.'

And, she admitted in court documents, she 'proceeded over the ensuing weeks/months to engage in a periodic - and admittedly somewhat obsessive review of' websites connected to Stafford, Jensen and Mile High Distribution, along with any other porn stars who talked about shooting in Martha's Vineyard. 

As a result, the lawsuit said, she discovered 'numerous photos' and 'numerous clothed, nude, semi-nude, and/or graphic sex scene photos or video clips that depicted Ms. Bassett's home and its distinctive furnishings and artwork in the background or foreground.'

It added that the producers used 'nearly every room of her home for their porn production purposes, including nude, semi-nude and/or male ejaculatory scenes in her bedrooms, her living room and family room sofas, her stairwell, atop her dining room table, her bathrooms, her basement [and] atop her laundry room appliances.'

They even used her linens and her hand-sewn pillows for 'male ejaculatory scenes,' the lawsuit claims, noting that Spafford never mentioned to Bassett he was planning to shoot pornography at the home she

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