Phil Prince

Phil Prince was born Philip Joseph Prince in the Bronx borough of New York City With a French English father and an Irish mother Phil grew up in a strongly Irish neighborhood After his mother died when he was 12 he lost interest in school and left home at 13 heading for the Irish enclave of Hells Kitchen in Manhattan being taken in by the Irish mob and eventually also working with the Italian mob Marrying a Puerto Rican stripper Teresa the couple began performing live sex shows for the Avon Theaters a chain of eastcoast sex theaters based in NYC Teresa was murdered in 1977 and Phil increasingly took various management work for the Avon Theaters Replacing Avons first inhouse director Joe Davian who directed films in the late 70s Phil eventually started writing and directing lowbudget increasingly extreme BDSMthemed porn movies for Avon in the early 1980s films that became key exhibits of the Meese Commission on pornography in 1986 On June 6 1984 Prince was involved in a drugmoneyrelated shooting that sent him to prison for four and a half years after which he became a truck driver until a tanktrailer explosion injured him in 2008 and forced him to retire Phil Prince died at home in upstate NY in 2018 at the age of 65