Legal Battles
Throughout Stryker's career he had been represented by notable attorneys such as Harry Wiess ("Attorney to the Stars") and John Duran (city council person of West Hollywood).
Stryker came to legal settlements with Vivid (owner of the Jamie Loves Jeff adult movies) and with Doc Johnsons (creators of the Jeff Stryker Realistic Dildo) regarding rights for the film series and matters regarding the sales of the dildo. The sex toy was billed as the "first dildo ever manufactured using an exact mold of a celebrity's body part", and reportedly is the best selling item of its kind.
Stryker later sued Health Devices Inc. and California Publishers Liquidating Corp. for over $1 million for breach of contract and piracy when they sold a bootleg dildo of his genitals without paying him sufficiently. The case was heard before a judge in Los Angeles, who eventually brokered a deal whereby the case was dismissed upon payment of $25,000 to Stryker and the return and right to reproduce all items which Stryker endorsed.
In January 2009, the L.A. Weekly reported that Stryker blamed Kulak's Woodshed, a folk-music nightclub, for preventing him from completing his autobiography, as the noise and crowds disturbed his concentration. “(My writing has) been put on perpetual hold until I can get myself back together,” he told the newspaper. “I got a $25,000 advance on (the book) but could never complete it.” According to the L.A. Weekly, Paul Kulak claims that Stryker has made threats to him and the club's customers: “He constantly reminds me he’s a firearms expert and will hide behind his back door when I dump the trash. Once, he started making mechanical gun clicks. I could see he had a pistol in his hand as he was dry-firing it... I’m willing to risk my life to keep this going.” Stryker responded to Kulak's claim and was quoted as saying, "That guy is so out there!" Courts have denied the appeal and granted Kulak's Woodshed a conditional variance to operate (after a previous Van Nuys Criminal Court order not to operate).
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